Women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe slammed lawmakers across the country attempting to pass bills banning biological men from playing sports against women.
“Ultimately, sports is such a great outlet for kids to learn so much,” Rapinoe said this week. “So, to ban people from that benefit just for the purpose of hate is totally ridiculous. Middle fingers to all these trans bills — it’s just super harmful.”
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Rapinoe was referring to the roughly 20 states that are mulling legislation to prevent biological men from competing against women in schools, which Republicans argue is necessary to preserve women’s sports.
On Thursday, Arkansas’s Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed a bill barring men from competing against women in schools weeks after Mississippi passed a similar bill.
“This law simply says that female athletes should not have to compete in a sport against a student of the male sex when the sport is designed for women’s competition,” Hutchinson said in a statement. “As I have stated previously, I agree with the intention of this law. This will help promote and maintain fairness in women’s sporting events.”
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Rapinoe disagreed that athletes should be forced to play sports based on their biological sex.
“As a member of the LGBTQ community, I firmly stand with the trans family and that whole community,” Rapinoe said. “And as someone who has played sports with someone who is trans, I can assure you as well, nothing is spontaneously combusting.”
Polling conducted last year shows that only 28% support student-athletes participating in sports based on the gender they identify as.
