NFL Hall of Fame Brett Favre He made his position clear on a bill moving through Congress that would keep transgender athletes out of women's and girls' sports.
Favre posted on X Friday, re-sharing a Fox News interview with Sage Steele and Riley Gaines in which he credited the senator. Tommy TubervilleRepublican from Ala., to introduce the Women and Girls in Sports Protection Act in an effort to keep transgender athletes out of women's sports nationwide.
Favre said in his comment on the video: “Congratulations to those officials who are trying to fix this matter. There is a clear biological difference between men and women.”
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Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre testifies before the House Ways and Means Committee at the Longworth House Office Building on September 24, 2024 in Washington, DC (Kevin Deitch/Getty Images)
The Tuberville scale will continue Which Chapter Nine deals with Gender as “recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and does not modify it to apply to gender identity. It would prohibit federal funding for sports programs that allow biological men to participate in women's and girls' sports.
This applies to biological men and boys who Identifying as transgender And strive to participate in events and periodicals for women and girls.
This measure is co-sponsored by 23 Republican senators.
This is not the first time Favre has weighed in on the issue of transgender athletes in women's sports. The former NFL quarterback has spoken out against New Zealand's transgender weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who becomes the first transgender woman to qualify for the Olympics in 2021.
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Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand waves after women's weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics on August 2, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)
Hubbard competed in the men's competition before coming out as transgender in 2013.
“He’s a man competing like a woman,” Favre said on an episode of his podcast at the time, which has now been discontinued. “It's not fair. It's not fair to the man, even if that person wants to be a woman or feels forced. If you want to be the opposite sex, that's fine. I don't have a problem with that. But you can't compete against you. …Males cannot compete against females.
“If I were a real female — I can't believe I'm saying this — and I competed in powerlifting and lost to this person, I would be out of control.”
In that podcast episode, Favre also spoke out against transgender BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe, who was selected as an alternate for Team USA's BMX freestyle event. Wolf was accused of talking about burning the American flag on the podium on a social networking site. Fox News Digital mentioned previously.
Favre said Wolff should not be allowed to compete.
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“I won't let her participate in my Olympics. Go and participate for someone else,” Favre said. “To say this is a slap in the face to our country. I cannot believe this person can be allowed to participate for our country.
“It should be banned.”
Favre has previously worked with members of the LGBTQ community, including openly gay former NFL player Esera Tuaolo. Favre appeared on Tuaolo's podcast in 2020 to discuss head injuries resulting from playing football.
However, some also accused Favre of displaying anti-trans behavior during the 2015 ESPY Awards. During the show, Caitlyn Jenner took the stage to accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, and Favre was seen slowly clapping. The slow nature of Favre's applause sparked backlash from some with pro-LGBTQ beliefs on social media.
But polls today show that a majority of Americans oppose the inclusion of transgender people in women's sports, which was a major campaign issue for Donald Trump and other Republicans last cycle.
Former NFL player Brett Favre speaks on stage during SiriusXM's Super Bowl LIV on January 31, 2020, in Miami, Florida. (Cindy Ord/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
Nearly 70% of Americans say biological men should not be allowed to compete in women's sports, according to a Gallup poll last year.
In June, a poll Conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago Participants were asked to express their opinion on whether transgender athletes of either gender should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that align with their preferred gender identity rather than their biological sex.
65% responded that this should never or rarely be allowed. When those surveyed were asked specifically about adult transgender athletes competing in women's sports, 69% opposed.
A National exit poll The Concerned Women for America (CWA) Legislative Action Committee found that 70% of moderate voters saw the issue of Donald Trump's “opposition to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women's sports, and transgender boys and men using girls' and women's bathrooms,” no less importance to them.
6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”
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