Former American Olympian, who is lifelong Democrat, changes tune on Trump over key policy issue

Former American Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson admitted successful a caller interrogation that adjacent though she’s a lifelong Democrat, she was hopeful for Donald Trump’s incoming presidency due to the fact that of his stance connected protecting women and girls successful sports.

Trump’s vow to extremity trans inclusion successful women’s sports was a cardinal sticking constituent successful his campaign. Pro-Trump run ads during predetermination play painted Vice President Kamala Harris arsenic successful the country for transgender women to vie against biologic women. Trump adjacent called trans inclusion successful women’s sports policies "so acold out."

It’s to that constituent that Thompson recovered herself successful enactment of him.

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Inga Thompson trains for the World Cycling Championships Women's Road Race successful September 1986 successful Colorado Springs, Colorado. (David Madison/Getty Images)

"I don’t privation my fellow to perceive this, due to the fact that we’re some Democrats. I utilized to hatred Trump, due to the fact that I travel from Reno, Nevada, astir the casinos," she told The Telegraph. "I grew up with a batch of radical who were successful gaming, and we hated Trump. I knew radical who would marque deals with him, past helium would backmost out. The archetypal clip helium was up for election, I was making amusive of him. 

"This clip around, my presumption is, ‘If he’s going to support women, I volition ballot for him.’ This is the biggest menace to women that I tin deliberation of happening successful my generation. And I person to ballot for women."

Thompson is 1 of the erstwhile athletes who person led the complaint to support biologic males retired of women’s sports. Those views outgo her a manager occupation with a cycling squad aft she called connected cyclists to protestation Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI)'s transgender jock argumentation successful 2023.

Thompson told the insubstantial she was upset with Democrats for supporting trans inclusion successful women’s sports.

"Did they not larn their acquisition astatine the Olympics astir however tone-deaf they are, however unsighted they are astir what they’re doing to women?" she said. "I’m aggravated astatine the party, being a Democrat myself, that they proceed to propulsion women nether the bus. It would person been truthful casual for them to let communal consciousness to travel back. But they won’t. It’s the last straw."

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From left, Jeannie Longo of France, Valerie Simmonet of France and Inga Thompson of the U.S. observe connected the podium pursuing the Vail Criterium signifier of the Coors International Bicycle Classic connected Aug. 11, 1985, successful Vail, Colorado. (David Madison/Getty Images)

Thompson said she didn’t judge it was a "right-wing, Republican issue." She said each she and Democrats similar her privation is "balance."

"None of america are radicals, we’re conscionable astir communal sense. After their effect to the Protection of Women successful Sports Act, they’ve mislaid maine forever. This is erstwhile you recognize the enactment has mislaid the plot," she added.

Thompson is acold from the lone Democrat who is against the peculiar policy. A New York Times/Ipsos canvass released implicit the weekend recovered that a bulk of Democrats besides don’t deliberation transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie successful women’s sports.

"Thinking astir transgender pistillate athletes – meaning athletes who were antheral astatine commencement but who presently place arsenic pistillate – bash you deliberation they should oregon should not beryllium allowed to vie successful women’s sports?" the survey asked. 

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

Of the 1,025 radical who identified arsenic Democrats oregon leaning Democrat, 67% said transgender athletes should not beryllium allowed to vie with women. 

Donald Trump volition beryllium inaugurated arsenic the 47th president of the United States. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Some of that was seen successful the House of Representatives earlier this month erstwhile 2 Democrats voted alongside Republican lawmakers to prohibition male-born athletes from participating connected girls’ schoolhouse sports teams.

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The Protection of Women and Girls In Sports Act, led by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Fla., would amend national instrumentality to specify that pupil athletes indispensable enactment successful schoolhouse sports teams that coincide with their sex astatine birth.

The measure volition spell to the Senate.

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