{"id":2286456,"date":"2024-07-01T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-5\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T00:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T04:08:39","slug":"megan-rapinoe-doesnt-answer-questions-about-biological-male-athletes-competing-against-females-washington-examiner-5","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-5\/","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-5%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=2286456&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 appeared to be taken aback \u2064when questioned by journalist Katie Daviscourt regarding \u200bher\u200b perspectives on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-riley-gaines-not-deterred-by-violent-protest-in-san-francisco\/\" title=\"WATCH: Riley Gaines not deterred by violent protest in San Francisco\">biological male athletes competing<\/a> against females in sports. The interaction occurred \u2064during\u200d the Seattle \u2063Pride parade, where Rapinoe \u200cwas the Grand Marshal. While riding in\u200c a\u2062 parade car with former WNBA player Sue\u200c Bird, Daviscourt \u200cinquired about transgender women in female sports competitions, referencing a past instance where the \u200bU.S. women&#8217;s soccer \u200bteam was\u2062 defeated by high school boys. Rapinoe\u2063 did not provide \u2062a detailed response and \u2062was sheltered by Bird \u2062and a security guard \u200cas Daviscourt continued to press\u2063 for answers.  <\/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 seemingly left speechless 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 retired soccer player. 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 stance on biological males competing in women&#8217;s sports. 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 featured prominently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2286457,"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":[33421,32969,33412],"class_list":["post-2286456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gender-in-sports","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\/2286456","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=2286456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2286457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}