Riley Gaines and former Nascar driver Danica Patrick discussed their struggle to keep biological men out of girls and women’s sports.
Gaines have been fighting transient athletes from competing against biological women when Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, won a division in the NCAA championship.
Patrick has mostly been step-by-step with Gaines on the question. In fact, it was a primary reason why she voted in the previous election for the first time in her life.
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Danica Patrick looks at during the 102nd driving of Indianapolis 500 on Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis on May 27, 2018. (Mark J. Revilas-usa Today Sports)
“I think it’s ironic that I am passionate about it because I was a girl in a guy’s sport,” Patrick told Gaines at Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast.
However, Patrick repeated her very clear attitude.
“There are just clear biological differences between the two,” Patrick said.
Indycar -Serie -tv -Analyst Danica Patrick for NBC Sports before Indianapolis 500 on Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Mark J. Revilas-usa Today Sports)
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“All you have to do is youtube or google some stories about people taking transition medicine and how different they felt to take testosterone. Whether it’s strength, libido or just all the changes that end up happening – hormones play a huge role. Hormones, to a great extent, create your personality, and they are destined to achieve biology. questions that are able to achieve more than more than women. ”
President Donald Trump signed an executive order last month to keep transnry athletes out of girls and women’s sports, but it has not prevented at least three states from ignoring it.
Danica Patrick, driver of No. 10 Godaddy.com Chevrolet, looks at during the qualifying for the NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES CAMPING World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 12, 2013 in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Jonathan Ferrey/Nascar via Getty Images)
The Department of Education has begun studies of California, Minnesota and Maine, the latter of which came after a heated discussion between Trump and Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
Trump mentioned his order at Tuesday’s joint address to Congress, and again promised a shortage of federal funding whose states defy his order.
