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Sophie Cunningham Just Exposed The WNBA For The Sick Organization It Is · The Matt Walsh Show

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Speaker 1: There aren't many organizations that can stay alive after burning
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Speaker 1: millions of dollars and losing money every single year for decades. Now,
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Speaker 1: the government can pull off that trick, actually can burn
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Speaker 1: through many billions of dollars and stay in the red
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Speaker 1: to the tune of tens of trillions. But that's because,
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Speaker 1: you know, they have bombs and guns and direct access
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Speaker 1: to all of our bank accounts. In the private sector, however,
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Speaker 1: an organization typically has to start turning a profit at
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Speaker 1: some point. And sports leagues in particular have a tough
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Speaker 1: time surviving when they constantly light cash on fire. Think
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Speaker 1: of the ill-fated North American Soccer League, the Arena Football League,
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Speaker 1: the XFL, even NFL Europe, which could have existed until
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Speaker 1: the end of time with the funding coming from the
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Speaker 1: actual NFL, eventually folded after about 15 years. Towards the end,
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Speaker 1: they realized that only Germans were watching NFL Europe. So
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Speaker 1: in a Hail Mary attempt to get viewers, they changed
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Speaker 1: the name of the league to NFL Europa, since that's
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Speaker 1: apparently what Germans call Europe. But even this clever little
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Speaker 1: stratagem didn't save the day. The operation folded soon afterwards.
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Speaker 1: So at a certain point, unpopular leagues that lose money
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Speaker 1: die and everybody moves on with their lives. And it's fine.
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Speaker 1: That's usually how these things go. The WNBA, however, stands
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Speaker 1: as a lone exception for this well-established pattern, despite incurring
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Speaker 1: average losses of $ 10 million a year since its first
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Speaker 1: game in 1997, this abject failure of a league has
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Speaker 1: somehow continued to exist in defiance of the laws of physics.
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Speaker 1: The WNBA has never turned a profit, not one single
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Speaker 1: year in its entire history. Even today, as it generates
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Speaker 1: more revenue than ever and gets more attention than ever,
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Speaker 1: thanks almost entirely to one player, it still loses money. Actually,
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Speaker 1: that negative $ 10 million a year figure is from 2018.
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Speaker 1: And in recent years, as the WNBA's revenue has trended up,
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Speaker 1: the losses have multiplied many times over. So today the
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Speaker 1: league loses something like $ 40 or $ 50 million a year.
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Speaker 1: Its total cumulative losses stood at $ 200 million in 2018.
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Speaker 1: So today that number must be double that or more.
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Speaker 1: It survives as a money pit because its sugar daddy,
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Speaker 1: the NBA, keeps it afloat. The WNBA is truly the
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Speaker 1: welfare queen of the sports industry, and the NBA still
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Speaker 1: somehow has evidently not lost patience with displays like this
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Speaker 1: one from the WNBA's latest quote-unquote all-star game. Watch. Stewart
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Speaker 1: tips it alive.
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Speaker 2: Williams from four-point range.
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Speaker 3: Ty Young almost subbed him in when we were down
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Speaker 3: by 11.
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Speaker 4: She threw that up.
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Speaker 1: She knew she wanted to pass it.
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Speaker 4: Ooh.
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Speaker 2: Jonquell up to 10 points. Howard takes it right back.
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Speaker 2: What a pass from Nneka. Aja Wilson can't finish it.
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Speaker 2: Clark gives it underneath.
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Speaker 5: And then we'll see.
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Speaker 2: You haven't isolated on Kaitlin at all for a blow-by yet.
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Speaker 1: Is that coming?
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Speaker 2: Five seconds left in the third.
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Speaker 1: Coppers jump. Not able to hit that one. Well, for
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Speaker 1: those listening to the audio podcast, the footage there that
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Speaker 1: we just played is exactly what you think. A slapstick spectacle.
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Speaker 1: The ladies miss layups and dunks. They airball shots from
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Speaker 1: 20 feet out. They send balls clunking off the backboard.
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Speaker 1: And this is the All-Star Game, remember. You know, the
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Speaker 1: WNBA All-Star Game looks like that scene from Space Jam
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Speaker 1: after the cartoon aliens zap all the athletic skill out
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Speaker 1: of Charles Barkley and Patrick Ewing and Muggsy Bogues. It's
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Speaker 1: kind of like that. You'll see more inspiring athletic performances
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Speaker 1: at any random bowling alley on a Tuesday night than
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Speaker 1: at the WNBA All-Star Game. It's certainly clear that any
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Speaker 1: decent boys' high school basketball team in the country could
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Speaker 1: destroy the best WNBA team, obviously, which is why Clay
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Speaker 1: Travis just made this announcement, putting his money where his
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Speaker 1: mouth is. Quote, I'm upping my offer $ 10 million for
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Speaker 1: a head-to-head basketball game between the defending WNBA champion Las
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Speaker 1: Vegas Aces and a boys' high school state title team
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Speaker 1: of my choice, If the Aces beat my team, I
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Speaker 1: will give them $ 10 million. Now, there is precedent for
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Speaker 1: this kind of exhibition match, and it ended precisely how
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Speaker 1: you would expect. As we mentioned before, a few years ago,
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Speaker 1: the U.S. Women's National Team, the World Cup champions at
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Speaker 1: the time, lost by a score of 5-2 to a
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Speaker 1: youth team of 15- and 14-year-old boys from Dallas in
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Speaker 1: a scrimmage match. So it wasn't even close. The teenagers
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Speaker 1: outplayed the women throughout the match. That's how you get
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Speaker 1: to a 5-2 score. which counts as a blowout in soccer.
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Speaker 1: And as you can see from the photos, even though
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Speaker 1: they were much younger, the boys were a lot larger
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Speaker 1: than the women's team. I mean, it's almost as if
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Speaker 1: their biology gave them a massive advantage. And we all
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Speaker 1: know that if a WNBA team had to play a
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Speaker 1: boys basketball team, it would be much worse. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it would be a massacre so complete, so severe as
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Speaker 1: to end in war crime charges against the boys team.
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Speaker 1: That's how bad it would be. And the only success
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Speaker 1: story the WNBA has had recently is really, is the
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Speaker 1: rise of a single straight white woman named, of course,
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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, who has routinely embarrassed her mostly lesbian, mostly
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Speaker 1: black rivals. She's the most bankable WNBA player in history
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Speaker 1: by a huge margin. She's the only WNBA player that
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Speaker 1: has ever had any real name recognition outside of the
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Speaker 1: small and mysterious population of diehard WNBA fans. I mean,
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Speaker 1: prior to Caitlin Clark, prior to her, a WNBA player
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Speaker 1: had to go get themselves arrested and imprisoned in Russia.
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Speaker 1: in order to garner any kind of national prominence. And
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Speaker 1: yet Clark has managed to achieve fame and fortune in
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Speaker 1: the WNBA without having to create any international incident to
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Speaker 1: do it. And this fact is obviously torturous for most
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Speaker 1: WNBA players and coaches and referees and officials who have
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Speaker 1: clearly been engaging in a coordinated campaign to injure Clark
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Speaker 1: on the court when they're not smearing her name in
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Speaker 1: the press, because it's a nightmare situation for them. someone
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Speaker 1: finally comes along and attracts wider and positive attention to
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Speaker 1: the league, and it's a white girl. I mean, other
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Speaker 1: WNBA players have been in a perpetual jealous rage over
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Speaker 1: this fact for multiple years now. ESPN commentators can hardly
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Speaker 1: contain their seething contempt. And for the rest of us,
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Speaker 1: you know, this is all very funny to watch. And
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Speaker 1: that's why, to the extent that I've weighed in on
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Speaker 1: the WNBA over the past few years on rare occasion,
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Speaker 1: it's mostly been to defend Caitlin Clark, who's clearly being
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Speaker 1: targeted in large part because of her skin color. Clark,
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Speaker 1: for a while, had not been a participant in her
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Speaker 1: own humiliation or the humiliation of white female athletes in general.
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Speaker 1: But that has changed. She's been trending in this direction
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Speaker 1: for a while, but at this point, it's clear to
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Speaker 1: every reasonable observer that Caitlin Clark, I'm afraid, is a
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Speaker 1: huge coward. First, she refused to say anything about the
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Speaker 1: overt anti-white racism she's been subjected to. even as this
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Speaker 1: abuse has intensified both on and off the court. Instead,
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Speaker 1: she's done interviews in the media where she laments her, quote,
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Speaker 1: white privilege and talks about the importance of, quote, elevating
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Speaker 1: black women. Now, never mind the fact that a league
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Speaker 1: consisting almost entirely of black women has been propped up
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Speaker 1: and kept afloat for 30 years artificially just to make
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Speaker 1: them feel good about themselves. Is that not enough elevation?
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Speaker 1: Apparently not. Black women also make up a hugely disproportionate
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Speaker 1: number of welfare recipients and government employees. They are also
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Speaker 1: favored by every affirmative action and DEI policy at every
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Speaker 1: institution in America and have been for decades. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there is no group in history. This is just a fact.
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Speaker 1: There's no group of history, no group in the history
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Speaker 1: of this country that has been more thoroughly and more
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Speaker 1: artificially elevated than black women. And yet apparently they need
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Speaker 1: even more elevation, according to Caitlin Clark. And more recently,
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Speaker 1: Clark has punted on the question of whether males should
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Speaker 1: be allowed to compete against females, which is to say
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Speaker 1: Clark has no backbone whatsoever. We'll get into some detail
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Speaker 1: about that betrayal in a moment. But first, we should
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Speaker 1: talk about Sophie Cunningham, who's another straight white female WNBA
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Speaker 1: player who, unlike Clark, actually appears to have some guts
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Speaker 1: and integrity. Cunningham recently became a high-profile target for the
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Speaker 1: left after this profile in ESPN in which she refused
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Speaker 1: to toe the line on gender ideology. So here's the
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Speaker 1: relevant paragraph from ESPN with the key quote from Cunningham
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Speaker 1: at the end, quote, You say she's a MAGA Barbie,
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Speaker 1: as some corners of the Internet have taken to calling her. Projection,
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Speaker 1: she says, because of what she looks like and where
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Speaker 1: she's from. She'll weigh in on how to protect women's sports,
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Speaker 1: she says, because she's in that world and feels qualified
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Speaker 1: to speak to that world. Quote, I got a lot
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Speaker 1: of negative feedback about me hating trans, and I'm like,
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Speaker 1: I never once said that. She says, I think that
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Speaker 1: I'm here to extend love, but I also think with
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Speaker 1: that love is truth and being honest. And I want
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Speaker 1: to protect young girls in a locker room or young
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Speaker 1: girls in sports who shouldn't have to go against biological men.
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Speaker 1: So that's what she said. Now, you could quibble with
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Speaker 1: some of the wording. For one thing, she uses the
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Speaker 1: term biological men, which is redundant since all men are
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Speaker 1: biological men. There's no such thing as a non-biological man.
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Speaker 1: which the term biological man would seem to imply. To
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Speaker 1: the best of my knowledge, the term biological men was
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Speaker 1: really popularized by conservatives who were trying to avoid getting
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Speaker 1: banned on social media back in the dark old days.
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Speaker 1: Platforms would ban you if you said that a, quote,
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Speaker 1: trans woman was actually a man. So conservatives thought it
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Speaker 1: would be safer to say that he's a biological man.
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Speaker 1: In any event, the terminology was always unnecessary. It serves
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Speaker 1: no purpose. At best, perhaps biological man serves to sort
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Speaker 1: of emphasize the point. kind of like referring to solid ground,
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Speaker 1: even though the ground is solid by definition. But in practice,
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Speaker 1: it just reads as a kind of equivocation, and we
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Speaker 1: should reject it for that reason. But there's no need
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Speaker 1: to get hung up on the semantics in this case.
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Speaker 1: Sophie Cunningham is obviously sending the right message, one that
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Speaker 1: 99% of the country agrees with, by the way, because
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Speaker 1: you'd have to be a brainwashed LGBT activist to say
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Speaker 1: anything else. And even the brainwashed LGBT activists, they also
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Speaker 1: know that she's right, even if they never admit it.
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Speaker 1: The entire reason we have separate sports leagues for women
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Speaker 1: is that women cannot compete against men. If women could
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Speaker 1: compete against men, then the separate league would not be necessary.
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Speaker 1: You know, women could just join the NBA or the
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Speaker 1: NFL or whatever other popular sports league. All of those
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Speaker 1: leagues accept women. By the way, none of them have
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Speaker 1: a policy banning women. You know, it's not like the
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Speaker 1: NFL is the men's football league. It's just the football.
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Speaker 1: It's a professional football league. Anyone can technically join. If
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Speaker 1: any woman were ever skilled enough to compete against men
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Speaker 1: at the highest level of any of those sports, she
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Speaker 1: would simply join the league that has all the men.
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Speaker 1: But that has never happened in history because no woman
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Speaker 1: in history has ever been capable of competing against men
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Speaker 1: at that level. And that's why we have women's leagues.
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Speaker 1: And it's why if you allow men to compete in
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Speaker 1: those leagues, obviously women will be completely shut out. But Cunningham...
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Speaker 1: deserves praise for taking this stance because predictably she's facing
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Speaker 1: harassment because of it. She even drew the ire of
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Speaker 1: this morbidly obese fan who held up a sign reading,
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Speaker 1: I didn't think I could dislike anyone more than Clark. Congrats, Cunningham. Now, realistically,
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Speaker 1: we can assume that this woman dislikes both Clark and
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Speaker 1: Cunningham solely because they both have a BMI somewhere south
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Speaker 1: of 70. But more to the point, like Caitlin Clark
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Speaker 1: before her, Cunningham is also taking a lot of physical hits,
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Speaker 1: hits to the face. And then she's getting called for
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Speaker 1: a foul on top of that. So she's getting physically
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Speaker 1: assaulted and blamed for it. So here's a clip narrated
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Speaker 1: apparently by Dave Portnoy. Watch.
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Speaker 5: How about a WNBA refs? This is just a defensive foul.
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Speaker 5: Thank you for the review. Just a defensive foul. No
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Speaker 5: hostile act. Just a foul on Sophie Cunningham. They call
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Speaker 5: that a foul on Sophie Cunningham. She's got 14 of
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Speaker 5: her teeth on the ground. That's a defensive foul. And
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Speaker 5: they reviewed it for a hostile act. Yeah, Sophie's saying, hey,
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Speaker 5: I just got my jaw broke.
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Speaker 1: Is this a political stance?
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Speaker 5: You just took 14 of my teeth. Yeah, quiet, Sophie.
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Speaker 5: No big deal. A defensive foul. Let's watch this one
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Speaker 5: more time. This is on Sophie?
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Speaker 1: No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 6: No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 5: Elbow to the jaw to 14 teeth gone.
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Speaker 1: That's offensive, bro.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Sophie, you got your face knocked in. We see it.
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Speaker 1: So I guess the foul is that Sophie Cunningham threw
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Speaker 1: her face into the other player's elbow. She fouled the
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Speaker 1: player's elbow with her face. And the instant replay review
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Speaker 1: really sells it. As Portnoy says, it's a very sick league.
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Speaker 1: These people are perverse. So needless to say, Cunningham has
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Speaker 1: attracted a lot of hate because of her position. And
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Speaker 1: that's not surprising. Gender ideology is the emperor has no
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Speaker 1: clothes of our generation. Nobody believes in it. Nobody thinks
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Speaker 1: it's true. Nobody can defend it. Everybody knows it's insane.
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Speaker 1: It survives only through emotional blackmail and intimidation and violence
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Speaker 1: and fear. And indeed, the left-wing activists in the media
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Speaker 1: are already descending on Cunningham for her remarks, demanding that
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Speaker 1: she explain herself. And to her credit, up to this point,
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Speaker 1: she's not backing down.
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Speaker 5: Watch.
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Speaker 1: On that same vein, in.
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Speaker 7: That story with ESPN, you talked about wanting to protect
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Speaker 7: young girls who shouldn't have to go against biological men.
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Speaker 1: Just can you expand your viewpoint on that?
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Speaker 7: I mean, I think I said what I said. I
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Speaker 7: think it's kind of common sense. And I think I'll
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Speaker 7: always believe in that. I think it's really important to
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Speaker 7: protect children. And that's little girls who are also involved
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Speaker 7: in that category. And so I stand on what I said,
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Speaker 7: and I.
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Speaker 1: Always believe that.
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Speaker 4: Do you see your advocacy on that taking any form
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Speaker 4: going forward?
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Speaker 7: I don't know. I'm not a very political person, but
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Speaker 7: I do have beliefs. I have morals, and I'll always
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Speaker 7: stand on those and be true to who I am.
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Speaker 7: I think people are going to take it how they
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Speaker 7: want to take it, but I've never even really said
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Speaker 7: anything about that. When it comes just to protecting young
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Speaker 7: girls in sport and women in sport, I feel very
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Speaker 7: strongly about that. I think That's why you have Title IX.
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Speaker 7: That's why you have some of the greats in women's sports.
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Speaker 7: If Title IX and women's sports weren't protected, then you
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Speaker 7: wouldn't hear about any type of women in sport. And
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Speaker 7: so I think in the future, it's just really important
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Speaker 7: to protect.
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Speaker 8: Do you think, I guess, like that it goes against perhaps,
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Speaker 8: some people might say, hey, for the trans community, this
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Speaker 8: could be something that could come back on us or
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Speaker 8: be targeted against us.
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Speaker 1: Like, how do you, I guess, view that sort of critique?
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Speaker 7: You know, like I said, I extend love and I
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Speaker 7: don't dislike anyone. I think there is room for absolutely
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Speaker 7: everyone here, and I think there's room to love everyone.
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Speaker 7: And I truly think when you get people in the
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Speaker 7: same room and you have conversations, you actually have a
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Speaker 7: lot in common with a lot of people. And so
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Speaker 7: I'm there to love, but I'm also there to love
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Speaker 7: biological women. And I think that there are rights that
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Speaker 7: need to be protected. And like I said, I'm going
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Speaker 7: to stand true to that.
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Speaker 1: Can you expand on that, the first question? You said
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Speaker 1: men are men. Men should be in men's leagues and
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Speaker 1: not women's leagues. Can you expand on that? You said
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Speaker 1: two plus two equals four. Can you expand on that?
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Speaker 1: You said that two plus two, actually the sum is four.
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Speaker 1: Can you expand? Not really. What else do you want
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Speaker 1: me to say? Can I expand on it? I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's a self-evident thing that I just said, right? Like
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Speaker 1: this wall over here exists. You see this wall? It exists. Oh,
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Speaker 1: can you expand on that? No, not really. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I could slam your head against the wall if you
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Speaker 1: want more evidence. Like if you want, I mean, I could,
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Speaker 1: if you really want more evidence, I could do that,
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Speaker 1: but I can't really expand on it. And then we
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Speaker 1: get the old some might say technique from these slimy reporters.
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Speaker 1: The reporter claims some people might say that the trans community,
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Speaker 1: quote unquote, will be targeted because of what Sophie Cunningham said.
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Speaker 1: This continues to be an enduring mythology on the left.
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Speaker 1: Of course, trans ideology as a whole is a mythology,
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Speaker 1: but also more specifically, the idea that trans-identified people are
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Speaker 1: being targeted in some way. That is not happening. That
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Speaker 1: has not happened like ever. As events over the past
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Speaker 1: few years have clearly demonstrated, trans-identified people are far more
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Speaker 1: likely to do the targeting than to be targeted. But
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Speaker 1: the implication, as always, is that we shouldn't tell the
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Speaker 1: truth about human biology and basic fairness, because if we
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Speaker 1: do tell the truth, the non-existent trans genocide will continue.
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Speaker 1: Never mind the fact that the trans genocide doesn't exist
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Speaker 1: or the fact that trans-identified people in virtually every single
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Speaker 1: case are either killed by themselves or by police officers
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Speaker 1: trying to stop a mass shooting or by a drug
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Speaker 1: deal gone wrong or by a black guy who thought
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Speaker 1: his prostitute was really a woman or similar circumstances that
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Speaker 1: have nothing to do with transphobia. It's a fiction that
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Speaker 1: we're just supposed to accept on behalf of this supposedly
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Speaker 1: marginalized community, even as this marginalized community routinely victimizes everybody
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Speaker 1: around them. And ESPN is one of the worst offenders
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Speaker 1: in this regard in terms of, of course, pushing trans
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Speaker 1: ideology and demonizing Cunningham for her remarks. In the middle
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Speaker 1: of a game, their announcers imply that Cunningham is hateful
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Speaker 1: because she doesn't support so-called trans children. And for contrast,
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Speaker 1: the announcers praised Cheryl Reeve, who apparently is the coach
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Speaker 1: of something called the Minnesota Lynx, which I guess is
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Speaker 1: a team. And they also told the audience to check
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Speaker 1: out Reeve's remarks in which she attacked Cunningham. Listen to this.
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Speaker 2: When we see Cheryl Reeve wearing a shirt today in
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Speaker 2: support of trans kids, trans kids belong on the shirt.
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Speaker 9: This is in the aftermath of Sophie Cunningham's recent comments.
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Speaker 9: We actually saw Cheryl and Sophie speaking at center court pregame.
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Speaker 9: And yesterday, Cheryl Reeves spent a lot of time talking
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Speaker 9: at length with the media about this topic.
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Speaker 3: I would encourage anyone to go and listen to Cheryl.
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Speaker 1: Reeves' comments.
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Speaker 9: Incredibly thoughtful.
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Speaker 1: Easy to find online.
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Speaker 10: Just encourage anyone.
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Speaker 9: To go and listen.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of remarkable to watch sports announcers
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Speaker 1: advocate for the destruction of the sport that they're covering.
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Speaker 1: You know, that never gets old. All Cunningham said is
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Speaker 1: that men shouldn't play in women's sports and, you know,
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Speaker 1: they're shaming her for it. They're deriding her for taking
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Speaker 1: a position that will ensure the continued existence of the
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Speaker 1: sport that they are employed to cover. And of course,
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Speaker 1: for all their finger wagging at Cunningham, they don't actually
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Speaker 1: address a single one of her arguments. Instead, they direct
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Speaker 1: the audience to listen to Cheryl Reeves' brilliant insights about
19:19
Speaker 1: We were promised that her remarks were incredibly thoughtful. Now,
19:23
Speaker 1: I've been covering the trans issue for many years, as
19:25
Speaker 1: you know. I have never once heard a trans activist
19:31
Speaker 1: say anything that could be considered even almost thoughtful, much
19:34
Speaker 1: less incredibly so. Any amount of thought or coherence or
19:39
Speaker 1: sanity at all from one of them would be incredible.
19:44
Speaker 1: And if this WNBA coach is the first advocate of
19:47
Speaker 1: trans ideology to string together an intelligible sentence, well, I
19:51
Speaker 1: want to hear it. I mean, this is a momentous occasion.
19:53
Speaker 1: So I went and pulled up those thoughtful comments, very
19:57
Speaker 1: eager to hear them. And here they are.
20:01
Speaker 3: In terms of my views, since I said last week,
20:07
Speaker 3: I come from a space of inclusions. And the narrative
20:12
Speaker 3: that I think that is problematic is to suggest that,
20:17
Speaker 3: number one, that transgender athletes are the biggest problem in
20:21
Speaker 3: women's sports. And I think this is what's bothersome, is
20:25
Speaker 3: that there's a faction of people in our country that
20:28
Speaker 3: are making this a massive issue. We have some issues.
20:33
Speaker 3: Number one, we need to protect trans kids. Every kid,
20:39
Speaker 3: to me, it's a human's rights issue. Every kid has
20:41
Speaker 3: a right to sports, regardless of gender diverse, transgender. Every
20:48
Speaker 3: kid has the right to access. Now, what gets nuanced is,
20:53
Speaker 3: you know, when you're beyond puberty, when you're an Olympic sport,
20:58
Speaker 3: when you have scholarships and that sort of thing, that's
21:01
Speaker 3: where I say that common sense people get together and
21:05
Speaker 3: you find common ground to find a way to be inclusive.
21:10
Speaker 3: The answer isn't no. It is not the case that
21:13
Speaker 3: we have, quote, biological men in girls' locker rooms. The
21:17
Speaker 3: way it's being phrased, the innuendo there that somehow transgender
21:23
Speaker 3: women are predators of some kind in the locker room.
21:26
Speaker 3: There's a lot of narrative that is problematic that we
21:29
Speaker 3: need to address. There's, again, I don't want to go
21:32
Speaker 3: so detailed. There's a lot of nuanced issues when it
21:36
Speaker 3: comes to science and hormone therapy, etc. I've chosen to
21:41
Speaker 3: educate myself about the space. I've chosen to listen to
21:45
Speaker 3: transgender families. And what I know is.
21:49
Speaker 6: Exclusion is not the answer.
21:51
Speaker 3: We've got to find the common ground and be inclusive.
21:57
Speaker 1: She doesn't want to go too deep. I don't want
21:59
Speaker 1: to go too deep. Yeah, this is really deep. Oh, man,
22:01
Speaker 1: that was deep. Whoa, man, that was deep. That was
22:05
Speaker 1: so deep. There you have it. Incredibly thoughtful. If by
22:10
Speaker 1: incredibly thoughtful, we mean a rambling, muddled, unintelligible clump of
22:14
Speaker 1: words vaguely strung together in the approximate shape of an
22:17
Speaker 1: English sentence, then sure, that was incredibly thoughtful. This is
22:21
Speaker 1: what passes for thoughtful, apparently. At no point does Reeve
22:23
Speaker 1: make anything resembling an actual argument. At no point does
22:26
Speaker 1: she address the fundamental point, the only point, which is
22:29
Speaker 1: that trans-identified males are males and that their self-identification, their
22:34
Speaker 1: perception of themselves does not change their biological nature. She
22:39
Speaker 1: doesn't grapple with that problem, which is not actually a problem,
22:42
Speaker 1: or at least doesn't need to be a problem. But
22:44
Speaker 1: Reeve does say the word nuanced a lot. Now, that's
22:48
Speaker 1: what the ESPN commentators were really impressed by. On the left,
22:50
Speaker 1: the way to fool your comrades into thinking that you're
22:53
Speaker 1: saying something smart is just to throw the word nuanced
22:56
Speaker 1: around a lot. You don't have to actually make a
22:58
Speaker 1: nuanced argument or any argument at all. You just need
23:01
Speaker 1: to say that it's nuanced. Yes, well, you know, there's
23:04
Speaker 1: a lot of nuance. The thing about this issue is
23:07
Speaker 1: that it's nuanced. And the nuanced nature of these nuances
23:12
Speaker 1: is such that it creates nuance, which is very nuanced.
23:16
Speaker 1: And on top of that, I would only say that
23:17
Speaker 1: in addition to being nuanced, it's really quite nuanced when
23:23
Speaker 1: you consider all the nuances. Oh, and you have to
23:26
Speaker 1: throw the word problematic into a lot. There's some narratives
23:30
Speaker 1: that are problematic, but there are nuances. There's problematic nuances.
23:33
Speaker 1: And there's nuances to the problems as well. You know,
23:38
Speaker 1: an answer like that essentially puts you on par with
23:40
Speaker 1: Aristotle in the mind of the typical leftist. But you
23:44
Speaker 1: just imagine these leftists like ESPN hearing that and they're
23:47
Speaker 1: just blown away by that. They're just, wow, that's the
23:50
Speaker 1: smartest thing I've ever heard. Do you hear how many
23:53
Speaker 1: times she said the word nuance? She said it like
23:55
Speaker 1: 10 times. But Reeve did manage to get one point across. Clearly,
24:00
Speaker 1: she is sure of this at least. She says, well,
24:03
Speaker 1: we definitely can't tell anyone no under any circumstances. The
24:07
Speaker 1: answer can't be no, she says, right? Well, actually, you know,
24:11
Speaker 1: the answer is indeed no, sometimes. Very often, that's precisely
24:15
Speaker 1: what's necessary for an institution to function. You have to
24:19
Speaker 1: tell people who are wrong that they're wrong. You have
24:23
Speaker 1: to tell people who don't belong that they don't belong.
24:26
Speaker 1: You have to say no. It's not an exaggeration to
24:29
Speaker 1: say that the existence of civilization itself depends on our
24:33
Speaker 1: willingness and ability to say no. If our civilization is destroyed,
24:38
Speaker 1: as Cheryl Reeves and her comrades would like to see,
24:40
Speaker 1: you could put her quote on its tombstone as an epitaph.
24:45
Speaker 4: Right.
24:46
Speaker 1: The epitaph of Western civilization will be the answer isn't no.
24:50
Speaker 1: And I would kind of sum it up. Nobody has
24:54
Speaker 1: a human right to play basketball against the opposite sex
24:57
Speaker 1: or to compel everyone else to participate in their confusion.
25:00
Speaker 1: That's absurd. Her whole response was reminiscent of the female
25:04
Speaker 1: CEO of NPR and Wikipedia, who stated that our reverence
25:07
Speaker 1: for the truth might have become a distraction from our
25:11
Speaker 1: real goal, which is finding consensus. You might remember that.
25:14
Speaker 1: a woman who's running a news organization and who ran
25:17
Speaker 1: an online encyclopedia, went on the record saying that the
25:19
Speaker 1: truth is less important than reaching a popular consensus. What
25:23
Speaker 1: matters is not the truth. What matters is what most people,
25:27
Speaker 1: or at least what most people within the favored demographic groups,
25:30
Speaker 1: believe to be the truth or want to be the truth.
25:35
Speaker 1: So Reeves starts out by saying that it's not a
25:37
Speaker 1: big issue in women's sports to have men competing against
25:39
Speaker 1: women because there are other more important things to talk about,
25:42
Speaker 1: which is also a non-argument, of course. And it cuts
25:44
Speaker 1: the other way, too. I mean, if the issue isn't important,
25:47
Speaker 1: if it barely registers as an issue, then why do
25:50
Speaker 1: you care? Why are you talking about it? Why are
25:52
Speaker 1: you wearing that stupid shirt? I mean, as a matter
25:55
Speaker 1: of observable reality, men are indeed competing against women in
25:58
Speaker 1: various sports. But even if there was only one male
26:00
Speaker 1: trans-identifying athlete on the planet, it would still be critically
26:03
Speaker 1: important to affirm the reality of human biology. You know,
26:07
Speaker 1: the thing the other side doesn't understand or pretends not
26:09
Speaker 1: to understand is that this is not an argument about
26:11
Speaker 1: women's sports. It's not about that. It's an argument about reality.
26:15
Speaker 1: It's an argument about truth, whether truth even exists, which
26:20
Speaker 1: it does. And that's why it's crucial we don't go
26:23
Speaker 1: along with the farcical fantasy of men pretending to be
26:26
Speaker 1: women and competing against women in women's sports. Now, the
26:32
Speaker 1: left understands this, of course. That's why they spent tens
26:34
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars every year on trans activism, even
26:36
Speaker 1: as they claim that the right is obsessed with it.
26:39
Speaker 1: They understand very well that if they can suspend reality,
26:41
Speaker 1: they can get away with anything they want. As the
26:43
Speaker 1: old saying goes, anyone who can make you believe absurdities
26:46
Speaker 1: can make you commit atrocities. As Cheryl Reeves' disastrous answer continues,
26:51
Speaker 1: it somehow gets even worse. And remember, this was a
26:54
Speaker 1: response that ESPN was head over heels in love with.
26:58
Speaker 1: And she states that, quote, every kid has a right
27:00
Speaker 1: to sports regardless of gender, diversity, transgender. Every kid has
27:04
Speaker 1: the right to access. Yes, a right to sports. Yes,
27:10
Speaker 1: I believe that's a paraphrase of the Declaration of Independence,
27:13
Speaker 1: isn't it? We hold these truths to be self-evident that
27:15
Speaker 1: all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their
27:17
Speaker 1: creator with certain unalienable rights. Among these are life, liberty,
27:20
Speaker 1: pursuit of happiness, and sports, right? Isn't that in there?
27:23
Speaker 1: It's right in that document. But I wonder, how does
27:26
Speaker 1: this right to sports work exactly? I mean, do I
27:29
Speaker 1: have the right to play any sport I want? Do
27:32
Speaker 1: I have the right to access any league I want?
27:34
Speaker 1: What if I want to go play professional tennis? Despite
27:38
Speaker 1: the fact that I have zero tennis skill, I don't
27:40
Speaker 1: know the rules. I don't even know how scoring works
27:42
Speaker 1: in tennis, to be honest with you. I'm still confused.
27:44
Speaker 1: Do I have the right? Now, ironically, of course, this...
27:49
Speaker 1: right to sports idea, though ridiculous, works against the position
27:53
Speaker 1: she's trying to defend. If women have the right to
27:55
Speaker 1: play sports, then allowing men into their leagues would destroy
27:57
Speaker 1: that right because it would destroy the leagues. So even
28:00
Speaker 1: if you think that she's correct about this mystical right
28:02
Speaker 1: to sports, which doesn't exist, by the way, it does
28:04
Speaker 1: nothing to answer the question of where these kids should play,
28:07
Speaker 1: the boys league or the girls league. Nobody's actually trying
28:10
Speaker 1: to stop trans kids, quote unquote, from playing sports, The
28:13
Speaker 1: point is that they should be required to follow the
28:15
Speaker 1: same rules as everybody else and play in the league
28:18
Speaker 1: that is aligned with their biology like everybody else. And
28:21
Speaker 1: by the way, why are we even talking about quote
28:23
Speaker 1: unquote trans kids? Like notice how trans activists, they want
28:28
Speaker 1: every debate about the sports subject to focus on kids, right?
28:35
Speaker 1: So it's very interesting. If the debate is about sports,
28:39
Speaker 1: they only want to talk about quote unquote trans kids.
28:42
Speaker 1: If the debate is about you know, surgical procedures and
28:48
Speaker 1: medical procedures and pills and castration, then they only want
28:52
Speaker 1: to talk about adults. That's interesting. That's because even they
28:57
Speaker 1: feel ridiculous defending the right of full-grown adult males to
29:02
Speaker 1: compete in female sports. Even they feel ridiculous doing that. Instead,
29:05
Speaker 1: they want the whole sport discussion to center around nine-year-olds.
29:11
Speaker 1: even though their position is, of course, no more defensible
29:13
Speaker 1: with respect to nine-year-olds than it is with 29-year-olds. I
29:17
Speaker 1: truly don't know how anyone can watch that clip and
29:19
Speaker 1: find it remotely coherent, much less compelling, but it gets
29:22
Speaker 1: ESPN's stamp of approval. And through it all, Reeve is,
29:26
Speaker 1: of course, extraordinarily pompous and narcissistic, saying she had taken
29:30
Speaker 1: the opportunity to educate people on this issue. And predictably,
29:35
Speaker 1: all the other WNBA coaches are lining up also to
29:41
Speaker 1: push this narrative and push the message. Here's a woman
29:44
Speaker 1: who's apparently the Golden State Valkyries coach, which is another
29:49
Speaker 1: team that exists, I guess. And her name is Natalie Nakase.
29:55
Speaker 1: And here's what she says.
29:57
Speaker 4: I think Just in terms of how I'm seeing it
30:04
Speaker 4: is if I could answer with like for me, sports
30:08
Speaker 4: is about belonging. It's about inclusivity. It's about allowing everyone
30:14
Speaker 4: to be their authentic self. You know, I'm big on
30:18
Speaker 4: that just because I have been criticized for my height,
30:22
Speaker 4: for my ethnicity. I've been in those, you shouldn't belong here,
30:27
Speaker 4: many times. And for me, I don't want that space,
30:30
Speaker 4: especially Golden State, to ever feel like that. So I'm
30:35
Speaker 4: all about women, little girls deserving to play. And that
30:38
Speaker 4: includes trans women. So I'm all about inclusivity.
30:45
Speaker 1: Really? really someone told you you don't many times you've
30:51
Speaker 1: been told you don't belong in the sport because of
30:54
Speaker 1: your ethnicity because you're asian really name one time name
30:58
Speaker 1: one person who told you that in your that has
31:01
Speaker 1: never happened once i mean you guys know that right
31:03
Speaker 1: that's never happened one time she wants us to imagine
31:06
Speaker 1: she she's a wmba coach in where was this in
31:10
Speaker 1: california I don't even know. And she's showing up to them.
31:15
Speaker 1: And we're supposed to imagine that there are people in
31:18
Speaker 1: women's basketball like, hey, you don't belong here. Hey, there's
31:21
Speaker 1: no Asians belong. Get out. You don't belong here. We
31:27
Speaker 1: don't want your kind around here. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm
31:30
Speaker 1: sure that happens all the time. Many times that's happened.
31:34
Speaker 1: All right. I'm sure. You know, but she also says
31:38
Speaker 1: that sports is about belonging. It's about inclusivity, about letting
31:42
Speaker 1: everyone be their authentic self. Well, you know, no, see, actually,
31:45
Speaker 1: it's not about any of those things. Actually, that's not
31:48
Speaker 1: what sports are about at all. Actually, sports are about
31:50
Speaker 1: the opposite. Actually, it's about competition based on merit. You know,
31:54
Speaker 1: sports are rather explicitly about exclusivity, not inclusivity. If you
31:59
Speaker 1: want to know what sports look like when inclusivity is
32:03
Speaker 1: the priority, and everybody belongs, and there's no judgment, and
32:08
Speaker 1: there are no boundaries, and there are no rules, and
32:11
Speaker 1: no one's keeping score, go watch four-year-olds play t-ball. Everyone's included.
32:16
Speaker 1: Everyone is their authentic self, which generally means the players
32:19
Speaker 1: will sit down in the outfield and cry because they
32:21
Speaker 1: want a snack. It's all excruciating to watch for the
32:25
Speaker 1: parents in the audience, even if you have a kid there.
32:27
Speaker 1: I mean, usually for these kid activities, at least if
32:29
Speaker 1: your kid is part of it, then it's kind of
32:32
Speaker 1: cute to see your kid. But Even with your kid there,
32:35
Speaker 1: it's just awful. I mean, no parent can endure T-ball
32:38
Speaker 1: for more than one year. It's just terrible. But it's okay,
32:42
Speaker 1: you know, if still basically pointless. I mean, T-ball has
32:46
Speaker 1: no point at all. They're not learning the game, so
32:48
Speaker 1: you might as well not do it. It's a total
32:50
Speaker 1: waste of time. But anyway, it's okay for kindergartners. Beyond
32:54
Speaker 1: that age, sports start to emphasize the competitive nature of
32:57
Speaker 1: the contest, and they become progressively more exclusive and until
33:01
Speaker 1: you get to the highest levels where everything is designed
33:04
Speaker 1: precisely to include no one except the very best. And also,
33:12
Speaker 1: nevermind the, again, the irony of these speeches about inclusivity
33:16
Speaker 1: from WNBA coaches, where they are beating the out of
33:22
Speaker 1: white players on the court like every night. It's the
33:26
Speaker 1: only professional league in existence where there's out in the open, racial,
33:33
Speaker 1: race-based assaults happening, okay? It's the only professional sport in
33:39
Speaker 1: America this century where anything like that ever happens. And
33:44
Speaker 1: yet they're the ones we're getting these inclusivity speeches from.
33:49
Speaker 1: The coach also slips into yet another familiar non-argument for
33:52
Speaker 1: the pro-trans side. They says, well, you know, other people
33:55
Speaker 1: have been subjected to discrimination and that was bad and
33:57
Speaker 1: therefore it's wrong to tell men that they can't transform
34:01
Speaker 1: into women and destroy female sports because one form of
34:03
Speaker 1: discrimination was bad, like the one that she suffered from,
34:07
Speaker 1: which was actually totally imaginary and never happened. But therefore,
34:10
Speaker 1: all discrimination is bad. Now, in logic, this is called
34:14
Speaker 1: a non sequitur because, you know, in fact, contrary to
34:17
Speaker 1: what this woman is claiming, some forms of discrimination are good.
34:21
Speaker 1: Many forms of discrimination are good. They are necessary for
34:25
Speaker 1: society to function. You discriminate every single day of your life.
34:29
Speaker 1: You have to. Discriminating just means selecting one thing over another.
34:36
Speaker 1: That's discrimination. Airlines discriminate against blind pilots, or at least
34:42
Speaker 1: they used to, because blind pilots would endanger everybody on
34:45
Speaker 1: the planet, on the plane rather. Blood banks discriminate against
34:48
Speaker 1: people with diseases because their blood could infect other people.
34:51
Speaker 1: Hospitals discriminate against surgeons with no hands because surgeons with
34:55
Speaker 1: no hands can't perform surgeries. And by the same token,
34:58
Speaker 1: female sports leagues should discriminate against men because otherwise women
35:02
Speaker 1: will be unable to compete. That's why for all their pandering,
35:05
Speaker 1: the WNBA does not allow men into the league with, well,
35:09
Speaker 1: with one or two possible exceptions. They know it would
35:12
Speaker 1: destroy their product immediately. They won't admit that they're banning
35:16
Speaker 1: trans-identified athletes, but that's exactly what they're doing. And that's
35:19
Speaker 1: good policy, obviously. It's just that they're being as cowardly
35:22
Speaker 1: as possible about it. They're lying. Now, it's not as
35:27
Speaker 1: if we're talking about throwing trans-identified athletes off a cliff here.
35:30
Speaker 1: The solution is to tell them that they have to
35:32
Speaker 1: play with other members of their sex. And that's because
35:34
Speaker 1: men are different from women at the chromosomal level. This
35:37
Speaker 1: is a fundamental biological reality. Everyone knows it's true. No
35:41
Speaker 1: one should have any issues saying it out loud. But
35:43
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark, for her, this fundamental biological reality is actually
35:49
Speaker 1: a matter for leagues and governing bodies to figure out.
35:53
Speaker 1: It is a bureaucratic issue that has nothing to do
35:55
Speaker 1: with playing basketball, apparently. even though it's obviously relevant to
35:58
Speaker 1: the sport. So she's not interested. She doesn't want to
36:01
Speaker 1: talk about it.
36:02
Speaker 3: Watch.
36:04
Speaker 10: I think for us, like, you know, it's not really
36:07
Speaker 10: a discussion we really have in our locker room. I
36:09
Speaker 10: think it's for leagues and the governing bodies to work
36:11
Speaker 10: with their athletes to find solutions, but our focus is
36:13
Speaker 10: on basketball, and that's what we talk about and how
36:16
Speaker 10: we can get wins, and obviously we didn't do that tonight.
36:17
Speaker 10: So we need to find an area to improve in
36:19
Speaker 10: that way.
36:21
Speaker 4: Do you have any reaction to the.
36:23
Speaker 1: I just answered for you.
36:24
Speaker 7: All right.
36:29
Speaker 1: Now, some of Caitlin Clark's fans have tried to defend
36:32
Speaker 1: this rather staggering display of cowardice. They say that, well,
36:35
Speaker 1: Clark is just trying to stay focused on the game. Oh, really?
36:39
Speaker 1: Then why was she doing interviews last year talking about
36:41
Speaker 1: white privilege and the need to elevate black women? Was
36:45
Speaker 1: that about staying focused on the game? We all know
36:49
Speaker 1: she's afraid, and so she's not saying what is obviously true.
36:53
Speaker 1: And besides, as Caitlin Clark knows, She's one of the
36:55
Speaker 1: few athletes on the planet who can directly influence how
36:59
Speaker 1: leagues and governing bodies address this issue. She is uniquely
37:04
Speaker 1: positioned on this issue. Just saying one thing would have
37:09
Speaker 1: an enormous effect on this particular issue beyond what anyone
37:13
Speaker 1: else could ever do. And yet she refuses to. You know,
37:18
Speaker 1: the moment a few prominent, courageous athletes take a stand
37:21
Speaker 1: against this insanity, the bureaucrats will cave very quickly. But
37:23
Speaker 1: she's too cowardly to step out of line because she
37:25
Speaker 1: might lose her endorsements or whatever. So she's happy to
37:27
Speaker 1: give an HR approved answer. If you're a girl who
37:30
Speaker 1: wants to play basketball and you have to compete against men, well,
37:32
Speaker 1: then Caitlin Clark simply doesn't care. You know, she secured
37:35
Speaker 1: her contract. She doesn't care about you. There's no excuse
37:39
Speaker 1: for this cowardice. I mean, it's not hard to just say, hey,
37:43
Speaker 1: men are men and they should compete against other men.
37:46
Speaker 1: That's it. Done. No one is saying she should do
37:49
Speaker 1: a podcast about it. No one's saying she should go
37:50
Speaker 1: into an hour-long monologue. No one's saying that. Takes less
37:55
Speaker 1: than five seconds. Five seconds. Just say, yeah, men should
37:58
Speaker 1: compete against other men. Done. That's it. That could be
38:01
Speaker 1: the one and only thing you ever say about it.
38:03
Speaker 1: It's not complicated. It's not complex. It is not, in fact, nuanced,
38:07
Speaker 1: despite what lesbian NBA coaches might claim. It's very simple.
38:12
Speaker 1: The question can be answered quickly and firmly without need
38:15
Speaker 1: of further explanation. And she refrained from providing that answer,
38:20
Speaker 1: which could have done a lot of good, purely out
38:22
Speaker 1: of fear. Even though she is the most bankable star
38:25
Speaker 1: in the league, the only bankable star, in fact, they're
38:28
Speaker 1: not going to fire her. You know, she's not going
38:30
Speaker 1: to get cut from the team. She's as secure professionally
38:33
Speaker 1: as a person could possibly be. And yet she still
38:35
Speaker 1: chose to hide under her bed, cowering in fear. That's
38:38
Speaker 1: what happened. And there's a similar cowardice, of course, that
38:42
Speaker 1: affects major medical associations and hospitals in this country. Really,
38:45
Speaker 1: it takes just one or two doctors to bring down
38:46
Speaker 1: entire gender clinics that abuse children. We saw that with
38:49
Speaker 1: Ethan Haim, who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing gender
38:53
Speaker 1: mutilation procedures on children and was prosecuted by the Biden
38:56
Speaker 1: DOJ for it. And in the end, Haim won. Texas
38:58
Speaker 1: Children's paid millions of dollars in a settlement with the DOJ,
39:01
Speaker 1: set up a detransition clinic, stopped butchering children. In the
39:04
Speaker 1: same vein, our reporting on Vanderbilt, where we caught them
39:07
Speaker 1: on tape saying the gender clinics were Big moneymakers led
39:09
Speaker 1: to the shutdown of their youth gender clinic as well.
39:12
Speaker 1: Then it led to a historic Supreme Court case that
39:14
Speaker 1: upheld many more bans against these horrific procedures nationwide. It
39:17
Speaker 1: doesn't take much. And again, Caitlin Clark is uniquely positioned
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Speaker 1: on the issue of women's sports. There's literally no one
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Speaker 1: in the country who's better positioned than she is to
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Speaker 1: have an enormous impact just by saying one thing. And
39:34
Speaker 1: even in other sports, it's become acceptable to talk about
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Speaker 1: gender in reality-based terms. So here, for example, is Ariana
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Speaker 1: Sabalenka discussing new plans for sex testing by the World
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Speaker 1: Tennis Association. They're introducing mandatory one-time genetic sex testing for
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Speaker 1: all players to keep men out of tennis. This is
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Speaker 1: done with a cheek swab, so it's not invasive at all.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't take very long. There's really no conceivable objection
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Speaker 4: Hi.
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Speaker 7: The WTA recently announced that the players will take a
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Speaker 7: one-time gender test.
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Speaker 1: How do you feel about that?
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Speaker 3: The first pro league to go in that direction.
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Speaker 6: I think it's really important to keep the fairness in
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Speaker 6: our tour. It's obvious that biologically, right, the men are
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Speaker 6: way stronger than women. So I feel like it would
40:20
Speaker 6: be not really fair for the woman to compete against
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Speaker 6: biological men. So I believe it took them a little
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Speaker 6: while to make the decision. And, yeah, I support it.
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Speaker 6: But for me, I'm focusing on myself, on my goals,
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Speaker 6: you know, whatever it takes. If they want to test
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Speaker 6: us all, I'm happy to do that. It's pretty fair,
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Speaker 6: and let's keep it that way.
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Speaker 1: Again, this is the dominant way of thinking because it's
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Speaker 1: the only sane way to address the issue. When men
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Speaker 1: are dressing up like women and daring you to test them,
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Speaker 1: the solution isn't to throw up your hands and say, well,
40:56
Speaker 1: I guess we have to let men compete against women now.
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Speaker 1: Just go ahead and test them, call their bluff. It's
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Speaker 1: an objective standard that no one can dispute, and the
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Speaker 1: WTA recognizes that. Because of all these victories and what
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Speaker 1: they exposed to the general public, the pro-trans side has
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Speaker 1: been defeated at every level, both culturally and politically, over
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Speaker 1: the past few years. It's just been one loss after another.
41:19
Speaker 1: They are in total disarray. People who still list their
41:22
Speaker 1: pronouns in their bios are like artifacts now from a
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Speaker 1: lost age. Every poll shows that people don't want men
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Speaker 1: in women's sports. When Kamala Harris defended taxpayer-funded sex changes
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Speaker 1: for illegal aliens in prison, the Trump campaign immediately turned
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Speaker 1: it into a devastating TV ad. It's one of the
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Speaker 1: a massive liability at this point. no sane person would
41:42
Speaker 1: associate with them anymore. And yet, despite the total failure
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Speaker 1: of the trans movement, a handful of female coaches and
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Speaker 1: bureaucrats in the WNBA are still pushing the ideology. They
41:52
Speaker 1: also have the support of sports journalists who are easily
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Speaker 1: the dumbest people on the planet, even more so than
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Speaker 1: What explains why the WNBA is still holding on to this,
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Speaker 1: holding on to trans ideology, even after it's been abandoned
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Speaker 1: and defeated almost everywhere else? Well, the answer is that
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Speaker 1: the WNBA is a microcosm showing what happens when an
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Speaker 1: financial insolvency, and above all, stupidity. The irony, as we've
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46:42
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46:45
Speaker 1: a cultural and political force. And just a few women
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46:51
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Speaker 1: looked up to Clark only to discover that she's a
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47:19
Speaker 1: The WNBA is an organization run by and compromised of
47:23
Speaker 1: or comprised of and compromised by liberal women. And it's
47:28
Speaker 1: also a disaster. It is a self-parody, totally dysfunctional, incapable
47:35
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47:39
Speaker 1: WNBA has any value at all from this point forward,
47:41
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47:45
Speaker 1: to everyone who's watching. Unfortunately, that means only about 50
47:50
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47:53
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47:57
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47:58
Speaker 1: years now, it'll be yet another victory in a string
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Speaker 1: it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 1: Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day. Godspeed. Once
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Speaker 1: upon a time, there was a country. Not just a country,
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Speaker 1: This is the real history of communism, the Russian Revolution.