ESPN Fires Curt Schilling After Sharing Controversial Facebook Post

ESPN has fired MLB Analyst Curt Schilling after her shared a controversial Facebook post. ESPN has released the following statement: ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.

You can see the Facebook post below, that has since been deleted but was captured by Outsports. Do to the nature of the post, we have included the post at the end of this article so those wishing to avoid it, may.

His son, Grant Schilling took to Facebook to defend his father, saying “Ladies and Gentleman, today it’s come to my attention my father Curt Schilling has been slandered as a “transphobic bigot.” And while I will say he’s not the most well informed in the modern LGBT+ culture, i can assure you he’s made great strides to understand people today. If he were a bigot he wouldn’t have allowed my Trans friends to stay over, he’s respected pronouns and name changes- never once have I heard him say something to me that I thought he should keep quiet about. he’s said a lot of things he didn’t know we’re offensive but then again I can guarantee that thousands of people every day say stuff that’s offensive without even knowing it. I hope you can all understand that he and I have talked even today about Trans culture in America and he’s even talked about how he doesn’t understand it, to which I’ve tried to explain it to him and he’s listened very closely.
For the people trying to portray my father as a transphobic bigot you aren’t helping the community at all by making enemies. If you were really a part of our community- rather than try and start lies you’d educate or at least try and get him to understand.
He may say some stupid things but in this instance he’s said nothing. Leave him be.”

The Facebook post is below: