ESPN fires Curt Schilling for anti-transgender comments

Baseball broadcaster Curt Schilling has been fired by ESPN after the former All-Star pitcher shared an anti-transgender Facebook post on Tuesday.

ESPN released the following statement Wednesday:

ESPN is an inclusive company. Curt Schilling has been advised that his conduct was unacceptable and his employment with ESPN has been terminated.

Schilling posted an offensive anti-transgender graphic on his Facebook page, and then wrote the following in the comments section:

"A man is a man no matter what they call themselves. I don't care what they are, who they sleep with, men's room was designed for the penis, women's not so much. Now you need laws telling us differently? Pathetic."

Schilling then ripped critics of his anti-transgender comments on his personal blog in a piece titled "The hunt to be offended ..."

"I do NOT care what color you are, what race, what sex, who you sleep with, what you wear. I don't care and I never have," he wrote. "I have opinions, but they're just that, opinions.

"And opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one and they usually stink."

Schilling was suspended last year by ESPN for a racist tweet comparing Muslims to Nazis, and was also recently in hot water for slamming Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.

Jessica Mendoza replaced Schilling on "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcasts after he was suspended last season, which resulted in the former hurler being reassigned to the network's marquee Monday night broadcasts.

Schilling debuted on ESPN as a color analyst in 2010.