Democrats in disarray over trans athletes (03-07-2025--Hour1)

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[00:00:45] Much like Republicans are always in a civil war. Democrats are never in a civil war inside their party, but Republicans are always like in a civil war, according to the media branding.

[00:00:58] But Democrats are always in disarray. And they are very sensitive to that media narrative, that they're in disarray. Democrats in disarray. But I kind of feel like they are in disarray over the transgender athlete issue.

[00:01:17] And I have said this many times. I have sympathy for them on this. On many things, because if I had to argue their positions, I don't think I could do any better because their arguments are stupid.

[00:01:36] I'm sorry. I mean, well, they are. They don't make any sense. They're easily dismantled. And the reason they don't get them dismantled publicly as often as they should is because they have the institutions of the media and Hollywood that protect them. And they're allowed to just say a silly slogan. They're allowed to just launch an ad hominem personal attack on somebody.

[00:02:06] And then that's sufficient for the media to tell whatever story they want to tell. Usually Republicans are bad about this particular issue or really any particular issue. And what that has done to Democrats is it has made them intellectually flabby. Right. They are they're out of practice. This is why I always say unchallenged ideas are easy to hold.

[00:02:33] If you think something and never say it out loud, you can hold that idea for your entire life. Because no one's ever challenging it. When you are challenged on your idea, then it forces you to have to defend it. And when you do that, right, resistance to pressure builds strength. And so you get pressure tested on your idea, on your opinion.

[00:03:02] And you either emerge with a, you know, a better understanding of your own opinion or you've identified through that process some weaknesses in your opinion. And, you know, the rational person would go back and reassess whether or not their opinion is correct. Correct. Because I don't know about you, but I do not hold really any opinions that I know to be false.

[00:03:31] I generally don't hold those. I think most people don't hold opinions that they know are not true. Everybody thinks their opinions are true. So otherwise, why would you hold them? Right. Why would you believe something that you know is not true? So.

[00:03:49] With the transgender athlete issue, they have now found themselves between a rock and a hard place because they have been on the wrong side of this. But their base requires them to be so. Even though the vast majority of Americans are on the other side of the issue. And it started, well, it started a while ago, but it really, it came to a head last week. I want to say what's today.

[00:04:20] Well, no, today's the seventh. So this was, yeah, Monday. They, in the U.S. Senate, they blocked a measure that sought to ban transgender girls. This is according to CBS News. So they're writing it in the preferred narrative of the leftist activist base. Because, as I mentioned earlier, right, these institutions are captured by the progressive leftists.

[00:04:49] And so whenever the leftists say, hey, we're now going to call, you know, straight men, cisgender men. And we're going to call straight women, cisgender women. Like, we're going to apply these terms in order to, you know, dilute what it means to be a man. Like, there is a definition of what a man is. It is an adult human male. That is a man.

[00:05:15] An adult human female is a woman. Like, these are very simple definitions. They've served the human race very well for, well, basically since the beginning of time, really. And so they have been put into this position by the forcing of the issue through legislation at the U.S. Senate.

[00:05:40] And they could not bring themselves to say, no, we don't want men playing against women in sports. Right? And unless it's, you know, co-ed, you know, something like that. But if you are, you know, going to go into a boxing ring against a woman, you should also be a woman. Not a transgender woman because that's a man. That's still a man. And that is not assigned at birth.

[00:06:07] It is determined by genetics. And you can doctor up the hormones and such. And you can do certain things chemically. You can even castrate the guy. But it's still a man because that is determined by the genetics. And I don't say any of this to be mean. I say this because it is the truth.

[00:06:36] And I'm not going to surrender truth to the postmodernist leftists. I refuse to cede the ground. C-E-D-E, not S-E-E-D. I refuse to surrender this territory because it's about truth. That's the larger issue at play on this topic. And it is no more stark than in athletics.

[00:07:01] It is the thing that when I was growing up, we would watch the Olympics. And we would be watching all of the Soviet Union athletes to make sure that the females were actually female. Because the understanding was that if they could smuggle in a man to compete against the women, then they would win the medals.

[00:07:30] That was always understood until about a minute ago. So in the Senate, this bill comes up and it fails to get the 60 votes required to avoid the legislative filibuster, basically. They're not actually having – which, see, now, if I'm in the Senate, I force –

[00:07:55] If I'm the Republican Senate leadership, I would force Democrats to actually filibuster. I would force them to have to stand up there for as long as possible to filibuster rather than just say, you know, we're not going to vote for cloture, whatever, 60 votes, no, whatever. Like, if you're going to do a filibuster, you should actually do the filibuster. I've said this for years.

[00:08:23] The 51 to 45 vote fell short of the 60 votes required to advance the bill. They call it cloture. So Democrats were not even willing to advance the bill for the vote, okay? Because they didn't want to be on record as voting against the bill, although refusing to advance the bill is actually voting against the bill. Republicans have 53 seats in the Senate.

[00:08:51] They needed to get seven Democrats to join them. They were not able to do that, obviously. The bill was called the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. It would prevent schools from receiving federal funding if they allow transgender girls and women to participate in female athletic programs. It adds that a person's sex, quote,

[00:09:13] quote, shall be recognized based solely on a person's reproductive biology and genetics at birth, which, by the way, can be determined with a cheek swab. And that's going to be important to keep in mind as I go through the ridiculous argument that is made by the left on this.

[00:09:35] And if, you know, you were in North Carolina during our bathroom bill year when HB2 was passed about bathroom access, you will remember this argument from the left, which is about potty police. They want to inspect everybody's junk. No, that's I don't know why that's where your mind goes on this thing. Like immediately wanting to look in people's pants.

[00:10:01] I don't understand why you think that's the only way to determine this, because, in fact, it's not. As you guys say, right, you say that looking in the pants does not determine what their gender is. Yet you think for some reason that that Republicans want to look in everybody's pants. And that's not the case. It's a simple cheek swab that will do the trick here, because, again, it's determined by genetics. Here's a great idea.

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[00:11:52] A few years ago, the Olympics added a sport mixed relay race in swimming. You have a team with two men and two women, and they do relays, right? Teams could go in whatever order they wanted to. So there were instances where men and women would be swimming at the same time, competing. And that is when you can really tell the difference in the athleticism of men versus women. Men would be starting like a third of a lap behind,

[00:12:22] and then would catch up to the female swimmers before that leg of the relay was over. And then he has a quote, which is attributed to Lincoln. You know, if you call the tail of a dog a leg, how many legs does a dog have? And the answer is four. Just because you call the tail a leg doesn't make it so.

[00:12:47] So the House passed a measure in January to block men from competing in women's sports. Last month, Donald Trump signed an executive order to ban girls and women from competing. Sorry. See, when you take out the word transgender girls, then it doesn't make any sense. Why would you ban girls and women from competing on female sports teams?

[00:13:14] No, you're banning men from competing on female sports teams. Schools not in compliance jeopardize any federal funding that they receive. The order also affects U.S. visa policies for athletes who travel to the country to compete in the Olympics or other sporting events. CBS News reporting here, those in favor of the bans contend that transgender athletes have biological advantages that are unfair and unsafe for other girls and women. For other girls and women.

[00:13:44] See, like CBS is trying to tell you that two plus two is five. Those in, see, the people who favor the bans. In other words, like 70 to 80 percent of the American public. Right? That it's just, it's just our opinion here. It's just a belief that somehow men have, you know, greater lung capacity, bigger muscle mass, greater bone density. I mean, it's just, these are just thoughts that we have.

[00:14:12] Opponents of such policies have argued that a ban opens the door, here it is, to intrusive genital examinations of girls, particularly those who do not fit stereotypical feminine appearances. This is a BS argument. As I said, this can be determined with a cheek swab. Also with a birth certificate, which is why, by the way, you should not be able to change your birth certificate based on how you feel.

[00:14:42] This idea, I was watching Piers Morgan's Uncensored the other day, and he had that left-wing moonbat, JoJo from Jersey. And he asked her, so, like, if I just say I'm a woman, am I a woman? And she said, eventually, after he, like, kept dragging her back to the question because she refused to answer it, and she said, yeah, that's it, then you're a woman. You just say you feel like a woman, and that's it, you're a woman. And that's insanity.

[00:15:13] Polling, and by the way, this does not mean that you should bully people and attack people and whatever, and ostracize or discriminate. That's not, that's not what I advocate, nor should anybody. But it is to say that there is truth here, and you will not get me to pretend that there isn't. Polling in recent years has found a lack of support for transgender athletes participating on sports.

[00:15:41] That's an interesting way to frame it, right, CBS? Or as I like to call it, CBS News. Polling has found a lack of support for transgender athletes participating on sports teams that match their gender identity. Right, in other words, the majority of Americans oppose men playing on women's teams. So that was the first problem that Democrats ran into.

[00:16:08] The second problem they ran into on this was at the Don't Call It State of the Union address, Trump's address to the joint session. Where Lake and Riley, or sorry, Riley Gaines, the former University of Kentucky swimmer, she's become a champion on this issue. And because she, remember, was beaten by, what was his name, Michael Thomas or something?

[00:16:35] Or no, yeah, whatever, but then changed his name to Leah Thomas and then like obliterated the field. Won a bunch of stuff, a bunch of these competitions. And she pointed out that Democrats kneeled for eight minutes and 46 seconds. Remember that? After the George Floyd death up in Minnesota.

[00:17:04] They wore pink to protest Donald Trump and his, quote, anti-women policies, which is just abortion. Right? But they also were the same women that voted or, you know, women that were wearing pink at the speech. But they also voted unanimously to keep boys and girls sports. This is what I mean. They don't have a coherent message on this stuff. It makes it very difficult.

[00:17:33] Even just when you think, you know, like, oh, John Fetterman, he said something that, like, makes me wonder if that, if he's like the sanest Democrat of them all. And then he says something like this. He went on Twitter and he said, The small handful of trans athletes in Pennsylvania in a political maelstrom deserve an ally. And I am one. Depersonalized as they them in a political ad, but are just schoolchildren.

[00:17:58] Empty show votes or cruelty on social media aren't part of a thoughtful, dignified solution. He voted against this bill as well in the U.S. Senate. So, lest you think that Fetterman, you know, that you can work with him on this issue. Apparently not. He's an ally for them. And that's why what happened on Gavin Newsom's very first podcast, governor of California,

[00:18:27] everybody expects him to run for president. That's why what happened on this on his first episode where he had Charlie Kirk on, conservative activist guy, podcaster guy, Charlie Kirk. That's what makes Gavin Newsom's comments so incredibly chaotic for the Democrat Party now. Because Newsom said that he thinks it's an issue of fairness.

[00:18:54] And he's not in favor of men playing on women's teams. Outrage is ensuing. News Talk 1110-993-WBT. 704-570-1110. Email is Pete at the Pete Callender Show dot com on Twitter at Pete Callender. Let's head over to the phones. We'll talk with Mark. Hello, Mark. Welcome to the show. Hey, Pete. This is Mark.

[00:19:22] I gave you that 89% rating that time and said you ought to be proud of that. Remember that? Uh, vaguely. I get a lot of compliments and even more insults. So, it, uh... Listen, here's the deal. So, like, I grew up as a Democrat all my life. And then I saw... In fact, um... You remember when Joe Biden back in the 80s was in a big demographic field for the president? Mm-hmm.

[00:19:52] Yeah, and he had to drop out because of the plagiarism? Well, I remember that. I just remember as a stupid, you know, young person, I said, hey, that guy, he looks kind of the part. Mm-hmm. He sounds cute. A little pugilistic. Um... So, I voted for him. This presidency of his, he couldn't have done anything more wrong than he did.

[00:20:17] I mean, 100% of everything he did seemed to be just the wrong, wrong thing. So, my question, where are the Democrats like me who have nothing in common with these people? They voted for Trump. Are we dying off? They all voted for Trump. That's the problem the Democrat Party has now, is they have lost the demographic that you are in. Well, that's for sure. Yeah.

[00:20:46] And they don't know how to get you back. And they, because they have built their party around the demands of the most far left wing in their activist base. It's a problem. It's a real problem for them. It is amazing. I look at my wife and I say, well, are they purposely trying to destroy this country? Who would do that? Leftists. Not even the communists. No, no. Commies. Communists would. Leftists. That is precisely what they want.

[00:21:17] Yeah. They believe. That's why, I mean, that's why you have, you have a belief, you know, among the left that, and I keep in mind, I differentiate between leftists and liberals. They're different. Leftists. And the problem is that liberals inside the Democrat Party, liberals do not stand up to the leftists very often. And so they end up getting dragged around by those leftists. And the liberals are okay with that as long as it means electoral victories.

[00:21:45] And so now we're seeing what happens when they can't even deliver anymore on the electoral victories. And so, you know, will liberals now start pushing back on the leftists inside their party? But leftists do, in fact, want to, dare I say, fundamentally transform America. And you don't do that to a country that you love. No, no. So? And you just reminded me of when I noticed that Bernie, what's that guy's name?

[00:22:14] Bernie Frank? Barney Frank, yeah. Barney Frank. I remember when he was running for president as a Democrat, and he was doing pretty good. And I told my wife then, I said, who is this joke? Why did he get to run as a Democrat? Why shouldn't he run as what he elected as a socialist? Oh, Bernie Sanders. Yeah, Bernie Sanders. Yeah, he's the Vermont senator. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:22:40] Well, he was there as a sort of pressure release valve for those leftists in the Democrat Party in the primary system. And then the party locked him out, right? Like, and then, of course, he endorsed Hillary Clinton and said enough about her emails, right? He didn't seem to mind so much. He threw all of his weight back behind the Democrat Party. So that's why I say he was kind of a pressure release valve for the socialists. But they got to keep them as part of the party because they're part of the coalition. Yeah. Mark, I'm kidding. Yeah, man.

[00:23:09] I appreciate the call, sir. All right. Take care. All right. You too. So from the vote on Monday against protecting female athletics, get this. This is Axios now. Senate Democrats want to leave the issue of trans athletes playing in women's sports to state and local governments.

[00:23:36] So we finally found something that Democrats are like, no, no, no. Let the states decide. We don't know. We don't want federal regulation on this. We don't need it. Here's the problem. Okay. Here's the problem with this. Number one, there are federal laws that apply here, right? You got funding that's attached to like the schools and Democrats. You guys are really to blame for this because you hook up all of these schools and nonprofits

[00:24:03] and all sorts of agencies, state, local governments and stuff to the federal spigot. And once you do that, they become dependent on the revenue. And then whoever controls the federal spigot, right, they get to dictate the rules you have to live by in order to keep getting the money. So that's the structure. And then when somebody like Trump says, hey, dismantle the Department of Education, you're like, we can't do that.

[00:24:32] We have to keep a national agency for education. But on this issue, they're like, oh, no, no, no. Kick it back down because because why? So they can make their own rules. See, they want federalism when a Republican is writing the rules. They don't want it. When they write the rules, they want to write rules for everybody. Everybody in the country. But then if somebody they disagree with takes control and wants to write different rules, then it's like, oh, no, no, we should have federalism again.

[00:25:04] That's the first problem. There already are federal rules that are attached here. So you can't just say, oh, kick it down to the locals. Here's the other problem. We don't believe you. We don't believe you. Because as soon as you get back in power, you're going to turn around and re-implement the very things that you say you want to implement. We don't believe you. Just like we don't believe you right now when you say or you try to avoid talking about packing the U.S. Supreme Court. We know you want to do that.

[00:25:33] But as soon as you get back into power, you want to pack the court, add more seats, stuff in your people. And this way you get complete control. Democrats privately admit that they need a sharper response to counter Republican attacks on their support for transgender rights, especially when it involves sports. See, they know they have a problem on this issue. They just don't know how to combat it because there isn't a good way.

[00:26:02] That's the spoiler alert here. There isn't a good argument here. That's why you can't make a good argument. The Democratic messaging effort has now been spearheaded by Senator Tammy Baldwin, Democrat out of Wisconsin. She is the first openly gay person elected to the Senate. She faced a barrage of attacks on this topic in her 2024 re-election campaign. She feared Republicans were flooding the zone with their attacks without Democrats having a clear and consistent rebuttal.

[00:26:32] Well, that is true. They don't have they do not have that. Republicans in Washington are saying they know better than parents and local school districts, she says in a statement. They are wrong. I trust parents, schools and local sports leagues to make these decisions for their children. Unless, of course, we want to trans your kid without your knowledge, in which case then butt the hell out. Right? This is why you cannot make these arguments any longer because you've made the alternative

[00:27:02] argument for too long. We don't believe you. Now you want to leave it up to parents? The same parents that you want to cut out? The same parents you want to keep in the dark when their kids are socially transitioning in school? The same parents that you want to keep in the dark if their kid leaves their state, heads to California and wants to undergo hormone replacement therapy? And you don't want to tell the parents about that? Like, I don't believe you. Nobody should.

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[00:28:29] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. News Talk 1110 99.3 WBT. Runaround, I believe. 704-570-1110. Email is Pete at thepetecalendorshow.com. So Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, expected presidential candidate, launched a podcast podcast. And to his credit, he brought Charlie Kirk on.

[00:28:59] So he's having guests that don't just agree with him. Um, and in this first episode, Charlie Kirk presses him and he finally, Newsom finally breaks with progressives by saying transgender participation in sports was quote, an issue of fairness. He called it deeply unfair.

[00:29:25] Some Senate Democrats agreed with Newsom on the sports fairness issue issue, but they said to be careful that the overall conversation doesn't demonize transgender athletes. They also want to avoid federal overreach. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, sure. They do. Senator Gary Peters from Michigan.

[00:29:52] Democrats said, we let local schools make those kinds of decisions. There's no one set of facts, you know, on this there is buddy. Uh, yeah, on this issue, there really is one set of facts. That's what I mean. You can't defend this stuff. It's, it is logically incoherent. And this is why people were going along at first because they didn't want to, as was just mentioned, you know, don't demonize, right?

[00:30:20] This is called suicidal empathy. Like I'm empathetic. I don't want to offend. I'm going to try to be nice. I don't want to be called names, trying to go along and all this. And you keep on pushing with federal overreach. You guys did this. You don't get to cry now about, oh, federal overreach. You push this.

[00:30:45] U.S. House of Representatives minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, repeated the unsubstantiated argument that the Defending Women and Girls in Sports Act would have unleashed sexual predators on girls. Have you heard this argument? What is this argument? What is it? This. Right. Anybody who's paying attention to this issue is probably thinking, what the hell are they talking about? I'll explain.

[00:31:12] Jeffries first made this argument the day the House voted on the bill back in January, joining other prominent Democrat representatives, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The argument prompted harsh backlash among some registered Democratic voters and was not repeated leading up to the Senate vote. OK, so in the House, they were making this argument that it's going to unleash sexual predators on girls. Senators did not make this argument.

[00:31:40] But Jeffries raises the argument again when he was asked about Newsom's comments. He said, quote, I haven't seen the comments. What Democrats opposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the United States of America. When Jeffries and other House Democrats pushed the argument in January, it was not rooted in any language within the bill. Republicans insisted. Here it is.

[00:32:07] No genital inspection would ever be necessary. And that proof of birth gender could simply be determined by a birth certificate. That's been their argument. The Democrats thought this was the way to argue against men playing in women's sports, robbing them of opportunities and scholarships and such and world records. Right. They thought this was the best argument they had was that it's going to require.

[00:32:33] These types of private part inspections, and that's going to unleash sexual predators. When again, birth certificate would suffice and a cheek swab would prove what your gender is, what your sex is. They are the same. It's not your personality. Like, oh, she's a tomboy. That doesn't mean she thinks she's a boy. Doesn't mean she is a boy. That's just her personality. And she's perfect the way she is.

[00:33:01] You don't have to change her physical body and her hormone levels. This was one of the most, I thought, powerful things that Trump said during that speech was that every child, you are perfect the way you are. You are as God made you. That is the message that every kid needs to hear. You are perfect the way you are. Right. Well, not perfect.

[00:33:30] Like, you can obviously always improve yourself, better yourself, whatever. Like, you can always improve. Yes, that's true. But there's nothing wrong with you. Right. It's okay. You are loved. The argument that the bill, so that's when they say that that's what this sexual predator argument is. It's a lie.

[00:33:55] The argument that the bill would empower sexual predators to give genital examinations to young girls would be not trusting local governments. So you have the senators that are saying we should leave this to the locals to decide. And you got the house saying, well, the locals are just going to hire sex predators. See what I mean? You guys are in disarray. You don't even know what you're arguing.

[00:34:23] And again, I have sympathy for them on this because I wouldn't be able to figure out a logical argument for it either. By the way, 80% of the American people, including more than 60% of Democrats, do not want men in women's sports. Also, Newsom might have created some disarray in his own house because his wife, known as the gender neutral first partner in California. That's what they call her.

[00:34:53] First partner. Jennifer Sebel Newsom. Apparently, she's a big LGBT activist, very publicly supporting sports equity, a euphemism for encouraging all children, including trans kids, right, to compete in the athletics. She also worked. She founded rather the Representation Project nonprofit to battle sexism through film education,

[00:35:23] research and activism. And it refers to itself as the nation's leading gender watchdog organization where they basically crank out a bunch of movies and films with her husband. And then they sell them to local schools through a nonprofit. She made $1.4 million by charging schools to screen the films.

[00:35:49] Films like The Mask You Live In that aggressively push students to question their gender identity. In The Mask You Live In, the materials that support the film, like so you watch the film and here's some support materials to hand out to the children. And do you remember this concoction? The genderbred person. Remember that one? The genderbred person. That was her group.

[00:36:15] Gavin's wife runs this organization. Yeah. I don't know if he's going to be sleeping on the couch. Not sure. After he made this comment. But I think he's trying to tack back to a moderate center position in order to preserve his electoral prospects in a presidential run. We'll see if it works. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening.

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