'They are stealing women's sport!' US Supreme Court ban on trans athletes backed by campaigner as key decision looms

The US Supreme Court has heard challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender athletes from female competitions.

More than two dozen US states have passed laws in recent years barring athletes who were assigned as male at birth from taking part in girls' or women's sports.

Discussing the US Supreme Court cases, Ms Michell told GB News: "It's a very exciting time in America. Finally, it feels like we have the momentum instead of the trans rights activists who have been pushing this delusion, and just really regressive ideology on youth and just on society as a whole.

"If you would have told somebody 15, 10 years ago that this is what would be happening, I think everybody would look at you like you're crazy because it's just such a common sense issue.

"Of course, women and girls deserve their own spaces in sports, so we're really hopeful.

"No decision has come back yet, but we're very hopeful that common sense will prevail here and will be the law of the land."

As GB News's Steven Edington argued that the trans activists would say they are balanced out by "hormone therapies", Ms Michell hit back: "I think that's just completely provably false and has been proven false.

"Let's take Lia Thomas, for example, the transgender woman who competed against Riley Gaines in swimming during college, during the NCAA competition.

"Now, Lia Thomas is a man, and when he competed against men, other males in swimming, he I believe was in 452nd place nationally, and then he transitioned to be a woman.

"He started competing against the females and then won like the national championship. And there are many such cases where this is the outcome. So I think it's a ridiculous statement."

She added: "Obviously biology matters. Biology cannot be overruled by injectable steroids. I guess they can help you present a little more feminine, but you will never be able to erase your hardwired DNA.

"That gives you an advantage over women and girls, it's absolutely ridiculous. And if trans people want to compete in sports, they can either do so against their biological sex or start a transgender league and have have all the fun in the world you want."

Highlighting the dangers to biological women when competing against trans athletes, she explained: "You do not have the right to put women and girls in harm's way. First of all, it's very dangerous. We've seen numerous occasions where girls and and female athletes are hurt very badly.

"There was that case in I believe it was a volleyball game in high school where a female athlete got a concussion from one of the trans identified males playing against her, spiking a volleyball in her head at, like, freaking 90 miles an hour. It was very dangerous."

She continued: "Secondly, it's just not fair. Girls work their whole lives. If you're a female athlete that gets into collegiate sports, let's say you are someone that makes it that far, you are training, you are dedicating your entire life from the time you can probably walk, start walking as a toddler to this sport and to being the best in your field, for just a mediocre male to come in, say that they're trans, many of them don't even have to take the hormones. There's no one checking this. You can just say, 'oh, I'm a woman now'.

"And that's how lax these laws have been and these these requirements of which there are very few.

"You can just identify however you want, come in and steal scholarships, steal spots on teams, and steal championships from these girls who have dedicated their lives to it.

"And I find it funny, like all the feminists who just a few years ago were marching in the streets for the Women's March for female rights. Where are they? They're silent. They're standing up and defending men over women and girls. And it's mind blowing, the hypocrisy. And I think it just exposes them entirely as frauds."

As Steven argued that the "discrimination" against trans athletes is "overhyped" and "exclusionary of a few rare cases", Ms Michell disagreed: "I think there's about a million trans people in America now, it's about one per cent of the population, and that's not nothing.

"That's a lot of girl's places that are getting stolen, a lot of potential for girls to be hurt.

"I'm of the mind that even one spot taken by a man that belongs to a woman is too many.

"I ask the people who present that argument, how would how would you feel if it was your daughter who lost their spot, or your daughter who got a concussion, or your daughter that was paralysed from having to fight a male?

"It's just not right. It's a matter of morals, it's a matter of safety, and you never see it go the other way.

"Nobody ever has to say 'save boy's sports' or 'save men's sports', it's just the women, it's just the girls.

"And so it's very sad to see so many people being cowardly and choosing the side of stronger males over women."

Asked by Steven if she believes a ban on trans athletes should be carried out at "federal level", Ms Michell concluded: "I think it needs to be codified into law. I do think it should be federalised, I think it should be global.

"I just think that this whole ideology and regressive nonsense and dangerous nonsense should be put in the dustbin of history, where it belongs.

"Once it's law, it's a lot harder to overturn. So we're making progress, like President Trump has put executive orders into place, and that's great for now.

"But like you said, if a Democrat ever takes power, as the president with an executive order, they can just reverse that immediately on day one.

"So it's not enough, and that's why I think that with the Supreme Court, these cases are so important."