Former U.S. women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe ripped President Donald Trump’s administration and ignored biology as she unloaded on the ban of transgender athletes in the Olympics.
In her “A Touch More” podcast, the outspoken Rapinoe said she was “sickened” by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) policy to protect women’s sports, ruling that biology matters and that “eligibility for any female category event at the Olympic Games or any other IOC event, including individual and team sports, is now limited to biological females, determined on the basis of a one‑time SRY gene screening.”
“Unfortunately, we have to say that all in the same breath as a really horrible rule came out from the International Olympic Committee,” Rapinoe said on her podcast, joined by her partner, basketball star Sue Bird.
(Video Credit: A Touch More with Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe)
“They announced a new policy that they’re calling, I can’t even believe that they’re calling it this because it has nothing to do with protecting women, I feel like two people, who played at the very highest level for every competition that you possibly could, don’t agree with this and never felt like this was an issue at all, ‘The Protection of the Female [Women’s] Category,’” she continued.
Rapinoe went on to make her unscientific case about science.
“We already know that biology, as much as we want it to be just nice and clean and tight and perfectly in one category and another, it’s not,” she said. “We know that. So, now what we’re doing is subjecting everybody, all women and all people who are identifying as women, to this really invasive testing that only to me says like, ‘Oh, we’re just trying to whittle it down to a certain type of woman.’ Is that what we’re doing? That’s really the whole game here.”
“They sort of lost the battle on gay marriage and lost the battle on all these things, so it’s just like, ‘We’re gonna have this whole campaign for all these years to just hate trans people,’ which is such a small percentage of the population. It’s actually on a single hand when we’re talking about sports. And just like thread the absolute tightest needle thread that you possibly could,” she argued.
The former USWNT star claimed the IOC policy was nothing short of “total acquiescence” to the Trump administration.
“This committee is framing it as based in science, which it’s not,” she said. “This will ultimately just prevent people from competing within the women’s category that they feel like they have an unfair advantage. It’s just really hateful. There’s been so few athletes that are trans or competing as trans, and it’s so blatant on its face. It’s a total acquiescence to the Trump administration and to really right-wing conservative politics that really is just bringing down so much hate against such a small percentage of people who are just trying to live their life. It’s just horrible, and I’m just sickened by it, really.”
Social media users blasted Rapinoe for her ignorance and hypocrisy.
If biological males were playing Womens’ soccer during her career, we wouldn’t know her name.
— Mark Johnson (@crew5man) April 5, 2026
Sunshine, the illogical word-salad you just spewed tells us all that we need to know about your level of intelligence and whether or not we should accept your advice… what an absolute Snowflake…
— J.J. (@_Just__JJ) April 5, 2026
Where did she obtain her biology degree?
— Lisa (@politeracy) April 5, 2026
Peak irony: Megan Rapinoe spent her entire career in a protected women’s category, then demands we let biological males in so she can virtue-signal.
Now that the IOC is protecting actual females with a simple gene test, it’s ‘horrible!
— MediaOffScript (@MediaOffScript) April 5, 2026
Big words for someone whose team got their asses handed to them by a bunch of high school boys.
— MoodyRedhead (@moodyredhead) April 5, 2026
A science denier saying science is denying science. How ironic.
— Blaine Stewart (@BlaineStewart16) April 5, 2026
Bro really said ‘this isn’t based in science’ while biology is sitting right there with receipts.
— ♂️⚡ (@0xdefalt) April 5, 2026
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