Ex-NFL player calls for male athletes to support females amid fight against trans inclusion in women's sports

Former NFL player Frank Murphy discusses the 2025 NFL Draft and states fighting President Donald Trump's executive order keeping biological men out of women's sports. 

Former NFL wide receiver Frank Murphy called on male athletes to stand up for their female colleagues and help promote fairness in women’s and girls’ sports.

Murphy, who serves as the chairman of Athletes for America at the America First Policy Institute, appeared on "Fox & Friends First" on Thursday and talked about blue states thumbing their nose at President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban biological males from girls’ and women’s sports.

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President Donald Trump signs an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women's or girls' sporting events, in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Trump administration has been in bitter fights with several states, including Maine, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Minnesota and California, over the issue. Murphy suggested the Democrats needed a "distraction" because of how badly they’ve been losing at everything else in politics, but lamented it came at the expense of women.

"It’s hurting women’s opportunity, it’s hurting women’s privilege, it’s hurting them in every phase of sports because now you’re taking away from the very thing they work so hard for just because you’re not satisfied with who you are," he said. "I couldn’t imagine walking into a locker room and telling my teammates, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go over here and try this other sport, and it’s called women’s sports, and go over there and play.’ 

"Man, that’s a disrespect to our women and it’s time for sports men, men that play sports –