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Former Chicago Bears prima linebacker Brian Urlacher made his stance known connected the contented of transgender athletes successful women's and girls' sports arsenic the statement creates a disagreement successful the authorities wherever helium made his estimation – Illinois.
Urlacher shared his sentiment connected the contented during an interrogation connected the "Global View" podcast connected May 9 and questioned wherefore it is adjacent a statement successful immoderate circles.
"Why is it adjacent a debate? A pistillate is simply a pistillate and a antheral is simply a man… you're calved with what you're calved with," Urlacher said.
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Jerome Bettis, #36 of the Pittsburgh Steelers, runs implicit Brian Urlacher, #54 of the Chicago Bears, for a touchdown connected Dec. 11, 2005 astatine Heinz Field successful Pittsburgh. (Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
Urlacher adjacent referenced an ongoing contention successful Minnesota, wherever a transgender pitcher is presently dominating the girls' softball season. The trans jock reportedly won 14 consecutive games heading into the playoffs and earned first-team All-State honors rocked the authorities successful caller weeks.
"It's conscionable antithetic due to the fact that we are men, determination are definite things we bash amended than women, and it's just, fig one, it's not fair, and if I had a girl who had to beryllium forced to play against a antheral I would not beryllium good with it and I would rise hellhole astir it," Urlacher said.
"I conscionable don't get it, it's a communal consciousness thing, I conscionable don't spot however you tin propulsion this and marque idiosyncratic happening they're a antithetic sex."
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Former Chicago Bears subordinate Brian Urlacher is honored during halftime of a crippled betwixt the Chicago Bears and the Seattle Seahawks astatine Soldier Field successful Chicago connected Sept. 17, 2018. (Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports)
The Pro Football Hall of Famer praised President Donald Trump for signing the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" enforcement bid astatine the White House connected Feb. 5.
Illinois has go a hotbed of contention implicit the contented of trans jock inclusion successful caller days aft a biologic antheral competed successful a seventh-grade way conscionable against biologic females astatine the Naper Prairie Conference Meet.
The incidental resulted successful a Naperville 203 Community School District Board gathering descending into a heated statement implicit the contented connected Monday.
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Brian Urlacher is honored with a Ring of Excellence ceremonial for his caller induction into the Hall of Fame astatine Soldier Field connected Sep. 17, 2018 successful Chicago. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images)
Awake Illinois has filed a civilian rights ailment against the district, with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights alleging a usurpation of Title IX.
They called connected national funds to beryllium withheld from the district, which it says receives betwixt $8 cardinal and $9 cardinal successful national grants annually. The ailment is portion of a broader effort by Awake Illinois, which antecedently filed akin Title IX complaints against different districts and the Illinois State Board of Education.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports writer for Fox News Digital. He antecedently worked for ESPN and Business Insider. Jackson has covered the Super Bowl and NBA Finals, and has interviewed iconic figures Usain Bolt, Rob Gronkowski, Jerry Rice, Troy Aikman, Mike Trout, David Ortiz and Roger Clemens.
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