Brett Favre on bill to ban trans athletes from women’s sports: ‘Erase biological differences’

NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre has made his stance clear on a bill being pushed through Congress that would keep transgender athletes out of women’s and girls’ sports.

Favre wrote about X on Friday, retweeting a Fox News interview with Sage Steele and Riley Gaines thanking Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., introduced the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act in an effort to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports. cross country.

“Good for those officials trying to fix this. There are clear biological differences between men and women,” Favre said in his video caption.

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Tuberville’s estimate will last that Title IX governs gender “as recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genes at birth” and does not fixate on gender identity. It would prevent federal funding from athletic programs that allow natural men to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.

This can apply to men and natural boys identify as transgender and want to participate in events and leagues for women and girls.

The measure is sponsored by 23 Republican senators.

This is not the first time Favre has addressed the issue of transgender players in women’s sports. The former NFL quarterback spoke out against New Zealand’s transgender weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who became the first transgender woman to qualify for the 2021 Olympics.

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Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand raises her hand after the women’s weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics Aug. 2, 2021, Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Hubbard competed in men’s events before coming out as transgender in 2013.

“It’s a man competing like a woman,” Favre said in an episode of his podcast at the time, which has now been discontinued. “That’s not fair. It’s not fair to a man, whether that person wants to be a woman or feels forced. If you want to be heterosexual, that’s fine. I don’t have a problem with that. But you can’t compete…men can’t compete with women.

“If I was a real woman — I can’t believe I’m saying that — and I was competing in weightlifting and I lost to this person, I’d be crazy.”

In that podcast episode, Favre also spoke out against transgender BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe, who was selected as one of Team USA’s freestyle BMX events. Wolfe was accused of talking about burning an American flag at the medal stand on social media, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Favre said Wolfe should not be allowed to compete.

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“I wouldn’t have him participate in my Olympics. Go participate in someone else’s,” Favre said. “To say that is such a slap in the face of our country, I don’t believe that this person can be allowed to participate in our country.

“He should be stopped.”

Favre has worked with members of the LGBTQ community, including gay former NFL player Esera Tuaolo. Favre appeared on Tuaolo’s podcast in 2020 to discuss concussions in football.

However, Favre has also been accused by some of exhibiting sexist behavior during the 2015 ESPY Awards. During the show, Caitlyn Jenner took the stage to accept the Arthur Ashe Award for Courage, and Favre was seen clapping a little. Favre’s light-hearted nature has caused backlash from some with LGBTQ beliefs on social media.

But polls today show that a majority of Americans oppose transgender inclusion in women’s sports, which has been a key campaign issue for Donald Trump and other Republicans this past cycle.

Former NFL player Brett Favre speaks on stage during SiriusXM’s Super Bowl LIV Jan. 31, 2020, in Miami, Fla. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

About 70% of Americans say natural men should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to the report. Gallup poll last year.

In June, research conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago asked respondents to examine whether transgender athletes should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that align with their preferred gender identity rather than their natural sex.

Sixty-five percent responded that it should never or rarely be allowed. When respondents were asked directly about older transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, 69% were against it.

A national exit poll conducted by the legal committee Concerned Women for America (CWA) found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s restrooms,” as important to them.

And 6% said it was the most important issue, and 44% said it was “very important.”

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