Watters Attacks Rapinoe: I’ve Done More For Women’s Sports

On Tuesday’s The Five, the four conservatives attacked soccer superstar Megan Rapinoe for advocating for transgender players on the U.S. women’s soccer team. It’s not like the team suddenly changed its rules because of her remarks. But the Fox propagandists seized on the moment to smear her and her pro-trans stance by turning themselves into pro-women concern trolls.

Rapinoe’s comments smacked down the notion that trans women are a big problem in sports. She called prohibitions against them an effort “to legislate away people’s full humanity” disguised as “fairness.”

With unintended irony, The Five proved Rapinoe 100% right.

Cohost Dana Perino read part of Rapinoe’s remarks but left out the part where Rapinoe said, “show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It’s just not happening.” Instead, Perino and cohost Watters suggested Rapinoe was eagerly foisting a horde of transgender players on her teammates after she retires.

It started with a clip of former collegiate swimmer and perpetual anti-trans whiner Riley Gaines accusing Rapinoe of “undermining her fight entirely” for equal pay for female athletes.

Watters distorted Rapinoe’s remarks to suggest “she’d be okay with having an all-male U.S. women's soccer team.”

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