Now I want to get to a story that caught my attention this past weekend, and that's the class between olympian Simone Biles and Raleigh Gaines over the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports. Gaines is a former NCAA swimmer turned conservative pundit who joined a lawsuit against the NCAA in March of twenty twenty four. The suit for more than a dozen athletes accused the NCAA of violating their Title nine rights while allowing transgender swimmer Leah Thomas to compete at the national championships in twenty twenty two, Gaines and Thomas tied for fifth, but only Thomas was awarded the fifth place trophy for the two hundred yard freestyle. Fast forward to last week, where Gaines spoke out against another transgender athlete. Gaines targeted a Minnesota state high school league for not allowing comments on their post about the Chaplain Park girls team celebrating the state championships. Chaplin Park's team includes a trans athlete, that prompted Simon Biles to post this about Gains quote, You're truly sick all of this campaigning because you lost the race, straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive, or creating a new avenue where trans people feel safe in sports. Instead you bully them. One thing's for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around end quote. Gains responded to Biles in follow up posts, saying the seven time gold medalist stance on transgender athletes was disappointing and labeled her a quote male apologist at the expense of young girl's dreams end quote. Then she went here, bringing in Larry Nasser, a former national team doctor who sexually abused a multiple US gymnasts, including Biles, under the guise of medical treatment. She wrote, quote all the horrific sexual abuse Simon Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by one man believes women should be forced to strip naked in front of men to validate the man's feelings. You know how many gold medals you'd have if your inclusive dream came true? Zero? End quote, respectfully, Gains, I was with you until that last quote. Respectfully, that's going a bit too far. Talking about transgender women competing in sports is one issue. Using a guy like Larry Nasser, one of the most despicable human beings we've ever witnessed on this earth, who molested and abused numerous women, numerous gymnasts, including Biles, And to go that low gains you lost all credibility. You could have made your argument without going that far. No matter what Simone Biles said to you, how she may disagree with you on your position, did not warrant you to go that far. Certainly you're not suggesting that it was okay for her to be molested. Certainly you're not suggesting it was okay for her to be abused. So why would you say something like that that's just cruel. Just because she says something that hurt your feelings didn't mean that you had to double down on it by being a gazillion times worse, which Riley gains is what you are at this particular moment of time. I'm speaking specifically about you going that far. Having said that, the points that you made to some Biles outside of the Larry Nasa comment that shit gives us all cause to pause. The reality is is that it is a disservice to women in a lot of people's eyes that men transitioning to women get to compete in women's sports. Leah Thomas was a perfect example. Her highest ranking at the time, her highest ranking as a male participant was like five hundred and fifty fourth in the world. He transitioned into being a woman and it was top ten. That speaks for itself. You're born, you got an x Y chromosome. It is what it is. It's different, and the reality is is that there are an abundance of women out there who have a right to feel the way that Raleigh Gains feels Simone Biles. Now, whether it's right for me or somebody else to say, it's a different argument. But in the age that we're living in with Title nine in existence, with us being protective of fairness and equal rights and equal opportunity to women, to then piggyback off of that and follow up on that years later by allowing transgender athletes transitioning from male to female to compete against women doesn't appear to be fair. And when we lean on this argument about fear, fear fear, wait a minute, somebody's not talking about your civil liberties. Somebody's not talking about equality, somebody's not talking about those things. Living, you allowing you to live and let live. They're talking about competition in sports, and if you allow somebody to compete in swimen, it's not gonna stop you from allowing them to compete in boxing. It's not gonna allow you to dis allot of competing in other sports. I remember years ago when Ronda Ralsei joked about how she when she was undefeated before a man, the newness put it on her. No disrespect to Ronda Ralsey, but she was talking about how she could beat Floyd Money Mayweather. Now come on, now we now know what would have happened to her. We knew it before, but we certainly knew after what we saw on a Manda Nuna's do to her and Holly Holmes, by the way, before that, we saw that. We know that in most instances, even though there are women that could beat some men out there, buy and large, the elite women don't deserve to be competing against the elite men. And by deserve, I mean I'm not talking about warranted based on their credentials. I'm talking about based on their gender. You shouldn't be competing against men. I don't want to see a claricians shields in the boxing ring against the Terrence Crawford or Tamorrow Charlow or Canilo Alvarez. I don't want to see one of these ladies in UFC going up against morob I don't want to see them going up against I don't want to see somebody going up against John Jones that's a female. So when we're talking about it from that premise, it's one thing for ladies to look at somebody like me or somebody say who are you? It's another thing entirely for ladies to be looking at ladies acting like ladies don't have a right to feel like there's a disadvantage for them if they're going up against a male transitioning to female. We can't have it all, ladies and gentlemen. We can't handle. We can't have it all. In my if you ask me my preference, I hope a whole bunch of men transitioning to women come out of the woodwork, so we can have men going up against men, women going up against women, and transgenders going up against transgenders. That's fair. But what Riley Gaines is talking about does seem a bit unfair, and she has a right to express those thoughts without Simon Biles coming at her that way just because she lost. She's talking about an unfair advantage, and there's no one that can really dispute that if you are male transitioning to female, that there is an unfair advantage. I don't see women transitioning into men trying to compete in men's sports. If it's happened, and I've missed it, I've apologized, but I've missed it. I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that. Sage still my former colleague at ESPN, a conservative pundit, she had her own thoughts on this matter, and let's read what she had to say here. Easy to say this, Simon Bob, when you only had to compete against fellow women, every one of your Olympic medals came competing against fellow women. Raleigh Gaines was not only forced to compete against a man, but forced to share a locker room with a man. That is sick, shocked, and disappointed that you'd attack another woman who has done nothing but uplift other women. If you think it makes sense to create a league for trans people, go for it, use that huge platform of yours, But to attack Raleigh for what she has done for little girls who want to be the next Simone Biles is sick. Maybe I would have used the other word other than sick or whatever. But it's not like Sage Steel is wrong. Based on what she described and the facts that we know, Raley Gaines is perfectly within our right to have the opinion that she had, as she's an American citizen who's using the courts to make her argument, which is what we do in our democratics. Whether you like it or not, some mobiles, that's just the truth. I respect where you're coming from. I respect your passion the lookout for those you feel are being victimized by a large segment of our population. I understand that. But there are a lot of young ladies out there who were born women that feel this is a flagrantly unfair advantage. What about their feelings? What about theirs?

Now I want to get to a story that caught my attention this past weekend, and that's the class between olympian Simone Biles and Raleigh Gaines over the inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports. Gaines is a former NCAA swimmer turned conservative pundit who joined a lawsuit against the NCAA in March of twenty twenty four. The suit for more than a dozen athletes accused the NCAA of violating their Title nine rights while allowing transgender swimmer Leah Thomas to compete at the national championships in twenty twenty two, Gaines and Thomas tied for fifth, but only Thomas was awarded the fifth place trophy for the two hundred yard freestyle. Fast forward to last week, where Gaines spoke out against another transgender athlete. Gaines targeted a Minnesota state high school league for not allowing comments on their post about the Chaplain Park girls team celebrating the state championships. Chaplin Park's team includes a trans athlete, that prompted Simon Biles to post this about Gains quote, You're truly sick all of this campaigning because you lost the race, straight up sore loser. You should be uplifting the trans community and perhaps finding a way to make sports inclusive, or creating a new avenue where trans people feel safe in sports. Instead you bully them. One thing's for sure is no one in sports is safe with you around end quote. Gains responded to Biles in follow up posts, saying the seven time gold medalist stance on transgender athletes was disappointing and labeled her a quote male apologist at the expense of young girl's dreams end quote. Then she went here, bringing in Larry Nasser, a former national team doctor who sexually abused a multiple US gymnasts, including Biles, under the guise of medical treatment. She wrote, quote all the horrific sexual abuse Simon Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by one man believes women should be forced to strip naked in front of men to validate the man's feelings. You know how many gold medals you'd have if your inclusive dream came true? Zero? End quote, respectfully, Gains, I was with you until that last quote. Respectfully, that's going a bit too far. Talking about transgender women competing in sports is one issue. Using a guy like Larry Nasser, one of the most despicable human beings we've ever witnessed on this earth, who molested and abused numerous women, numerous gymnasts, including Biles, And to go that low gains you lost all credibility. You could have made your argument without going that far. No matter what Simone Biles said to you, how she may disagree with you on your position, did not warrant you to go that far. Certainly you're not suggesting that it was okay for her to be molested. Certainly you're not suggesting it was okay for her to be abused. So why would you say something like that that's just cruel. Just because she says something that hurt your feelings didn't mean that you had to double down on it by being a gazillion times worse, which Riley gains is what you are at this particular moment of time. I'm speaking specifically about you going that far. Having said that, the points that you made to some Biles outside of the Larry Nasa comment that shit gives us all cause to pause. The reality is is that it is a disservice to women in a lot of people's eyes that men transitioning to women get to compete in women's sports. Leah Thomas was a perfect example. Her highest ranking at the time, her highest ranking as a male participant was like five hundred and fifty fourth in the world. He transitioned into being a woman and it was top ten. That speaks for itself. You're born, you got an x Y chromosome. It is what it is. It's different, and the reality is is that there are an abundance of women out there who have a right to feel the way that Raleigh Gains feels Simone Biles. Now, whether it's right for me or somebody else to say, it's a different argument. But in the age that we're living in with Title nine in existence, with us being protective of fairness and equal rights and equal opportunity to women, to then piggyback off of that and follow up on that years later by allowing transgender athletes transitioning from male to female to compete against women doesn't appear to be fair. And when we lean on this argument about fear, fear fear, wait a minute, somebody's not talking about your civil liberties. Somebody's not talking about equality, somebody's not talking about those things. Living, you allowing you to live and let live. They're talking about competition in sports, and if you allow somebody to compete in swimen, it's not gonna stop you from allowing them to compete in boxing. It's not gonna allow you to dis allot of competing in other sports. I remember years ago when Ronda Ralsei joked about how she when she was undefeated before a man, the newness put it on her. No disrespect to Ronda Ralsey, but she was talking about how she could beat Floyd Money Mayweather. Now come on, now we now know what would have happened to her. We knew it before, but we certainly knew after what we saw on a Manda Nuna's do to her and Holly Holmes, by the way, before that, we saw that. We know that in most instances, even though there are women that could beat some men out there, buy and large, the elite women don't deserve to be competing against the elite men. And by deserve, I mean I'm not talking about warranted based on their credentials. I'm talking about based on their gender. You shouldn't be competing against men. I don't want to see a claricians shields in the boxing ring against the Terrence Crawford or Tamorrow Charlow or Canilo Alvarez. I don't want to see one of these ladies in UFC going up against morob I don't want to see them going up against I don't want to see somebody going up against John Jones that's a female. So when we're talking about it from that premise, it's one thing for ladies to look at somebody like me or somebody say who are you? It's another thing entirely for ladies to be looking at ladies acting like ladies don't have a right to feel like there's a disadvantage for them if they're going up against a male transitioning to female. We can't have it all, ladies and gentlemen. We can't handle. We can't have it all. In my if you ask me my preference, I hope a whole bunch of men transitioning to women come out of the woodwork, so we can have men going up against men, women going up against women, and transgenders going up against transgenders. That's fair. But what Riley Gaines is talking about does seem a bit unfair, and she has a right to express those thoughts without Simon Biles coming at her that way just because she lost. She's talking about an unfair advantage, and there's no one that can really dispute that if you are male transitioning to female, that there is an unfair advantage. I don't see women transitioning into men trying to compete in men's sports. If it's happened, and I've missed it, I've apologized, but I've missed it. I haven't seen that. I haven't seen that. Sage still my former colleague at ESPN, a conservative pundit, she had her own thoughts on this matter, and let's read what she had to say here. Easy to say this, Simon Bob, when you only had to compete against fellow women, every one of your Olympic medals came competing against fellow women. Raleigh Gaines was not only forced to compete against a man, but forced to share a locker room with a man. That is sick, shocked, and disappointed that you'd attack another woman who has done nothing but uplift other women. If you think it makes sense to create a league for trans people, go for it, use that huge platform of yours, But to attack Raleigh for what she has done for little girls who want to be the next Simone Biles is sick. Maybe I would have used the other word other than sick or whatever. But it's not like Sage Steel is wrong. Based on what she described and the facts that we know, Raley Gaines is perfectly within our right to have the opinion that she had, as she's an American citizen who's using the courts to make her argument, which is what we do in our democratics. Whether you like it or not, some mobiles, that's just the truth. I respect where you're coming from. I respect your passion the lookout for those you feel are being victimized by a large segment of our population. I understand that. But there are a lot of young ladies out there who were born women that feel this is a flagrantly unfair advantage. What about their feelings? What about theirs?