Radio host Clay Travis blasted a story from The Atlantic that centers on separating sports by sex. The article drew the ire of the “Clay & Buck” host Tuesday.
“Separating Sports by Sex Doesn’t Make Sense” appeared in The Atlantic last weekend.
Travis called the article one of the “dumbest stories he’d ever seen.” He added that it marked the natural evolution of the argument that men can compete against women.
“The whole Lia Thomas madness where you had a dude who decided to become a woman and then became the greatest woman swimmer of the year in college athletics. Left-wingers are just going to say we need to have a unisex category,” he said.
Travis stated writer Maggie Mertens trots out things that aren’t true.
Mertens wrote that school sports are typically self-segregated, and decades of research has shown that sex is far more complex than we may think. Her reporting is based on a Bronx, New York girl named Shira Mandelzis who tries out for her school football team.
“This has become a big deal,” Travis observed. “Biology isn’t true to left-wingers anymore. Let me be clear here, there is no chick in America that is going to be faster than Usain Bolt. There is no one in the history of women’s athletics who is going to be as great a quarterback as Tom Brady.”
Travis said tennis great Serena Williams is a prime example of why sports should be separated by sex. He said several professional tennis players told him that as great of talent as Williams was, she wouldn’t make it on many top-level NCAA Division 1 team.
“Some of these quotes in this story are crazy,” he added.
