Robert Kennedy Jr does not support trans women in female sports

Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said in a new interview that he does not support transgender females participating in women’s sports.

The Democrat told CNN on Saturday that “biological males” threaten the integrity of women’s athletics.

“I am against people participating in women’s sports who are biologically male,” Kennedy, 69, said,

“I think women who have worked too hard to develop women’s sports over the past 30 years I watched it happen and I don’t think that’s fair.”

Kennedy — who announced his candidacy April 19 — said his lack of support for transgender participation is just one of the many issues he and President Biden “differ really dramatically.”

A Biden administration proposal introduced earlier this month aimed to forbid schools and colleges across the county from enacting outright bans on transgender athletes.

Last week, however, House Republicans passed a bill that would ban transgender female athletes from taking part in girls’ and women’s sports by amending Title IX protections to only apply to biologically female athletes.

Not a single Democrat supported the measure, though 10 refused to cast votes.

Biden said he would veto the bill if it were to land on his desk.

The issue, which erupted onto the national stage with the emergence of NCAA title holder Lia Thomas, has only continued to gain traction.

Kennedy joined Marianna Williamson in the Democratic presidential primary against incumbent Joe Biden, who has said he plans on running again but has not formally announced a campaign. 

In the months leading up to his announcement, Kennedy gained prominence as one of the leading opponents of vaccines.

“I think our country’s heading in a bad direction, and that’s why I’m running,” the nephew of late President John F. Kennedy and son of former US attorney general and assassinated 1968 presidential candidate Robert Kennedy said.