Russell Brand

respect and dignity and understanding.

However, common sense is not transphobic.

There's a reason why the high school champions don't compete with the college champions.

I told you this guy was a genius.

There's a reason why no trans man

who was once a woman and has become a man, has ever competed successfully with men in the Olympics.

If Caitlin Clarke could play in the NBA, everybody would applaud it.

That would be an incredible thing.

But if the last guy on the bench of an NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging 40 points a game, everyone would know that is BS.

There's a reason why Sugar Ray Leonard, who was a contemporary of Mike Tyson, didn't fight Mike Tyson.

They were in different weight classes.

There is a reason why there are men's and women's sports and why Title IX was one of the truly progressive pieces of legislation in the best sense of the word progressive under the Nixon administration.

It changed everything.

I had a sister who never played a single organized sport.

One generation later, two children of my own.

My daughter played just about as many organized sports as my son.

That's a great thing.

It doesn't make any sense to have a swimmer who was the 472nd ranked swimmer when he was a man at Penn

either winning or coming close to winning against women a year and a half after transitioning.

If that's what the person wants to do, that person should be treated with dignity and respect.