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June 24, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Retired National Football League (NFL) Hall-of-Fame quarterback Brett Favre waded into the debate over biological males in women’s sports, calling it “unfair” for female athletes to have to compete and be compared with the performance of men claiming to be women.
“It’s a man competing as a woman,” Favre said on his podcast in response to the news that New Zealand weightlifter Gavin “Laurel” Hubbard will be the first “transgender” weightlifter to compete in the women’s super heavyweight category at the Tokyo Olympics next month. “That’s unfair. It’s not fair for a man, even if this person wants to be a woman or feels compelled — if you want to become the opposite sex, that’s fine. I got no problem with it. But you can’t compete against — males cannot compete against females.”
“If I was a true female — I can’t believe I’m saying that — and I was competing in weightlifting and lost to this person, I would be beside myself,” Favre lamented.
Hubbard, who stands over six feet tall and weighs
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