Steve Garvey calls for prevention of trans inclusion in women's sports, defends forfeits that protest it

EXCLUSIVE: Former Dodgers World Series champion Steve Garvey is moving for U.S. Senate arsenic a Republican successful California, and revealed his stance connected 1 of November's abrupt blistery fastener issues to Fox News Digital up of L.A.'s rubric bout vs. the Yankees. 

Garvey made it wide that helium opposed trans inclusion successful women's sports, and insists biologic boundaries should beryllium acceptable to specify biologic gender. He besides specified that helium believes transgender athletes should lone vie against each other. 

"This is an contented I've talked to a batch of people. I conscionable judge it's defined by biologic men and women, and I deliberation that God gives america freewill and choice, and if you take to transgender, accidental from antheral and female, past you should vie against those radical that person done the aforesaid thing," Garvey said. 

Garvey cited his acquisition arsenic a begetter to his 2 daughters, Krisha and Whitney, for his stance. 

"I person daughters, I attraction astir their safety, I attraction astir their freedom, and I deliberation it's conscionable not just to person that benignant of competition, that a pistillate is ever going to beryllium astatine a deficit," Garvey said.

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Former President Trump has gone truthful acold arsenic to advocator for a ban, portion Democrats, including Vice President Harris and Ted Cruz's Texas spot hostile Collin Allred, person distanced themselves from enactment for transgender athletes successful women's sports implicit the past month. 

Harris has sidestepped questions of transgender rights successful caller interviews connected Fox News and NBC News, portion Allred's run has had to spell truthful acold arsenic to merchandise TV ads wherever helium says helium is against "boys successful girls sports."

Garvey believes that the nation's enactment indispensable instrumentality enactment to specify the favoritism betwixt biologic men and women. 

"I deliberation it gets backmost to leadership, we request to truly specify this adjacent further," Garvey said. 

In Garvey's authorities of California, San Jose State University has been astatine the epicenter of the heated election-month debate. 

On Friday, the university's volleyball programme received quality that an hostile would beryllium forfeiting for 5th clip this play alone, arsenic the programme is embroiled successful a nationalist contention implicit a suit by 1 of its players against the NCAA, alleging that she was ne'er told that her teammate is simply a biologic male. 

Brooke Slusser joined a suit headed by OutKick big and erstwhile collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines against the NCAA owed to its policies connected sex identity. Slusser joined this suit due to the fact that she claims that she has had to stock a court, a locker country and adjacent a country connected overnight trips with her teammate Blaire Fleming without having ever been told that Fleming was transgender.

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The University of Nevada, Reno announced it would beryllium officially forfeiting its Saturday lucifer against San Jose State aft a tense quality betwixt the Nevada players and their diversion department. The players voted to forfeit the game, and made it nationalist that they intended not to instrumentality the tribunal against San Jose State. Sources told Fox News Digital that the players adjacent approached the diversion manager Stephanie Rempe to petition the lucifer beryllium forfeited. 

But Nevada didn't officially forfeit the programme until Saturday erstwhile they deemed that they didn't person capable players to enactment successful the match, aft a precise disposable protestation by the players implicit the past week.

Garvey defended athletes and each the different volleyball programs that person forfeited games implicit their refusal to vie against a transgender opponent. 

"I hatred to spot women suffer the accidental to compete, but what they're doing – and this has go portion of their freewill and prime – is to take however they're going to marque a statement," Garvey said. 

During his vocation with the Dodgers, Garvey played successful much than 1,700 games implicit the people of 14 seasons and deed .301 with 211 location runs and 992 RBI. Garvey was besides selected to 8 All-Star Games and won the All-Star Game MVP Award successful some 1974 and 1978. (Steve Garvey)

San Jose State has said it is successful compliance with authoritative NCAA rules amid the quality of the 5th forfeit of the year. 

"Our athletes each comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and they are eligible to play nether the rules of those organizations. We volition proceed to instrumentality measures to prioritize the wellness and information of our students portion they prosecute their earned opportunities to compete," the assemblage said successful a connection to Fox News Digital connected Friday. 

San Jose State's Slusser and Nevada's Sia Liillii person taken enactment roles successful vocalizing their absorption to transgender inclusion successful women's sports implicit the past fewer weeks. 

Republican lawmakers, Idaho Gov. Brad Little and Tulsi Gabbard person praised the players and teams who person refused to play the Spartans. The Trump run has pounded his Democrat hostile connected the contented successful the last weeks starring up to predetermination day. 

Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines took signifier astatine the Turning Point Action league to precede Trump astatine the rally successful Georgia connected Wednesday. 

"I could stock the grotesque details of what it was similar being forced to undress, inches distant from a six-foot-four antheral who watched america portion down to nothing, portion helium did the same, exposing his fully-intact bare antheral body," Gaines said. "There are nary words to picture the usurpation and the betrayal, the humiliation that we felt." 

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" successful April. 

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

The Supreme Court past voted 5-4 successful August to cull an exigency petition by the Biden medication to enforce portions of that caller regularisation aft much than 2 twelve Republican attorneys wide sued to artifact the Title IX changes successful their ain states.

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines respond aft finishing tied for 5th successful the 200 Freestyle finals astatine the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships connected March 18th, 2022 astatine the McAuley Aquatic Center successful Atlanta, Georgia.  (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images.)

However, the contented extends acold beyond the borders of the U.S. 

The United Nations released survey findings that accidental astir 900 biologic females person fallen abbreviated of the podium due to the fact that they person been beaten retired by transgender athletes.

The study, titled "Violence against women and girls successful sports," said that much than 600 athletes did not medal successful much than 400 competitions successful 29 antithetic sports, totaling implicit 890 medals, according to accusation obtained up to March 30.

"The replacement of the pistillate sports class with a mixed-sex class has resulted successful an expanding fig of pistillate athletes losing opportunities, including medals, erstwhile competing against males," the study said.

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