Piers Morgan hits back at talkSPORT host Shebahn Aherne for Megan Rapinoe comments over transgender players

Piers Morgan has hit out at talkSPORT's Shebahn Aherne after defending Megan Rapinoe's view on trans athletes.

Before the Women's World Cup began, Rapinoe was asked whether she would accept a trans footballer in the United States football team in which she replied she 'absolutely' would.

talkSPORT's Shebahn Aherne questions why Piers Morgan dislikes US footballer Megan Rapinoe 'so much'. «I was reading through @piersmorgan

But she has been met with criticism, particularly from TalkTV's Morgan, who insisted that having players who were born male play against females is unfair.

talkSPORT presenter Aherne joined Piers Morgan Uncensored to defend Rapinoe while blasting Morgan in the process for being 'obsessed' with Rapinoe.

Aherne felt it was a positive that players like Rapinoe want to make everyone feel included.

She said: «The abuse that Megan Rapinoe gets from her own USA fans off the back of her activism and the support she has of the trans community and LGBTQ community, it is actually refreshing to sit here and go everybody should get behind female athletes.

»Football is a place for everyone. I was reading through Piers Morgan's tweets and was thinking, 'what is your obsession?'

«Why does Piers hate Megan Rapinoe so much? Why do so many people have an issue with that? I have no idea.»

But Morgan was having none of it, tweeting in response: «Staggering, and dismaying, to hear a women's sport presenter defend Megan Rapinoe's delusional insistence that trans women have no advantage against females in women's sport,» Morgan tweeted in response.

«Here's an idea Shebahn — stop whacking me for stating the truth, and ask the poor women