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Please enter a legitimate electronic mail deal with.<\/span><\/p>\nHaving hassle? Click right here.<\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nESPN star Kirk Herbstreit weighed in on the controversy over transgender athletes enjoying ladies\u2019s sports activities final week when he was requested on social media, “Do men belong in women\u2019s sports?”<\/p>\n
Herbstreit made his stance clear, “Of course not.”<\/p>\n
He defined on Tuesday in an interview on OutKick\u2019s “Don\u2019t @ Me with Dan Dakich” that he didn\u2019t give a s—” about what the reaction was going to be.<\/p>\n
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Kirk Herbstreit<\/span> (Cooper Neill\/Getty Images\/File)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“I\u2019m performed giving any s—s in any respect about any of it. It\u2019s virtually like there are two completely different units of guidelines, and when you’ve got a view that\u2019s a bit of extra conventional, or I\u2019m a Christian man, it\u2019s like there’s a completely different algorithm for that viewpoint,” he explained. “It\u2019s exhausting to simply flip the opposite cheek time after time after time.<\/p>\n
“So, yeah, I didn\u2019t really care, and I don\u2019t care at all. Which is a good thing, I think it\u2019s good and healthy to get to that place compared to2, \u2018Oh gosh, I don\u2019t want to get canceled. I don\u2019t want to get people upset.\u2019 I don\u2019t give a s—. I\u2019m 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\u2019ll explode and say something. That I have to be careful of.”<\/p>\n
Herbstreit stated he didn\u2019t obtain any blowback from ESPN.<\/p>\n
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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.<\/span> (Michael Wade\/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n“I think I have been biting my tongue on a lot of topics for three years. I sent a tweet out \u2013 I get pretty quiet in the offseason \u2013 I sent a tweet out about something. It might have been about college football coming up, and I\u2019ve gotten into a habit of not scrolling and looking at the comments because it\u2019s obviously pretty bad. I happened to see somebody say what he said. I think he said, \u2018Should men be able to play in women\u2019s sports?\u2019 and I just was like, I\u2019m just going to give a quick answer: \u2018Ridiculous question, of course not.\u2019<\/p>\n
“I didn\u2019t dwell on it, I didn\u2019t give a protracted reply, that was it. I didn\u2019t understand it could be \u2013 far more optimistic than unfavorable. I\u2019m certain folks have been upset about it. I feel it\u2019s form of a no brainer. I don\u2019t 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, \u2018Why are you even asking this question,\u2019 is the best way I took it.<\/p>\n
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Kirk Herbstreit talks with Kentucky Wildcats head coach Mark Stoops in October 2022.<\/span> (Bryan Lynn\/Icon Sportswire by way of Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n–<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n “But yeah, man, Lee Corso used to give a speech, and one of the things he would say within that speech was, \u2018Don\u2019t ask me about race, religion or politics, or don\u2019t talk publicly about race, religion or politics,\u2019 and now I think that\u2019s all anybody talks about is race religion and politics. \u2026 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\u2019re in, I\u2019ll be able to say a lot more.”<\/p>\n
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