Unsurprisingly, leftists are outraged over the release of The Daily Wire’s first-ever feature-length comedy “Lady Ballers.” The film openly mocks trans-identifying men competing in women’s sports.
“Lady Ballers” is directed by the company’s co-founder Jeremy Boreing. Daily Wire sports show “Crain & Co.” hosts also have roles, while there are cameos by other Daily Wire personalities and celebrities including Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Ted Cruz, and others to be revealed.
The comedy tells the tale of a former high school basketball coach, Rob (Boreing), who will do anything to win. Rob turns his bad luck around by teaching a group of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to victory by encouraging them to pose as trans and compete against women.
The Young Turks news and commentary program hosts weren’t pleased about the comedy being released. “It’s about dunking on the trans community. It’s about triggering the libs,” host Ana Kasparian said. She went on to argue that we should be having “honest conversation” about men competing in women’s sports.
TYT’s John Iadarola accused The Daily Wire of working for “billionaires” and making this content “at the behest of the elites of society” with the express goal of convincing all conservatives to vote for politicians who will “demonize trans people.”
The political talk show “The Majority Report” also called the movie “anti-trans.” Podcast host Sam Seder kept asking “why” this is a film, then answering his own question, saying, “I mean I get it, we could dominate women’s sports … but why?”
The host said the joke is that nobody cares about women’s basketball, but that’s why it makes no sense to make fun of men competing against women. “I gotta say, I’m so triggered by this,” Seder added.
Streamer Hasan Piker, who runs the channel HasanAbi, insisted that this type of comedy already exists because “Juwanna Man” was made in 2002, completely missing the point that this form of comedy has been lacking in politically correct Hollywood for decades. He also mentions “White Chicks,” a comedy from 2004.
He claims the “origins” of those types of films were not meant to be “s***ing on trans people,” but were rather anti-woman. “It was more sexist, I think, than transphobic,” Piker said.
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“It’s like ‘Mrs. Doubtfire,’ but evil,” Piker said of “Lady Ballers.”
“It’s just like, trans people are secretly faking it, or something,” he adds. At a later point, Piker accused the film of going beyond transphobia and actually just mocking “cis women” like a “late 90s bro film.”
He also insinuated that the “Lady Ballers” players would get “f***ing destroyed” if they were competing against actual WNBA players.
“Lady Ballers” premieres at 8 p.m. ET Friday exclusively on DailyWire+.