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   ESPN broadcaster Sam Ponder came under fire on Sunday as her   
   support for keeping women’s sports fair and equal was the   
   subject of an opinion column from USA Today’s Nancy Armour.   
      
   Ponder, and fellow ESPN colleague Sage Steele, have voiced their   
   support for Riley Gaines, who has taken the reins to lead the   
   calls for transgender athletes to participate in sports against   
   the gender they were born as instead of the gender they identify   
   as.   
      
   Gaines has been at the forefront since she tied with Lia Thomas   
   in the NCAA Championship in 2022.   
      
   Recently, Ponder spoke about the issue again after Gaines   
   tweeted the messages she received about transgender high school   
   runners participating in the girls division in California.   
      
   “I barely said anything publicly abt this issue & I’ve had so   
   many ppl msg me, stop me in the street to say thank you+ tell me   
   stories abt girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost   
   employment/being called hateful. It is not hateful to demand   
   fairness in sports for girls,” Ponder tweeted.   
      
   However, Armour called Ponder’s words “plain old bigotry” in her   
   column.   
      
   “Don’t be fooled by the people who screech about ‘fairness’ to   
   cloak their bigotry toward transgender girls and women, the   
   transgender girls and women who have the audacity to want to   
   play sports, in particular,” Armour started the column.   
      
   “This is, and always was, about hate, fear and ignorance.”   
      
   Armour particularly took issue with Ponder choosing to speak out   
   about this issue rather than talk about how girls and women’s   
   sports don’t have equitable funding with boys and men.   
      
   “Did Ponder use her platform to express outrage at any of this?   
   Urge her nearly half-million followers on Twitter to write or   
   call their representatives and ask that women be given the   
   funding and opportunities they rightfully deserve? Did she   
   publicly participate in any of the many excellent documentaries,   
   videos and commentary ESPN did to commemorate the 50th   
   anniversary of Title IX last year? Or even Tweet about them?”   
   Armor wrote.   
      
   “No, she did not. Her public concern about ‘fairness’ for female   
   athletes starts and stops with the miniscule number of   
   transgender women who are participating in sports.”   
      
   Armour accused Ponder of putting transgender people in further   
   danger with her tweets “by further amplifying the bogeyman that   
   cisgender women’s participation in sports is being threatened by   
   transgender girls and young women.”   
      
   Armour concluded that Ponder’s opinions have nothing to do with   
   “fairness.”   
      
   Earlier this month, a Washington Post-KFF poll showed that the   
   majority of American adults believe gender is determined at   
   birth and are against biological males competing in women’s   
   sports.   
      
   Sixty-six percent of American adults do not believe that   
   biological males should be allowed to compete in women’s sports   
   competitions at the high school level, while 34% support   
   biological males competing against women.   
      
   When it comes to college and professional sports, 65% of   
   American adults don’t believe that biological males should be   
   allowed to compete in women’s sports, while 34% in both   
   categories were behind the idea.   
      
   In youth sports, 62% of American adults did not believe   
   biological males should be allowed to compete against biological   
   girls, while 37% were behind allowing transgender girls to   
   compete with biological girls.   
      
   Fox News’ Houston Keene contributed to this report.   
      
   AK2MX2K   
   11 hours ago   
      
   The Press and Left leaning politicians are requiring us to   
   believe the things they tell us to believe, OR you will be   
   canceled and ruined!   
      
   We have all seen the consequences, even when they were wrong   
   like with the recent Nurse with the CitiBike.   
      
   This is the complete definition of controlled speech.  If we   
   don't find a way to turn this around, it will get worse.   
      
   DNC-Malfeasance   
   11 hours ago   
      
   Exactly, Democrats use fact checkers to help break down   
   objective reality and separate you from the truth. They cry   
   bigotry when you don't buy that a man is a woman. It is part of   
   the great reset to authoritarian socialism.   
      
   Geza O'Connor   
   9 hours ago   
      
   This is straight out of the communist playbook. Something may be   
   factually correct, but is politically incorrect.   
      
   Ed Jasper   
   7 hours ago   
      
      
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