Sports broadcasting legend Bob Costas is the latest personality to talk about transgender athletics.
Speaking on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, Costas revealed that he thinks it’s “common sense” to oppose transgender women competing against cisgender women.
“It’s not transphobic to say ‘Let’s inject some common sense here.’ A lot of this is murky,” We know that some people who use this as an issue actually are hostile towards trans people or people who, after carefully considered decisions at a certain point in life, decide that they’ll be happier and closer to their true selves. I think any sensitive person is aligned with that.’”
Costas went further in his explanation in the video which can be seen below:
Bill Maher asks Bob Costas what is the best answer regarding trans competing in sports. Maher asks Costas a simple question: Should trans compete in a separate division?
Bob Costas: "I don't think you want trans athletes competing against other trans athletes"
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Maher also hosted Caitlin Flanagan, a writer for The Atlantic, and she echoed similar concerns about the ongoing situation.
“Women’s and girls’ sports, they weren’t created as separate from men’s and boys’ because of some weird gendered thing like they have to wear pink, and they have to wear blue, they’re that way because of the profound [physical] sex differences between the sexes. That’s the reason,” she explained. “You don’t hear about any trans male athletes on a D1 basketball team… it’s the trans women who seem to be using a natural advantage that comes from sex-linked traits.”
Regardless of your point of view, the debate seems set to continue raging in America as a hot-button social issue.
