Super Bowl champ Donald Driver joins growing chorus standing up for women’s rights

Retired Super Bowl winner Donald Driver is a champion again – this time for women’s rights.

Driver, a member of the Green Bay Packers team that won Super Bowl XLV in February 2011, is the latest in a growing chorus of former National Football League players demanding a return to fairness and common sense in female athletics, arguing girls should play in girls’ sports and boys should play in boys’.

“I think, you know, God made you how he made you,” Driver told Fox News recently. “And I think, at the end of the day, if He made you a male, then you compete in male sports; if He made you a female, you compete in female sports. …

“Girls sometimes are faster than guys, guys are sometimes faster than girls. Sometimes guys are stronger, sometimes girls are not. So, I think, at the end of the day, that’s how God made you, so you have to compete in the sport that God made you in. …

“You have to be very open-minded to the situation, but you also have to understand that you have to be very transparent in the conversation. For me, I think if God made you a certain way, then that’s the sport you compete in.” 

Frank Murphy, another retired NFL player, agrees. He’s also urging more men like them to stand up and safeguard female competitors from the insult and injury of competing against biological males. 

“It’s hurting women’s opportunity, it’s hurting women’s privilege, it’s hurting them in every phase of sports,” Murphy said on Fox & Friends, “because now you’re taking away from the very thing they work so hard for just because you’re not satisfied with who you are. 

“I couldn’t imagine walking into a locker room and telling my teammates, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go over here and try this other sport, and it’s called women’s sports, and go over there and play. 

“Man, that’s a disrespect to our women. And it’s time for sportsmen, men that play sports – at the NFL level, at the NBA level, [wrestling], whatever it is – it’s time for men to stand up for the women in sports.” 

Murphy also agreed with Driver regarding the simple perfection of God’s design. 

“Pay attention. God fearfully, wonderfully made you. That means He made you wonderfully. That means He made you even with a bit of fear to make sure that you’re perfect in his eyes. And so, you’re looking at God saying, ‘No, I’m not perfect, so I’m gonna change some things.’ That’s not the way to go. If He made you a man, you ought to be excited and happy to be a man.” 

Former NFL star Marcellus Wiley began speaking out against men in women’s sports in 2023, arguing he wouldn’t let his daughters compete against boys. 

“I have no issue with transgenders. I do have an issue with athletes who are transgendered trying to participate going from a transition of a man to a woman and now playing with the women,” he explained. 

“And, I will say that. You all can try to ‘Dave Chappelle’ me all you want. I am very clear on this. You can be a transgender. You can be the homie, but I’ll be damned if a male at birth turns into a female and tries to compete against my daughters. She ain’t out there. We out. 

“Don’t make this a human rights issue – this is a biological issue. Simple as that. Trust me, I am a man. Like if I were me, Marcellus, and then tomorrow I’m Martha, I change up my gender, I’m now a woman, you know what I would try to do? Compete against the dudes. Why? Because that’s empowering.” 

In February, NFL legend Brett Favre also stood up for science when he publicly supported Riley Gaines’ fight to preserve fairness in female sports for future generations. He also explained why he supports President Donald J. Trump’s Feb. 5 Executive Order “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” 

The order essentially revokes federal funding for educational programs that allow biological males to compete in female sports. 

“Here’s a few reasons why I think it was important to speak up for @realDonaldTrump needing to sign an executive order to keep men and out of women’s sports and kudos to @Riley_Gaines_ for standing her ground,” Favre posted on X. 

“We have two daughters. We have three grandsons. But our two daughters, the oldest is 36, the youngest is 25. But they’re in the real world. And oftentimes they would say things like, ‘Dad, you may want to not post that.’ And I think there’s some good in that, in being quiet. 

“But there’s also the element of standing up for what you believe in. And it’s crazy, because most of it’s just common sense. 

“To think we are having a discussion that our president has to sign a bill to keep men out of women’s sports is absolutely insane. But that’s the world we’re in right now. This is the country. And we bought ourselves some time with the next four years. We’ll see how that plays out. 

“But the common-sense part of our country, and the decisions that are being made, are right now becoming more stable – back to the norm. I feel like the more we speak up, and back common-sense thinking, the better off we’re going to be.”