Former NFL star working again Shaun Alexander has taken a place on the talk over trans inclusion in women and girls’s sports activities.
The three-time Professional Bowler expressed his assist for President Donald Trump’s government order banning trans inclusion in opposition to females, throughout an interview on “The Ricky Cobb Present” on Wednesday. Alexander cited his expertise as a father of 9 daughters for his stance on the difficulty.
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Seattle working again Shaun Alexander runs previous Washington defenders at FedEx Discipline in Landover, Maryland. (Steve Deslich/MCT/Tribune Information Service through Getty Pictures)
“I believe it is a good factor,” Alexander mentioned of Trump’s government order. “My daughters practice so laborious… for them to coach so laborious to get to the place they’re after which to see individuals who have genetics, they’ve youthful brothers who can compete with them already and so they’re 14, so you recognize, in the event you’re the identical age competing with a boy, that is simply laborious, simply physique construction alone is simply laborious. So I am actually completely happy for all the women.
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“For something to offer a bonus moreover laborious work is one thing that might simply be crushing for any younger woman.”
Alexander’s stance aligns with the overwhelming majority of Individuals on the difficulty, in accordance with information.
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Former Seahawks working again Shaun Alexander through the workforce’s sport in opposition to the Inexperienced Bay Packers on Nov. 15, 2018, at CenturyLink Discipline in Seattle. (Lawrence Iles/Icon Sportswire through Getty Pictures)
A latest New York Occasions/Ipsos survey discovered the overwhelming majority of Individuals, together with a majority of Democrats, do not assume transgender athletes needs to be permitted to compete in ladies’s sports activities. Of the two,128 folks polled, 79% mentioned organic males who establish as ladies shouldn’t be allowed to take part in ladies’s sports activities.
Of the 1,025 individuals who recognized as Democrats or leaning Democrat, 67% mentioned transgender athletes shouldn’t be allowed to compete with ladies.
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