Ex-ESPN star shares stance on transgender athletes in girls' and women's sports

Former ESPN prima Jeannine Edwards made her stance connected transgender athletes competing successful girls’ and women’s sports wide successful an interrogation connected Tuesday.

Edwards appeared connected OutKick’s "Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich" and said she couldn’t judge determination was a statement astir the contented successful sports.

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ESPN announcer Jeannine Edwards connected the sidelines of a crippled betwixt the Tennessee Volunteers and Arkansas Razorbacks astatine Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium successful Fayetteville, Arkansas, Nov. 12, 2011. (Beth Hall-USA Today Sports)

"I cannot judge that we person adjacent gotten to this point," Edwards said. "I mean 50 years of Title IX and each those decades of moving up to that and getting to that constituent wherever women could person adjacent access, adjacent opportunity, adjacent benefits, but they request to beryllium successful their ain niche. Because let’s look it, men person 60% much musculus mass, they’ve got a heck of a batch much bony density and bony mass, larger lung capacity, larger oxygen depletion capacity. It doesn’t substance whether you are taking hormones oregon not. 

"It doesn’t substance whether you accidental you place arsenic a female, I’m atrocious your physiology of your assemblage arsenic a antheral is overmuch antithetic than that of the assemblage of a woman. So, to me, this a no-brainer and I don’t recognize wherefore immoderate radical connected the near deliberation that is simply a origin that is going to beryllium a victor for them conscionable arsenic I don’t judge that this migration contented and deporting these transgression aliens, I don’t deliberation that’s a winning contented for them either."

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CBS sideline newsman Tracy Wolfson, left, and ESPN reporters Dick Vitale and Jeannine Edwards person a photograph taken earlier the semifinal games astatine the NCAA men's Final Four successful Atlanta, April 6, 2013. ( Sean Dougherty-USA Today)

The New Jersey autochthonal was an ESPN and ABC Sports broadcaster from the mid-1990s to the mid-2010s.

A New York Times/Ipsos Survey released successful January showed that the immense bulk of Americans, including a bulk of Democrats, don't deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women's sports.

Of the 2,128 radical polled, 79% said biologic males who place arsenic women should not beryllium allowed to enactment successful women's sports.

Jeannine Edwards and Oklahoma State antiaircraft coordinator Glenn Spencer airs earlier the 138th moving of the Preakness Stakes astatine Pimlico contention people successful Baltimore, May 18, 2013. (Winslow Townson-USA Today Sports)

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Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democratic, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women. Among 1,022 Republicans, that fig was 94%.

Fox News’ Ryan Canfield and Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.

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