{"id":1905221,"date":"2023-03-26T22:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-blasted-for-promoting-biological-male-in-celebrating-womens-history-month-segment\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T02:28:11","slug":"espn-blasted-for-promoting-biological-male-in-celebrating-womens-history-month-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/espn-blasted-for-promoting-biological-male-in-celebrating-womens-history-month-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Blasted For Promoting Biological Male In \u2018Celebrating Women\u2019s History Month\u2019 Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fespn-blasted-for-promoting-biological-male-in-celebrating-womens-history-month-segment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1905221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>ESPN honored former University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas over the weekend in a \u201cCelebrating Women\u2019s History Month\u201d segment that aired on the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2022, swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I Championship by winning the 500 Freestyle,\u201d the segment said. \u201cThe Texas native competed for three seasons on the men\u2019s swim team at the University of Pennsylvania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople will say, \u2018Oh, she just transitioned so she would have an advantage so she could win,\u2019\u201d Thomas said in the segment. \u201cI transitioned to be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ESPN celebrated Women\u2019s History Month by promoting a special about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas\u2026\u2026a biological male who destroyed real women in the pool. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gVLa0rz2NN\">pic.twitter.com\/gVLa0rz2NN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Hookstead (@dhookstead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dhookstead\/status\/1639993136230301697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 26, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The segment received criticism and mockery online from conservative commentators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLia Thomas is a man,\u201d former Fox News host Jedediah Bila tweeted. \u201cESPN is celebrating a man beating women in women\u2019s sports. Sickness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this isnt crazy, nothing is crazy,\u201d radio host Buck Sexton tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoly crap, just seeing this, @espn celebrated Women\u2019s History Month by honoring trans swimmer Lia Thomas,\u201d radio host Clay Travis tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Laura Ingraham tweeted, \u201cESPN is to the left of MSNBC now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\" data-reader-unique-id=\"25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-39628\" data-reader-unique-id=\"26\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The news comes as the World Athletics Council announced on Thursday that it will not allow transgender athletes to compete against women in female World Rankings competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The move, which goes into effect this week, will ban \u201cmale-to-female transgender athletes who have been through male puberty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecisions are always difficult when they involve conflicting needs and rights between different groups, but we continue to take the view that we must maintain fairness for female athletes above all other considerations,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/worldathletics.org\/news\/press-releases\/council-meeting-march-2023-russia-belarus-female-eligibility\">said<\/a> World Athletics President Sebastian Coe. \u201cWe will be guided in this by the science around physical performance and male advantage which will inevitably develop over the coming years. As more evidence becomes available, we will review our position, but we believe the integrity of the female category in athletics is paramount.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The organization said that it consulted with\u00a0Member Federations, the Global Athletics Coaches Academy and Athletes\u2019 Commission, and the IOC when making its decision and that there was \u201clittle support within the sport for the option that was first presented to stakeholders, which required transgender athletes to maintain their testosterone levels below 2.5nmol\/L for 24 months to be eligible to compete internationally in the female category.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>World Athletics is the international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldathletics.org\/our-sport\" data-reader-unique-id=\"30\">governing<\/a> body for sprints, middle\/long, hurdles, road running, jumps, throws, combined events, race walks, relays, cross country, mountain running, ultra running, and trail running.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are currently no transgender athletes competing internationally in athletics and consequently no athletics-specific evidence of the impact these athletes would have on the fairness of female competition in athletics,\u201d the organization said. \u201cIn these circumstances, the Council decided to prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESPN honored former University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas over the weekend in a \u201cCelebrating Women\u2019s History Month\u201d segment that aired on the network. \u201cIn 2022, swimmer Lia Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I Championship by winning the 500 Freestyle,\u201d the segment said. \u201cThe Texas native competed for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1905222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[11826,4537,7481,5851,4919,7593,7666,6043,17316,4694],"class_list":["post-1905221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-biological","tag-blasted","tag-celebrating","tag-espn","tag-history","tag-male","tag-month","tag-promoting","tag-segment","tag-womens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}