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The personality of ESPN Stephen A. Smith agreed largely with Riley Gaines in the middle of the former NCAA American swimmers with the Simone Biles Olympic gold medalist.
Smith’s comments on Monday arrived a few days after Biles launched a personal attack against Gaines after the former Kentucky star Wildcats criticized a Minnesota softball league for turning off the comments in a photo that shows a state championship team that had a transgender player on his list.
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Stephen A. Smith at the ESPN “NBA Countdown” live in Intuit Dome on October 23, 2024. (Kirby Lee-Imagn images)
Gaines used Larry Nassar, the former dishonored doctor who sexually assaulted several Olympic gymnasts, to continue his point that men were in women’s spaces. While Smith did not agree with Gaines using Nassar, he agreed with the original premise.
“That said, the points you made to Simone Biles outside Larry Nassar’s comment, which all the cause of pause should give us,” said Stephen A. Smith’s show. ” “The reality is that it is a bad service for women in the eyes of many people, that men who make the transition to women compete in women’s sports. Lia Thomas was a perfect example. His highest rank at that time … the best classification as a male participant was like 554ยบ in the world. He made a transition to be a woman and was the best.
“And the reality is there’s an abundance of women out there are has a right to feel the wayy gaines feels, Simone Biles. Now whether it’s right for me or sumone else to say is a different argument Protective of Fairness and Equal Rights and Equal Opportunity to Women to Then Piggyback Off of That and Following Up On That Years Later To Allow Transgender Athletes Transitioning From Male to female to competence against women does not seem fair. “
Smith dismissed any notion that the debate on transgender athletes in women’s and female sports was more than just a competition in the field.
Simone Biles, Right and Riley Gaines. (IMAGN)
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“When we rely on this argument about fear, fear, wait a minute. Someone is not talking about your civil freedoms, someone is not talking about equality, someone is not talking about those things that allow you to live and let live,” he said. “They are talking about competition in sports. And if you allow someone to compete in swimming, it will not prevent you from competing in boxing. It will not allow you to avoid competing in other sports.”
Smith mentioned the talk about Ronda Rousey facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a fight when both athletes were the talk of the sports world. He said that while sports fans now know what would happen in the fight after Rousey lost to Amanda Nunes, he should not have been in the mind of any fanatic in the first place.
“We know that in most cases, although there are women who could overcome some men, in general elite women do not deserve to compete against elite men,” he said. “To deserve … I’m talking about your gender. You shouldn’t compete against men. I don’t want to see a Clarissa Shields in a boxing ring against Terence Crawford.
“So, when we talk about that from that premise, it is one thing for women who look at someone like me and say: ‘Who are you?’ Another thing is completely that women look at women, acting as if women have no right to feel that there is a disadvantage for them if they face a man who transition to women. “
Smith continued to say that he expected more men to transition to women so that the sports leagues had a transgender category to be fair. However, World Aquatics tried to have an open category in 2022 and did not receive any interest in competition.
“If you ask me my preference? I hope that many men who make the transition to women leave the carpentry. Therefore, we can make men face men, women who face women and transgeans who face transgenders. That is fair,” he said. “But what Riley Gaines is talking about Does seem a bit unfair, he has the right to express those thoughts without Simone Biles coming to her.
Simone Biles of the United States awaits its score. (Marcus Brandt/Picture Alliance through Getty Images)
“And there is no one who really can dispute: if you are a man who makes the transition to women that there is an unfair advantage. I don’t see women making the transition to men who try to compete in men’s sports. If it happened, and I lost it, I apologized. But I lost it, I haven’t seen it.”
