Founder of XX-XY Athletics takes aim at video featuring Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird supporting trans youth in sports<\/b>
\nJennifer Sey slammed The ACLU and Megan Rapinoe after the organization posted a video as a part of their latest campaign standing with transgender athletes.
She said the video made her \u201cso angry.\u201d
Sey is a USA National artistic gymnastics champion, and the founder of XX-XY Athletics, an activewear company that advocates for protecting women\u2019s sports and spaces.
For their \u201cMore Than A Game\u201d campaign, the ACLU posted a video in support of transgender athletes. On its website, the group says it is standing with trans youth and their families and their rights to \u201cbe themselves.\u201d
\u201cSupporting trans youth, isn\u2019t just about sports. It\u2019s about freedom,\u201d the video says. The video includes former Team USA women\u2019s soccer player Megan Rapinoe, former WNBA player Sue Bird, and WNBA player Brianna Turner.
Talking to Fox News Digital, Sey did not hold back.
\u201cSports aren\u2019t about any of those things. Sports are about competition. Sports are not about inclusion. Not everybody makes the team.\u201d
\u201cSports are competing and striving to get better, and it\u2019s about self-reliance and picking yourself up when you fall down. They\u2019re not about freedom. There\u2019s rules in sports. Three strikes and you\u2019re out. There\u2019s rules across every single sport. So I don\u2019t know what these people are talking about and to make it about this idea that sports aren\u2019t about competition.\u201d
This comes as the Supreme Court is weighing new cases regarding protections for female athletes. The ACLU is standing with trans athletes.
Also seen on the campaign site, is Becky Pepper-Jackson. Jackson is a track and field athlete who was banned after West Virginia banned transgender athletes in girls\u2019 sports, a case currently being heard by the Supreme Court. In 2021, they sued the state to block its law that prohibits biological males from competing in girls\u2019 sports.
She has identified as female since third grade and has been taking puberty-blocking medication.
This past year, Pepper-Jackson qualified for the West Virginia girls high school state track meet, finishing third in the discus throw and eighth in the shot put in the Class AAA division.
Although she is officially listed in court papers as B.P.J., her mother and ACLU lawyers have publicly identified her by Becky\u2019s full name.
Sey argued that allowing biological boys in girls\u2019 sports would make sports unfair for girls.
\u201cMale advantage is greater than performance-enhancing drugs,\u201d she said to Fox News Digital.
Sey said Rapinoe would have wanted a fair playing field during her time in soccer.
\u201cMegan Rapinoe has to be one of the most competitive women on the planet. She was on Olympic teams and World Cup teams. She\u2019s one of the most famous soccer players ever. She\u2019s full of it. It just makes me angry, and she\u2019s pulling up the ladder behind her. And I\u2019m sure she would not have tolerated a single player taking performance-enhancing drugs because that provides an unfair advantage.\u201d
Sey explained why the ACLU missed what sports is all about in the ad campaign.
\u201cThey\u2019re twisting what competitive sports are about. If you want to be all about self-expression, then go enter a talent contest and sing. That\u2019s not what sports are all about. So I find the ad infuriating.\u201d
Sey emphasized that this must be pushed back on.
\u201cWe have to push back on it. We have to take the culture back\u2026 It\u2019s not fair. They\u2019re asking these girls to erase themselves and to do it with a smile.\u201d
Sey is concerned this is another example of an effort to erase girls.
\u201cThey\u2019re asking them to accept their erasure and to allow boys to take their medals and their team opportunities and to do so politely. Well, we\u2019re not going to do it,\u201d she said.
Sey said being an athlete is not always fun and requires intense work and sacrifice.
\u201cI trained as a gymnast for 15 years. I trained up to 10 hours a day. I trained on broken bones. I was up driving to practice in the dark. You give up a lot. I gave up basically any high school social experience, you know, proms and all of it. You do it because you love the sport, and you do it because you derive a real sense of pride, and you do it, because you\u2019re competitive.\u201d
Sey said she did the work because she wanted to win, and she said Rapinoe also wanted to win.
Sey explained to Fox News Digital why she finds this \u201cinsulting.\u201d
\u201cGet out there and be the best you can be and find the best in yourself. There\u2019s a real satisfaction that comes from that. And Megan Rapinoe knows that.\u201d
Sey concluded, \u201cevery girl deserves fair competition.\u201d
The high court cases are Little v. Hecox (24-38) from Idaho; and West Virginia v. B.P.J. (24-83). Decisions are expected by early summer.
The ACLU and Megan Rapinoe did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n