{"id":2286446,"date":"2024-06-30T23:51:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-4\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T23:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T03:53:14","slug":"megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe avoids discussing biological male athletes in female competitions &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fmegan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-4%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=2286446&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>Former women&#8217;s soccer player Megan Rapinoe was caught off-guard when questioned by journalist Katie Daviscourt during Seattle&#8217;s &#8220;Pride&#8221; parade about her views on transgender women competing in \u200cwomen\u2019s sports. Daviscourt referenced \u200dan incident where the U.S. women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-image-claims-to-show-photojournalist-crying-as-he-takes-pictures-of-the-al-aqsa-mosque\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Viral Image Claims To Show Photojournalist Crying As He Takes Pictures Of The Al-Aqsa Mosque\">soccer team lost<\/a> to high school\u2062 boys, questioning the fairness of those boys competing in girls&#8217; sports. Rapinoe did \u2063not directly answer, appearing uneasy, which led a security guard and Sue Bird to intervene between her and Daviscourt.\u200b The conversation highlighted the controversial topic of transgender athletes in competitive sports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Former women&rsquo;s soccer player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/megan-rapinoe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe\">Megan Rapinoe<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-3\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe avoids discussing biological male athletes in female competitions - Washington Examiner\">seemingly left speechless<\/a> on Sunday when a journalist asked her to elaborate on her belief that biological male athletes should compete against females in athletic competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe was the Grand Marshal of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/seattle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Seattle&rsquo;s<\/a> &ldquo;Pride&rdquo; parade on Sunday. As part of the festivities, Rapinoe was seated in a white BMW convertible with former WNBA player Sue Bird and driven along the parade route. While the car was moving, Rapinoe was approached by <em>The Post Millennial<\/em> journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1807487125220421939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Katie Daviscourt <\/a>and asked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/transgender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>transgender<\/a> women competing against females.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Your U.S. women&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe avoids discussing biological male athletes in female competitions - Washington Examiner\">soccer team famously lost<\/a> to high school boys. Do you really think it&rsquo;s fair for these same boys to be competing in girls&rsquo; sports?&rdquo; Daviscourt asked.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe chuckled at the question before uttering, &ldquo;My God,&rdquo; to herself and then reaching for a drink. A security guard then walked up to position himself between Rapinoe and Daviscourt, and Bird put her arm over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-womens-soccer-teams-polarizing-politics-put-them-at-risk-of-being-irrelevant-alexi-lalas\/\" title=\"US women&#039;s soccer team&#039;s political stance risks making them insignificant: Alexi Lalas.\">retired soccer player<\/a>. Yet, Daviscourt continued with her questions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Do you think it&rsquo;s fair? Why should trans people compete against young girls?&rdquo; Daviscourt continued. &ldquo;Why should trans people compete against young girls? Do you not think that they&rsquo;re gonna get hurt? Are they gonna get hurt? I&rsquo;m a journalist. I just wanna know.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe never answered any of Daviscourt&rsquo;s questions. However, the former Olympian&rsquo;s silence was in stark contrast to her previous vocal support for biological males (transgender women) competing against females in athletic competitions. In a previous interview, Rapinoe even suggested that she would support a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-2\/\" title=\"Megan Rapinoe avoids discussing biological male athletes in female competitions - Washington Examiner\">biological male hypothetically taking<\/a> a roster spot of an actual female on the United States Women&rsquo;s National Team if the player identified himself as a female.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Absolutely,&rdquo; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6293102\/megan-rapinoe-world-cup-2023-interview-retirement\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she said in an interview with <\/a><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6293102\/megan-rapinoe-world-cup-2023-interview-retirement\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Time <\/a><\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6293102\/megan-rapinoe-world-cup-2023-interview-retirement\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in July 2023<\/a>. &ldquo;&lsquo;You&rsquo;re taking a &lsquo;real&rsquo; woman&rsquo;s place,&rsquo; that&rsquo;s the part of the argument that&rsquo;s still extremely transphobic,&rdquo; Rapinoe said. &ldquo;I see trans women as real women. What you&rsquo;re saying automatically in the argument&mdash;you&rsquo;re sort of telling on yourself already&mdash;is you don&rsquo;t believe these people are women. Therefore, they&rsquo;re taking the other spot. I don&rsquo;t feel that way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe, 38, is a two-time women&rsquo;s soccer World Cup champion and an Olympic gold and bronze medalist. She retired in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former women&#8217;s soccer player Megan Rapinoe appeared speechless when asked about her views on biological male athletes competing against females. Rapinoe, who served as Grand Marshal at Seattle&#8217;s &#8220;Pride&#8221; parade, did not respond while participating in the event&#8217;s celebrations, where she was seated in a white convertible<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2286447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP23271637442218-1024x548.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[33420,32969,33412],"class_list":["post-2286446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-female-competitions","tag-megan-rapinoe","tag-transgender-athletes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/AP23271637442218-1024x548.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286446","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\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}