Sage Steele discussed her decision to take a stand on transgender inclusion in women’s sports while working at ESPN, despite being asked to stop tweeting about it.
She expressed disappointment in the lack of support and the network’s refusal to address the issue on air.
Steele emphasized her commitment to standing up for women and was disheartened by the network’s handling of the situation. (Trending: Trump Releases Must-See Christmas Message)
Sage Steele said that ESPN told her to stop talking about Lia Thomas – a man destroying women in the pool – but she refused to comply.
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“I was asked to stop tweeting about it. I was asked to stop doing anything, saying anything about it on social media because I was offending others at the company. I made sure I sent off another tweet that night after I received that email because, like, no, let’s stop living in this lie,” said Steele.
“And once again, you’re going to silence me and Sam [Ponder] – she was told the same thing – for this issue? But we’re going to let everybody else talk about all these other things that are not even related to sports on our sports programming?” she continued.
“And I’m like, no, no, no, no, no. We’re going to preach on ESPNW and all these things, and I’m going to stand up for all these women, many of whom are afraid to do what Riley Gaines is doing, to do what I’m doing,” explained Steele.
“I actually said this to myself as I was sending a tweet, the first tweet about standing up and supporting you. … I literally said, ‘This is a hill I will die on, 100%,’ because it is facts. This is not even my opinion on a vaccine mandate or whatever. These are facts. This is science. This is biology. This is all of the things. Come at me, tell me I’m wrong. Tell me to stop supporting women,” added the sports journalist.
“And the thing is, I’ve been asking for months to talk about this story on our show. We had two hours live every day and we never, ever, ever did it. That was disappointing because we did a lot of things incredibly well, especially on the show I was on,” said Steele to Gaines.
“We were awesome. But when I saw it air, I was just heartbroken, especially as someone, I mean, for the last … from 2010 through 2021, I was kind of the face of ESPNW, our women’s summit. It was women in sport,” she continued.
Sage Steele: ESPN told me to stop tweeting about trans swimmer Lia Thomas https://t.co/8E06Ir4Z5C pic.twitter.com/FR22zXOFm1
— New York Post (@nypost) December 27, 2023
“It was all about uplifting women and making sure we are seen and heard and represented and our highlights [are] on ‘SportsCenter’ – salaries and all the stuff we talked about … with the women’s soccer team, like so many things – and as kind of the face of it, I was all about women, women, women as one with daughters and all of the above. And I thought, ‘What are we doing?’” exclaimed Steele.
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