Former U.S. ladies’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe was grilled about her stance on trans inclusion in women and girls’s sports activities on Sunday as she rode in a Pride parade together with her companion Sue Bird.
Rapinoe was requested by The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt about her stance as Rapinoe rode behind a convertible. Rapinoe and Bird had been in a Pride parade in Seattle.
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Megan Rapinoe attends the sport between the Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty on May 18, 2024, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. (Stephen Gosling/NBAE through Getty Images)
“Your U.S. ladies’s soccer workforce famously misplaced to highschool boys. Do you actually assume it’s truthful for these identical boys to be competing in women’ sports activities?” Daviscourt requested.
Rapinoe appeared to wince and mouthed, “Oh my God.” But she didn’t reply. Instead, a safety guard got here in between Rapinoe and Daviscourt because the soccer star refused to reply the query.
“Why ought to trans folks compete in opposition to younger women? Do you not assume that they’re gonna get harm? Are they gonna get harm? I’m a journalist, I simply wanna know,” Daviscourt added.
Megan Rapinoe speaks through the Business of Women Sport Summit at Chelsea Factory on April 23, 2024, in New York City. (Elsa/Getty Images)
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Rapinoe took a sip from her cup and the parade continued. Security guards then requested Daviscourt to step again from the car.
The two-time World Cup champion mentioned final July she would assist a transgender athlete on the U.S. Women’s National Team even when it meant changing a organic feminine.
“Absolutely,” she advised Time journal. “‘You’re taking a ‘actual’ girl’s place,’ that’s the a part of the argument that’s nonetheless extraordinarily transphobic. I see trans ladies as actual ladies. What you’re saying routinely within the argument – you’re type of telling on your self already – is you don’t imagine these individuals are ladies. Therefore, they’re taking the opposite spot. I don’t really feel that means.”
Megan Rapinoe through the sport between the Seattle Storm and the Indiana Fever at Climate Pledge Arena on June 27, 2024, in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
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Rapinoe retired from skilled soccer final yr.
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