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The former ESPN star, Jeannine Edwards, returned her position on transgender athletes who participate in sports for girls and female in an interview on Tuesday.
Edwards appeared on “Don’t @ me with Dan Dakich d’Outkick” and said that she could not believe that there was a debate on the question of sports.
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ESPN advertiser Jeannine Edwards on the sidelines of a match between the volunteers of Tennessee and the Arkansas Razorbacks at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas, November 12, 2011. (Beth Hall-USA today Sports)
“I cannot believe that we have even come to this point,” said Edwards. “I mean 50 years of title IX and all these decades of work to that and arrive at this point where women could have equal access, equal opportunities, equal advantages, but they must be in their own niche. Because men are confronted, men have 60% more muscle mass, they have much more bone density and bone mass, greater pulmonary capacity.
“It doesn’t matter that you say that you identify yourself as a woman, I am sorry that your physiology of your body as a man is very different from that of the body of a woman. So, for me, it is obvious and I do not understand why some people on the left think that it is a cause that will be a winner for them, just as I do not think that this problem of immigration and to deport alliens criminals immigration.
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CBS Sideline journalist, Tracy Wolfson, on the left, and ESPN Dick Vitale journalists and Jeannine Edwards have a photo taken before the semi-final matches in the Male Male Four from NCAA in Atlanta, April 6, 2013. (Sean Dougherty-USA today)
The native of New Jersey was an ESPN and ABC sporting broadcaster from the mid -1990s in the mid -2010s.
An investigation by the New York Times / Ipsos published in January showed that the vast majority of Americans, including a majority of democrats, do not think that transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in female sports.
Of the 2,128 people interviewed, 79% said that biological men who identify as women should not be allowed to participate in female sports.
Jeannine Edwards and the defensive coordinator of Oklahoma State Glenn Spencer pose before the 138th race of the Preakness Stakes on the Pimlico Race Race in Baltimore, May 18, 2013. (Winslow Townson-USA today Sports)
Of the 1,025 people who have identified as a democrats or who lean a democrat, 67% said that transgender athletes should not be authorized to compete with women. Among 1,022 Republicans, this number was 94%.
