Former gymnastics champ Jennifer Sey laughs at Megan Rapinoe's comments on trans athletes: 'Denying reality'

In an interview with Fox News Digital, former champion gymnast Jennifer Sey took a swipe at women's soccer all-star Megan Rapinoe for shrugging off the uproar over trans athletes competing in women's sports.

Former champion gymnast Jennifer Sey laughed at soccer all-star Megan Rapinoe over her recent comments shrugging off the ability of trans athletes participating in women's sports. 

Rapinoe, who recently announced her retirement from professional sports, told Time Magazine last week that women's sports was being "weaponized" by those targeting trans women competing with biological women. Rapinoe called it "total bulls---," adding "show me all the trans people who are nefariously taking advantage of being trans in sports. It’s just not happening."

After hearing Rapinoe's comments, Sey briefly paused and let out a chuckle. 

"I'm sorry, I have to collect myself," the 1986 U.S. National Gymnastics gold medalist told Fox News Digital in an interview last week at FreedomFest 2023 in Memphis. 

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Gold medal-winning gymnast Jennifer Sey railed against soccer all-star Megan Rapinoe for dismissing the trans athlete controversy.  (Joseph A. Wulfsohn/Fox News Digital)

She then cited a 2017 match between the U.S. Women's Soccer team and a team made up of 15-year-old high school boys and how the pro-athletes were defeated by the group of male adolescents. 

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"I guess I would ask her why in [2017] when the best women's soccer team in the worldlost to 15-year-old high school boys, how - why was that? How did that happen?" Sey posed to