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Why are the women at ESPN putting up with this? I don't

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know, Riley, your thoughts. I have no

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idea why the women are putting up with this.

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I don't understand. It's like they don't

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see the irony of celebrating a

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man during national

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women's history. How are these women

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okay with it? And it begs the question, where are the feminists?

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Where are the women? Where's the

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group who wore the pink hats, who

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wanted to empower women, real women?

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I can't

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even answer that. I will say, though,

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that I just admire Sate

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Scheele, who's an ESPN reporter. She

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does SportsCenter, I believe. And she stood

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up to this, and she said, this is wild, this is wrong. She

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recognizes the differences between men and women,

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and why it's unfair and harmful for women

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to have men in women's sports and in our locker

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rooms. I want to read your tweet. You said

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Leah Thomas is not a brave, courageous woman

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who earned a national title. He is an

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arrogant cheat, a man who stole

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a national title from a hardworking,

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deserving woman. The NCAA is responsible.

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If I was a woman working at ESPN,

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I would walk out your spineless. Elaborate

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more. Well,

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a lot of people obviously even ESPN

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as we've seen universities large organizations

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the media They like to deem Thomas

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as a courageous brave woman

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How one is

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Lee Thomas courageous or brave? I think

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the Thomas is a coward Yeah, I think later

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is selfish and showed

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utter disregard towards women towards

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our privacy towards our safety towards our

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feelings our fairness, our opportunities,

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there was no regard for that. Yet

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they expect us to to be kind to them

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and be respectful to them. to me, respect

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is something that's earned.

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Leah Thomas did not earn my respect

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by any means. And so I wanted to add

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the piece in there about the NCAA being responsible

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because, you know, and

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I do think Leah Thomas is selfish. I think Leah Thomas,

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like I mentioned, had no regard for us as

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female athletes, but it's not Thomas'

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fault. Thomas was following the guidelines

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that the NCAA put in place. And so I

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think it's crucial to acknowledge that the NCAA

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is at fault here. Leah Thomas

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was simply following the rules that allowed

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this to happen, which were 100% perpetrated

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by the NCAA, they forced us to participate in Leah

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Thomas's fetish, which included,

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it has now come out that Leah Thomas is an AGP,

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which means you are sexually aroused by dressing as

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a woman. And the NCAA put us in a locker

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room with someone who gets off on that. So

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the NCAA is responsible and I wanted to put

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that

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point in there.

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And ESPN is celebrating that.

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What constituency are they trying to

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pander to? It's really bizarre.

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And I mean, Disney is already letting

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off a lot of employees

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right now. And

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so, Riley, I'm

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wondering just kind of the response you're receiving

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and what do your critics say? I'm

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very curious

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because this should be very simple

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and very elemental. I mean, you should

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have been a national champion in swimming

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and a man comes in and steals

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it from you. He exposes

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himself to you in a locker room. He

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should have been arrested for that, right, for

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public indecent exposure. That

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we used to have a country that used to exist. Last time we had a

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dialogue, I said people would take care of it. would

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take care of it. That's exactly what I meant, is that

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you would be arrested for exposing yourself. You

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just kind of walk into a woman's locker room and expose

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yourself. That used to be called a crime,

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now it's called progress. But

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I'm curious, what is the response that

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you receive from

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people? What do your critics say?

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I'm talking about

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support from all over the political spectrum,

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which is what makes this topic, this issue,

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so interesting. Obviously, we know there

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are very few things in politics that people can agree

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on. But this is something,

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you know, denying man and woman, we can't even define what

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a woman is. These liberals who,

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of course, will die on this hill of

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being able to define a woman, they see

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what's at stake here. They see how they're

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trying to eradicate women at the

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systemic level. And so I have

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had an overwhelming amount of support from

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female athletes, from parents, from

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medical professionals, from coaches, people

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within the NCAA. There's so

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much support, which shows me that we are

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the overwhelming majority in

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this topic, which begs the question,

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okay, then why are we catering

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to the minority? minority. Why are we

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sacrificing 51% of the population

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at the expense of half

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a percent of the population? I don't know the exact statistic,

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but I can't imagine the trans community makes up more

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than half a percent of the population. So

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why are we catering to this? And it's because

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that we thought this would

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be a one-off instance. But

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people are realizing it's not and they see the propaganda

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being pushed and they're becoming more bold, they're

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becoming louder, and they're starting to use

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their voices more and I really truthfully believe

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that the tides are about

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to turn. I sure

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hope so. I mean, I'll be honest, I don't see

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the backlash that you see, but you're kind of more

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in it than I am. And

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so

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it's very interesting. I want to explore this and we have you

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for another topic. If you listen to Thomas, the

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narcissistic cheats profile there

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on ESPN, he said, I didn't

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do this to win. I did this

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to be happy.

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And that's really interesting

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because since when do we re-accommodate society

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for your own personal happiness?

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I'm sure a lot of people would be happier if they could go rob

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a bank,

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but it would be theft. It

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would be wrong. I'm

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sure some people would be ha- happier

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if you could walk into women's locker rooms

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and be like a weird creep,

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but it would be wrong.

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But unfortunately, post 1960s

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liberalism and leftism and the postmodern construct

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is your individual happiness matters

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more than societal norms,

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things that govern fairness. Their

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idea of justice is their own

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individual,

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their own individual, quote unquote, pleasure or happiness.

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30 seconds, Riley.

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I think it's incredibly ironic that Thomas

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says that he does this for happiness

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because playing a Division I sport,

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especially at the national level where you're competing

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for that top spot in the country, never

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once did swimming ask me if I was happy. Do

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you feel okay? Do you want to jump in the cold

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water at 4am? Playing a Division

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I sport is a privilege. It is not

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a right. It does not go to someone who just

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wants to do it to be happy. You have to work.

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You have to earn that spot. And Thomas did not. No,

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cheated and stole. Stay right there, Riley. Riley,

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I want to talk about the other examples of

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men

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that are stealing championships right now.

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It's happening across the country and

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our society is letting it happen. And

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our men

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who have basically become

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feminized versions of an infant just kind

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of sit and like, well, I guess that's unfair.

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So Riley, I really

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enjoy your Twitter feed because you update

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the world and me on how men

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are continually cheating and stealing

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championships from women. There was one recently,

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there was a track championship. Can

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you tell us about that? It was a state championship, I

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believe.

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Yes. This was the state track and field

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championships in Massachusetts. I'm

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sure you saw the picture on my Twitter, which I

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wish

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it show it on here, but

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I'll get it. I'll do my best to get it. Keep

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going though. But

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this is a male who

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competed as a male and finished at

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the bottom every single time, who

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has now transitioned to a woman and

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helped his team win the state

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track and field champion. Um, his

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name is Chloe Barnes. When,

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um, he was doing an interview and

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when the interviewer asks him, you know, what do you have to say

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about the people who

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are in opposition of you competing, Chloe says, just

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deal with it. Deal

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with it. Which is exactly why

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I consider Leah Thomas also a narcissist.

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These people want the world to stop for their

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own benefit and not thinking about

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anyone else's feelings. Anyone else's safety. safety,

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anyone else's fairness,

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their privacy, and definitely not

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the integrity of sports.

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You look at psychology, women tend to be more

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agreeable and men tend to be disagreeable.

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So I look at these pictures

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of these young ladies that are taking

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pictures with these cheats afterwards.

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And it's just not up to, I mean, they just are less

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likely to say there's anything wrong with it. But

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honestly, what should have happened

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is the cheat should have just ran and everyone

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else should have just

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had their, just boycotted. It just sat

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down, would have made nationwide

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headlines. Why is it that women are

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so, I mean, again, it's not

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a fair question. It just really bothers me because

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it's not as if angry women is anything we're new

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to, right? I mean, angry women

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come to my events all the time. They scream at conservatives,

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they scream at their husbands, they scream at Donald Trump. Why

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are women not angry at men stealing their

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championships? It's

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virtue signaling. These people, they

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want to be seen as kind. They want

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to be seen as inclusive. want to be

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seen as welcoming and accepting and tolerant

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and all of those things, but they just

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haven't realized yet, it is not

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kind to allow a man into

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a woman's space. It is not kind

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for me, a 22 year old, to

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turn around and see another 22 year

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old, draw his pants fully

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exposed with male genitalia, watching other

9:46

women undress. That is not kind. That

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is not inclusive. It's actually exclusive.

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exclusive to the very people that the women's

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sporting category was created

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to protect. And I

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think it's just a matter of time before people.

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realize that and like I said, I believe

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more and more people are. Um,

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but no one wants to ruffle feathers. No one wants

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to step on toes, but you're exactly right. That's

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how changes are going to be made. Of course,

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of course,

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legislature is an amazing way to start. Um,

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these, these different states that are passing these

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bills. That's fantastic. But the easiest

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way to make impact is to not

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race, not run, not get on that starting

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block, but that's a big ask. And

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I understand that, but we have to be

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willing to make sacrifices.

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Yeah, I mean, it's sacrifices, but it's also

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just why would you want to participate against a cheater?

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And so is the NCAA a common, are they just continuing

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in this direction

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where, where men can basically steal

10:43

championships from women? Is that the new position

10:45

at the NCAA? Yeah, that

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is, that's exactly what's happening. The NCAA

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claims there are only 34 trans athletes

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in the NCAA, but that could not

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be further from the truth.

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There are so many athletes, I actually just

10:58

watched a diving championship, a

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conference championship where a male was diving against

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all women. I know of about 10 lacrosse

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men who are playing on the women's team off the top of my

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head. But the NCAA, they're essentially

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in a phasing out approach. What they want

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is they want no accountability. They don't

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want to deal with it. They don't want to be the ones

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responsible for anything. So what they're

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trying to do is phase out and leave it up to sports

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specific organizations like World

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Athletics who has just now said that

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if you've gone through puberty as a male, you will not

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compete with the women. So they're looking to phase

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out the NCAA's.

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