Adam Rippon says Lance Armstrong’s anti-trans remarks were even worse behind the scenes of “Stars on Mars”
Stars on Mars were even worse than they seemed, says Adam Rippon.The iconic Olympian, who won the show’s inaugural season at the end of Monday’s finale, opened up about how Armstrong’s words reverberated throughout the cast.“That’s when everything changed, when Lance brought up his opinions on trans athletes and sports.
In the show, it’s a few minutes, but in reality, that was a long-winded conversation and it really shifted the focus,” Rippon told Entertainment Weekly. “It changed my experience totally.
It was not the same after that.”During an episode that aired in July, Armstrong, who was seated at a table alongside other cast members, started talking about how he thinks transgender athletes should compete in their own category.“This is real simple: you want to transition?
Let’s do it. You have your own category,” he said. “We’re going to have a whole new division. We’ll celebrate you, just like we would celebrate anybody else.
