Woman fights for fairness, future of women's sports against trans athletes: 'Inherent biological differences'

Former W. Va. State University soccer player Lainey Armistead and Alliance Defending Freedom’s Matt Sharp discuss their efforts to defend women’s sports.

Appearing on "Fox & Friends Weekend" on Saturday, a former West Virginia State University women's soccer player stood up firmly for women's sports and for keeping transgender women — or biological males — out of athletic competitions against women for the sake of fairness, a level playing field and the very future of women's sports.

Lainey Armistead is asking the Supreme Court to weigh in on her appeal against the ACLU (the American Civil Liberties Union) as she battles for a fair playing field for women athletes.

"I grew up with brothers, and we were a soccer family," Armistead said on the program. 

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"My dad coached us and I would try to play with the boys. And a lot of times I would get hurt, you know, even [when] they would try to take it easy."

Armistead added, "It was such an inherent biological difference. They were always fitter, faster and stronger than me."

Former West Virginia State University soccer player Lainey Armistead appeared on "Fox and Friends Weekend" to discuss why she's standing up for West Virginia's law banning trans athletes from competing against women. "I worked my entire life to get a soccer scholarship," she said. "I don't want to see other women [have] that taken away from them."  (Alliance Defending Freedom )

She said that once she "heard about the West Virginia law, I just definitely wanted to step in and defend it because women's sports means so much to me."

She noted, "I worked my entire life to get a soccer scholarship — and I don't