{"id":2587816,"date":"2026-04-06T19:24:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-back-in-the-spotlight-and-getting-torched-for-blasting-rule-protecting-women-athletes\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:26:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T23:26:45","slug":"megan-rapinoe-back-in-the-spotlight-and-getting-torched-for-blasting-rule-protecting-women-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megan-rapinoe-back-in-the-spotlight-and-getting-torched-for-blasting-rule-protecting-women-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Rapinoe Back in the Spotlight &#8211; And Getting Torched &#8211; For Blasting Rule Protecting Women Athletes"},"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\">34<\/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-back-in-the-spotlight-and-getting-torched-for-blasting-rule-protecting-women-athletes%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=2587816&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>Megan Rapinoe, once a prominent U.S. women\u2019s soccer star and now a podcaster, garners attention again after criticizing the International olympic committee\u2019s rule intended to protect women\u2019s sports from transgender competitors. The piece portrays her critique as hypocritical and politically driven, contrasting her statements with the IOC policy, which it frames as a legitimate attempt to preserve fairness in women\u2019s competition based on biology and science. It argues that Rapinoe and her co-host, Sue Bird, did not compete at the very highest level against men, undermining claims about competing &#8220;against the best&#8221; and fueling the debate with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2020-stolen-election-bombshell-fulton-county-admits-300000-votes-were-illegally-counted-in-georgia-where-trump-lost-by-11779\/\" title=\"2020 Stolen Election Bombshell: Fulton County Admits 300,000+ Votes Were Illegally Counted in Georgia, Where Trump &#039;Lost&#039; by 11,779\">social-media reactions<\/a> that mock her stance.The article cites sources like the British Medical Journal and ESPN to support the claim that testing can verify sex for competition, and it highlights a sequence of tweets from supporters and critics, including controversial takes on transgender participation in sports. the piece asserts that while the IOC policy seeks to protect women\u2019s sports, Rapinoe\u2019s criticisms exemplify the broader, highly polarized debate over transgender athletes in competition.  <\/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<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Megan Rapinoe might have left the soccer pitch, but she hasn&rsquo;t lost her knack for putting her foot in her mouth.<\/p>\n<p>The country&rsquo;s most infamous former soccer player &mdash; as well-known for her disgraceful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-rapinoe-loudly-boasts-deserve-victory-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">off-field antics<\/a> as for her accomplishments &mdash; has been largely sidelined to the questionable platform of a podcast since her playing days ended.<\/p>\n<p>But she managed to elbow her way back into the spotlight last week by criticizing an International Olympic Committee ruling aimed at protecting women in sports &mdash; and got blasted for her trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Now that she&rsquo;s no longer an international irritant to the American public, Rapinoe hosts a weekly podcast called &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.atouchmore.com\/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Touch More<\/a>&rdquo; with former WNBA player Sue Bird that&rsquo;s focused on &ldquo;obsessing over the newest headlines and breaking down the latest games.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But the most recent episode showcased Rapinoe on a rant against the IOCC&rsquo;s long-overdue rule that athletes participating in competition for women have to be actual women.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadAnyclip() { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst container=document.getElementById(\"anyclipvideo\"); 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\t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Oddly, a woman whose sole claim to public attention is her ability to play a sport for women against other women has a problem with protections for women.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Megan Rapinoe, a former women&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kkk-princess-former-office-actor-under-fire-over-debutante-ball-she-attended-two-decades-ago\/\" title=\"\u2018KKK Princess\u2019: Former \u2019Office\u2018 Actor Under Fire Over Debutante Ball She Attended Two Decades Ago\">pro soccer player<\/a> and far-left activist, says the Olympics&rsquo; ban on men invading women&rsquo;s sports is &ldquo;really hateful&rdquo; and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >thinks biology doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>She wants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/if-kamala-harris-is-normal-make-america-weird-again\/\" title=\"If Kamala Harris Is Normal, Make America Weird Again\">men stealing women&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s titles and invading their bathrooms.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xeoFP3hSBm\">pic.twitter.com\/xeoFP3hSBm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/2041176155231776778?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They&rsquo;ve announced a new policy that they&rsquo;re calling &mdash; I can&rsquo;t even believe that they&rsquo;re calling it this, because it has nothing to do with protecting women, I feel like two people, who played at the very highest level for every competition that you possibly could, don&rsquo;t agree with this and never felt like this was an issue at all &mdash; &lsquo;The Protection of the Female [Women&rsquo;s] Category,&rsquo;&rdquo; Rapinoe said as Bird nodded in sycophantic agreement.<\/p>\n<p>But that actually was her first lie.<\/p>\n<p>She and Bird, whatever their abilities in women&rsquo;s sports, did not, in fact, compete &ldquo;at the very highest level.&rdquo; If they had, they would have been participating against men on the soccer field and on the basketball court, and neither one of them would have lasted a day.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pretty bold statements coming from a women&rsquo;s soccer team member who was beaten by a team of Under-15-year-old boys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PwEFOKeJw8\">https:\/\/t.co\/PwEFOKeJw8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sandman (@SandmanCase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SandmanCase\/status\/2041222867191529668?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Women&rsquo;s National Team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/former-uswnt-star-carli-lloyd-admits-losing-to-under-15-boys-team-yes-its-true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">once lost a game<\/a> against 15-and-under boys. It&rsquo;s painful to even think about women going up against the behemoths that make up the NBA today.<\/p>\n<p>Her second lie was calling the IOCC&rsquo;s test &ldquo;invasive.&rdquo; According to the BMJ, a peer-reviewed publication formerly known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/390\/bmj.r1698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British Medical Journal<\/a>, the testing can be conducted via a check swab or blood test. This isn&rsquo;t exactly a colonoscopy we&rsquo;re talking about here.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, she lied that the IRCC&rsquo;s decision was motivated by political pressure from conservatives upset over issues like gay marriage, looking to score some kind of cultural war win. It has nothing to do with fairness, science, or biological realities, she claimed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This committee is framing it as based in science, which it&rsquo;s not,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;This will ultimately just prevent people from competing within the women&rsquo;s category that they feel like they have an unfair advantage. It&rsquo;s just really hateful. There&rsquo;s been so few athletes that are trans or competing as trans, and it&rsquo;s so blatant on its face.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a total acquiescence to the Trump administration and to, really, right-wing conservative politics that really is just bringing down so much hate against such a small percentage of people who are just trying to live their life. It&rsquo;s just horrible, and I&rsquo;m just sickened by it, really.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The social media reaction was blistering &mdash; predictably, justifiably, and satisfyingly blistering:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">You know what is hateful. A woman who made lots of money playing a sport and is now wanting it to be taken over by men, eliminating the opportunities for women.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; California Conservative (@J17177957) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/J17177957\/status\/2041235520555245678?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">She wouldn&rsquo;t have made the US team with her own rules. Men would&rsquo;ve taken the women&rsquo;s spots on the team. How is she so clueless?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Based SC Guy (@basedSCguy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/basedSCguy\/status\/2041195556664426856?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If biology doesn&rsquo;t matter then why do women&rsquo;s sports exist at all?? She&rsquo;s a real deep thinker that one&hellip;duh<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steve Caparulo (@jetsman1966) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jetsman1966\/status\/2041238186257436955?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And this one hits the nail on the head:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">How is it possible to be this stupid? Any normal female athlete KNOWS that anatomically, men have more muscle mass and strength. God did it that way.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WizOzz (@WizOZ10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WizOZ10\/status\/2041216238563541200?\">April 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  &ldquo;How is it possible to be this stupid?&rdquo; the user wrote. &ldquo;Any normal female athlete KNOWS that anatomically, men have more muscle mass and strength. God did it that way.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Exactly.<\/p>\n<p>Like every argument involving transgender athletes and sports, Rapinoe&rsquo;s rant devolves into Alice-in-Wonderland levels of delusion, denying a fact that literally every man and woman in the world, spectator, athlete, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftist-bob-costas-admits-men-no-business-womens-sports-common-sense-not-transphobic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sports commentator<\/a>, understands: Men are by nature stronger than women.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&rsquo;t disparage women. It doesn&rsquo;t make them inferior, any more than acknowledging that an ox is stronger than a man makes the man inferior to the ox.<\/p>\n<p>The IOC&rsquo;s new policy, adopted March 26, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/story\/_\/id\/48311534\/transgender-women-banned-olympics-new-ioc-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>, is aimed at protecting women&rsquo;s sports from the trans fakes of the world who can&rsquo;t cut it in men&rsquo;s sports but find easier pickings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/report-male-swimmer-competing-female-considers-jackie-robinson-trans-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competing against girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What it can do, though, is protect women&rsquo;s sport from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parents-speak-daughter-suffers-life-altering-injury-playing-volleyball-transgender-opponent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dangerous dishonesty<\/a> of demagogues peddling lies about physical reality when they&rsquo;re well out of danger themselves.<\/p>\n<p>They can&rsquo;t protect women&rsquo;s sports from the world&rsquo;s Megan Rapinoes.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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It notes her podcast with Sue Bird and describes the backlash to her remarks, which the piece portrays as misrepresenting the policy, the testing involved, and the motives behind the IOC decision. It ultimately argues that the policy is about preserving fair competition for women and that Rapinoe\u2019s statements are part of a larger debate over transgender athletes in sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Expanded paraphrase<br \/>\nThe piece casts Megan Rapinoe as someone who, despite no longer playing professionally, continues to attract attention for provocative comments. It highlights her return to prominence through a podcast with Sue Bird, where she criticized an International Olympic Committee rule designed to safeguard women\u2019s sports by ensuring competitors in the women\u2019s category are, in fact, women. The article reports that this critique drew widespread criticism. It then challenges Rapinoe\u2019s assertions, arguing that she and Bird did not compete at the very highest levels in a way that would support her criticisms, and disputes her claim that IOC testing is invasive, noting instead that tests can be conducted by less intrusive means. It also contends that the policy was not driven by political pressure from conservatives over issues like gay marriage but is focused on fairness and biology in sports. The piece emphasizes the online backlash, with commenters arguing that biology matters and that men generally have more physical mass and strength, and it maintains that the IOC policy intends to protect women\u2019s sports from misrepresentation by transgender athletes. 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