Olympic cross-country skiing champion Veronika Stepanova in her column on , she wrote that in the West, public disagreement with generally accepted policy toward transgender athletes is running into big trouble.
— World football legend Megane Rapino said that she was totally open to seeing and accepting a transgender woman on Team USA: “…Yeah, show me all the transgender people who use their transgender edge in sports badly! It just isn’t happening.” So far, that may not happen – but at this rate, the wait won’t be long. If the two-time world champion doesn’t see how an athlete who has grown up as a man and became (or declared himself) a woman has no physical advantages over ordinary women, she should look at the muscle size and bone structure of “former men”.
I don’t want to be misunderstood. Saying what she wants and deems necessary is her full right, there are no questions. The problem is not that Rapino can say such nonsense in public, but that in the West none of the active athletes can now oppose her out loud. Otherwise, you’ll be called a transphobe, and that’s at least “goodbye, all the sponsors”.
Even if, I think that today, in 2023, the case will not be limited to the immediate departure of the sponsors. The management of the club, the national team will have to find excuses, explain, – wrote Stepanova.
US soccer player Megan Rapinoe, winner of the Women’s Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year award, is an active supporter of LGBT organizations and came out as gay in 2012.
Source : MatchTV
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