Creep of the Week: Lance Armstrong
It seems that everybody these days has an opinion about trans athletes. And many of these opinions are not great! Case in point: notorious cycling cheat and yellow wristband merchant Lance Armstrong.
He is participating in a Fox reality series called Stars On Mars. The premise of the series is that a bunch of celebrities live together in a base camp that is set up to simulate life on Mars.
It’s hosted by William Shatner. On a recent episode, the issue of transgender athletes came up, and Armstrong was compelled to give his very bad take. “Listen, this is real simple,” Armstrong said. “You want to transition, let’s do it.
You have your own category. We’re gonna have a whole new division. We’ll celebrate you just like we celebrate everybody else.
