Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling could be in trouble at ESPN after controversial anti-transgender Facebook post

ESPN said Tuesday night it is looking into a meme widely interpreted as anti-transgender shared on outspoken baseball analyst Curt Schilling's Facebook page earlier that day.

"We are taking this matter very seriously and are in the process of reviewing it," the network said in a statement.

The meme showed a picture of an unsavory male character wearing a wig and women's clothing, with the caption, "Let him in! to the restroom with your daughter or else you're a narrow minded, judgmental, unloving, racist bigot who needs to die!!!"

The image has since been removed from Schilling's Facebook page, but not before it was captured by many in a screenshot.

Schilling addressed the controversy on his personal blog later Tuesday in an entry entitled, "The hunt to be offended... ."

"This latest brew ha ha is beyond hilarious," he wrote. "I didn't post that ugly looking picture. I made a comment about the basic functionality of mens and womens restrooms, period."

(When he says he didn't post the picture, Schilling might be trying to distinguish between "posting" an item and "sharing" an item, the latter of which is technically what he appears to have done.)

The 2001 World Series MVP has gotten in trouble before by expressing his opinions. He was dropped from ESPN's coverage of the Little League World Series in August and then suspended for the rest of the MLB season for tweeting a meme that compared Muslims to Nazis.

Back in March, Schilling appeared to have violated ESPN's guidelines for election coverage by stating that Hilary Clinton " should be buried under a jail somewhere " during a radio interview. ESPN said it addressed the matter with Schilling and allowed him to be part of its "Monday Night Baseball" broadcasts as planned.