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ESPN star Kirk Herbstreit weighed in on the controversy over transgender athletes enjoying ladies’s sports activities final week when he was requested on social media, “Do men belong in women’s sports?”
Herbstreit made his stance clear, “Of course not.”
He defined on Tuesday in an interview on OutKick’s “Don’t @ Me with Dan Dakich” that he didn’t give a s—” about what the reaction was going to be.
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Kirk Herbstreit (Cooper Neill/Getty Images/File)
“I’m performed giving any s—s in any respect about any of it. It’s virtually like there are two completely different units of guidelines, and when you’ve got a view that’s a bit of extra conventional, or I’m a Christian man, it’s like there’s a completely different algorithm for that viewpoint,” he explained. “It’s exhausting to simply flip the opposite cheek time after time after time.
“So, yeah, I didn’t really care, and I don’t care at all. Which is a good thing, I think it’s good and healthy to get to that place compared to2, ‘Oh gosh, I don’t want to get canceled. I don’t want to get people upset.’ I don’t give a s—. I’m just going to say certain things. My problem is I have a temper, and so if I get to that point, if that fuse gets lit, I let it go, and then I’ll explode and say something. That I have to be careful of.”
Herbstreit stated he didn’t obtain any blowback from ESPN.
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ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit is proven on the sphere previous to the Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl between the Georgia Bulldogs and Ohio State Buckeyes on Dec. 31, 2022, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. (Michael Wade/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)
“I think I have been biting my tongue on a lot of topics for three years. I sent a tweet out – I get pretty quiet in the offseason – I sent a tweet out about something. It might have been about college football coming up, and I’ve gotten into a habit of not scrolling and looking at the comments because it’s obviously pretty bad. I happened to see somebody say what he said. I think he said, ‘Should men be able to play in women’s sports?’ and I just was like, I’m just going to give a quick answer: ‘Ridiculous question, of course not.’
“I didn’t dwell on it, I didn’t give a protracted reply, that was it. I didn’t understand it could be – far more optimistic than unfavorable. I’m certain folks have been upset about it. I feel it’s form of a no brainer. I don’t have a daughter; I’ve 4 sons. If I had a daughter, I’d most likely be far more outspoken about this dialogue on this subject. I simply form of made it sound like, ‘Why are you even asking this question,’ is the best way I took it.
Kirk Herbstreit talks with Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Stoops in October 2022. (Bryan Lynn/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)
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“But yeah, man, Lee Corso used to give a speech, and one of the things he would say within that speech was, ‘Don’t ask me about race, religion or politics, or don’t talk publicly about race, religion or politics,’ and now I think that’s all anybody talks about is race religion and politics. … I try to stay on the sidelines for a lot of that, but you can only take so much until you want to start to speak up a little bit and actually say what you think. When I retire or get in the position that you’re in, I’ll be able to say a lot more.”
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