Bob Costas Voices Opposition To Trans Athletes In Women's Sports: 'It's Common Sense!'

Famed sportscaster Bob Costas confidently shared his opinion on trans athletes, stating it goes against ‘common sense’ during his appearance on "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Costas' views are nowhere near those of a ‘radical, transphobe conservative,' a title the media assesses to anyone opposing trans athletes' rights. But Costas had the courage to voice absolute truths against pressure from the PC mob. For instance, Lia Thomas still wants to swim against women, despite his physical advantages, and Bob Costas called it all a bunch of "bulls*it." 

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Costas shared his controversial take with Maher, reminding audiences that it's not ‘transphobic’ to exercise common sense. His comments piggybacked Maher's question regarding UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological man suing World Aquatics to join the women's competition at the Summer Olympics. In 2022, the NCAA allowed Thomas to compete and win in the women's 500-yard freestyle. OutKick's Riley Gaines competed and tied with Thomas in the 200-yard competition (the rest is history).

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ATLANTA - Lia Thomas looks on from the podium after finishing fifth in the 200 Yard Freestyle during the 2022 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming & Diving Championship at the McAuley Aquatic Center on the campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology on March 18, 2022. (Photo by Mike Comer/NCAA Photos via Getty Images)

"Without getting too deep into this, people may not realize this, the individual federations that govern these sports make up their own rules," Costas shared. "So World Aquatics may have different rules than FIFA or the Track and Field Association. So I understand that when it comes to Olympic boxing, that federation will allow trans women to compete against biological women, at birth biological women. That seems crazy."

Over the past two years, Americans have witnessed numerous cases of trans-female athletes destroying parity in their respective sports. In some cases, the physical superiority of trans athletes resulted in bodily harm to the women they competed against. One trans athlete in North Carolina last year even added one of those unfortunate plays to their highlight reel.

Costas touched on the vehement resistance that comes with speaking against trans athletes and the lack of sense in ignoring physical differences for the sake of ‘inclusion.'

"You don’t want to be called — it’s not transphobic to say ‘Let’s inject some common sense here.' A lot of this is murky. We know that some people who use this as an issue actually are hostile towards trans people, or people who after carefully considered decision at a certain point in life, decide that they’ll be happier and closer to their true selves. I think any sensitive person is aligned with that. But — Sugar Ray Leonard didn’t fight Mike Tyson. 

"They were contemporaries. Sugar Ray was a welterweight, Mike was a heavyweight, alright? If someday the best player in the WNBA can play in the NBA, everybody would applaud. But if the worst guy at the end of the bench on the worst team in the NBA went to the WNBA and averaged 40 points a game, everybody knows that’s bulls***."

Bill Maher and Bob Costas were also joined by The Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Flanagan, who also took a firm stance against justifying men competing against women under the guise of ‘trans rights.’

Flanagan went off on the issue, openly stating that ‘trans female’ athletes are desperate for an advantage in competition in their interruption of women's athletics.

NEW YORK - Bob Costas speaks on stage during the International Tennis Hall of Fame Legends Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street on September 10, 2022. (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images)

More Americans are concerned that the beginning of trans athletes' inclusion in sports could snowball into the extinction of women's athletics.

Flanagan shared, "You know these kind of extreme cases, and I hate that we have to talk about them so much because it makes it [like] we have to say things that are cruel or hurtful to some people but you know, women’s and girls’ sports, they weren’t created as separate from men’s and boys’ because of some weird gendered thing like they have to wear pink, and they have to wear blue, they’re that way because of the profound sex differences between the sexes. That’s the reason. 

"You don’t hear about any trans male athletes on a D1 basketball team… it’s the trans women who seem to be using a natural advantage that comes from sex-linked traits ..."

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