A Biden-era health official who identifies as transgender is outraged that the current Department of Health and Human Services has changed his nameplate to showcase his birth name, Richard Levine, instead of his trans-identifying name, Rachel Levine.
On Tuesday, HHS took to X to unapologetically confirm the change, which apparently took place during the Democrat-backed government shutdown.
The portrait plaque is displayed in the HHS offices.
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Levine was upset about the change, calling it &#8220;petty&#8221; and an act of &#8220;bigotry.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to comment on this type of petty action,&#8221; Levine told NPR.
However, he did respond through a spokesperson. &#8220;During the federal shutdown, the current leadership of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health changed Admiral Levine&#8217;s photo to remove her current legal name and use a prior name,&#8221; Adrian Shanker said, calling the change &#8220;bigotry against her.&#8221;
The current HHS argued that the change better reflects their mission to express &#8220;gold standard science&#8221; at all times.
&#8220;Our priority is ensuring that the information presented internally and externally by HHS reflects gold standard science,&#8221; HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hhs-changes-transgender-biden-officials-nameplate-back-birth-name-during-shutdown">said</a>. &#8220;We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health.&#8221;
During his tenure, Levine <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-secretary-levine-dubs-self-agencys-first-female-four-star-officer-in-bizarre-video-highlighting-diversity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> the title of the “first female four-star officer” in a video boasting about “diversity” at HHS. He was also widely criticized for his support of so-called transgender “care” for minors, which opponents highlight is often irreversible and damaging to children.
Additionally, Levine seemed to advocate for the censorship of opposing views on the issue.
“There is substantial misinformation about gender-affirming care for transgender and gender-diverse individuals,” Levine <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/dec/26/dr-rachel-levine-slammed-after-calling-big-tech-cl/">said</a> back in May 2022 during a presentation before the Federation of State Medical Boards in New Orleans.
“We need to get our voices in the public eye, and we know how effective our medical community can be talking to communities, whether it’s at town halls, schools, conversations with others, and we need to use our clinicians’ voice to collectively advocate for our tech companies to create a healthier, cleaner information environment,” Levine added.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-biden-official-pushed-big-tech-to-censor-misinformation-on-trans-care-for-minors-video-shows?author=Amanda+Prestigiacomo&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Top+Biden+Official+Pushed+Big+Tech+To+Censor+‘Misinformation’+On+Trans+‘Care’+For+Minors%2C+Video+Shows">Top Biden Official Pushed Big Tech To Censor ‘Misinformation’ On Trans ‘Care’ For Minors, Video Shows</a>

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Netflix is being dragged hard for the storyline of its upcoming series, “Queen of Coal,” which is so woke it sounds made up.
The Spanish-Argentine series will be released in America on December 19 and is making the rounds on social media for its ultra-leftist storyline. Per the <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81728098">logline</a>, it’s about “a trans woman [who] dreams of working the coal mines — but in a town steeped in superstition and patriarchy, Carlita must fight to earn her place underground.”
The series stars Lux Pascal, a trans-identifying man who is the brother of Hollywood star Pedro Pascal.
Reactions on social media were mostly negative, especially in light of current events. Netflix just made a deal to acquire Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion, which is subject to approval by the Justice Department’s antitrust division. Critics are concerned about Netflix’s level of control over the entertainment industry.
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“Is this a joke?” one person <a href="https://x.com/darrengrimes/status/1997984951539527853?s=43">wondered</a> about “Queen of Coal.” 
“‘Why are you so against Netflix buying Warner Bros. and HBO?’ HERE’S WHY: Their upcoming film ‘Queen of Coal’ is about a man who transitions, then has to fight against his ‘conservative small-town community’, shown as hostile and evil, to keep his dream job in the mines,” conservative podcaster Benny Johnson <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1998141787979096238">wrote</a>.
“It’s front and center on Netflix. They’re not even hiding it. If they take over Warner Bros. and HBO, this agenda goes everywhere,” he continued. “For now, you have the simple option to cancel Netflix and keep your kids away from it. But, once they own all the studios and platforms, you can’t. They’ll put the same message in every show, every movie, every classic. Cancel Netflix, block the deal, protect the children.”
“‘Queen of Coal,’ a movie about a man pretending to be a woman fighting the ‘patriarchy,’ is set to release on Netflix this month,” Libs of TikTok <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1998126962196525260">wrote</a>. “If you haven&#8217;t already, now would be a good time to CANCEL NETFLIX.”
Concerned Women for America (CWA) released a <a href="https://concernedwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/CWA-Netflix-Report.pdf">report</a> Monday that found that 41% of children’s content on Netflix contained LGBT themes. While this movie isn’t meant for kids, it does highlight the company’s broader agenda of aggressively mainstreaming LGBT content.

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Utah lawmakers will soon decide whether to keep laws in place protecting kids from transgender procedures. Their decision will be based in a large part on a report the Utah legislature commissioned — a report one watchdog says is &#8220;terribly flawed.&#8221;
Do No Harm on Tuesday released a memo highlighting the problems with a <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/report-2.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> commissioned by the Utah legislature on transgender procedures on kids. The <a href="https://donoharmmedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Debunking-Utah-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a>, first shared with The Daily Wire, says that the report significantly misrepresents the scientific record and glosses over the danger of transgender procedures.
&#8220;Its shortcomings include failure to adhere to the fundamental standards of a systematic review, prioritizing the quantity of evidence over its quality, uncritically relying on guidelines from purported experts, overlooking significant life-altering adverse effects, and consulting advisors, some of whom support &#8216;gender-affirming care&#8217; for minors,&#8221; Do No Harm medical director Kurt Miceli and gender ideology program director Michelle Havrilla write.
The May 2025 report, titled &#8220;Gender-Affirming Medical Treatments for Pediatric Patients with Gender Dysphoria,&#8221; was conducted by the Drug Regimen Review Center at the University of Utah and led by Dr. Joanne LaFleur. It was commissioned after Utah Republicans passed legislation in 2023 to shield kids from transgender procedures by putting a moratorium on puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
The purpose of the report is to guide the Utah Department of Health&#8217;s recommendations to the legislature about whether to keep the ban on hormonal procedures in place. After an in-depth review of the 1,000-page report, Do No Harm said that the legislature should ignore the Utah report, and instead rely on a Department of Health and Human Services review that found putting kids on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones damaged their development and comes with serious health risks.
&#8220;The Utah Report asserts that puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones are safe and effective amid a sea of weak evidence, data extraction by a single reviewer rather than at least two, and conclusions based primarily on narrative summaries rather than quantitative synthesis – all despite reaching conflicting findings from well-established systematic reviews available prior to the Utah Report’s submission,&#8221; Do No Harm writes in its memo.
This portrayal comes from a reliance on anecdotal stories and studies, and not a systematic review of all relevant studies. Miceli told The Daily Wire that the Utah Report was &#8220;terribly flawed&#8221; and &#8220;anything but&#8221; a systematic review, and did not conduct a critical evaluation of the studies cited.
&#8220;Unlike true systematic reviews, it does not assess the reliability of studies and whether the research can provide guidance for weighing the risks and benefits of medical intervention for children with gender dysphoria,&#8221; the memo said.
Miceli and Havrilla write that the Utah report relied on observational studies as opposed to randomized control studies. The authors also pointed more to quantity over quality, they said.
At one point, the Utah authors wrote that “the amount of evidence available for treating pediatric [gender dysphoria] patients with [gender-affirming hormonal therapy] far exceeds the quantity that supported the use of [spinal muscular atrophy] gene therapy upon FDA approval.&#8221;
The gene therapy approval was based on objective testing, while the transgender studies were based on subjective methods, Do No Harm warned.
The Utah authors also accepted the guidance of radical groups like the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and the Endocrine Society. Both these groups downplay the risks of transgender procedures on kids and endorse things like cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers.
Miceli said that the Utah report treats the WPATH guidelines &#8220;as gospel&#8221; and offers &#8220;no critical evaluation.&#8221;
The Utah report takes &#8220;these guidelines at face value purely because they come from &#8216;organizations that are widely regarded as authorities in their given specialty&#8217; and state &#8216;a risk-of-bias assessment was not conducted on guidelines as part of the current work because [the authors] restricted inclusion to recognized medical authorities who published evidence-based guidelines,'&#8221; the memo noted.
Both WPATH and the Endocrine Society make the dubious suggestion that it&#8217;s possible to reverse the effects of puberty blockers. This contradicts evidence that puberty blockers stunt bone development and have unknown neurological impacts.
Other well-documented problems with transgender procedures on kids are also downplayed, Do No Harm notes. For example, the risk of sexual dysfunction from cross-sex hormones is not mentioned, and potential dangers to infertility are not included as an outcome of focus.
&#8220;They conclude that gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is effective in improving mental health and psychosocial outcomes, whereas concerns related to bone health, cardiovascular risk, and cancer are &#8216;minimal and manageable.&#8217; The Utah Report neglects significant adverse effects that are associated with GAHT, including the life-altering effects of infertility/sterility and sexual dysfunction.&#8221;
While the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/12/report-3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recommendations</a> added to the report claim that no position is being taken on whether to continue the moratorium on trans procedures, Miceli told The Daily Wire that it is a contradictory claim. The recommendations are all contingent on the moratorium being lifted, Miceli said. These included things like setting up a board to oversee the moratorium, creating specific standards of care, and limiting those who prescribe transgender procedures to &#8220;demonstrated experts.&#8221;
Do No Harm also flagged multiple doctors recommended by the Utah report&#8217;s amendments as advisors to lawmakers for potential conflicts of interest. This included Nikki Mihalopoulos and Brooks Keeshin.
Mihalopoulos <a href="https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(20)30508-8/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authored</a> a 2021 article discussing how “pediatric health care providers can play a critical role in building solutions in policy and advocacy…to improve the health of transgender/gender diverse youth. Many government entities, especially at the state and local level, actively resist efforts promoting equal rights.”
Keeshin has <a href="https://www.jaacap.org/article/S0890-8567(24)00521-5/fulltext" target="_blank" rel="noopener">written</a> a “Clinical Perspective” highlighting Utah’s “potential pathway forward” for “open access to [gender-affirming] care” for adolescents and said that the protections created a &#8220;significant challenge to adolescents who would benefit from gender-affirming care as well as their healthcare providers.&#8221;

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher voiced his surprise when &#8220;The Young Turks&#8221; host Ana Kasparian declared her opposition to men in women&#8217;s spaces — particularly locker rooms.
Maher was speaking to Kasparian on his &#8220;Club Random&#8221; podcast when he raised the topic, prompting Kasparian to quickly agree, despite suggesting that she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;supposed&#8221; to have a problem with biological men in women&#8217;s spaces.
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🚨NEW: Bill Maher *STUNNED* as Ana Kasparian opposes biological males in female spaces🚨
KASPARIAN: &#8220;Is it bad that I don&#8217;t want to see a d*ck in the women&#8217;s locker room? I just don&#8217;t!&#8221;
MAHER: &#8220;So good to hear you say that. Really good. I did not expect that.&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/RfsPvp6X9N">pic.twitter.com/RfsPvp6X9N</a>
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1998040212170056054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Kasparian realized where Maher was going with the conversation, and began to protest that he was going to get her &#8220;in trouble.&#8221;
&#8220;Why? There&#8217;s no trouble for you. Your life is trouble,&#8221; Maher replied.
&#8220;I’m supposed to be totally okay with it. Is it bad that I don’t want to see a d*** in the women’s locker room? Is that bad?&#8221; Kasparian asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Maher replied, laughing.
&#8220;I just don’t. I don’t want to see a c*** in the women’s locker room,&#8221; Kasparian continued.
&#8220;And you shouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Maher agreed. &#8220;No woman should. I mean, this is basic 101.&#8221;
Maher went on to excoriate the political Left for adopting positions that were &#8220;counterintuitive&#8221; and &#8220;not helping&#8221; in the name of progress.
&#8220;Yeah, you want to champion women, and you didn’t. You did the opposite. You made them uncomfortable, and unnecessarily, in many ways,&#8221; he continued.
&#8220;When you see everything as a hierarchy — everything is a hierarchy — well then, inevitably you&#8217;re going to find yourself in a situation where the rights of one group kind of falls by the wayside,&#8221; Kasparian explained.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a zero-sum game,&#8221; Maher interjected.
&#8220;And I don&#8217;t see it that way,&#8221; Kasparian declared, adding that she took particular issue with the idea of &#8220;self-ID&#8221; being the law of the land. &#8220;As you and I both know, there are all sorts of predators out there who are gonna take advantage of that situation, and that&#8217;s already happened.&#8221;
&#8220;This is not an indictment of transgender people. It’s an indictment of a policy that was not thought through. And as a result, there are women who are going to suffer,&#8221; Kasparian said after laying out just one example. &#8220;And as a result, there are transgender people who are going to suffer because people are going to make the mistake of thinking, ‘Oh, well, that guy was transgender, and this is how they behave.’ No. This is not how they behave. We need to be smarter about these policies. It’s that simple.&#8221;
&#8220;So, good to hear you say that. Really good. I did not expect that,&#8221; Maher replied.

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One of the big problems we have in the West — and this has been true for many years at this point — is the perversion of science.
For at least one decade in the United States, there was a grand delusion that was promoted by nearly every member of the legacy media. It was promoted by universities; it was promoted by Hollywood.
The basic idea was simple: A boy could be a girl. A girl could be a boy. There could be a female brain inside a male body, and vice versa. Sex was not, in fact, defined by biology. It was defined by the soul hovering inside you that might be a different sex than your actual physical body.
This was treated as a fundamental, eternal truth by most people in a position of authority. Why? Because the scientific community decided it was going to back the insanity of the gender theories.
Now it turns out that virtually all of that was just based on absolute nonsense.
According to <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/were-all-just-winging-it-what-the">The Free Press</a>: 
<blockquote>At their conferences, closed to outsiders and the press, the gender clinicians allowed themselves to speak freely. They spoke about the boys who said they wanted to be girls and the girls who felt they were meant to be boys, and the medical and surgical interventions that would make them appear as the opposite sex. The clinicians also discussed new procedures for a new type of patient—some of them adolescents—who wanted to be made to look as if they had no sex at all. 
In one of the videos, obtained exclusively by The Free Press, from the 2021 conference of the US Professional Association for Transgender Health, Amy Penkin, a social worker with the Transgender Health Program at the Oregon Health &amp; Science University (OHSU) spoke about one such case. Penkin told the audience about Sky, who she described as an 18-year-old recent high school graduate who was living on his own for the first time.
Penkin explained that Sky expressed a desire to look like “a Barbie down there.” Sky, Penkin said, reported “being asexual, never having had sex, and having no desire to have sex in the future.” Indeed, Sky did “not want to feel any pleasurable sensation and hope[d] removal of all erogenous tissue [would] be possible,” according to Penkin.
Not so long ago, a patient like Sky would have been given a psychological evaluation and offered mental health counseling. But in the evolving world of gender medicine, clinicians now want to help young people like Sky achieve their gender goals.
Penkin explained to fellow professionals that requests for procedures that are “nonbinary” are “growing in number.” But the field is still wedded to binary assumptions. This means that procedures such as “nullification” (surgically leaving patients with no external genitals) or “penile preserving vaginoplasty” (surgically crafting a pseudo-vagina underneath the penis) are not as accessible as they should be.
Penkin said that when confronted with a patient like Sky, existing “research” and “standards of care” are “not enough to meet the needs of our patients, and we need to take it to the next level to really think about how we evolve and match the needs of our patients as their needs are being expressed to us.”</blockquote>
Here is Penkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2327-trump-fights-the-climate-change-cult">speaking</a> at a gathering of a major professional association for transgender health:
<blockquote>This is Sky, who&#8217;s 18 years old. They recently graduated from high school and report living on their own for the first time. At consult, they expressed a desire to look like a “Barbie” down there. They report being asexual, never having had sex, and having no desire to have sex in the future. Sky does not want to feel any pleasurable sensation and hopes removal of all erogenous tissue will be possible. And they come to our clinic with a referral and two letters of support for vulva plastic surgery.
We came to deliver this presentation because we recognize that the tools in our system, such as what is evidence-based practice and the research tell us what are the standards of care tell us, that is not enough to meet the needs of our patients and we need to take it to the next level to really think about how we evolve and match the needs of our patients, as their needs are being expressed to us.</blockquote>
That is an amazing statement, that patients express their needs to doctors as though they&#8217;re simply going into the store and buying a cup of coffee, and the doctors are then tasked with fulfilling the needs of their patients.
That is precisely the opposite of how medical science is supposed to work. It is the job of the doctor to diagnose. It is the job of the doctor to tell you about your own biology and what is true and what is false.
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But that’s not the way it works in the world of so-called trans medicine. A psychologist named Mair Marsiglio agreed and described doing just that. She spoke about the idea that even people with multiple personality disorder or psychosis should not be barred from mutilating surgery.
The Free Press continued:  
<blockquote>One of the biggest revelations from the recordings is how these clinicians acknowledge performing unproven, seemingly experimental treatments—only it appears there is often no protocol being followed, no formal research being conducted, and no ethics-board approval being sought. These practitioners say their goal is to fulfill the “embodiment” desires of their patients, whatever these may be, and doing this may require “deviat[ing] from guidelines.” </blockquote>
Thus, people get together at conferences and change the guidelines, the standards of care, in order to match what the “patients would like” from these particular “medical practitioners.”
In order to get all this done, what was required was groupthink. British endocrinology consultant Leighton Seal explained that the best way to avoid criticism was to make the decisions as a group:
<blockquote>And therefore, when you&#8217;re doing operations, we have to accept, at some point somebody will regret the surgery they&#8217;ve done. so to allow people to move the field forward. You need to have a support network around you as a clinician so that if that decision is made and that decision is regretted, how did you make that decision process?
So as an individual practitioner, if you make that in isolation, you could be vulnerable to being criticized for doing something that is outside of the norm. Whereas if you have a network around you where a clinical team in concert with the individual has made a decision, you then have a framework to say, “Well, the ethics of this were explored.”</blockquote>
This is all insanity.
Why am I bringing this up? Let&#8217;s be real, conservatives won on this issue because reality was always going to win, even when it was unpopular.
We here at The Daily Wire refused from the outset of the company to use so-called gendered pronouns. We refused to use people&#8217;s chosen pronouns. Your pronoun was your sex. Period. We never varied on this. This was and is a strong position held by the company, and we figured that truth would eventually prevail.
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So why does this matter? Because it&#8217;s not just that there are consequences for bad science in the field of trans ideology. There are consequences for everyone.
This is also true in the world of the economy. Evidence has emerged that a major climate change study published in Nature is false.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/science/environment/climate-change-study-retraction-nature-454cd61b?mod=hp_lead_pos5">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The research, published last year in the prestigious journal Nature, projected that the world’s economic output would decline 62% by 2100 under a high-carbon emissions scenario. The estimate was much more severe than other forecasts, prompting scrutiny of the underlying data. “We broadly agree with the issues raised, and have made corrections to the underlying economic data and to our methodology to address them,” said study author Leonie Wenz, from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. “These changes are too substantial for a correction of the original article in Nature.”
&#8230; after the study was published, other researchers found that economic data from one country—Uzbekistan—during a short time from 1995 to 1999 had skewed the results. Without Uzbekistan, the 2100 damage forecast fell to 23%, not 62%.</blockquote>
Here is what&#8217;s amazing. The study had already been cited by the time it was pulled by the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, the World Bank, and the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a coalition of central banks.
This horrible study was used in order to determine whether banks could invest in certain things.
<blockquote>Central bank models of the economic impacts of climate change could have far-reaching implications. If these models show impacts are going to be much worse than previously thought, regulators could make banks set aside more capital to buffer against potential losses associated with assets exposed to climate change…</blockquote>
This means the banks would have to hold more cash back and not lend it out to other businesses because of the potential risk from climate change.
The study was overtly wrong.
They had to pull it, but it is on the very basis of bad science that many, many decisions are made.
That is why it is a very good thing that the president of the United States will not bow to transgender ideology or climate change extremists.

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In October 2023, the online publication Tennbeat published an interview with newly elected Tennessee state representative Aftyn Behn.
The <a href="https://www.tennbeat.com/p/meet-the-aoc-of-tennessee-aftyn-behn">piece</a>, which calls the leftist lawmaker &#8220;the AOC of Tennessee,&#8221; charts Behn&#8217;s rise from University of Texas psychology student to &#8220;progressive community organizer.&#8221; Behn told Tennbeat that &#8220;during her senior year at the University of Texas, she interned at the Arc of Texas, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of persons with disabilities.&#8221;
The piece notes that Behn &#8220;developed talking points on disability policies for the state legislature&#8221; during that internship, giving her an early taste of political life that led her to spend the summer after graduation <a href="https://www.tennbeat.com/p/meet-the-aoc-of-tennessee-aftyn-behn">canvassing</a> for Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX). 
Since launching her campaign to replace retired congressman Mark Green, Behn has tried to distance herself from some of the positions she held early in her career. The lawmaker, who faces Republican Matt Van Epps on Tuesday, has sought to position herself as an average Nashville girl. Her record suggests otherwise.
Let&#8217;s start with Nashville, the majority of which lies in the district Behn would represent if she wins.
“I hate the city,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.aftynforcongress.com/">self-described</a> &#8220;pissed off social worker&#8221; said on a 2020 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/music-city-fumble-dem-candidate-said-she-hates-city-she-wants-to-represent-in-congress">podcast appearance</a>. &#8220;I hate the bachelorette, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville apparently an ‘it’ city to the rest of the country. But I hate it.”
Behn attempted to walk her comments back after the video resurfaced earlier this month, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AftynBehn4TN/videos/no-i-do-not-hate-the-city-i-represent-the-national-gops-new-attack-that-i-hate-n/762714846811103/">posting a video</a> titled &#8220;BREAKING: I DO NOT HATE NASHVILLE LOL.&#8221; It&#8217;s unclear whether Behn&#8217;s attempt to laugh the whole thing off was effective, however, because she was quickly hit with a succession of new scandals.
Behn deleted a social media post calling on all white people to get behind abolishing prisons, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-democrat-aftyn-behn-repeatedly-advocated-for-prison-abolition?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Tennessee+Democrat+Aftyn+Behn+Also+Wants+To+Abolish+Prisons">reported</a> this week.
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“On this Juneteenth, we need less white folks posting Canva graphics and more adopting prison abolition as a political foundation,” Behn wrote just over a year ago, which is now archived on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240619153246/https:/twitter.com/AftynBehn/status/1803450863240757499" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayback Machine</a>. Behn also advocated prison abolition in an August 2024 article in <a href="https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2024/08/01/candidate-profiles-tennessee-senate-and-house-primary/74623149007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Tennessean</a>, telling the publication, “As a legislator who believes in prison abolition, I am committed to addressing the root causes of crime rather than implementing punitive measures that often perpetuate a cycle of harm.”
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Behn has also faced scrutiny over a 2020 post in which she praised people who support burning down police stations. “Good morning, especially to the 54% of Americans that believe burning down a police station is justified,” Behn posted.
Behn declined to address those comments in a recent interview, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-democrat-aftyn-behn-wont-take-back-support-for-burning-down-police-stations?author=Lynden+Blake&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Tennessee+Democrat+Aftyn+Behn+Won%E2%80%99t+Take+Back+Support+For+Burning+Down+Police+Stations">saying</a>, “I’m not gonna engage in cable news talking points.”
Crime and policing are not the only areas where Behn has advocated radical views in the past. She claims that <a href="https://x.com/claytravis/status/1993319674352697755?s=42">men can give birth</a> and said that the murder of six children by a transgender-identifying gunman at the Covenant School in Tennessee made her more sympathetic to &#8220;trans communities&#8221; and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-aftyn-behn-said-covenant-shooting-made-her-fearful-for-trans-communities">inspired</a> her to &#8220;fight the far-right narrative that is being emanated by Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire.&#8221;
Those political positions may put Behn out of step with the state she&#8217;s running to represent. But they&#8217;re not shocking coming from a woman who says she got into politics after “immers[ing] herself in Austin’s Black Lives Matter movement&#8221; and who once consulted with the United Nations on a portfolio that included LGBT refugees.
With less than a week left before the special election, Behn may wish her radical past would stay in the past. But the revelations keep coming, often accompanied by video. One clip that resurfaced this week <a href="https://x.com/NicoleMSilverio/status/1993011789400097130?s=20">showed Behn crying</a> after being forcibly removed from Tennessee Governor Bill Lee&#8217;s office during a 2019 protest. And in another clip making the rounds this week, Behn reveals what she dreams about: power.
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 “My therapist always asks me to transcribe my dreams when they happen,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-dem-candidate-aftyn-behn-i-dont-want-children-i-want-power">Behn says in the clip</a>. &#8220;And the recurring dream I’ve had is standing up in a cafeteria full of women — I don’t know why I was there or whatever — and saying, ‘I don’t want children. I want power!’ And just screaming it at the top of my lungs.&#8221;
Update: Dec. 3: 4:00 p.m.: An earlier version of this story noted that Arc of Texas told The Daily Wire “We have no record of an intern with the name Aftyn Behn.&#8221; After this story was published, another Arc of Texas employee reached out to The Daily Wire to say that Behn had in fact interned with the group, and that their comment was based on inaccurate records. Arc of Texas recanted and apologized for its original statement, and we have amended the piece to reflect this new information. The Behn campaign never responded to a request for comment on this story.

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As a lawyer who represents detransitioners like Chloe Cole in medical malpractice cases and parents fighting for the right to notice and consent before public schools may socially transition their children, I am all too familiar with how bad science gets laundered in pediatric gender medicine. For the record, a detransitioner is an individual who medically transitioned but now identifies and presents as their natal sex.
Activists take over medical associations (most notably, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health or WPATH) and use the imprimatur of those organizations to justify providing children with puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even irreversible surgeries. The unreliability of much of the medical literature on pediatric gender medicine makes the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ recent report, <a href="https://opa.hhs.gov/gender-dysphoria-report">Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and Best Practices</a>, a necessary development in the field. 
Here are ten key takeaways from the review.
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Children who receive puberty blockers to keep them in a pre-pubescent state longer have marked deterioration of bone health. One-third of patients’ bone density scores exhibit osteoporosis of the hip, while one-fourth have osteoporosis of the spine. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A scientific review shows that the effect of puberty blockers on neurocognitive development is unknown, but there is “some evidence” that puberty blockers suppress children’s IQ scores. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">Females who receive testosterone experience vaginal atrophy and other concerning medical symptoms, including one study showing “100% of vaginectomy specimens contained abnormal prostatic tissue growth.”</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">There is moderate and high certainty evidence of some incidence of “cardiovascular events” in women under twenty-six who received testosterone.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">If a male starts puberty blockers at Tanner Stage 2 (the initial stage of puberty) and goes on to take estrogen, he will almost always have the genitalia of a pre-pubescent or early puberty male.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A Swedish study from 2011 found that adults who had medically and surgically transitioned had 19 times the rate of suicide deaths and nearly three times the rate of all-cause mortality and inpatient psychiatric care compared to peers of the same sex and age group.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">While the precise detransition rate is not known, a British study revealed that one-fifth of patients stopped hormone treatment within five years and that half experienced detransition or regret.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">American, British, Dutch, and Swedish researchers each examined the mortality rates among trans-identified individuals relative to the general population, and while the rates varied, each study found significant increases in mortality among trans-identifying people, with the Swedish study showing that a transgender individual faced a 2.8 times higher risk of death than their age- and sex-matched peers.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">The report concludes that it would be unethical to conduct a study on the effect of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones on fertility because the “mechanism [of how this treatment interferes with fertility] is well-understood” and does not have to be established in a clinical trial.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1">A 2025 JAMA Pediatrics study showed that between 2018 and 2022, one in one thousand (0.1%) of American seventeen-year-olds received cross-sex hormones. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is, in absolute terms, a large number of children.</li>
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The review’s key points put the risks children face when undergoing transgender medical interventions in sharp focus. Do doctors explain to their minor patients that they may experience significant negative health outcomes years or even decades in the future? When children are warned, are they mature enough to appreciate the risk of long-term consequences? Are children asked to consider the possibility that they may not identify as transgender in the future? Are children led to examine how they might feel about the interventions they received if they do indeed detransition? (My work as a lawyer in detransition cases tells me the answer to all these questions is often “no.”)
Debates about pediatric transgender interventions have largely been framed in terms of politics (what are the major parties’ stances?), law (does the Constitution permit states to prohibit transgender interventions for children?), and even philosophy (what is a woman?). But the central question we all should be asking is whether these interventions work. HHS’s exhaustive review of the medical literature makes a compelling case that the medical risk to minors posed by puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries significantly outweighs any benefits these interventions might confer.
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Jesse Franklin-Murdock is the Miles Visiting Fellow at the Center for American Liberty and a counsel at Dhillon Law Group Inc., where his practice areas include political law and civil rights.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Controversy erupted in Arlington, Texas, after American competitor Jammie Booker took home the title of the World’s Strongest Woman. There was one big problem. Booker is not a woman, and organizers said he failed to disclose that he is a man.
Sanity won this time, and Booker was disqualified.
“It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women’s Open category,” organizers explained. “Strongman officials were unaware of this fact ahead of the competition and we have been urgently investigating since being informed.”
“Had we been aware, or had this been declared at any point before or during the competition, this athlete would not have been permitted to compete in the Women’s Open category.”
Booker claimed gold while British powerhouse Andrea Thompson, a former champion and one of the most respected figures in the sport, stepped off the podium muttering “this is bullsh*t,” according to multiple witnesses.
Within hours, her coach, former strongman Laurence Shahlaei, declared Thompson the real 2025 champion, praising her dominance in the deadlift, log press, and circus dumbbell. “Sport is sport,” he wrote. “Women’s classes exist for a reason.”
Even Booker’s own sponsor, Iron Ape, cut ties before he was disqualified, saying it had “reason to believe” Booker misrepresented critical information to the Official Strongman Games, stressing the decision was about integrity, not identity.
So, what do we learn from this circus? That when truth punches through the charade, the house of cards collapses. But here’s the kicker: this isn’t just about sports. It’s about every industry being hijacked by feelings over facts, ideology over integrity. Whether it’s on the field or in the aisle of your local drugstore, you’re constantly being sold lies wrapped in pastel packaging and virtue signals. You deserve better. You deserve products that don’t pander.
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Gym rat and singer turned activist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-tish-hyman-the-california-lesbian-fighting-to-keep-men-out-of-womens-locker-rooms">Tish Hyman</a> crashed Rep. Eric Swalwell&#8217;s (D-CA) recent town hall event, demanding answers from him regarding whether he would support women&#8217;s sex-based rights or would continue to allow trans-identifying men to invade women&#8217;s spaces.
Swalwell, who just recently announced that he was running to be the next governor of California, was trying to tout his personal record as a prosecutor when it came to crimes against women. Hyman, the subject of a recent viral video involving a trans-identifying man in the women&#8217;s locker room at her gym, pressed him repeatedly to recognize that men were not women, regardless of how they choose to identify.
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🚨 HOLY SMOKES! Jaw-dropping moment as California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell gets RIPPED to his face by Tish Hyman, the woman who went viral for being kicked out of Gold&#8217;s Gym for opposing men in women&#8217;s restrooms
HYMAN: Show the women of California you will PROTECT… <a href="https://t.co/p3AtScvuvL">pic.twitter.com/p3AtScvuvL</a>
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&#8220;First, ma&#8217;am, you asked I think the most emotionally poignant question and I want to start with you,&#8221; Swalwell began, and immediately began to give his resume on prosecuting crimes against women. &#8220;I will not be a governor that tolerates violence against women in our state, period. That&#8217;s not gonna happen. It&#8217;s not.&#8221;
A number in the audience applauded, but that was when things started to get a little bit sticky.
&#8220;Now, as it relates, you know, to the issue of —&#8221; Swalwell continued.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; Hyman interjected.
&#8220;—trans kids —&#8221; Swalwell tried again.
&#8220;Men,&#8221; Hyman repeated.
&#8220;— particularly in sports —&#8221; Swalwell said.
&#8220;Men, in women&#8217;s space,&#8221; Hyman insisted. &#8220;Harassing, and you said it wasn&#8217;t a thing. 14 times you said it wasn&#8217;t a thing. So I need you to show all the women of California that you&#8217;re gonna protect us.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m going to protect women,&#8221; Swawell said. &#8220;I did as a prosecutor, I will protect women. No woman should be harassed —&#8221;
&#8220;Are there gonna be men allowed in the women&#8217;s room anymore?&#8221; Hyman shouted. &#8220;We need to know!&#8221;
&#8220;No woman should be harassed in a locker room, that&#8217;s a crime,&#8221; Swalwell said.
&#8220;Answer straight!&#8221; Hyman demanded. &#8220;Are there gonna be women — are you against men in women&#8217;s locker rooms and sports? That&#8217;s all you need to answer. Please!&#8221;
Swalwell did not answer directly but continued to insist that he would protect women and that women &#8220;should not be harassed&#8221; while in locker rooms.
&#8220;It&#8217;s happening all over America. There are 45 men in the women&#8217;s prisons right now raping them! Picking them out like chicken. Trans men are NOT women! They are raping women. So I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re on the Democrat side, the Republican side, we need to be on the women&#8217;s side, people!&#8221; Hyman demanded. &#8220;It&#8217;s happening to our girls, it&#8217;s happening to our women, and I&#8217;m here to let everyone know that this is happening. Open your eyes!&#8221;

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‘Answer Straight!’: Tish Hyman Crashes Swalwell’s Town Hall, Demands Answer On Men In Women’s Spaces

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office will investigate a women’s weightlifting competition after it awarded a trans-identifying competitor first prize.
The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman held in Arlington, Texas, over the weekend awarded biological male Jammie Booker first place in the competition. Booker’s inclusion in the event and eventual first place prize sparked protest from the competition’s runner-up, Andrea Thompson, to leave the podium in protest.
&#8220;Attorney General Paxton will not allow the radical left to sacrifice the integrity of girls&#8217; sports on the altar of their delusional transgender agenda. The OAG is investigating this incident and will take any and all actions to protect women&#8217;s sports both in Texas and across the nation,&#8221; Paxton&#8217;s office told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/sports/texas-ag-investigating-weightlifting-competition-trans-athlete-compete-women">Fox News</a>.
Official Strongman, which ran the competition, later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/worlds-strongest-woman-winner-stripped-of-title-after-organizers-find-out-hes-a-man?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=World%E2%80%99s+Strongest+Woman+Winner+Stripped+Of+Title+After+Organizers+Find+Out+He%E2%80%99s+A+Man">disqualified</a> Booker after organizers said they were unaware of Booker’s sex.
“Official Strongman is inclusive and proud to run events which do not discriminate against athletes based on personal characteristics. Any athlete is welcome. But it is our responsibility to ensure fairness and ensure athletes are assigned to men or women’s categories based on whether they are recorded as male or female at birth,” the organization said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OfficialStrongmanWSM/posts/pfbid0t2PgVVznQX7RTjHyaab5MU1T5SuNuqjYvjgtGKK1ugCsvxEYa4f7wkzmXkHzMTY3l?rdid=cI7Q2fP7va6sK5JZ#">statement</a>.
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“Given this, we have disqualified the athlete in question from the Official Strongman World Championships 2025. All athlete points and places will be altered accordingly to ensure that the rightful places are allocated to each of the Women’s Open athletes,” it said.
At the award ceremony, Thompson, a former champion, was heard muttering “this is bulls***” as she stepped off the podium.
Booker’s victory ignited backlash across the sport as weightlifters blasted the competition and the inclusion of a male athlete in women’s sport. Three-time World’s Strongest Woman Rebecca Roberts called Thompson the true winner and insisted that “[w]omen’s divisions must remain biologically female-only.”
2023 World’s Strongest Man Mitchell Hooper said in a video that “the first time I saw Jammie, I said: ‘This woman looks different.’” He knocked Booker’s inclusion in the competition, stating, “There is a time when you have to take a stand for women’s sports.”

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Ken Paxton To Probe Women’s Weightlifting Competition After Trans-Identified Athlete Wins Gold

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The 2025 World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas, erupted into controversy after American competitor Jammie Booker — who won the Official Strongman Games World Championship over the weekend — was stripped of the title on Tuesday after organizers said Booker failed to disclose that he is a man.
Booker was disqualified for violating the rules that mandate contestants compete in the division matching the sex they were born as.
&#8220;It appears that an athlete who is biologically male and who now identifies as female competed in the Women&#8217;s Open category,&#8221; organizers explained. &#8220;Strongman officials were unaware of this fact ahead of the competition and we have been urgently investigating since being informed.&#8221;
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&#8220;Had we been aware, or had this been declared at any point before or during the competition, this athlete would not have been permitted to compete in the Women&#8217;s Open category.&#8221;
Booker claimed gold while British powerhouse Andrea Thompson, a former champion and one of the most respected figures in the sport, stepped off the podium muttering “this is bullsh*t,” according to multiple witnesses.
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Andrea Thompson just had her title stolen by a man, Jammie Booker, who won 1st at the World’s Strongest Woman competition in Arlington, Texas.
“This is bulls&amp;@$. Can we go?” <a href="https://t.co/y8JakhMNQL">pic.twitter.com/y8JakhMNQL</a>
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Within hours, her coach, former strongman Laurence Shahlaei, declared Thompson the real 2025 champion, praising her dominance in the deadlift, log press, and circus dumbbell. “Sport is sport,” he wrote. “Women’s classes exist for a reason.”
Three-time World’s Strongest Woman Rebecca Roberts ignited the backlash further, saying that no athletes or organizers knew about Booker’s background. A resurfaced 2017 YouTube video appearing to show Booker describing herself as a “21-year-old trans woman” fueled those concerns.
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Roberts posted a blunt statement alongside a “Protect Women’s Sports” image, insisting she held “no hate toward transgender people” but warned that strength sports cannot ignore biological realities. “Women’s divisions must remain biologically female-only,” she wrote, calling Thompson the true champion. Thompson liked the post.
Other top athletes echoed the sentiment. Three-time champion Donna Moore called Thompson the “true winner,” while 2023 World’s Strongest Man Mitchell Hooper blasted the result in a video after watching the event live. “The first time I saw Jammie, I said: ‘This woman looks different,’” Hooper said, noting Booker appeared several inches taller and roughly 80 pounds heavier than any competitor. “There is a time when you have to take a stand for women’s sports.”
Even Booker’s own sponsor, Iron Ape, cut ties before he was disqualified, saying it had “reason to believe” Booker misrepresented critical information to the Official Strongman Games, stressing the decision was about integrity, not identity.
American strongwoman Morgan Irons said Booker’s participation cost women prize money, podium spots, national bids, and a pro card, adding Booker allegedly raised travel funds “under false pretenses.”
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Female lifter SLAMS Jammie Booker, a male, for stealing a woman’s place and title in the women’s power competition.
“If we do not come together and fight this, we will be erased, and everything that women have fought tooth and nail for will be void. I urge you to stand with… <a href="https://t.co/ziAc47jP4u">https://t.co/ziAc47jP4u</a> <a href="https://t.co/tLoWkXvSQa">pic.twitter.com/tLoWkXvSQa</a>
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1993217237356851274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Booker thanked competitors and organizers on social media after winning, saying the outcome wasn&#8217;t expected. His Instagram account, which featured videos of him lifting, is now set to private.

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WNBA Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said it&#8217;s likely that elite 8th grade male basketball players could beat professional female athletes, noting men&#8217;s obvious physical advantages over women.
Cunningham&#8217;s comments, which were made on her podcast &#8220;Show Me Something,&#8221; completely contradict the Left-wing transgender narrative claiming that what determines gender is self-described identity; or, further, that males don&#8217;t really have physical advantages over females.
&#8220;This is my personal opinion,&#8221; Cunningham told her co-host West Wilson, Outkick <a href="https://www.outkick.com/sports/sophie-cunningham-backs-michael-porter-jr-8th-grade-boys-wnba-stars">reported</a>. &#8220;If you are a professional football player, basketball player, really any sport &#8230; to me, if you&#8217;re in that elite level group, yeah, you should be able to beat the girls. I&#8217;m not surprised by that.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s probably true. I don&#8217;t want to be unrealistic or delusional,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Men are just stronger, bigger, athletic. They just are a different build. So if you put them up against females, I&#8217;m like, well, yeah they&#8217;re gonna win, duh.&#8221;
Cunningham, who is set to become a free agent, made the remarks in response to NBA player Michael Lamar Porter Jr., who recently said he thinks elite male athletes as young as 8th grade could beat WNBA players. Porter said he was merely speaking from experience, referencing a time in middle school when he apparently dominated in a practice against Cunningham, then playing college ball.
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&#8220;I&#8217;ma go, probably, 8th grade, because I have real experience doing this,&#8221; Porter said, when asked what age elite males could beat pro females. &#8220;They went to University of Missouri, and I was still a young dude, and they had me playing on the scout team, and they had a few WNBA players on their team, like Sophie Cunningham, and a couple others. I think I was in the 7th or 8th grade going dumb. So, I have real-life experience.&#8221;
&#8220;I wish this would stop being a conversation ‘cause it should be common sense, but it’s just not,&#8221; Porter added.
&#8220;If women are saying, ‘He couldn&#8217;t beat them&#8217; &#8212; yeah, he could,&#8221; Cunningham agreed. &#8220;Any NBA star or player could beat a female in high school &#8230; I just don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s a fair matchup.&#8221;
The Fever guard further defended Porter, saying that he was asked his opinion and answered honestly and calling the &#8220;context&#8221; of his comments &#8220;fair.&#8221;
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Sophie Cunningham, who Michael Porter Jr. claims he beat in a Mizzou basketball practice in 8th grade, reacted to MPJ’s recent comments:
“I mean, it’s probably true. I think, if you are a professional [athlete], if you’re in that elite level group, yea you should be able to… <a href="https://t.co/pVbrxyYShV">pic.twitter.com/pVbrxyYShV</a>
— Courtside Buzz (@CourtsideBuzzX) <a href="https://twitter.com/CourtsideBuzzX/status/1992666783627833612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
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