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The former ESPN host Samantha Ponder made his attitude towards men playing women’s and girls’ sporting Saturday.
Ponder appeared on Pakinomist Channel’s “Saturday in America” with Kayleigh McEnany and talked about her decision to speak against transient athletes participating in girls’ and women’s sports. The topic has been discussed warmly in recent years when Lia Thomas won a NCAA title in 2022, and now the Trump administration demands that US schools comply with title IX.
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Samantha Ponder (Yellow Hat) sees her husband, the then Minnesota Vikings Quarterback Christian Ponder (not depicted) at training camp at Blakeslee Fields on July 27, 2013. (Bruce Kluckhohn/USA Today Sports)
“There’s no way in this country, especially in sports, don’t be able to say in your social media accounts, ‘I don’t think men should be in women’s sports.’ This is something – I talk to athletes all the time, 99.9% of professional athletes, just as we know this is ridiculous, ”she said.
“And the fact that we have not been able to say it bold – but with kindness and some humility – is insane. It is insane we have got to this point in sports that we just can’t be honest about what’s true and not a fool knows, but saying, ‘Yes, you don’t put a man in my daughter’s closet.'”
Then-spor reporter Samantha Ponder present during the first half of the 2013 BCS Championship Game between Notre Dame, who fought Irish and Alabama Crimson Tide at Sun Life Stadium on January 7, 2013. (Matthew Emmons/USA Today Sports)
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Transgender athletes in girls and women’s sports continued to be a major topic in 2025. President Donald Trump signed an executive order that prevented men from competing in girls and women’s sports in February. Since then, several states have been thumb folded in the order.
Most notable, California High School Sports continues to be a fireplace for discussion, as a transnry athlete has competed in the field and Field and Girls’ volleyball.
Clemson Tiger’s main coach Dabo Swinney talks with ESPN reporter Samantha Ponder after defeating the Wake Forest Demon Deacons at BB&T Field on November 6, 2014. (Jeremy Brevard/USA Today Sports)
NCAA changed its genital participation policy following Trump’s order. However, women’s sports activists have said that the organization’s change did not go far enough.
