ESPN personalities slam Biden's Title IX proposal amid uproar over transgender athletes in women's sports

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ESPN personalities Sage Steele and Samantha Ponder panned Lia Thomas’ support of the Biden administration’s plan to release new Title IX rules that would bar states from banning transgender students from competing against the gender they identify as.

Steele and Ponder each quote-tweeted Riley Gaines, who tweeted the video of Thomas’ support and ripped the White House for the plan. Gaines, a former decorated NCAA swimmer at Kentucky, has been at the forefront of keeping women’s sports fair and equal.

"This is heartbreaking, maddening, and really difficult to watch," Steele tweeted. "I keep thinking I'm going to wake up and be relieved that this was all just a ridiculous, comical, nonsensical dream...."

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US President Joe Biden speaks about the economy at the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 77 facility in Accokeek, Maryland, on April 19, 2023. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ponder added: "This would take away so many opportunities for biological women and girls in sports. It is a shame that we are needing to fight for the integrity of Title IX in 2023 and the reason it was needed in the first place."

Thomas, who created a firestorm in women’s swimming when she won an Ivy League and NCAA Championship competing against biological women, expressed her support for the Title IX changes in a video tweeted by Gaines.

"Under the guise of competitive fairness? Are you really trying to say you would have won a national title against the men? Does it not break your heart to see women lose out on these opportunities?" Gaines wrote in a tweet. "The Biden Admins proposed bill