A veteran NFL sideline reporter, Michele Tafoya, has since left the league in order to have a more open platform to share her political views. Her latest of which, has made numerous headlines.
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In the beginning of this week in a media appearance, Tafoya aggressively called out the “insanity” of having transgender women competing in women’s sports. This has been a major talking point for conservative influencers, who have taken a strong stance against it. While sports should always be incredibly inclusive, there also needs to be safety and protection for all those who are participating.
Tafoya went off at the whole situation with her now viral comments from this week:
“It is insane, this whole thing is insanity. Thank God for voices like J.K. Rowling and Riley Gaines and others. Apparently, you need big voices like that to keep up, to keep countering this ridiculousness,” Tafoya said, via Fox News. “I don’t’ care if the male is intact or was born a male – they don’t belong in a women’s locker room, they don’t belong on a women’s team. They are not women. So this notion that trans women or women, it’s ridiculous, because there’s a reason you put the ‘trans’ in front of the word ‘woman,’ because you’re not a woman.”
Tafoya went on to claim that women from birth like her daughter and nieces are getting robbed of opportunities that are taken away from them by transgender women. Her solution that she ended up offering was that trans women should compete separately.
“We’re in a weird time. This is one of those lies that they want to keep propagating. ‘Trans women are real women, trans women are real women,’ and then they’ll eventually believe it. I’m not going to believe it,” she said. “I have a daughter, as well, who competes in athletics. I’ve got nieces. I just care about women. I care about all girls being able to have a fair shot. When you see these girls who have been robbed of their opportunities or places on the podium, it drives me nuts. It doesn’t mean that a trans person cannot participate. It does mean trans women cannot compete against biological women. That’s all we’re saying.”
Tafoya says that people should know that her comments are not ‘hateful’ although they have been perceived to be exclusionary.
“We’re not hateful, we’re helping women,” she claims.
It is clear that a person’s biology from birth has a major impact on their athletic potentials. The same that in fighting (boxing, and MMA) there are weight classes, in order so that a 240 pound man does not fight a 160 pound man.
It is clear that in sports as a society, that we need to find a better way to integrate all peoples of different identities and genders. There is a path forward where we can satisfy everyone’s issues when it comes to trans athletes in sports.
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