After my film &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>&#8221; became one of the most-watched documentaries of all-time, there were a couple of different responses that Leftists could have had. The easiest response would have been to simply answer the question in the title. 
Trans activists, the media, and politicians had the opportunity to provide a coherent, non-circular definition for the word &#8220;woman&#8221; — and then they would have immediately won the argument. That&#8217;s all they had to do. But, of course, trans ideology can&#8217;t provide a coherent definition of the word &#8220;woman,&#8221; so they refused to do it when I interviewed several of them for the film. And they haven&#8217;t been able to do it in the nearly two years since.
Instead, as I&#8217;ve discussed before, the Left lied about the film. They accused me of &#8220;transphobia&#8221; for allowing trans activists to explain — or rather, fail to explain — what they believe. But they didn&#8217;t stop there. On top of all the lies, one of the most powerful technology platforms in the county embarked on an effort to prevent me from speaking about the film. This platform, called Eventbrite, also tried to shut down screenings of the documentary. They claimed any event screening the film, or discussing it, violated their &#8220;Hateful Events Policy.&#8221; 
If you&#8217;re not familiar with Eventbrite, it controls roughly 50% of the event management and registration market. They&#8217;re hard to avoid, even if you want to. And on at least seven occasions, they canceled events involving &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What is a Woman?</a>&#8220;, often costing event organizers like YAF thousands of dollars.
At the time, it seemed like just another example of a Left-wing company silencing political dissent. Stop me if you&#8217;ve heard that one before.
But the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation decided to look deeper into what&#8217;s going on. Under the leadership of ranking member Ted Cruz (R-TX), the committee launched a congressional investigation into several instances in which online service providers canceled services for conservative organizations and speakers. The committee probed Eventbrite, and many other companies like it, to understand what was going on internally at these companies when they made these decisions to censor conservatives. And today, we can bring you the results of that investigation, exclusively.
Here&#8217;s the topline finding from their report, which outlines the Left&#8217;s strategy for attacking the freedom of speech and association: 
<blockquote>This investigation revealed that Online Service Providers are following a new playbook for silencing conservatives that leftist organizations — including the notoriously biased Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Anti-Defamation League (ADL)—concocted: &#8216;removing infrastructure services&#8217; that conservative organizations &#8216;need to operate&#8217; by weaponizing their terms of service.</blockquote>
In other words, what Eventbrite did to &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221; is part of a much larger effort to deplatform anyone who disagrees with the Left, particularly on the issue of transgenderism. This is their answer to me — as well as to Libs of TikTok, swimmer Riley Gaines, and nonprofits like the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum. They can&#8217;t debate us. They have to shut us down and prevent us from speaking.
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1353-the-matt-walsh-show" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show</a></h4>
The committee&#8217;s investigation exposes this effort, in great detail, for the total fraud that it is. Publicly, companies like Eventbrite will claim that they&#8217;re combating &#8220;hate&#8221; and &#8220;disinformation&#8221; when they shut down events featuring my film, for example. But in reality, the committee found, no one at Eventbrite even watched &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221; before they decided to ban all events themed around the film.
As the report states: 
<blockquote>Eventbrite admitted to the Committee that no one involved in the decision watched What Is a Woman? film before cancelling the events. Eventbrite could not even identify a single timestamp in the trailer that it deemed to violate the Eventbrite Community Guidelines. According to Eventbrite: &#8216;[t]he overall tone and message of the all-encompassing trailer, in combination with Matt Walsh’s related public statements, helped determine the removals—not any individual timestamp.&#8217;</blockquote>
To restate, because this really is incredible: A Big Tech platform banned events involving my film, saying these events violated their &#8220;hateful events policy,&#8221; without even watching the film.
According to the committee, Eventbrite has a “Trust and Safety Team” that consists of at least 12 full-time employees who review every single case. Eventbrite describes these employees as &#8220;experts.&#8221; Experts in what? What are their qualifications? That’s never explained. But they certainly aren’t experts in the film because none of these &#8220;experts&#8221; saw the film that they wanted to ban. Instead, they looked at non-specific parts of the trailer, and my public statements. 
So let&#8217;s review. Here&#8217;s the first 45 seconds or so of the trailer for &#8220;What is a Woman?&#8221;, which is probably more than Eventbrite&#8217;s experts watched:
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That is the alleged &#8220;hateful content&#8221; that, apparently, Eventbrite finds disqualifying. No one can use Eventbrite to show the film or even discuss it. It&#8217;s not exactly convincing. So, maybe to cover their bases, Eventbrite told the committee that they banned my events for a few other reasons. Specifically, they said my public statements were hateful.
What public statements, exactly? Eventbrite provided three examples — all of them are from before the film was released. 
The first example is my appearance on a Dr. Phil episode entitled &#8220;The Gender Pronoun Debate,&#8221; from January 19, 2022. The whole episode runs for the better part of an hour, and again, there&#8217;s basically no chance that Eventbrite&#8217;s experts watched it. But here&#8217;s a representative part:
<iframe loading="lazy" title="002 Dr Phil What Is A Woman" width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/v5it2lACi60?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe>
According to Eventbrite, the fact that I used the words &#8220;mental illness,&#8221; &#8220;charade,&#8221; and &#8220;theatrical production&#8221; to describe men who pretend to be women, and vice versa, is evidence that I&#8217;m a very hateful person, and I shouldn&#8217;t be allowed to host events.
Additionally, Eventbrite says that in a May 2021 episode of this show, I discussed gender surgeries being performed on children — including double mastectomies — as morally akin to rape and child molestation. Apparently, that&#8217;s hateful. If you have a problem with child butchery, then Eventbrite won&#8217;t allow you to have a platform. They’re right, by the way. It is hateful. I do hate this kind of abuse against children.
There was one other objection that Eventbrite made, concerning the children&#8217;s book I wrote called &#8220;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Johnny-Walrus-Matt-Walsh/dp/1956007059" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Johnny The Walrus</a>.&#8221; Of course, they didn&#8217;t actually read this book, anymore than they watched my film. I can’t blame them though. The book is probably above their reading level. But it was featured at the beginning of my appearance on the Dr. Phil show, which is how I assume they heard about it. Watch:
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So the book, as you probably know, is about a little boy who pretends to be a walrus. People encourage him to start changing his appearance and getting surgery to transform into a walrus. And the book takes the position that this is a bad idea. It teaches that human children should recognize that they are human children, not walruses. But to Eventbrite, this is apparently a problem. They told the committee that it&#8217;s hate, so it’s bad.
The funny thing is that, as the committee&#8217;s investigation makes clear, Eventbrite doesn&#8217;t really know what their hateful conduct policy even says. Either that or they lied to the committee. 
As the report reads: 
<blockquote>On February 27—days before the March 1 event—Eventbrite removed the event’s page from its website and notified the organizer that it had done so because the event violated the Eventbrite Community Guidelines. Eventbrite told the Committee that it sends a standard notification when removing an event for violating its Hateful Events Policy. As reflected in the figure below, however, in the version Eventbrite sent to the organizers of the Stanford event, Eventbrite directly stated that the problem with the Matt Walsh event was that it &#8216;expresse[d] views&#8217; that violated the Eventbrite Terms of Service.</blockquote>
In other words, Eventbrite&#8217;s standard &#8220;Hateful Events Policy&#8221; doesn&#8217;t say anything about prohibiting certain views. They wrote up a custom notification just for one of my events, and then apparently forgot about it. This kind of ad hoc reasoning is extremely common on the Left and particularly among online service providers. It&#8217;s yet another symptom of an ideology without any real principles.
As I alluded to earlier, of course, this isn&#8217;t just affecting me. The committee outlines numerous other instances of online platforms shutting down events for conservatives, including a November 2023 event featuring the swimmer Riley Gaines at UC Davis. 
The school&#8217;s College Republicans worked with Eventbrite to set up a registration page so that students could sign up and attend for free. But in late November, Eventbrite canceled the whole thing. They notified the organizers that events cannot espouse hatred or harass anyone based on a series of characteristics, including sexual orientation, national origin, immigration status, gender identity, religion, ethnicity, or disability. Notably, Eventbrite doesn&#8217;t prohibit hatred based on &#8220;sex discrimination,&#8221; so it&#8217;s okay to deride women and pretend they don&#8217;t exist. Trans activists are free to do that all they want.
But Riley Gaines was shut down — not because of anything on her event page, but because she previously made social media posts affirming that biology is real. One of the posts cited by Eventbrite is an October 10, 2023, post from Gaines, in which she says:
<blockquote>Women are not menstruators, bleeders, chestfeeders, cervix-havers, uterus-owners, egg-producers, or people with birthing capacity. Women are just women. Adult human females.</blockquote>
According to Eventbrite, which apparently makes up its standards as it goes, that&#8217;s hateful conduct.
Along those lines, the committee investigated the communications platform Slack for canceling the workspace of Libs of TikTok. Slack informed the committee: 
<blockquote>[w]hat makes [Libs of TikTok] problematic is that Libs of TikTok has a specific audience, and they are taking this information and posting it to that specific audience so that everyone in that audience sees it at the same time.</blockquote>
Now, I&#8217;ve read that explanation about five times, and it still doesn&#8217;t make any sense. But as best I can tell, they&#8217;re admitting that nothing Libs of TikTok said was objectionable. And really, it couldn&#8217;t be; she&#8217;s just reposting deranged content from Leftists. So instead of making any factual argument, Slack apparently complains that a lot of people are seeing the factual information provided by Libs of TikTok, and they&#8217;re becoming hateful as a result. Somehow this alleged audience reaction makes Libs of TikTok&#8217;s conduct a violation of Slack&#8217;s policies against &#8220;inciting hatred.&#8221;
She didn&#8217;t direct anyone to engage in any hateful conduct. She simply posted the truth about what&#8217;s happening. And that&#8217;s not allowed anymore.
This is a standard that obviously, if the Left were to employ against itself, would result in the immediate deplatforming of the Washington Post, pretty much every trans activist who&#8217;s ever used social media, the entirety of CNN and MSNBC and the rest of the legacy media. But it&#8217;s not a real standard and it&#8217;s not meant to be administered fairly. Instead, as the committee notes, this standard was essentially invented by the ADL, the SPLC, and other well-funded Left-wing activist groups. 
<blockquote>Although Slack did not specifically point to them with regard to its Libs of TikTok investigation, notably, the left-wing SPLC has described Libs of TikTok as an &#8216;extremist&#8217; account and ADL labeled Libs of TikTok/Chaya Raichik as an &#8216;extremist&#8217; in its &#8216;Glossary of Extremism.&#8217;</blockquote>
The same designation applies to me. Quoting again from the report: 
<blockquote>Eventbrite did not say that it relied on ADL in deciding to cancel the What Is a Woman? events, but notably ADL—which Eventbrite’s Trust and Safety Team generally relies on as a source—has labeled Matt Walsh as an &#8216;extremist commentator.&#8217;</blockquote>
This is the strategy that&#8217;s been unearthed by this congressional committee. Motivated in part by guidance from Left-wing activist groups, large online tech platforms are doing everything they can to make sure conservatives can&#8217;t communicate or stay in business. There are several other examples. For instance, the report says that the Independent Women&#8217;s Forum, or IWF, was kicked off the fundraising platform Bonterra for defending women’s rights. Bonterra categorized IWF as some sort of &#8220;anti-LGBT&#8221; outfit, whatever that means, all because they believe biology is real. Therefore, they&#8217;re not allowed to raise money, I guess.
In its report, the committee suggests that this situation could be resolved by legislation — or at least, addressed in some way by legislation. But the ideal resolution, as the committee suggests in its conclusion, is for new online service providers to flood the market and offer an alternative. That is the only response to this insanity that&#8217;s sustainable — and it&#8217;s a very workable solution.
Because of this committee&#8217;s investigation, we know that the companies censoring conservatives are really staffed with complete, bumbling morons who have no idea what they&#8217;re doing. That means they&#8217;re powerful, yes, but they&#8217;re also vulnerable. Now it&#8217;s time to replace them before they silence us.

Matt Walsh

Insider Investigation Reveals The Absurd Details Behind Eventbrite’s Decision To Ban Me From Its Platform

Insider Investigation Reveals The Absurd Details Behind Eventbrite's Decision To Ban Me From Its Platform

Big Tech

Opinion

Readers Pass

Riley Gaines

Social Media Censorship

What Is A Woman

Former collegiate swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-effing-irresponsible-is-this-tennis-legend-destroys-trans-activist-slamming-riley-gaines">Riley Gaines</a> said that with his 2024 revision, President Joe Biden has basically “abolished Title IX” &#8212; a policy that was originally enacted to protect women and girls.
On Friday, Gaines broke down what Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona have done by revising the law enacted in 1972. A <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-summary.pdf">summary</a> of the new provisions “clarifies that sex discrimination includes discrimination based on sex stereotypes, sex characteristics, pregnancy or related conditions, sexual orientation, and gender identity.”
“The Biden Admin has just officially abolished Title IX as we knew it,” Gaines wrote in a post on <a href="https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1781330862115610797">X</a>. “Now, sex = gender identity.”
“In a nutshell, the new rewrite means, men can take academic AND athletic scholarships from women,” she added. “Men will have FULL access to bathrooms, locker rooms, etc. Men could be housed in dorm rooms with women.”
“Students and faculty MUST compel their speech by requiring the use of preferred pronouns,” Gaines continued. “If the guidelines above are ignored or even questioned, then YOU can be charged with harassment.”
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The Biden Admin has just officially abolished Title IX as we knew it. Now, sex = gender identity.
In a nutshell, the new rewrite means: 
&#8211; men can take academic AND athletic scholarships from women 
&#8211; men will have FULL access to bathrooms, locker rooms, etc 
&#8211; men could be… <a href="https://t.co/JfQVI9Yfph">pic.twitter.com/JfQVI9Yfph</a>
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1781330862115610797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 19, 2024</a></blockquote>
The former University of Kentucky swimmer has become a vocal advocate for women’s rights in sports and has faced backlash for speaking out against biological males competing against females.
Gaines made headlines when she talked about how unfair it was having to swim against trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas in 2022 and how uncomfortable it was changing in the locker room with Thomas.
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Nicole Neily, president of Parents Defending Education, also blasted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grotesque-betrayal-of-students-critics-blast-bidens-new-title-ix-regulations-championing-gender-identity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden&#8217;s new regulations</a> as “grotesque,” and accused the White House of capitulating “to extremists in his party, sacrificing the First Amendment on the altar of Title IX and disregarding clearly established Supreme Court precedent on the definition of sexual harassment.&#8221;
Former Senior Counsel at the U.S. Department of Education Sarah Parshall Perry echoed the sentiment, stating, “Under the new rule, girls and women will no longer have any sex-separated bathrooms, locker rooms, housing accommodations, or other educational programs. Women’s sports are likely endangered, too.”
“Any education institution, including many private schools that receive even nominal federal funding, will be affected by this rule,” she added. “The rule also erases other important protections, like due process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct, free speech protections for students and teachers who don’t want to use ‘preferred pronouns,’ and parents’ right to know if their child is in the process of a gender identity ‘social transition’ at school.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riley-gaines-shares-messages-shes-gotten-from-female-athletes-competing-against-trans-identifying-males" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines Shares Messages She&#8217;s Gotten From Female Athletes Competing Against Trans-Identifying Males</a>

House Oversight Committee Holds Hearing Examining Female Athletics And Title IX

Riley Gaines Says Biden Has ‘Abolished Title IX’; Breaks Down What This Means For Women

Riley Gaines Says Biden Has 'Abolished Title IX'; Breaks Down What This Means For Women

Executive

Joe Biden

Social Issues

Title IX

Transgender Athletes

U.S.

Women&#8217;s rights activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> laid the blame on Democratic Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey after a disturbing incident involving a trans-identifying male athlete came to light.
The <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13266245/KIPP-Academy-Lynn-Massachusetts-transgender-athlete-rowing-harassment-suspended.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=social-twitter_mailonline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">story</a>, published by the Daily Mail, revealed that the athlete in question — who was filmed injuring rival female players during a February basketball game — had participated in several other sports on the women&#8217;s teams and had allegedly made lewd comments to girls while they were changing clothes in the locker room.
The Kipp Academy student, Lazuli Clark — who towers over most female competitors at over six feet tall — has competed in the women&#8217;s divisions in basketball, rowing, volleyball, track &amp; field, and tae kwon do. According to <a href="https://quillette.com/2024/04/02/the-damage-wrought-by-trans-inclusion-in-female-sports/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quillette</a>, the student was allegedly suspended from the women&#8217;s rowing team at a private club after &#8220;leering&#8221; at another female student in the locker room, saying, &#8220;Ooh, t***ies.&#8221;
Quillette cited a leaked copy of a letter dated October 12, 2022, and sent by 15 parents to the United States Rowing Association, the sport&#8217;s governing body in America. That letter stated that the student had placed &#8220;near the bottom&#8221; when competing for the club&#8217;s men&#8217;s team and had subsequently joined the women&#8217;s team — but did not bother to shave and continued to wear the men&#8217;s uniform to compete.
According to Quillette, the locker room incident resulted in the student being &#8220;reported by team officials to <a href="https://uscenterforsafesport.org/?ref=quillette.com">the U.S. Center for SafeSport</a>,&#8221; after which Clark was not permitted to row for either team again.
&#8220;Stop letting these pervs hide behind preferred pronouns and blurred out images. This photo was proudly posted by the school therefore it&#8217;s public domain. Name and shame them. Lazuli Clark is a man that sexually harassed women,&#8221; Gaines <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1775538386331160828" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> to the initial story — and then took aim at Governor Healey for allowing it to continue.
&#8220;These girls were forced to participate in his sick fetish at the hands of @MassGovernor,&#8221; she said.
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These girls were forced to participate in his sick fetish at the hands of <a href="https://twitter.com/MassGovernor?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MassGovernor</a> 
If this headline shocks you, you haven&#39;t been paying attention <a href="https://t.co/RBn2agoTsK">https://t.co/RBn2agoTsK</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1775536990093480201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Gaines went on to ask where the parents — particularly the fathers — were in this case, suggesting that they should be standing up for their daughters against the organizations, schools, and states that were allowing biological males to take over women&#8217;s sports.
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&#8220;Where are the dads of these girls?&#8221; she asked.
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Where are the dads of these girls?! <a href="https://t.co/6hOD2Qugeu">https://t.co/6hOD2Qugeu</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1775544043990135203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Riley Gaines Goes After Massachusetts Governor After Girls Injured By Trans-Identifying Athlete

Massachusetts

Transgender

Women's sports

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> and over a dozen other female athletes filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the NCAA over its policies that allow men to compete in women’s sports.
Gaines, a former swimmer with the University of Kentucky, and other female athletes say that the NCAA’s policies allowing men to compete in women’s sports violate their privacy and has cost them opportunities. Gaines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was forced</a> to compete against Lia Thomas, a man who identifies as a woman, at the 2022 NCAA Division I Women’s Championships for swimming. Gaines was also forced to share a locker room with Thomas where he undressed in front of multiple women.
“The NCAA has simultaneously imposed a radical anti-woman agenda on college sports, reinterpreting Title IX to define women as a testosterone level, permitting men to compete on women’s teams, and destroying female safe spaces in women’s locker rooms by authorizing naked men possessing full male genitalia to disrobe in front of non-consenting college women and creating situations in which unwilling female college athletes unwittingly or reluctantly expose their naked or partially clad bodies to males, subjecting women to a loss of their constitutional right to bodily privacy,” the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16CIcxSu2DvL1uPYfY8DcLWy90klGRK74/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> says.
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🚨it&#39;s official!🚨
I&#39;m suing the NCAA along with 15 other collegiate athletes who have lost out on titles, records, &amp; roster spots to men posing as women
The NCAA continues to explicitly violate the federal civil rights law of Title IX. About time someone did something about…
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1768335572798456179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, the lawsuit accuses the NCAA and several Georgia universities of violating Title IX, as well as the Equal Protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The lawsuit also accused the NCAA of attempting to chill the free speech of athletes through speech codes that might be interpreted to define any opposition to men competing in women’s sports as “transphobic.”
In addition to Gaines, the others on the lawsuit included Reka Gyorgy, Kylee Alons, Kaitlyn Wheeler, Lily Mullens, Susanna Price, Carter Satterfield, Kate Pearson, Katie Blankinship, Julianna Morrow, Ainsley Erzen, Ellie Eades, and multiple athletes who have chosen to remain anonymous. The athletes include swimmers, track athletes, and volleyball players.
The lawsuit says that the NCAA has been driven by ideology and not science with its policies regarding the participation of transgender-identifying athletes.
“The sole justification of the Association for its discriminatory Transgender Eligibility Policies, which are imposed by the NCAA upon all member colleges and universities in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, is that biological differences between males and females can allegedly be overcome by a program of testosterone suppression in males who identify as transgender,” the lawsuit says.
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The athletes argue that the NCAA has pursued radical policies at the expense of female athletes.
“What is disappointing and unlawful is that the NCAA aggressively applies its radical Transgender Eligibility Policies which diminish women’s opportunities despite the clear Title IX imperative to hold separate competitions and separate championships for women where physiological advantages of men preclude mixed (or open) competitions and despite vast scientific and experiential evidence demonstrating the NCAA’s policies harm women,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit demands that the NCAA revoke any award or record from any male who has competed as a female and reverse policies allowing males to compete in women&#8217;s sports.

NCAA SWIMMING: MAR 18 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

Riley Gaines, Other Collegiate Athletes Sue NCAA For Allowing Men To Compete In Women’s Sports

College sports

Lia Thomas

NCAA

Sports

House Speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mike-johnson-invites-freed-israeli-hostage-to-bidens-state-of-the-union-address" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Johnson</a> (R-LA) has invited <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a>, prominent female rights advocate and host of Outkick&#8217;s &#8220;Gaines for Girls&#8221; podcast, to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday, Johnson&#8217;s office exclusively told The Daily Wire.
Gaines, a former top collegiate swimmer, has become a leading advocate for girls and women&#8217;s sports and spaces after she was shoved aside for a biological male at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 women&#8217;s swimming tournament. Gaines competed in the women’s 200 freestyle and placed fifth, tying with male trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas. However, only Thomas received the fifth place trophy for the photo-op after the event, while Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> by the NCAA that her trophy would come in the mail.
“Riley Gaines is a role model for America’s women and girls, inspiring them to unlock their potential and do the right thing, even when it isn’t popular,&#8221; Speaker Johnson told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Right now, the White House is attacking athletes like Riley, undermining the integrity of women’s athletics, and pushing for men to take scholarships and roster spots from women.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m grateful to host Riley at the State of the Union and am proud to join her in her efforts to save women’s sports,&#8221; Johnson added.
Gaines told The Daily Wire she&#8217;s excited to be Speaker Johnson&#8217;s guest.
&#8220;He has been steadfast in his support of Title IX and the importance of maintaining its original intent,&#8221; she said. &#8220;As the Biden Administration pursues their illegal administrative rewrite of Title IX, I&#8217;m confident Speaker Johnson will fight for women and common sense as he&#8217;s already done.&#8221;
Notably, the Biden administration has <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-us-department-educations-proposed-change-its-title-ix-regulations-students-eligibility-athletic-teams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed changes</a> to rewrite Title IX to include so-called &#8220;gender identity.&#8221; This would mean most policies banning biological males who identify as trans from competing with or against females would be in violation of law. Schools who don&#8217;t comply with the rule change could be stripped of funding.
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Johnson has also invited Dr. Wayne Lewis Jr., the president of Houghton University, a Christian school in upstate New York.
This month, Lewis fiercely <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/university-president-delivers-strong-statement-against-biological-males-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out</a> against men participating in women&#8217;s sports. &#8220;Biological males’ participation in women’s athletics is wrong,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Most Americans and most of the world know it to be wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;A fringe agenda under the guise of making school and collegiate athletics more inclusive for transgender people has grown to the place of now unfairly displacing gifted and hardworking female athletes, obliterating the historic achievements and records of female athletes of the past, and threatening to dismantle the opportunities and protections for girls and women in sport trailblazing leaders fought so hard to create and protect,&#8221; Lewis added.
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Speaker Mike Johnson/Riley Gaines

Speaker Mike Johnson Takes Stand For Women With Invited Guests At SOTU

Mike Johnson

State of the Union

San Francisco State University Police have officially suspended their investigation into a 2023 protest that <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/riley-gaines-rages-police-not-charging-activists-who-held-her-hostage-1872323">reportedly</a> resulted in former NCAA swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-was-ready-to-go-to-dental-school-riley-gaines-became-an-activist-by-accident-but-shes-not-backing-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> saying she was held &#8220;hostage&#8221; by radical trans activists during an appearance on campus.
According to an official statement from the university&#8217;s police department, the investigation has been suspended because they determined the allegations made by Gaines were &#8220;unfounded&#8221; — despite multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/it-was-terrifying-for-me-riley-gaines-speaks-out-about-harrowing-attack-on-her-after-sfsu-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">viral videos</a> showing Gaines being hustled to safety by police officers as a mob of radical transgender activists follows her, shouting “Trans rights are human rights!”.
Gaines — who appeared in the recent Daily Wire film &#8220;Lady Ballers&#8221; — was on the campus to discuss her real-life similar experience competing against trans-identifying male swimmer Lia Thomas in the NCAA Championships. But as she wrapped up her speech, protesters burst into the room and rushed the podium, forcing her to retreat into a room that had to be barricaded to keep them out.
When one officer in plain clothes approached, offering to take her to a safer location, Gaines was wary — she said that she had not been introduced as a police officer before the event, and as the chaos unfolded, she was unsure who she could trust.
&#8220;I didn’t meet any police before the event, and she was totally unmarked, wearing all black, her face was in a mask, so she comes up to me, and says ‘come with me, I’m the police’ and was grabbing me and pulling me,&#8221; Gaines told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/riley-gaines-hostage-ransom-assault-investigation-suspended-sfsu-police-no-charges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News Digital</a>. &#8220;I didn’t believe that she was with the police because there really was no indication that she was, but I honestly didn’t really have a choice.&#8221;
Gaines has said that even though she had police protection at the time, there were so many protesters that she was hit several times before she could get to relative safety — and once she had been barricaded in, protesters began to debate outside the door, &#8220;negotiating a price I had to pay each of them to leave to be able to make it home safe to see my family.&#8221;
After the fact, Gaines said that she sat down with police and discussed the situation at length, describing in detail everything that had happened. Campus authorities were supposed to send her security footage to review over the summer, but Gaines said they never did. Instead, they demanded that she sit for additional interviews and repeat her side of the story again — and when she said no, she said the investigation was suspended.
&#8220;This just encourages what happened to me to happen to other people because the precedent has now been set. We don’t see this happening to liberal speakers or to anyone with a dissenting viewpoint to that of my own,&#8221; Gaines said in response to the investigation being suspended.
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And while she said that the protesters &#8220;had every intention of getting me to step down essentially, to shut up, to scare me into submission,&#8221; she said they would not succeed.
&#8220;But this does not do that. Actually, it does the opposite. These people who want me to be quiet, it really only encourages me to speak louder,&#8221; she said.

CA University ‘Suspends’ Investigation Into Riley Gaines ‘Hostage’ Situation, Calls Allegations ‘Unfounded’

CA University 'Suspends' Investigation Into Riley Gaines 'Hostage' Situation, Calls Allegations 'Unfounded'

Education

Protesters

A boy who is a high school sophomore took first place in the girls&#8217; high jump competition at the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (NHIAA) indoor track and field championship.
Maelle Jacques, who <a href="https://twitter.com/icons_women/status/1757146082331775460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1757146082331775460%7Ctwgr%5Eb27c10ee469738e8156781306a56bcf90453b1ca%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D696127action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrated</a> as a female competitor failed to match his winning jump, jumped 5’2”, one inch higher than any girl but roughly a foot lower than the winning jump in the boys’ competition.
Twelve-time All-American swimmer Riley Gaines slammed Jacques’ parents, <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1754651411311112215?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1754651411311112215%7Ctwgr%5E87de23c5293519ccab5de68ad483e32784fce4cc%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D696127action%3Dedit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posting</a> on X, “How could the parents of this boy allow their son to cheat deserving women out of opportunities? And why don’t the parents of the girls stand up and say ‘no’ for their daughters? This country is full of failing, gutless mothers and fathers.”
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The NHIAA has an eligibility policy that <a href="https://nhjournal.com/nh-dem-defends-male-high-jumper-competing-as-girl-its-an-obscure-competition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserts</a>, “The NHIAA is committed to providing transgender student-athletes with equal opportunities to participate in NHIAA athletic programs consistent with their gender identity. The NHIAA has concluded that it would be fundamentally unjust and contrary to applicable state and federal law to preclude a student from participation on a gender-specific sports team that is consistent with the public gender identity of that student for all other purposes.”
The organization that oversees the track competition <a href="https://patch.com/new-hampshire/across-nh/winner-new-hampshire-girls-high-jump-biological-male" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> allows athletes to compete in whatever division they want.
Shannon McGinley, executive director of Cornerstone Action, <a href="https://nhjournal.com/nh-dem-defends-male-high-jumper-competing-as-girl-its-an-obscure-competition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “If school boards feared their constituents more than they feared [law firm] Drummond Woodsum and leftist superintendents, in a matter of months, we could have half the school districts in the state organized into an alternative NHIAA. The solution is for parents to stop accepting cowardly excuses from school board members who ran as conservative.”
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Meanwhile, New Hampshire Democrats are opposing proposed legislation that would prevent boys from competing against girls. SB 524 <a href="https://legiscan.com/NH/text/SB524/id/2864699" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a> that it would require “any interscholastic, intercollegiate, or club athletic team, sport, or athletic event that is sponsored or sanctioned by a school, school district, an activities association or organization under the control of the state board of education, or an institution of higher education under either the university system or the community college system to be designated based on the biological sex at birth of the participating athletes, and restricts those participating in sports designated as ‘female’ to biological females.”
One Democrat, Rep. Tim Horrigan said of Jacques, “We don’t even know if she’s actually trans, but if she is, that’s certainly a very unfair thing [to keep her from competing]. A lot of these cases, they are pretty obscure competitions that normally sports fans wouldn’t be paying much attention to.”

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U.S. ‘Full of Failing, Gutless Mothers And Fathers’: High School Boy Defeats Girls In High Jump Competition

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As 2023 comes to a close, people all around the world are taking the time to do personal inventories — and for those inside the radical transgender movement, some must be wondering if they didn&#8217;t get a bit over their skis this past year.
The pronoun police are still active, particularly on social media platforms — as evidenced by the recent viral video of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/delta-airlines-employee-goes-viral-for-standing-up-to-trans-activist-at-airport" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying male</a> attempting to dress down a Delta Airlines employee.
But the pushback was also loud and immediate, as people defended the employee — who said that any &#8220;misgendering&#8221; had been accidental — and suggested that he should be given a raise for refusing to stop everything to grovel for an apology during the busy holiday rush.
&#8220;Hero of the week. I might start flying @Delta again, if they give this guy a raise,&#8221; actor James Woods said of the viral encounter.
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Hero of the week. I might start flying <a href="https://twitter.com/Delta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Delta</a> again, if they give this guy a raise. <a href="https://t.co/kY2vcDM9ZP">pic.twitter.com/kY2vcDM9ZP</a>
&mdash; James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1740074115686617521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Promote this Delta employee,&#8221; Dr. Sebastian Gorka added. &#8220;This is how you deal with the Pronoun Nazis. BRAVO.&#8221;
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Promote this Delta employee. 
This is how you deal with the Pronoun Nazis. 
BRAVO <a href="https://t.co/8ZgE4xJZJh">pic.twitter.com/8ZgE4xJZJh</a>
&mdash; Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) <a href="https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1740031250620985801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Another key issue among the radical transgender ideologues is sports, particularly at the collegiate level. This push primarily involves trans-identifying males, such as former University of Pennsylvania Lia Thomas, attempting to compete against females in official and often prestigious events. For some reason, very few trans-identifying females have made similar efforts to compete against males in sports.
Those efforts have, in some very high-profile cases, been successful — Lia Thomas did win the NCAA championship in the 500 freestyle and tied for 5th place in the 200 freestyle. But several of Thomas&#8217; opponents and teammates have taken the fight to college campuses and even congressional hearings.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-was-ready-to-go-to-dental-school-riley-gaines-became-an-activist-by-accident-but-shes-not-backing-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a>, the former University of Kentucky swimmer who tied with Thomas in the NCAA 200 freestyle had this to say about their competition:
&#8220;Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The @ncaa is responsible.&#8221;
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Lia Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman who EARNED a national title. He is an arrogant, cheat who STOLE a national title from a hardworking, deserving woman. The <a href="https://twitter.com/NCAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ncaa</a> is responsible. 
If I was a woman working at ESPN, I would walk out. You&#39;re spineless <a href="https://twitter.com/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@espn</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/boycottESPN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#boycottESPN</a> <a href="https://t.co/DF3n5RWsmV">https://t.co/DF3n5RWsmV</a>
&mdash; Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/1640025392965644294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Other loud voices objecting to males competing in female spaces include Sirius XM podcast host — and DailyWire+ voice talent — Megyn Kelly, along with trans-identifying former Olympian Caitlyn (formerly Bruce) Jenner.
Gaines followed her public objections (to Thomas being allowed to compete with women) with several appearances on Capitol Hill. During one such hearing, she fired back when Rep. Summer Lee (D-PA) predicted that her comments would amount to little more than &#8220;transphobic bigotry.&#8221;
&#8220;If my testimony makes me transphobic, then I believe your opening monologue makes you a misogynist,&#8221; Gaines shot back, noting that the issue with males competing against females was that they had a clear biological advantage that pushed women aside on their own turf.
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WATCH: Rep. Lee interrupts <a href="https://twitter.com/SarahPPerry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SarahPPerry</a> in an attempt to strike part of <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a> testimony.
“&#8230;we’re likely going to be forced to listen to transphobic bigotry.”
“&#8230;if my testimony makes me transphobic, then I believe your opening monologue makes you a misogynist.” <a href="https://t.co/UwCUHAvPCa">pic.twitter.com/UwCUHAvPCa</a>
&mdash; Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) <a href="https://twitter.com/Heritage/status/1732143782458437779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Despite such cases, many on the left continue to claim that trans-identifying men have no real advantage and are not attempting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-the-best-women-are-men-6-times-a-guy-competed-against-girls-in-womens-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compete against women</a>. But especially in the worlds of cycling and track and field, biological males continue to compete in female spaces, often pushing women down a step on the winners&#8217; podium — or off it entirely.
But the cultural reaction to those continued claims — in the face of more and more evidence to the contrary — is best exemplified in the immediate success of the Daily Wire&#8217;s surprise-release comedy feature, &#8220;Lady Ballers.&#8221;
WATCH:
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What started — according to director, star, and Daily Wire co-creator Jeremy Boreing — as an offhand suggestion from popular podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/how-joe-rogan-inspired-lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a> racked up views and subscriptions at record pace.
After complaining that no one really made good comedy anymore, Rogan mused, &#8220;You would have to have the right people with the right amount of balls. And I bet it would be hugely successful. Do you know what would have to happen? You would have to do one on like a right-wing streaming platform like The Daily Wire.&#8221;
&#8220;If it is true that only The Daily Wire could do this, then it stands to reason that The Daily Wire must do this,&#8221; was Boreing&#8217;s response.
Within days, the film had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lady-ballers-scores-top-spot-on-rotten-tomatoes-popular-streamers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rocketed to the top</a> of Rotten Tomatoes&#8217; popular streamers list — and received over <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lady-ballers-earns-stunning-97-review-score-on-rotten-tomatoes-racking-up-over-1000-reviews-in-less-than-24-hours" target="_blank" rel="noopener">1000 reviews</a> in the first 24 hours. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lady-ballers-becomes-biggest-launch-in-daily-wire-history-jeremy-boreing-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Subscriptions</a> to The Daily Wire&#8217;s exclusive content got a major boost as well.
In addition to &#8220;Lady Ballers,&#8221; DailyWire+ launched <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremy-boreing-on-why-bentkey-is-the-most-important-work-we-have-ever-undertaken" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bentkey Kids</a> — a direct response to both Disney&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not-at-all secret gay agenda</a>&#8221; and parents who just wanted something their kids could watch without worrying that it was infused with radical gender ideology.
&#8220;This is the most important work we have ever undertaken,&#8221; Boreing explained during an interview. &#8220;The politics of the day are urgent, but the culture is important. And most of our Daily Wire efforts heretofore have been focused on the urgent problem. This is a turn to the important problem, the generational problem.&#8221;
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But perhaps the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgb-without-the-t-why-some-are-saying-trans-rights-activists-have-crossed-the-line" target="_blank" rel="noopener">damning objections</a> to radical transgender ideology have come from within the community that trans activists claim as their own — the &#8220;LGB&#8221; half of LGBTQ. Gay men, lesbian women, and bisexuals have complained — some of them vocally — that the trans- and queer-identifying activists are actively erasing them.
One complaint comes from lesbians who argue that, in much the same way that they have pushed their way into women&#8217;s sports, trans-identifying males are pushing themselves into other women&#8217;s-only spaces as well — from locker rooms to prisons and even shelters for victims of sexual violence and abuse.
In women’s prisons, for example, inmates are literally kept under lock and key. Allowing biological males into that environment puts those women at risk. While advocates again state that the goal is equality and acceptance, the number of <a href="https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1641831473111089152" target="_blank" rel="noopener">male sexual predators</a> who suddenly begin to <a href="https://www.outkick.com/prison-confirms-male-child-rapist-who-sometimes-identifies-as-female-transferred-to-womens-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identify as female</a> when <a href="https://reduxx.info/transgender-killer-and-rapist-who-blamed-his-crimes-on-his-female-side-is-quietly-moved-to-a-womens-prison/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prison time</a> is in the cards suggests that to them, it is more about <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/nj-transgender-woman-transferred-womens-only-prison-impregnating-two-inmates-report-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">easy access</a> to helpless victims.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bbc-forced-to-apologize-to-j-k-rowling-after-guest-delivers-on-air-rant-over-trans-rights" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Women’s shelters</a> – particularly shelters for women who are escaping the threat of domestic abuse – fall into the same category, as women seeking assistance in such shelters may not feel safe if the doors are also opened to intact biological males.
But while those issues primarily impact women who have to share those spaces with trans-identifying men, some of the attacks have been more personal. The trans activist community has become increasingly hostile to gay men who choose not to date women who identify as men and to lesbian women who say they are not attracted to men who identify as women, arguing that their personal preferences are rooted in transphobia.
For those reasons, among others, some in the LGB community have suggested that the &#8220;TQ+&#8221; should be dropped — adding that LGB is based on sexual preference and TQ is about a &#8220;gender identity&#8221; that may not align with biological sex.
&#8220;#LGBWithoutTheTQ shall prevail,&#8221; one such post read. &#8220;We&#8217;ve already gotten the divorce lawyers. We&#8217;ll be requesting a restraining order. We&#8217;ll have you tried for spousal abuse. We&#8217;ll be taking the house, the kids, &amp; the dog. We&#8217;ll be requesting alimony. You can keep the car &amp; live out of it.&#8221;
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBWithoutTheTQ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBWithoutTheTQ</a> shall prevail. 
We&#39;ve already gotten the divorce lawyers. We&#39;ll be requesting a restraining order. We&#39;ll have you tried for spousal abuse. We&#39;ll be taking the house, the kids, &amp; the dog. We&#39;ll be requesting alimony. You can keep the car &amp; live out of it.
&mdash; 🏳️‍🌈✘ Æon ✘🏳️‍🌈 (@X_Aeon_X) <a href="https://twitter.com/X_Aeon_X/status/1740808499666546836?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 29, 2023</a></blockquote>
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2023: The Year The Radical Trans Activists Got Ahead Of Their Gender-Fluid Skis

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Fitness entrepreneur <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fitness-guru-jillian-michaels-gets-blasted-for-saying-obesity-should-not-be-glamorized" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jillian Michaels</a> bluntly spoke her mind this week about transgender athletes competing against girls and women in female sports during an interview with podcast host Tomi Lahren.
Michaels emphasized that sports are &#8220;biological&#8221; and men can simply not compete against females due to those biological differences. Safety and fairness, Michaels said, are key factors.
“Sports is biological. It just is,” she told Lahren. “And I think that you’re starting to actually see women get hurt.”
“<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-fed-joe-rogan-talks-trans-swimmer-destroying-female-competitors-fallon-fox-comments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fallon Fox</a>, for example, is an MMA fighter who is a transgender female. Beating the s*** &#8230; out of biological women,&#8221; Michaels said. &#8220;Like, this is beyond the fact of fairness. What we have trouble with as a society is &#8216;fairness,&#8217; right? Everybody wants to be &#8216;fair.&#8217; It’s not fair.&#8221;
“Here’s the problem,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I understand it’s not fair to trans athletes, because where are they going to compete? It’s also not fair to biological female athletes. You have an issue, right? You’re not going to be able to be fair to everyone.&#8221;
As noted by Michaels, Fox, a male who identifies as transgender, made headlines when he <a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/transgender-female-boxer-gives-female-opponent-concussion-breaks-her-eye-so" target="_blank" rel="noopener">competed</a> in MMA fights against women and physically hurt them. In one such fight, Fox dominated female fighter Tamikka Brents, winning by knockout in the first round. Fox broke Brents&#8217; eye socket and gave her a concussion.
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“Like Lia Thomas is 6-foot-1,&#8221; Michaels said, referring to the transgender NCAA swimmer who is male and formerly competed against men before switching to female athletics. &#8220;The percentage of biological females who are 6-foot-1 is under 1%. Lia Thomas was number 400 when she swam as a male. And number one when she swam as a female.&#8221;
Thomas made news last year when he dominated the women&#8217;s NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming Championships. NCAA swimmer-turned-advocate Riley Gaines competed in the women’s 200 freestyle at the tournament and placed fifth, tying with Thomas. Only Thomas received the fifth place trophy for the photo-op after the event, while Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> by the NCAA that her trophy would come in the mail.
“We’re going to systematically destroy women’s sports,&#8221; Michaels added. &#8220;I’m sorry, listen, if you want to be trans, I support you. I want you to have all the same rights that I do. But at the end of the day, someone’s going to get &#8216;effed here. And if you’re looking at, okay, you’ve got X amount of trans athletes and X amount of women, you’re not going to win this one. Right. No one’s coming out unscathed.”
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Catch <a href="https://twitter.com/JillianMichaels?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JillianMichaels</a> full answer on this TONIGHT 7pmET “Tomi Lahren is Fearless” on YouTube, X, Facebook and <a href="https://t.co/kfev7OtHAd">https://t.co/kfev7OtHAd</a> ⬇️ <a href="https://t.co/YmM86qmvZU">pic.twitter.com/YmM86qmvZU</a>
&mdash; Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1740065359087202513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 27, 2023</a></blockquote>
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‘Sports Is Biological’: Fitness Guru Jillian Michaels Says Trans Athletes Will ‘Destroy’ Female Sports, Hurt Women

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Mainstream reviewers may refuse to acknowledge it, but the DailyWire+ comedy “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/lady-ballers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lady Ballers</a>” did get a mention during a congressional hearing on Biden’s proposed changes to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Title IX</a> this week.
After Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) mentioned that The Daily Wire just released the comedy, former collegiate swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/riley-gaines" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a>, who is also featured in the film, said she was happy that the sports comedy “mocked the mockery” of biological men who identify as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender-athletes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> competing against women in sports.
&#8220;If it weren&#8217;t so tragic, it would be comical,” Burlison said during the congressional hearing on Tuesday. “I understand there&#8217;s a movie being made, a comedy about this very issue that&#8217;s on The Daily Wire that I can&#8217;t wait to see.&#8221;
“I encourage everyone to watch [Lady Ballers],” Gaines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-sparks-fly-between-riley-gaines-and-dem-rep-during-hearing-on-biden-proposal-to-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">replied</a> in her testimony. “Watching that movie … didn’t feel like satire. It felt like a documentary of what, again, myself and girls around the country continue to go through.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepEricBurlison?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepEricBurlison</a>: &quot;If it weren&#39;t so tragic, it would be comical. I understand there&#39;s a movie being made [<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LadyBallers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LadyBallers</a>], a comedy about this very issue that&#39;s on The Daily Wire that I can&#39;t wait to see.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a>: &quot;I encourage everyone to watch it&#8230;Watching that… <a href="https://t.co/iexZFSFPL8">pic.twitter.com/iexZFSFPL8</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1732158168375898495?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gaines is one of the only competitive swimmers brave enough to speak out publicly against the idea of men being permitted to compete in the women’s category after she was forced to compete against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trans-identifying</a> swimmer Lia Thomas. 
Daily Wire co-founder and “Lady Ballers” director and star Jeremy Boreing announced on X that he sent a free screener of the film to those at the hearing.
“Ahead of today’s Title IX hearing, every member of the committee received a free screener of #LadyBallers,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1732096644735185183" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “I thought they needed a reminder that men pretending to be women and brutally dominating women’s sports is something to be mocked, not an idea to be written into law.”
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Ahead of today’s Title IX hearing, every member of the committee received a free screener of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LadyBallers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LadyBallers</a>.
I thought they needed a reminder that men pretending to be women and brutally dominating women’s sports is something to be mocked, not an idea to be written into law. <a href="https://t.co/y5qcgFaAU1">pic.twitter.com/y5qcgFaAU1</a>
&mdash; Jeremy Boreing (@JeremyDBoreing) <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1732096644735185183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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“Lady Ballers,” the Daily Wire’s first-ever feature-length comedy, tells the story of one down-on-his-luck former high school basketball coach, Rob, who will do anything to win — which in this case means teaching his team of men radical modern gender theory and leading them to identify as women in order to brutally dominate multiple women’s sports. 
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Though it’s mostly been ignored by critics, “Lady Ballers” was the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rotten-tomatoes-lists-lady-ballers-as-the-top-streaming-movie-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top streaming film</a> on Rotten Tomatoes earlier this week and boasts an audience score of 91%, with more than 5,000 reviews.
The film addresses the reality of men competing against women with a generous dose of humor, though the reality of this issue is anything but funny. The Biden admin’s proposed changes to Title IX would effectively broaden the definition of sex to include “gender identity,” making it impossible for schools, colleges, and universities to prohibit biological men from competing against women. Doing so would mean risking their federal funding.

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A teenage boy who identifies as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">transgender</a> reportedly took first place this past weekend in the under-14 category at the 2023 Southern Region Oireachtas Irish dancing competition in Dallas, Texas, ultimately displacing a girl for a spot in the Irish Dancing World Championships.
As rules are changed to adhere to radical Left-wing gender theory, biological male athletes who identify as female have been able to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riley-gaines-responds-to-suggestion-she-learn-to-lose-gracefully" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infiltrate</a> girls and women&#8217;s spaces and sports.
“My daughter was in absolute tears,” one mother of a girl who competed against the male <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/07/exclusive-parents-speak-out-after-boy-wins-girls-irish-dancing-regional-championships/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Daily Signal reporter Mary Margaret Olohan. “She was like, ‘This is so unfair.’ I totally agree.”
“Oh, my gosh. It’s going to make me cry,” another parent said. “I never thought I was going to have to deal with this. And my heart breaks for my daughter and the other girls that are having to deal with this. They are too young to have to deal with topics that are going on in society, that are adult topics, that they don’t quite comprehend yet.”
“They just look at it as unfair,” the mother added. “And it’s really hard to explain to them what’s going on and why they have to accept it. That’s what society’s making them do. As a mom, I want to be an advocate for my daughter. But at the same time, I have to protect my family.”
According to the report, the trans-identifying dancer previously competed in boys&#8217; Irish dancing and placed 11th in the world in the Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha (CLRG) World Championships in April.
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One of the most notable examples of males invading women&#8217;s sports happened last year, when trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas cleaned up at the NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming Championships.
In the women’s 200 freestyle, Thomas, who previously competed on men’s teams, tied with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-sparks-fly-between-riley-gaines-and-dem-rep-during-hearing-on-biden-proposal-to-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> for fifth place. Thomas was given the only fifth place trophy for the photo-op after the event, while Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> by the NCAA that her trophy would come in the mail.
Gaines has since become an advocate for sports to be separate by sex, as they always have been. Testifying before Congress earlier this week, the former collegiate swimmer and other witnesses argued that refusing to separate sports by sex harms women and girls and cited studies showing the physical differences between males and females post-puberty, even after hormone treatments; argued that women and girls are losing out on scholarships and other opportunities; discussed the invasion of girls’ privacy in places like locker rooms; and noted female athletes who’ve been physically harmed by biologically male opponents.
“Not only do women have to worry about losing out on opportunities and being exploited in locker rooms, allowing men into women’s sports also puts girls at greater risk of injury,” Gaines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riley-gaines-responds-to-suggestion-she-learn-to-lose-gracefully" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Congress. “In September of last year, North Carolina volleyball player Payton McNabb suffered serious injury after a trans-identified male player spiked a ball at her head, rendering her unconscious. Payton experienced extensive trauma to her head and neck and long-term concussion symptoms. Still to this day, a year and three-ish months later, she is still partially paralyzed on her right side, her vision is impaired, and she isn’t playing college sports, like she had dreamed of.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-sparks-fly-between-riley-gaines-and-dem-rep-during-hearing-on-biden-proposal-to-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: Sparks Fly Between Riley Gaines And Dem Rep During Hearing On Biden Proposal To Rewrite Title IX</a>

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During testimony before Congress on Tuesday, top NCAA swimmer-turned-advocate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-sparks-fly-between-riley-gaines-and-dem-rep-during-hearing-on-biden-proposal-to-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Riley Gaines</a> responded to the suggestion of another witness that athletes like Gaines learn to &#8220;lose gracefully.&#8221;
Last year, Gaines competed in the women’s 200 freestyle at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships and placed fifth, tying with trans-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas, who previously competed on men&#8217;s teams. Thomas was given the only fifth place trophy for the photo-op after the event, while Gaines was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> by the NCAA that her trophy would come in the mail.
&#8220;Just for the record, I have lost gracefully many times in my career. Even speaking to the incident of Thomas and I, at the national championships, we tied for fifth — granted, fifth in the entire nation, so it&#8217;s still an incredible achievement,&#8221; Gaines told Congress. &#8220;But there were four women who beat me. I&#8217;m incredibly proud of those women who beat me. So, I certainly can and have lost gracefully many times in my career.&#8221;
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“When I think of great Kentucky athletes, our witness, <a href="https://twitter.com/Riley_Gaines_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Riley_Gaines_</a>, is the first name that pops out.” <a href="https://twitter.com/RepJamesComer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepJamesComer</a> DESTROYS Democrat witness who suggests talented, hardworking women like Riley should “lose gracefully” to biological men. <a href="https://t.co/fOBe5xyUNx">pic.twitter.com/fOBe5xyUNx</a>
&mdash; Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) <a href="https://twitter.com/GOPoversight/status/1732155341704409388?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gaines was joined by three other female witnesses to discuss the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration’s</a> proposed changes to Title IX, which would effectively broaden the definition of sex to include “gender identity.”
The <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/fact-sheet-us-department-educations-proposed-change-its-title-ix-regulations-students-eligibility-athletic-teams" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed changes</a> would rewrite Title IX in such a way that policies banning biological males who identify as trans from competing with or against females would now be in violation of law. Issuing such sex distinctions to protect girls sports, therefore, could strip a school of its funding. The rule would be applied to public K-12 schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions that receive federal funding.
Earlier in the hearing, a supporter of the Biden Title IX rewrite named Fatima Goss Graves, the president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center, suggested sex-separated sports actually harm girls and women, especially non-white athletes. In her opening statement she also emphasized how sports should teach athletes how to &#8220;learn to lose gracefully.&#8221;
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), when speaking to Gaines, blasted Goss Graves for the remarks. &#8220;I know we had a witness on the panel who suggested you should have just &#8216;lost gracefully,'&#8221; the Republican said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a slap in the face to any athlete who works so hard.&#8221;
As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-sparks-fly-between-riley-gaines-and-dem-rep-during-hearing-on-biden-proposal-to-rewrite-title-ix" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a>, Goss Graves during the same hearing downplayed concerns over biological males in women&#8217;s spaces, such as locker rooms.
“I actually think this is really, really important,” Graves said, responding to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). “The issue of privacy in locker rooms and in bathrooms – there’s a wide range of ways to address this. … You could put up a curtain, you could put up a door, you could have rotations.”
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At today’s hearing on protecting Title IX, the Democrat witness defended men beating down women by competing against them in women’s sports.
But even Fatima Goss Graves’ hero, tennis star Serena Williams, admitted she would be beat in straight sets if she was forced to play… <a href="https://t.co/3rqgMNBADK">pic.twitter.com/3rqgMNBADK</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1732175664952807823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Riley Gaines Responds To Suggestion She Learn To ‘Lose Gracefully’

Riley Gaines Responds To Suggestion She ‘Lose Gracefully’

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