Joe Biden has been accused of trying to “ruin” women’s sports in a scathing remark by Caitlyn Jenner.
Speaking on GB News, the media personality and Olympic gold medallist hit out at the US President amid growing numbers of trans athletes competing in women’s sport.
Jenner has long advocated for the expulsion of trans girls in women’s sports, arguing it is “not fair”.
She told John Cleese that Biden has been on the “wrong side of every issue in history” as she spoke on his advocacy for the Title Nine law to be “opened up”.
Caitlyn Jenner wants trans athletes banned from women's sport
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Explaining what the law entails, Jenner said: “Title Nine was passed back in the early 80s, and it was a fairness, mostly in the NCAA, but fairness in women’s sports.
“Let’s say the men’s soccer team gets 10 scholarships, then the women have to get 10 scholarships too.
Caitlyn Jenner spoke to John Cleese
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“With that in place over the last 30-40 years, it has risen women’s sport tremendously. It has given out so many scholarships to women, and it has been such a great program.
“Now Joe Biden, who has been on the wrong side of every issue in history, says we have to open up Title Nine to make it gender identity, not women.
“This would kill women’s sport. Joe Biden is literally trying to ruin women’s sports by letting anybody who just identifies as a woman go in and compete.
“It would destroy women’s sport. It would discourage women. It is ridiculous with fairness first, that’s what we’re doing.”
Jenner cited the Lia Thomas case, a swimmer who became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in 2022.
She told Cleese that Thomas’s victory was “not fair” as she “went through male puberty”.
The world governing body for swimming acted upon the matter later on that year by effectively barring transgender women from the highest levels of women’s international competition.
FINA voted to prohibit transgender women from competing unless they began medical treatments to suppress production of testosterone before going through one of the early stages of puberty, or by age 12.
More than 70 per cent of FINA’s member federations voted in favour of the policy.
The landmark ruling became one of the strict rules against transgender participation in international sports and sparked debate as to whether such rulings should spread to other sports.
