Ex-Pro Football Player Dez Bryant Goes Off in Bizarre Anti-LGBTQ+ Tweets

Dez Bryant, who once played pro football with the Dallas Cowboys, was all over the anti-LGBTQ+ map with homophobic and transphobic tweets in which he even talked about his gay mother, UK newspaper the Daily Mail reported.

Bryant's jeremiad was evidently sparked by reports around Olympic women's boxing gold medalist Imane Khelif, who has been the target of a barrage of lies about her gender and gender identity by online trolls. Bryant did not name the Algerian athlete by name in his tweets.

"God didn't put you in a foreign body," the Mail quoted Bryant's post as declaring. "Also Men shouldn't be able to compete in women divisions."

"Khelif failed a gender test last year," the Mail said, "and reportedly has male XY chromosomes in her DNA."

Even if that is true, it does not mean that Khelif is not a woman. Typically, men possess an X and a Y chromosome, while women possess two X chromosomes. But chromosomal variation is well known in human beings, such that individuals with completely female physiology have been known to have Y chromosomes. In some cases, individuals with male physiology have two – not merely one – Y chromosomes in addition to an X chromosome.

These facts did not figure in Bryant's posts.

"God made you a woman for a reason," the former NFL player tweeted, discarding biology and genetics in favor of dogma. "God made you a man for a reason."

"A fan replied to Bryant criticizing his viewpoint, given Khelif is not male or transgender," the Mail relayed.

"Dez struggles to comprehend the vast diversity of God's creativity," the person in question tweeted, launching a fresh round from the onetime All-Pro, who made a comeback with the Baltimore Ravens during the 2020 football season.

"God created a lot of beautiful things but I know damn well he didn't create us to be gay," Bryant fired back, the Mail recounted.

Bryant then modulated with: "I don't have problems with gays just my beliefs." Referencing his mother, he added: "My mama gay/and she's free to do as she please."

"In 2012, Bryant was arrested for allegedly assaulting his mother," the Mail recalled. "In a 2015 interview with The Dallas Morning News, Bryant said he learned of his mother's sexual orientation when he was in high school."

The newspaper recalled Bryant telling the press that he "didn't like" the fact that his mother identifies as LGBTQ+. "Really, I still don't," the athlete went on to say. "I dealt with it and now I'm comfortable with it."

In another apparent reversal, however, Bryant fell back on a longtime anti-LGBTQ+ talking point in his tweets, declaring: "God didn't make Adam to be with another Adam."

Of the mythological progenitors of the human race, Bryant posted, "They both have certain parts for a reason."

"You have men trying to get pregnant," the Mail noted Bryant said in his tweets, before adding: "that's not what's up."

As previously reported, Imane Khelif has brought a criminal complaint against some high-profile individuals, including J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk, and it's been speculated that other high-profile individuals who had made false claims about her could be included in the complaint as well – including one-term former American president Donald Trump.

"In one message to her 14.2 million followers, Rowling posted a picture from Khelif's fight with Italian boxer Angela Carini, accusing the former of being a man who was 'enjoying the distress of a woman he's just punched in the head,'" Variety recounted in its coverage of Khelif's complaint, which was filed with the Paris Prosecutor's Office following the recent Summer Olympics.

"Musk, meanwhile, shared a post from swimmer Riley Gaines that claimed 'men don't belong in women's sports.' The X owner co-signed the message by writing: 'Absolutely.'"

For his part, "Trump posted a message with a picture from the fight with Carina accompanied by the message: 'I will keep men out of women's sports!'" Variety recalled.