Steve Garvey calls for prevention of trans inclusion in women’s sports and defends forfeits that protest it

EXCLUSIVE: Former Dodgers World Series Champion Steve Garvey is running for U.S. Senate as a Republican in California, and made his position on one of November’s sudden hot-button issues known to Fox News Digital ahead of LA’s title game against the Yankees.

Garvey made it clear he was against it trans inclusion in women’s sportsand insists that biological boundaries be set to define biological sex. He also indicated that he believes transgender athletes should only compete against each other.

“This is an issue that I’ve talked to a lot of people about. I just believe it’s defined by biological males and females, and I think God gives us free will and choice, and if you choose to be transgender, just say of husband and wife, then you have to compete with the people who have done the same thing,” Garvey said.

Garvey cited his experience as a father to his two daughters, Krisha and Whitney, for his stance.

“I have daughters, I care about their safety, I care about their freedom, and I think it’s just not fair to have that kind of competition, that a woman is always going to be at a disadvantage,” Garvey said.

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Former President Trump has gone so far as to call for a ban, while Democrats, including Vice President Harris and Ted Cruz’s Texas opponent, Collin Allred, have distanced themselves from support for transgender athletes in women’s sports in the past month.

Harris has sidestepped questions about transgender rights in recent interviews on Fox News and NBC News, while Allred’s campaign has had to go so far as to release TV ads saying he opposes “boys in girls’ sports.”

Garvey believes the country’s leaders must take action to define the distinction between biological males and females.

“I think it comes back to leadership, we really need to define this even further,” Garvey said.

In Garvey’s state of California, San Jose State University was the epicenter of the heated election month debate.

On Friday, the university’s volleyball program received news that an opponent would face a fifth forfeit this season alone, as the program is embroiled in a national controversy over a lawsuit by one of its players against the NCAA alleging that her it is never told her teammate is a biological male.

Brooke Slusser joined a lawsuit led by OutKick host and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines against the NCAA over its gender identity policy. Slusser joined the lawsuit because she claims she was forced to share a court, a locker room and even a room with her teammate Blaire Fleming during late-night outings without ever being told that Fleming was transgender.

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The University of Nevada, Reno announced it would officially forfeit Saturday’s game against San Jose State after a tense dispute between Nevada players and their athletic department. The players voted to forfeit the game and made public their intention not to appear in court against San Jose State. Sources told Fox News Digital that the players even approached sporting director Stephanie Rempe to request that the match be forfeited.

But Nevada didn’t officially abandon the program until Saturday when they ruled they didn’t have enough players to participate in the game, following a highly visible outcry from the players over the past week.

Garvey defended athletes and all other volleyball programs that have forfeited matches due to their refusal to compete against a transgender opponent.

“I hate to see women lose the opportunity to compete, but what they do – and this has become part of their free will and choice – is choose how they are going to make a statement,” Garvey said.

During his career with the Dodgers, Garvey played in more than 1,700 games over the course of 14 seasons, hitting .301 with 211 home runs and 992 RBI. Garvey was also selected to eight All-Star Games, winning the All-Star Game MVP Award in both 1974 and 1978. (Steve Garvey)

San Jose State has said it is in compliance with official NCAA rules amid news of its fifth forfeit of the year.

“Our athletes all comply with NCAA and Mountain West Conference policies and are eligible to play under the rules of those organizations. We will continue to take steps to prioritize the health and safety of our students as they pursue their earned opportunities to compete.” The university said this in a statement to Fox News Digital on Friday.

San Jose State’s Slusser and Nevada’s Sia Liillii have taken leading roles in recent weeks in voicing their opposition to transgender inclusion in women’s sports.

Republican lawmakers, Idaho Gov. Brad Little and Tulsi Gabbard have praised the players and teams who have refused to play the Spartans. The Trump campaign has pressed his Democratic opponent on the issue in the final weeks leading up to Election Day.

Former NCAA swimmer and OutKick contributor Riley Gaines took the stage at the Turning Point Action conference to precede Trump at the rally in Georgia on Wednesday.

“I could share the grotesque details of what it was like to be forced to undress, inches away from a 6 foot tall man who watched us strip down to nothing as he did the same, leaving his fully intact naked male body exposed,” Gaines said. “There are no words to describe the violation, betrayal and humiliation we felt.”

The Biden-Harris administration issued a sweeping rule in April clarifying that Title IX’s ban on “sex” discrimination in schools includes discrimination based on gender identity, sexual orientation and “pregnancy or related circumstances.”

The government emphasized that the regulation does not cover eligibility for athletics. Several experts evidence presented told Fox News Digital in June that it would ultimately bring more biological males into women’s sports.

The Supreme Court then voted 5-4 in August to deny an emergency request from the Biden administration to enforce parts of that new rule, after more than two dozen Republican attorneys general filed a lawsuit to overturn Title IX block changes in their own states.

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines react after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 freestyle final at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta , Georgia. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images.)

However, the issue extends far beyond the borders of the US

The United Nations has released research results showing that nearly 900 biological women have not made it to the podium because they were defeated by transgender athletes.

The study, titled “Violence against women and girls in sport,” said that more than According to information obtained up to March 30, 600 athletes failed to medal in more than 400 competitions in 29 different sports, for a total of more than 890 medals.

“The replacement of the female sports category with a mixed-gender category has resulted in an increasing number of female athletes losing opportunities, including medals, when competing against men,” the report said.

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