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The former NFL wide receives Frank Murphy urged male athletes to stand up for their female colleagues and help promote justice in women’s and girls’ sports.
Murphy, who serves as chairman of AMERICA at the America First Policy Institute, appeared on “Fox & Friends First” on Thursday and talked about blue states coming to the nose by President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban biological men from girls and women’s sports.
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President Donald Trump signs an executive order that prevents transient female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the eastern space of the White House, February 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The Trump administration has been in bitter matches with several states, including Maine, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Minnesota and California, over the question. Murphy suggested that Democrats needed a “distraction” because of how badly they have lost everything else in politics, but complained that it was at the expense of women.
“It harms women’s opportunity, it harms women’s privilege, it hurts them in every sports phase, because now you take away from what they work so hard for just because you’re not happy with who you are,” he said. “I couldn’t imagine going into a dressing room and telling my teammates, ‘Hi, I’m going over here and trying this other sport, and it’s called women’s sport and going over there and playing.’
“Man, it’s a respect for our women, and it’s time for sportsmen, men playing sports – at the NFL level, at the NBA level, raslin ‘, whatever it is – it’s time for men to stand up for women in sports.”
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Murphy agreed with the Green Bay Packers legend Donald Driver, after the broad recipient told Pakinomist Digital earlier this week that “God made you how he did you” and if you are a man you play against men and if you are a woman you compete against women.
“Be aware. God terribly, wonderfully made you,” Murphy added to “Fox & Friends First.” “It means he made you wonderful. It means he did yourself with a little fear of making sure you are perfect in his eyes.
“And then you look at God and say, ‘No, I’m not perfect, so I want to change some things.’ It’s not the way to go.
Murphy was a sixth round selection of Chicago Bears in 2000 out of Kansas State. He played for Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Houston Texans.
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He was out of the NFL after being released by Miami Dolphins in 2006.
