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ESPN Fires Female Host Who Spoke Out About Males In Girls’ Sports

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Sunday NFL Countdown Host Sam Ponder of 'ESPN's Sunday's NFL Countdown' speaks onstage during the ESPN portion of the 2017 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 26, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.
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ESPN host Sam Ponder has been fired by left-wing sports network ESPN after speaking out about the unfairness of biological males competing in women’s sports.

The network, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company, claimed they fired Ponder, along with Robert Griffin III, due to “financial reasons.”

However, social media platform X was rife with outrage about the host’s abrupt firing. Some noted that Ponder was the only female at the network speaking out about the vital gender issue, specifically when it comes to sports. It was also highlighted that former ESPN personality Sage Steele was similarly fired after she voiced some conservative opinions.

“So ESPN fires [Sam Ponder], the only woman at the network who [has] publicly said men don’t belong in women’s sports,” Riley Gaines posted. “Three weeks before football season? Sam is one of the most beautiful, genuine women I’ve ever met along with [former ESPN host Sage Steele] who had a similar fate….not a coincidence.”

Gaines was a Division 1 swimmer who was deprived of an NCAA award at the championship tournament when she tied trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas.

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Most recently, Ponder applauded Italian fighter Angela Carini for refusing to speak to the media after her brutal Olympic match against Algerian fighter Imane Khelif, who failed a past gender test. Carini stopped the fight after 46-seconds.

“ENOUGH is what all of us should be saying!! Proud of this woman,” Ponder said of Carini.

Concerning the same issue, Ponder posted online last year, “Biology is not bigotry. Loving people does not require the absence of boundaries.”

She also seemingly foreshadowed her own firing, writing: “I barely said anything publicly [about] this issue & I’ve had so many ppl msg me, stop me in the street to say thank you+ tell me stories [about] girls who are afraid to speak up for fear of lost employment/being called hateful,” she said. “It is not hateful to demand fairness in sports for girls.”

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Ponder has also made other comments that some have viewed as conservative, such as defending Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker for a recent commencement address he gave at Catholic school Benedictine College. In the speech, Butker praised his wife and other homemakers.

The sportscaster also wished former President Donald Trump well after he was shot in the ear in a failed assassination attempt.

Related: Boxers Who Failed Gender Tests Make It To Gold Medal Match. Here’s What You Need To Know.

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