Brett Favre on transgender athletes in women's sports: 'I can only shake my head at this'

As astatine slightest 1 survey has shown, astir 80% of Americans judge biologic males should not enactment successful girls' and women's sports, the existent medication has begun to instrumentality action.

The Trump medication made owed connected its menace to Maine by cutting national backing for continuing to let transgender athletes to vie against biologic females.

Legendary NFL backmost Brett Favre is simply a portion of the aforementioned reported 80%. He appeared connected Fox News Channel with Will Cain connected Tuesday wherever helium was shown a clip of "The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg asking wherefore it was an issue.

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NFL fable Brett Favre said helium tin "only shingle my head" astatine transgender athletes competing against biologic girls and women successful sports. (Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports)

"There's thing I tin accidental that's gonna alteration her caput - I tin lone shingle my caput astatine this," Favre said. "It's communal consciousness astatine its best. Oh well, what tin I say? Speechless."

As acold arsenic it being unfair for biologic females, Favre added, "You don’t person to beryllium a rocket idiosyncratic to fig that out."

Favre has spoken retired against transgender athletes successful pistillate sports successful the past.

"I admit President @realDonaldTrump signing an inaugural to support biologic boys from competing against females," Favre said past period successful a station connected X of his enforcement order. "It’s bittersweet that this had to hap successful this time and age, but gladsome it was done." 

Trump signed an enforcement bid past period to support transgender athletes retired of girls' and women's sports, but that has not stopped astatine slightest 3 states from ignoring it.

Trump's Department of Education has launched Title IX investigations into California, Maine and Minnesota for allegedly continuing to let biologic males successful pistillate sports.

NFL fable Brett Favre said helium tin "only shingle my head" astatine transgender athletes competing against biologic girls and women successful sports. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Earlier this month, not a azygous Democrat voted successful favour of the Protection of Women and Girls successful Sports Act, which would support biologic males from competing successful women’s and girls’ sports.

A national exit poll conducted by the Concerned Women for America legislative enactment committee recovered that 70% of mean voters saw the contented of "Donald Trump’s absorption to transgender boys and men playing girls' and women’s sports and of transgender boys and men utilizing girls' and women’s bathrooms" arsenic important to them.

Additionally, 6% said it was the astir important contented of all, portion 44% said it was "very important."

President Donald Trump acknowledges erstwhile Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines earlier signing the No Men successful Women's Sports enforcement bid into instrumentality astatine the White House connected Feb. 5, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP)

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Meanwhile, a caller New York Times/Ipsos canvass recovered that the immense bulk of Americans, including 67% of Democrats, don't judge trans athletes should beryllium capable to vie successful women's sports. 

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos, Jackson Thompson and Julia Johnson contributed to this report.

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