Former U.S. gymnastics champion Jennifer Sey is taking aim at the ACLU and women’s sports icon Megan Rapinoe after they appeared in a new video supporting transgender-identifying males in women’s sports. The video, part of the ACLU’s “More Than a Game” campaign, claims transgender youth deserve the right to “be themselves” and compete in girls’ athletics.
But Sey, a vocal advocate for protecting women’s sports and founder of the XX-XY Athletics brand, says the messaging is dishonest and offensive to female athletes. “Sports aren’t about inclusion. Not everybody makes the team,” she said, rejecting the idea that competitive sports are about “freedom” or “self-expression.”
Sey argues that biological males retain undeniable advantages over female athletes, even beyond what is achieved through performance-enhancing drugs. “There’s rules in sports. Three strikes and you’re out,” she added, blasting the ACLU’s framing of the debate. “They’re twisting the purpose of sports into something it’s not.”
Sey didn’t hold back on Rapinoe either, calling her a hypocrite. “Megan Rapinoe has to be one of the most competitive women on the planet… she’s full of it. And I’m sure she would not have tolerated a single player taking performance-enhancing drugs.”
She accused Rapinoe of “pulling up the ladder” behind her after a successful career, now backing policies that could shut out the next generation of female athletes. Sey contends the push to allow biological males in girls’ and women’s competitions erases years of hard-won progress in female sports.
As the legal fight continues in courts across the country, including recent hearings at the Supreme Court, Sey urged Americans to push back against what she sees as radical gender ideology. “They’re asking these girls to erase themselves and to do it with a smile,” she said.
