Charlamagne tha God Takes Side of Girls Basketball Team Punished After Refusing to Play Against Trans Female

Charlamagne tha God Takes Side of Girls Basketball Team Punished After Refusing to Play Against Trans Female


Charlamagne tha God has voiced his support for a Christian girls’ high school basketball team in Vermont after its members were recently barred from participating in future state tournaments because they declined to play against a team that included a transgender athlete.

During a recent episode of “The Breakfast Club,” Charlamagne responded by saying, “That’s not fair,” and claimed the school was right to forfeit the game because it’s “common sense,” Fox News reported.

As Fox News Digital noted at the time, after Mid Vermont Christian School “forfeited a game in the girls state basketball playoffs because its opponent had a transgender student on the team’s roster,” it was “prohibited from participating in future tournaments” by the state’s sports governing body.

“The Vermont Principals’ Association (VPA) ruled that Mid Vermont Christian School had violated policies and is ineligible to participate in future tournaments that it sanctions. The move applies to all sports,” the outlet’s report noted further.

The team withdrew from a tournament in February before the game against the female team from Long Trail School.

Mid Vermont Christian’s Head of School Vicky Fogg told Fox News Digital then: “We withdrew from the tournament because we believe playing against an opponent with a biological male jeopardizes the fairness of the game and the safety of our players. Allowing biological males to participate in women’s sports sets a bad precedent for the future of women’s sports in general.”

The VPA accused the Christian girls’ high school of violating a state law that safeguards transgender students from discrimination by choosing to forfeit the game.

“The VPA again reiterates its ongoing support of transgender student-athletes as not only a part of building an inclusive community for each student to grow and thrive, but also as a clear expectation by Vermont state law(s) in the Agency of Education Best Practices, and in VPA Policy regarding transgender student athletes,” the organization said in a statement.

After a co-host read the news story, Charlamagne said immediately, “That’s not fair because that sounds like common sense to me.”

“Like we’ve all seen ‘Juwanna Mann.’ We’ve seen ‘Grandmama,’” he continued, referencing cultural depictions of male characters playing females and dominating on the court.

“Yeah, I’m just saying, we’ve seen that. That person was probably out there averaging 30 and 20 against them women. C’mon man,” he said.

During the show, a co-host shared a personal story that appeared to reference Lia Thomas, a biologically male NCAA champion swimmer.

He said, “Remember that swimmer, he was a man, and then he transitioned to a woman, and when he was swimming as a man, he was like No. 80th, and then when he transitioned to a woman, he was No. 1.”

“That’s my point,” Charlamagne noted, adding, “Whoever they were playing against, I got to see the stats. If this person is averaging 55 points, 17 rebounds, 22 blocks, I’m not playing against them either. That’s not fair.”


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