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Brett Favre to be canceled over transgender comments HotAir

By Thomas A. Smith

Yesterday, Allahpundit covered the story of the female weightlifter who will be missing out on the Olympic Games because a transgender competitor qualified ahead of her. That decision has drawn criticism from a lot of people, including professional athletes who have grown increasingly alarmed at a trend that we ve been covering here for years. But one voice joining that choir came from a somewhat unexpected source. NFL star quarterback Bret Favre expressed his displeasure on his podcast, describing weightlifter Laurel Hubbard as a man competing as a woman. (Daily Wire)

Favre made the comments in relation to the announcement earlier this week of former men s weightlifter Laurel Hubbard being permitted to compete in the upcoming Olympic Games against biologically female competitors. Hubbard s representation of New Zealand makes the weightlifter the first openly transgender athlete at the Games.

It s a man competing as a woman, Favre said on his podcast, Fox News reported. 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, he continued.

Favre will now join the list of other public figures who are being labeled as transphobic for pointing out something that should be obvious to all but the most politically motivated. He joins the ranks of J.K. Rowling, along with multiple female tennis and golf stars who have raised similar complaints. And there will almost certainly be efforts to cancel him. But at this point in his life, it would be pretty hard to cancel Mr. Favre.

via hotair.com

Well, this headline is inaccurate then, isn’t it? We should retire this use of “cancelled”. “Criticized” would be more accurate. “No longer inviteable to SF soirees” or something. Favre is a BAMF among BAMF. Nobody can cancel him.