Brett Favre on law to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports: ‘Clear biological difference’

NFL Hall of Famer Brett Favre made his position clear on a bill making its way through Congress that would bar transgender athletes from women’s and women’s sports.

Favre posted X Friday, re-sharing a Fox News interview with Sage Steele and Riley Gaines who credited Sen. Tommy TubervilleR-Ala., to introduce the Protecting Women and Girls in Sports Act in an effort to keep transgender athletes out of women’s sports across the country.

“Well done to those officials trying to fix this. There is a clear biological difference between men and women,” Favre said in the video’s caption.

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Tuberville’s measure would hold which Title IX addresses gender as “recognized solely on the basis of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth” and does not adapt it to apply to gender identity. It would ban federal funding for athletic programs that allow biological males to participate in women’s and girls’ sports.

This would apply to biological men and boys who identify as a transgender person and strive to participate in events and leagues for women and girls.

The measure is supported by 23 Republican senators.

It’s not the first time Favre has addressed the issue of transgender athletes in women’s sports. The former NFL quarterback took issue with New Zealand’s transgender weightlifter, Laurel Hubbard, who became the first transgender woman to qualify for the 2021 Olympics.

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Hubbard competed in men’s events before coming out as transgender in 2013.

“It’s a man competing as a woman,” Favre said on an episode of his then-discontinued podcast. “It’s not fair. It’s not fair for a man, even if that person wants to be a woman or feels forced to. If you want to become the opposite sex, that’s fine. I have no problem with that. But you can’t compete against … males can’t compete against females.

“If I was a real woman – I can’t believe I’m saying this – and I competed in weightlifting and lost to this person, I’d be beside myself.”

In that episode of the podcast, Favre also spoke out against transgender BMX rider Chelsea Wolfe, who was selected as an alternate for Team USA’s BMX freestyle event. Wolfe is accused of talking about burning the American flag on the podium in a social media post, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Favre said Wolfe should not be allowed to compete.

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“I wouldn’t want her to compete in my Olympics. Go compete on someone else’s behalf,” Favre said. “To say that is such a slap in the face to our country. I can’t believe that 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 gay ex-NFL player Esera Tuaolo. Favre appeared on Tuaolo’s podcast in 2020 to discuss head trauma from playing football.

However, Favre was also accused by some of exhibiting anti-transgender 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 clapping slowly. The nature of Favre’s slow clap drew backlash from some of the pro-LGBTQ persuasion on social media.

But today’s polls show that most Americans oppose the inclusion of transgender people in women’s sports, which was a key campaign issue for Donald Trump and other Republicans last cycle.

Nearly 70% of Americans say biological males should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports, according to Gallup poll last year.

In June poll conducted NORC at the University of Chicago asked respondents to assess whether transgender athletes of both sexes should be allowed to participate in sports leagues that match their preferred gender identity instead of their biological sex.

Sixty-five percent answered that it is never or rarely allowed. When respondents were specifically asked about adult transgender athletes competing in women’s sports, 69% opposed it.

AND national exit poll conducted by the legislative action committee Concerned Women for America (CWA) found that 70% of moderate voters saw a problem with “Donald Trump’s opposition to transgender boys and men playing women’s and women’s sports and transgender boys and men using girls’ and women’s bathrooms ,” which is important to them.

And 6% said it was the most important issue of all, while 44% said it was “very important.”

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