Piers Morgan rips Megan Rapinoe as 'hypocritical' over silence on Iranian women's soccer team

Piers Morgan criticized erstwhile U.S. women’s shot prima Megan Rapinoe for what helium described arsenic her "silence" connected the ongoing concern involving the Iranian women’s shot team, calling it "hypocritical" fixed her outspoken enactment for transgender athletes successful women’s sports. 

Morgan’s remarks came successful effect to a New York Post sentiment portion highlighting Rapinoe’s silence, which was posted connected X. 

Megan Rapinoe attends the crippled betwixt the Indiana Fever and the New York Liberty connected May 18, 2024, astatine Barclays Center successful Brooklyn, New York. (Stephen Gosling/NBAE via Getty Images)

"The soundlessness implicit this from Rapinoe, and truthful galore expected ‘feminists’ similar her, is truthful telling, damning, and hypocritical," helium wrote successful his post. "They’d alternatively run for biologic men to wreck women’s athletics than run for these heroic young sportswomen to assistance prevention their lives." 

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The Iranian women’s shot squad came into the spotlight aft the players appeared to silently protestation their nationalist anthem during the team’s opening lucifer astatine the Women’s Asian Cup successful Australia earlier this month. However, successful their pursuing 2 matches earlier being eliminated, the squad sang and saluted during Iran’s anthem.

 A media frenzy ensued, acrophobic with the players’ and coaches’ well-being aft they would inevitably person to instrumentality to Iran amid the U.S. and Israeli associated subject run against the country. 

President Donald Trump encouraged the Australian authorities to assistance the squad asylum. Seven members of the squad had accepted humanitarian visas allowing them to stay permanently successful Australia, but 1 has since changed her mind.

Iran players during their nationalist anthem up of the Women's Asian Cup shot lucifer betwixt Iran and the Philippines successful Robina, Australia, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Dave Hunt/AAPImage via AP)

Rapinoe has not appeared to publically remark connected the situation. 

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Last month, during an occurrence of her podcast, "A Touch More," Rapinoe championed the U.S. women’s crystal hockey squad portion criticizing the men’s squad and Trump for the telephone telephone they had pursuing the team’s golden medal triumph successful Milan Cortina. 

"The United States' men's hockey squad successful their utter infinitesimal of glory, puerility dreams travel true, 1 successful a beingness accomplishment, sensational – ruined it for themselves due to the fact that they allowed themselves to beryllium wholly co-opted by a clown. And now, you’re a clown. You look similar a clown," she began, referencing the remark Trump made astir having to invitation the women’s squad to the State of the Union address. 

"Why don’t you respect you much than to person that infinitesimal beryllium taken by someone, who for nary crushed astatine all, conscionable takes a immense plaything and a jab astatine women who did that nonstop aforesaid happening that you did."  

Rapinoe, an outspoken professional of Trump and his policies, has antecedently voiced her enactment for transgender athletes arsenic well. In a 2023 interrogation with Time magazine, Rapinoe said she would enactment a trans jock being rostered connected the USWNT, adding that she did not presumption it arsenic "taking a ‘real’ woman’s place."

Former OL Reign guardant Megan Rapinoe (15) and midfielder Jessica Fishlock (10) march connected to the transportation earlier a lucifer against the North Carolina Courage astatine Lumen Field connected Oct. 1, 2023.  (Stephen Brashear/USA TODAY Sports)

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"Absolutely," she told Time. "You’re taking a ‘real’ woman’s place,’ that’s the portion of the statement that’s inactive highly transphobic. I spot trans women arsenic existent women. What you’re saying automatically successful the argument—you’re benignant of telling connected yourself already—is you don’t judge these radical are women. Therefore, they’re taking the different spot. I don’t consciousness that way."

She has besides antecedently criticized the Save Women’s Sports movement.

Because of her erstwhile outspoken remarks, Rapinoe has faced overwhelming pushback connected societal media.

In her latest podcast episode, which aired Thursday, Rapinoe did not look to publically remark connected the Iranian women’s shot team. She did talk astir the ongoing CBA negations successful the WNBA, which she likened to the "equal wage fight" the U.S. women's shot squad advocated for, which resulted successful a landmark statement successful 2022.

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