Bob Costas Gives CNN A REALITY CHECK!

I don't think CNN expected this.

You were the face of the Olympics for so many years. This news today about the IOC basically banning trans athletes, that there's going to be a genetic test.

Yeah. Your reaction to that and this very complicated issue? Common sense is not transphobic. There's a reason why the high school champions don't compete with the college champions. There is a reason why no trans man, who was once a woman and has become a man,

has ever competed successfully with men in the Olympics. If Caitlin Clark could play in the NBA, everybody would applaud it. That'd be an incredible thing. But if the last guy on the bench of an NBA team went to the WNBA and started averaging 40 points a game, everyone would know that is BS. There's a reason

why Sugar Ray Leonard, who was a contemporary of Mike Tyson, didn't fight Mike Tyson. They were in different weight classes. There is a reason why there are men's and women's sports and why Title IX was one of the truly progressive pieces of legislation in the best sense of the word progressive under the Nixon administration. It changed everything.

I had a sister who never played a single organized sport. One generation later, two children of my own. My daughter played just about as many organized sports as my son. That's a great thing. It doesn't make any sense to have a swimmer who was the 472nd ranked swimmer when he was a man at Penn

Either winning or coming close to winning against women a year and a half after transitioning If that's what the person wants to do that person should be treated with dignity and respect But there ought to be common sense and common sense is not transphobic. And this policy is common sense.

Yes.

Yeah, it's common sense. I mean, what were they thinking? What were they doing? Why is it taking this long to get some justice, Why is it taking this long to get some justice, some normalcy, some common sense?