Jennifer Sey, a former gymnastics champion, blasted back at Megan Rapinoe for her comments regarding trans athletes in female sports. Rapinoe, in an interview with Time Magazine, said that she was upset with people “weaponizing” women’s sports as a pawn in the argument in the transgender athlete debate.
Sey, who was quoted following an interview with Fox News Digital, was so taken aback by this sentiment that she needed a second to collect her thought before continuing. After a brief pause, Sey was finally able to clearly and concisely rip apart the argument that Rapinoe had set before her.
Sey immediately jumped to one of the best examples of the difference between men and women in sports, citing the game where the United States Women’s Soccer National Team played a match against, and lost to, a team of 15-year-old males.
Sey, who is the voice of reason in this argument, said, “I guess I would ask her why in [2017] when the best women’s soccer team in the world lost to 15-year-old high school boys, how – why was that? How did that happen? An average high school boys team. They lost – the best women’s soccer team in the world… There is advantage. This is not trans bigotry. This is about girls and women.”
Sey then went on to echo the point that many prominent figures on the right have been saying for years. Men and Women are not fit to compete fairly in the same sport. She said, “We have to acknowledge that biology, testosterone in and of itself, but also having going through male puberty confers advantages. That’s why we have separate categories of men’s and women’s sports. Denying that is denying reality.”
She continued, explaining that as her reasoning for being so undeterred in her attempt to keep women and men separate in sports, saying, “So, I am very much in favor of protecting women’s sports and giving women a fair and even playing field to compete against each other, access the educational opportunities that come from that.”
Sey also sees this sports issue as a canary in the coal mine for the greater culture battle that is being fought over the transgender issue. She said, “I think if we don’t stand up now and defend women’s spaces, essentially what we’re agreeing to is there is no difference. Men do not have physical advantages and there will be no gender categories in sports if we don’t say no to it now. There will be no categories.”
Sey also used her platform to explain why companies should stay far away from this issue in their marketing, as has been shown many times this year. “If I was an executive at a company,” she said.”And I was watching the beating that Bud Light’s revenues, share and stock price have taken, I would want to avoid that for the brand and business that I worked on.”
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