>>9873916“Therefore, it doesn’t exactly seem like they are keeping politics completely out of the mix. But, I have to commend these two women for standing up for these women who are unfortunately losing so much of the success that they worked so hard for.”
Thomas swam for three years at Penn as a male, then transitioned to female and set a number of records.
On her Fox News appearance, Arnolt intimated that the Thomas situation should be a warning shot about what happens if transgender athletes compete against women in physical team sports.
“I think there’s a lot of women who are uncomfortable about standing up for women’s rights because they don’t want to be considered politically incorrect, because it’s really crazy where this world and this conversation has gone,” Arnolt said.
“It’s a very slippery slope, because when you look at, this is swimming, where we’ve seen a transgender permeate the women’s world, but there are so many sports that are far more aggressive than swimming, that are team sports. Think about soccer or basketball. [If] even an average male athlete enters that world, what’s gonna happen to women? It will become a very dangerous landscape.”
Asked why she left ESPN, Arnolt said, “I’m a very opinionated person — I always have been. That’s something I love about myself and I just felt at ESPN that I was a little bit stifled. There was a lot of conversations and issues that have really just permeated the world of sports and society in general that I wasn’t able to speak up about.
“And it made me feel very uncomfortable, because I wasn’t true to myself. Then there’s a place like OutKick, where the idea of cancel culture doesn’t exist. You have someone like Clay Travis who really stands behind everyone who works at the company and says, ‘You can say whatever you want as long as you are convicted in what you’re saying and you really believe in it you have nothing to worry about.'”
