US Women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe has a clear message to young girls who may be displaced on their high school or college team by a male identifying as a female: Tough luck, hun... trans rights and politics are more important than your dreams and aspirations.
"I'm 100% supportive of trans inclusion," Rapinoe told Time Magazine in an exclusive interview. She went on to frame the entire issue in the context of partisan politics, blaming conservatives for the current controversy surrounding men competing in women's athletics.
"Frankly, I think what a lot of people know is versions of the right's talking points because they're very loud. They're very consistent, and they're relentless," she said.
As to how allowing men to compete against women might be unfair, Rapinoe held nothing back in her contempt for young girls who might look to her as a role model and hope to follow in her footsteps as a world champion in women's sports.
"I would also encourage everyone out there who is afraid someone's going to have an unfair advantage over their kid to really take a step back and think what are we actually talking about here," Rapinoe said.
Implicit in this statement is that it doesn't matter if it's unfair; trans rights supersede a young woman's right to compete on a fair and equal field of competition.
She even uses the ever-present threat of trans suicide to humiliate and bully young girls and their parents into silence because, if they dare speak out and stand up for themselves, well... they'll have blood on their hands.
"We're talking about people's lives. I'm sorry, your kid's high school volleyball team just isn't that important. It's not more important than any one kid's life."
Despicable.
This all comes from a woman who has already won her championships and secured her multi-million dollar endorsement deals by having the benefit of competing against other women who were actually born as women. She seems just fine burning down the fair and equal field she competed on now that her playing days are in the rearview mirror.
One wonders how Rapinoe and her teammates would have faired if she had to compete in the Women's World Cup against transgender athletes.
Actually, one doesn't have to wonder.
In 2017, the US Women's team played a friendly warm-up match against the FC Dallas Under-15 boys team. The teenage boys beat the seasoned, veteran women handily, 5-2.
Oh, sure, the women were just using the match as a warm-up, and they weren't really trying, they'll tell you, but take a look at the photos the US Team took with one of the young boys after the match:
Former BUSA player Tanner Tessman (currently at FC Dallas) got to play against the USWNT in preparation for their game versus Russia. pic.twitter.com/kOH0Y4zPPR
— Birmingham United (@Bham_United) April 3, 2017
That's a kid on the Under 15 squad, and he towers over the women on Team USA. That kid isn't even done growing yet, and those women were the defending world champs in their sport. Imagine how young men like that would compete against girls their own age.
Meanwhile, Rapinoe doesn't really care.
Trans rights over anything else, she claims. Why should she care about your daughter's hopes and dreams? Her personal, extreme political agenda is more important than a little girl who wants to compete in the sport she loves.
That little girl who grew up rooting for Rapinoe and Team USA may even have a Rapinoe poster on her bedroom wall to inspire her to achieve at the highest level. Now, according to Rapinoe, that little girl's dreams to compete in girls' sports have to take a backseat to a little boy's dreams to compete in girls' sports.
All in the name of "trans-inclusion."
What a shameful and selfish attitude. But, one should hardly be surprised. This is The same woman who took a knee for the national anthem and politicized the World Cup by declaring she wouldn't accept an invitation from President Trump to visit the White House.
She has always made the sport about herself and her selfish political positions. She doesn't care.
She got her scholarship. She got her opportunities. She's won her championships. She's made her millions. Now, it's time to use all that fame and notoriety to destroy the very institution that gave her any level of relevance.
I've got an idea... how about Megan Rapinoe gets her way when she's willing to put her money and her titles on the line against a team made up of all trans-women?
Yeah, that'll be the day.