{"id":1969556,"date":"2023-07-11T12:10:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bulls-megan-rapinoe-slams-chappelle-navratilova-opponents-of-men-in-womens-sports\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T12:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T16:11:43","slug":"bulls-megan-rapinoe-slams-chappelle-navratilova-opponents-of-men-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bulls-megan-rapinoe-slams-chappelle-navratilova-opponents-of-men-in-womens-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe criticizes Chappelle, Navratilova, and those against men in women&#8217;s sports as &#8216;Bulls***&#8217;."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fbulls-megan-rapinoe-slams-chappelle-navratilova-opponents-of-men-in-womens-sports%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=1969556&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--><h2>Megan Rapinoe Defends Transgender Athletes in Women&#8217;s Sports<\/h2>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent interview with TIME, USA Soccer star Megan Rapinoe passionately spoke out against those who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bulls-megan-rapinoe-slams-chappelle-navratilova-opponents-of-men-in-womens-sports\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe criticizes Chappelle, Navratilova, and those against men in women's sports as 'Bulls***'.\">oppose transgender individuals competing<\/a> in women&#8217;s sports. She didn&#8217;t hold back, calling their concerns &#8220;bulls***.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rapinoe specifically targeted comedian Dave Chappelle, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and ESPN&#8217;s Sage Steele, criticizing their views on the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;We as a country are trying to legislate away people&#8217;s full humanity,&#8221; Rapinoe exclaimed. &#8220;It&#8217;s particularly frustrating when women&#8217;s sports is weaponized. Oh, now we care about fairness? Now we care about women&#8217;s sports? That&#8217;s total bulls***. And show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It&#8217;s just not happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rapinoe emphasized the importance of sports as a means of fun, physical activity, and camaraderie. She urged everyone to consider the impact their words and actions have on people&#8217;s lives beyond the realm of competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to mince words about it,&#8221; she stated. &#8220;Dave Chappelle making jokes about trans people directly leads to violence, whether it&#8217;s verbal or otherwise, against trans people. When Martina or Sage or whoever are talking about this, people aren&#8217;t hearing it just in the context of elite sports. They&#8217;re saying, &#8216;The rest of my life, this is how I&#8217;m going to treat trans people.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">When asked if she would support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/girls-volleyball-team-banned-from-their-own-locker-room-over-complaint-about-transgender-student\/\" title=\"Girls Volleyball Team Banned From Their Own Locker Room Over Complaint About Transgender Student\">biological man identifying<\/a> as a woman joining the U.S. women&#8217;s soccer team, even if it meant displacing a biological woman, Rapinoe responded with a resounding &#8220;Absolutely.&#8221; She criticized the argument that suggests trans women are not &#8220;real&#8221; women and therefore shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to compete.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8216;You&#8217;re taking a &#8216;real&#8217; woman&#8217;s place,&#8217; that&#8217;s the part of the argument that&#8217;s still extremely transphobic,&#8221; Rapinoe explained. &#8220;I see trans women as real women. What you&#8217;re saying automatically in the argument\u2014you&#8217;re sort of telling on yourself already\u2014is you don&#8217;t believe these people are women. Therefore, they&#8217;re taking the other spot. I don&#8217;t feel that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In recognition of her achievements and advocacy, President Biden awarded Rapinoe the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this year, Rapinoe voiced her opposition to H.R. 734, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which aimed to prohibit transgender-identifying males from participating in female sports. The bill defined sex based on reproductive biology and genetics at birth.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Today, politicians in DC are claiming to &#8216;protect women&#8217;s sports&#8217; by pushing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swimmer-riley-gaines-says-megan-rapinoe-is-virtue-signaling-over-protection-of-women-and-girls-in-sports-act\/\" title=\"Swimmer Riley Gaines Says Megan Rapinoe Is \u201cVirtue Signaling\u201d Over Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act\">trans &#038; intersex sports ban<\/a>,&#8221; Rapinoe tweeted. &#8220;Call your Congressional rep today to say women&#8217;s sports need protection from unequal pay, sexual abuse &#038; lack of resources, NOT from trans kids.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rapinoe joined forces with 40 other athletes in a letter to House legislators opposing H.R. 734. They expressed their hope that transgender and intersex children would never experience the isolation and discrimination that the bill sought to institutionalize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Soccer star Megan Rapinoe dismissed critics of men participating in women&#8217;s sports as &#8220;bulls***.&#8221; In a recent interview with TIME, she targeted comedian Dave Chappelle, tennis legend Martina Navratilova, and ESPN&#8217;s Sage Steele. Rapinoe expressed frustration with attempts to limit people&#8217;s rights, stating that it is especially disheartening for women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1969557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-1969556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"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\/1969556","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}