Danica Patrick slams trans athletes competing in women’s sports: ‘It’s completely wrong’

Trans athletes competing in girls’s sports activities has develop into a controversial matter, particularly on this election yr, and former NASCAR driver Danica Patrick has given her ideas on the matter. 

Patrick, one of the crucial profitable girls within the historical past of American racing, made an look on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” the place she was requested her ideas on the state of girls’s sports activities, particularly trans athletes having the ability to take part with organic females. 

“It’s fully improper,” Patrick responded. “And that is coming from somebody who was a lady who was mainly in a person’s sport. A person is simply completely different, their hormones are completely different, their physique is completely different.”

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Patrick revealed within the interview that her first-ever presidential election vote shall be for Donald Trump, saying she believes he’s the “rational, cheap selection.” 

Trump not too long ago mentioned his ideas on transgender inclusion in girls’s sports activities on Barstool Sports activities’ “Bussin’ with the Boys” with former NFL gamers Taylor Lewan and Will Compton. 

Towards the top of the interview, he was requested how he deliberate on uniting a divided nation. 

“So, you need to see the nation united. However you may have a really conservative aspect and a conservative aspect, after which you may have those that need to see an open border and issues. Numerous it’s so far out,” Trump stated. “Like, as an example, they need males enjoying in girls’s sports activities. I don’t assume I might ever say I’m thrilled about that. I’ve seen it. I’ve seen individuals actually harm.”

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Trump pointed to the controversy on this yr’s Olympics the place Imane Khelif and Lin Yu Ting received gold medals within the girls’s division of their respective weight classes for boxing. Each boxers had been within the midst of a gender controversy. 

“The entire thing is ridiculous,” Trump added. 

Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance speaks as moderator Danica Partick listens throughout a marketing campaign occasion in Greensboro, North Carolina, Oct. 10, 2024. (AP Picture/Chuck Burton)

This stance from Trump has been clear because the Republican Nationwide Conference in July, the place he briefly mentioned the subject.

And Patrick isn’t the one skilled athlete, former or present, who thinks this manner. 

Golfer Lauren Miller not too long ago appeared on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich”, the place she shared her perception that Trump would do a greater job of defending girls’s sports activities than Vice President Kamala Harris.

“Trump has come ahead at his rallies and stated, ‘Males won’t play in girls’s sports activities.’ It’s so simple as that. So, I’m not seeing Kamala do this. I’m not seeing insurance policies come ahead that will say in any other case,” Miller stated. 

Patrick continued to elucidate why she’s “passionate” about voting for Trump this yr. 

Former race automobile driver and present TV presenter Danica Patrick within the paddock previous to the primary operating of the Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix on Could 8, 2022, in Florida. (David J. Griffin/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Pictures)

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“I’m passionate as a result of it looks like voting for Donald Trump is just like the vote of purpose,” she stated. “It’s just like the rationally, cheap selection. I really feel like most of all, although, what this nation might be if he will get into workplace, with all of the wonderful, good people who find themselves supporting him, I really feel prefer it can’t solely make America nice once more, however make America higher than it’s ever been.”

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