ESPN at war! Network's Samantha Ponder breaks ranks and joins Riley Gaines in fight to keep Title IX for biological women only - as Biden tries to change landmark law

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 19, 2023 | Harriet Alexander

[Morgana]

One of ESPN's biggest stars has spoken out against the Biden administration's plan to reform rules around transgender participation in sport - breaking with her network and arguing that allowing trans women to compete alongside biological women was unfair.

ESPN has been supportive of trans women in competition, and last month included transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in their segment devoted to Women's History Month.

But Samantha Ponder, host of Sunday NFL Countdown, said she did not agree with trans women in competition.

She spoke out amid a heated debate sparked by the Biden administration's proposed reform of Title IX.

Title IX, introduced in 1972, prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government.

The Biden administration proposed reform to the law, which would prevent a blanket ban on trans people in school sports. Any school which introduced such a ban would no longer receive federal funding.

The Biden administration say that they find it unlikely there would ever be justification from banning trans children at elementary school from competing.

The plan would, however, allow for a ban on trans athletes for 'fairness in competition' - paving the way for a potential ban on athletes such as Lia Thomas.

[Bratch]

[Jane Long]

Way to go, Samantha! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[adorno]

ESPN is Disney/ABC, so, they won’t be Ponder-ing for long abut what they’ll do; so, they will continue with the woke ‘chit’, and males pretending to be women will continue to be supported by ESPN as ‘women’.

[FlyingEagle]

Great! All women need to fight this, or else the homo crossdressong men destroy women’s sports in one fell blow with satan possessed Brandon Junta.

[nwrep]

So not guilty its not even close.

[lee martell]

Oh! Samantha Ponder, NOT
Samantha Powers.

I was wondering if Samantha Powers were supporting the correct side of human rights for once in her life.
She is a dyed in the wool Globalist.
Never mind.

[livius]

A least there’s some common sense out there. I’m so sick of seeing women (real ones, that is) rushing to “support” these men who are trying to destroy women’s sports and everything else.

[bray]

What man would want to compete against women. Is that like being on all midget basketball team and being the star?

[bleach]

Although there may be a question about some current players, how will the WNBA handle men joining their rosters?

[Dilbert San Diego]

Here again we see misleading wording to create a certain incorrect impression.

Nobody is trying to ban trans athletes from competing in sports.

What they are trying to do, is say that anyone competing in sports must compete with others of the same biological sex.

Nobody is being discriminated against , but they create this impression that somehow this is a civil rights violation against so-called transgender athletes.

It’s worth repeating that no one is being barred from competing in sports. They keep saying that they want to ban trans athletes, but the truth is that we want any so called trans to compete with their biological sex.

[TBP]

She’ll be fired soon. Remember, ESPn is the network that fired tennis commentator Doug Adler for complimenting Serena Williams’s “guerilla tactics.”

[MAGAthon]

it was Venus, not Serena:

2017: (Reuters) - Tennis commentator Doug Adler has sued broadcaster ESPN, weeks after being taken off the air following a remark about Venus Williams at the Australian Open that some interpreted to be racist.

Adler, who has since apologized for how he spoke about Williams, has maintained that he was describing the African-American 13th seed’s aggressive style of charging as the “guerilla effect” and not comparing her to a “gorilla.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tennis-espn-adler-idUSKBN15U04G

[Bratch]

Wikipedia bio

• Liberty University graduate.
• Professed Christian.

This bears watching.

[TBP]

EVERONE knew what he said, but the race mongers needed an incident and ESPN caved.

[SunkenCiv]

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