Stephen A. Smith says 'we are sick' of 'transgender issues and culture wars' after teasing presidential bid

ESPN sports statement big Stephen A. Smith has thrown himself truthful heavy into the governmental arena helium claimed helium would see moving for president during an interrogation connected "The View" Thursday. And he's already analyzing the failed strategy of the Democrats successful this year's election. 

During an interrogation connected "The Will Cain Show" aboriginal Thursday, Smith delivered a scathing critique of the Democratic National Committee and its connection up of Election Day and pointed to transgender issues arsenic 1 of its anemic points. 

"It’s specified a beardown tilt to the progressive near wherever we are talking astir transgender issues and civilization wars and individuality authorities and each of this stuff. We are sick of each of that. That makes total, full consciousness to me, and I’m bully with it, adjacent though I didn’t ballot for [Trump]. I’m not arsenic taken aback and feeling similar thing but gloom and doom and the satellite is coming to an extremity due to the fact that the idiosyncratic I voted for didn’t win," Smith said. 

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ESPN big Stephen A. Smith slammed critics of exemplary Amber Rose's code astatine the Republican National Convention. (Screenshot/YouTube)

Smith antecedently spoke astir the taxable of transgender athletes successful women's sports during an interrogation with Bill O'Reilly June 16, 2023. 

"In my opinion, no," Smith said erstwhile asked if helium believed transgender athletes should beryllium permitted to vie against women. "I'm precise supportive of the homosexual community, the transgender assemblage successful that regard. But erstwhile you speech astir radical who are calved men, competing successful a women's athletics due to the fact that they've transitioned to women, that is decidedly a treatment that we should each have, because, connected its face, I don't spot however it's imaginable nor bash I spot however it's right. … There's a fairness contented there." 

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In 2016, Smith questioned the validity of a suit filed by an LGBT rights radical successful North Carolina implicit a authorities instrumentality that aimed to restrict transgender radical from utilizing the bathrooms of their preferred sex during an occurrence connected his ESPN Radio show. North Carolina passed House Bill 2, which required radical to usage the bath that corresponded to the enactment connected their commencement certificate successful nationalist buildings and authorities agencies. The measure was the archetypal of its benignant successful the United States.

However, Smith inactive mocked women who claimed to person felt "unsafe" sharing a bath with biologic men during that aforesaid monologue.

"They get excessively hyperbolic, they prosecute successful excessively overmuch hyperbole, due to the fact that that's not what the contented is. You don't person to beryllium frightened and consciousness unsafe to not privation a antheral successful a bath with you if you're a woman. You conscionable don't privation to beryllium successful determination with them due to the fact that you're of a antithetic sex due to the fact that there's a antheral bath and there's a pistillate bath and that's that," Smith said. 

"Don't springiness maine the unsafe part! Like ‘Oh my god, I’m frightened for my life.' … Stop! That's not the issue!" 

The taxable of transgender rights, specifically transgender inclusion successful women's sports, became a blistery fastener contented successful the 2024 predetermination cycle. It became specified a anemic constituent for the Democrats that galore of the party's candidates backed distant from supporting transgender people. 

Those Democrats included Texas Rep. Collin Allred, Texas Rep. Vicente Gonzalez and Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola. Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown precocious defended himself erstwhile being linked to the contented by claiming helium was ne'er successful favour of allowing biologic males successful women's sports. Allred, Peltola and Brown each mislaid their predetermination races.

Vice President Kamala Harris did not talk extensively astir her stance connected the contented of transgender athletes successful sports aft becoming the Democratic nominee successful July, sidestepping questions successful interviews with Fox News and NBC News connected her past enactment for taxpayer-funded gender-affirming attraction for prisoners and amerciable immigrants. 

However, different cardinal figures successful the Democratic Party person doubled down connected their enactment for transgender rights and inclusion successful women's sports passim the predetermination cycle. 

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Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attacked the Green Party statesmanlike summons aft the party's vice statesmanlike nominee, Butch Ware, spoke retired against transgender athletes successful women's sports. 

"Like I said. This summons is predatory and radical merit better," Ocasio-Cortez wrote connected X successful effect to a video of Ware stating his beliefs connected transgender athletes. 

In April, the Biden-Harris medication issued a sweeping regularisation that clarified that Title IX’s prohibition connected "sex" favoritism successful schools covers favoritism based connected sex identity, intersexual predisposition and "pregnancy oregon related conditions."

And portion the medication insisted the regularisation does not code diversion eligibility, aggregate experts presented evidence to Fox News Digital successful June that it would yet enactment much biologic men successful women's sports. 

Democrats person tried to propulsion guardant the Equality Act, which was projected successful 2019 and has had revisions that "would force nationalist schools to let biologically antheral athletes who place arsenic transgender connected girls sports teams." In March 2023, Democrats advocated for a transgender measure of rights, proposing a resolution "recognizing that it is the work of the Federal Government to make and instrumentality a Transgender Bill of Rights." 

Multiple U.S. states person their ain laws to restrict oregon forestall transgender inclusion successful women's sports. However, adjacent immoderate of the states with those laws person had incidents wherever transgender inclusion successful girls sports was enabled via the ruling of a national judge. 

Judges Landya McCafferty successful New Hampshire and M. Hannah Lauck of Virginia, some of whom were appointed during the Obama administration, each issued rulings this twelvemonth that enabled biologic males to play connected precocious schoolhouse girls shot and tennis teams. McCafferty issued an bid that allowed 2 transgender athletes to vie connected girls precocious schoolhouse shot teams successful New Hampshire, portion Lauck ruled that an 11-year-old transgender tennis subordinate was allowed to vie against girls the aforesaid property successful Virginia. 

Smith has said aggregate times helium would see moving for nationalist office. Since the results of the election, helium has been 1 of the fewer figures successful the wide media to clasp the result of Trump's triumph and has been heavy critical of left-wing figures similar Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and Jimmy Kimmel successful their portrayal of Trump. 

Smith has not ruled retired a imaginable statesmanlike run. 

"I person nary tendency to beryllium a legislature fig oregon a senator. But if you came to maine and you told maine I had a morganatic changeable to triumph the presidency of the United States of America, I would decidedly see it," helium said connected "The View" Thursday. 

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