Pete Buttigieg doubles-down on questioning fairness of trans athletes in women's sports

The 'Big Weekend Show' co-hosts discuss the recent shift some top Democrats have shown in their stance on whether transgender athletes should be allowed to compete in women's sports.

Prominent Democrat and former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg addressed his recent comments about the fairness of letting biological males compete in women's and girls' sports. 

After Buttigieg said "there are serious fairness issues" on the topic of letting trans athletes compete with females, during an interview with NPR in July, the Democrat spoke about the subject again during a Substack Live interview with Aaron Parnas. The Democrat suggested that parents who oppose allowing males to compete with girls must be heard. 

"I think in order to bring people together on this, we also have to take everyone seriously ,including parents who have questions," Buttigieg said. 

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"People who have questions or wonder what this means ... they’re going to have questions about how to make sure that’s fair, and we should take those questions seriously and face those together." 

The former South Bend, Indiana, mayor also said he believes that the issue is "being used to hurt" people as a political topic, and he doubled-down on the stance that policies surrounding trans athletes in women's sports shouldn't be made by politicians. 

"I see this issue being used to divide. I see it being used to hurt people," he said. "It's especially hurtful for trans people and people with transgender members of their family who witness themselves or people they love being used as a