On Thursday, former ESPN anchor Sage Steele bashed the White House and specifically Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre for avoiding “honest answers” about transgender athletes participating and ruining women’s sporting events.
Steele appeared on Fox News' ‘America's Newsroom’ when she was questioned on the inability of Jean-Pierre to answer the question of fairness in transgender athletes competing in female-only sports. The press secretary claimed that “there is no yes or no answer” to the issue, deflecting the idea without properly answering it.
"I just answered the question. It is a complicated issue. It is truly a complicated issue with a wide range of views, a wide range of views. There is no yes or no answer to this. It is complicated. There's a rule that the Department of Education has put forward, and we're going to let that process move forward," Jean-Pierre said. "Again, we want to make sure that while we establish guardrails with this rule that we also prevent discrimination as well against transgender kids. But again, a complicated issue with a wide range of views, and we respect that."
"The more I hear it, the more angry I get because it's not complicated. All these people who've been preaching science for the last three-plus years with COVID are all of a sudden ignoring science for something that is so basic," Steele said.
She believes that most Americans on both sides of the aisle find the issue ridiculous, saying, "We know the differences between boys and girls, men and women. And I'm disappointed in a lot of people, a lot of companies, etc., that were preaching, you know, women and supporting women's sports. … And how about all the Title IX work for all these years? Then all of a sudden we're just forgetting it and ignoring it? And most importantly, people who agree with us that are silent. Why? Because it's easier, it's safer.”
She added, "If we don't do this, then we've wasted 50 years of work and trying to uplift women, and I don't get it. This is pathetic that it's still an issue. And shame on these people in leadership positions for not being willing to give an honest answer."
Steele pushes for an idea that surely should be common sense but somehow in modern America has become a controversial topic. It’s sad to see women being attacked and torn down to make a safe space for mentally ill men but unfortunately, that is somehow the reality that America faces.
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