DeSantis Pushes Back Against NCAA’s Threat Over Transgender Sports Law: ‘To Hell With These Events’

Florida Republican Gov. 👤Ron Desantis blasted the National Collegiate Athletic Association on Tuesday night during a Fox News interview about the new law he signed banning transgender athletes who identify as women from female 🏆Sports, saying he is “much more willing to stand” with female athletes.

“I think as these bills were going through various legislatures, I remember the 🏟️NCAA put out a statement saying any state that enacts this, we’re not going to hold events there,” DeSantis told Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

“And so I called the speaker of the House in Florida and I said, ‘Did you hear what they said?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah,’ I said, ‘We definitely got to get this done,” he added.

DeSantis also noted his plans to stand against the NCAA and other “woke” organizations.

“You can’t be cowed by these organizations, or particularly by woke corporations from doing the right thing. And so my view was throughout this whole time, we have to protect our girls, it is discriminatory to force them to compete against biological males,” DeSantis said.