Winning: Congress passes law to prevent men in women's sports (01-15-2025--Hour3)

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[00:00:28] So let's take a win, people. Let's take a win. The win came out of the House, the U.S. House, yesterday, where two Democrats voted in support of Republican legislation that would bar transgender girls from participating in girls' and women's sports.

[00:00:53] This is how Newsweek is reporting it, by the way. Transgender girls. So, boys. It prevents boys from participating in girls' sports. It prevents men from competing against women in women's sports.

[00:01:14] Two Democrats agreed. I'm not saying the fever has broken, but progress. Let's acknowledge the progress. Also, there was one Democrat abstention. They don't call them abstentions. They call them, they just vote present. And that would be North Carolina's own Don Davis.

[00:01:39] Democrat Don Davis did not know which way he thought about this, so he just said, I'm here. And that counts, I guess. So it passed, and it now heads over to the U.S. Senate, which is controlled by the Republicans, but not a filibuster-proof majority. And so, let's have that debate. Greatest deliberative body on the face of the planet and all. Like, let's hear it.

[00:02:07] Go ahead, Democrats. Let's get you on the record. Let's hear it. Why should men be allowed to punch women in the face? Tell me. For the trophy, for the medal, for money. Like, what is, once we've determined, you know, what you are, now we're just haggling on price, basically. That's where we are. So I would like to know what your position is on this. And that's what this is, secondarily, I would submit, is about.

[00:02:34] Because what it's primarily about is what the bill is about. I never thought we would have to get to this point where we needed a law, but here we are. Thank you, leftists. Newsweek reports that Americans hold complex views on gender and sexual orientation issues. While many polls show acceptance for LGBTQ plus rights, have we dropped all of the other letters?

[00:03:04] Did we drop that? Apparently so. Newsweek has. I've noticed there's been a, there's been an absence of all of the other letters, like the 2IA or 2S, 2SPIRIT, IA. Like, what, they're, because for, like, I don't know, about a year, the acronym kept growing, right?

[00:03:30] They kept adding letters. It was almost a monthly event where there'd be another letter thrown in, kind of like they did with the flag and they added more stripes, which I always thought the rainbow flag did cover all of the colors, because that's what the rainbow is. It's all colors, right? But what do I know? Just a radio host. So, they've apparently dropped a bunch of the other letters. So, they're just, apparently, they're sticking with the five letters and the symbol. LGBTQ plus.

[00:04:01] So, Newsweek says, You know, why would that be?

[00:04:24] I love this, I love this, this vibe, this tone that the reporter, Andrew Stanton at Newsweek, is conveying with this. Like, it's just so nuanced. I just can't understand. Why would people, you know, have more acceptance of rights, but have an erosion of support for men competing against women in women's sports? Gosh, it's, you say you're for LGBTQ plus rights.

[00:04:54] Why, why don't you want the dudes whipping up on the ladies? I don't, taking scholarships and such from them. Spiking volleyballs into their cranium, causing permanent brain damage. What's wrong with you? I thought you were accepting of LGBTQ plus rights.

[00:05:14] A Gallup poll cited in the article from May of 2023 found that 69% of Americans believe transgender people should play on teams that match their sex assigned at birth. Okay, that right there, that's the, dare I call it a dog whistle. That right there is the indication of the reporter's views on this. When you use this term, sex assigned at birth, okay, that is a fabricated construct.

[00:05:46] This is a fad. That's what this is. This phrase is a fad. You are not assigned any kind of sex at birth. You are not. You are born with it. It is inherent in you. Okay? Nobody is there assigning you a sex. The sex is assigned by the DNA, by the genetics.

[00:06:13] This is, I saw somebody was, somebody was talking about this the other day. And they were, basically how modern day leftism has essentially been reduced to, what did they, they, they, they made an analogy with, like the creation of fads, not for the sake of creating a fad, but for the purpose of telling everybody who doesn't quickly adopt the fad, that they are on the outs.

[00:06:44] That's, that's the purpose of all of this stuff. It's to, it's to create like, oh, now all of a sudden, no, you're assigned to sex at birth. Don't you agree? And if you don't immediately agree to this brand new thing that has never been believed before, if you don't jump on board immediately, then, then you are one of the others, right? You get cast out of the inner circle, of the, the in-group.

[00:07:12] And when that happens to people who care very much about that sort of thing, right, their incentives are aligned to just agree, to just fall into line. The name of the law, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, would ban schools receiving federal funding from allowing transgender girls and women playing on women's sports teams, essentially keeping them from participating in sports at most institutions.

[00:07:40] And it does not actually prevent them from participating in sports. They can still participate in sports. They have to participate in the sport that aligns with their sex because that's the way the sports world has been segregated. Why? I don't know. I don't really know why we separate the men and the women in the different sports and categories. It's a mystery. I don't even know.

[00:08:09] It's probably racism, sexism of some kind. Same reasons, I'm sure. The Klan, I think they were the ones that first started segregating by sex, probably. Like, I don't have any data to back that up. But I got to believe that's the case. Democratic representatives Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez, both out of Texas, voted for the legislation.

[00:08:32] I believe both of them, yeah, they're out of Texas, and I believe both of them are in districts that Trump won. And so they have an incentive if they would like to return to Congress. Because most Americans do not believe that men should be competing against women in the women's sports.

[00:08:56] And the reason for that is so obvious and so rooted in, I don't know, a couple of, like, tens of thousands of years of understanding that men and women are different physically, biologically. Men and women are different. And men have different physical advantages. Women have other physical advantages and disadvantages. Pros and cons here, right? Again, I am reminded of the famous Thomas Sowell quote,

[00:09:25] there are no solutions, there are only trade-offs, right? Not that one's a solution, one's not. But, like, they're just trade-offs. Neither one is better or worse than the other. They just have different advantages over one or the other, depending on what it is you are examining. This was understood by human beings up until about six seconds ago. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina, just a quick drive up the mountain?

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[00:12:18] Several Democrat lawmakers raised concerns about what they view as a lack of enforcement mechanism. Does this sound familiar? All of you HB2 veterans, right? How are you going to enforce it? There's no enforcement mechanism. Are you going to be doing inspections of people's parts, right?

[00:12:40] This was the same silly argument that the left used in North Carolina when HB2 passed. Pat McCrory wants to look at people's junk. Like, no. And Pat McCrory's the potty police. Republicans are the potty police. Hey, newsflash, moron. We're all potty police. Did you know that? That's part of being in a society.

[00:13:05] When you see people that are in a space where they are not supposed to be, right? You should say something about that. And that's part of, like, a high-trust society. And that also prevents the evildoers. That prevents people from going into spaces that they're not supposed to be in because they're going to get caught. Right? They're going to look around. I don't see any cops.

[00:13:35] But if they see people that are going in and out of the bathrooms, maybe see a couple of dudes waiting on their wives outside of the restroom at the airport, they may not go in. Because that dude outside the restroom is a deputized body police. See how that works?

[00:13:54] Again, these are things that usually come very easily to most human beings that have walked the face of the planet up until about six seconds ago when the left told us we are stupid. And we just don't understand the way things have actually always been. But they're the first ones. They're sort of the Gnostics. You know, they're the ones with the knowledge that they are now going to proclaim to us. It is very much like a religion, if not a religion.

[00:14:23] It's we're the ones with the knowledge. And then we shall bestow upon you this knowledge. And you shall not question the knowledge because we are the ones that know the knowledge. We are the knowers. So I have actually an audio clip. But I don't have time to play it now. I do have an audio clip. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC. She spoke against the bill. And she laid out some of the arguments against this idea, against the legislation.

[00:14:53] They argued that the bill is actually also going to worsen mental health. Like, I'm not sure it gets worse. People already believe that they are something they are not. So that's already part of a pretty severe mental health issue. So, oh, and by the way, the vast majority of people who are trans have underlying mental health issues. That's the science. The science and data.

[00:15:20] Now, granted, that's an old brand of Gnosticism that came about in 2020, 2021 with the COVID. But I think it still applies.

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[00:16:51] But two Democrats did vote for it, and North Carolina Congressman Don Davis, a Democrat, voted present. A very courageous stance he took there. And so the measure passed. It now heads to the U.S. Senate. But they did have a debate. Here is the argument against the legislation from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Organ is recognized. I'm honored to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from New York, Representative Ocasio-Cortez. Cortez. Thank you so much, Madam Chair, Madam Ranking Member.

[00:17:21] Okay. Here we are today. Republicans who have voted against, consistently, against the Violence Against Women Act, who have taken away the right of all women to choose and have control over their own body. Hmm? What? Who, as women, are bleeding out in parking lots across the country, standing there, allowing

[00:17:46] us to die, now want to pretend today that they care about women. And why? To open up gender and, yes, genital examinations into little girls in this country in the so-called name of attacking trans girls. And to that, today, what we have to say are two words. Not today. Actually, yes, today.

[00:18:13] The majority right now says there's no place in this bill that says it opens up for genital examinations. Well, here's the thing. Okay. There's no enforcement mechanism in this bill. And when there is no enforcement mechanism, you open the door to every enforcement mechanism. Actually, it says the birth certificate controls. So, that's the... It's based on the birth certificate.

[00:18:42] But she's on a roll here, people. She's on a roll. Trans girls are girls. Trans girls. Actually... Um... They are not. That's why you put that word in front of the girls. Did you notice that? If they were girls, you would just say girls. But you're calling them trans girls, which means they're not girls. Right? Again, I'm sorry to be the bearer of the... Well, truth. But, like, this is...

[00:19:11] This is a... This is a... This is a mass delusion. And this desire to be in the in-group. And somewhere inside the Democrat Party, this idea took hold. People didn't want to be in the out-group. So, they just all jumped on. And so, now, I think on this particular topic, I do believe that the fever has broken. I think more and more people are seeing this for what it is.

[00:19:41] And that played a part in the election of Donald Trump again. And for all the folks that are so concerned, thank you for your concern about women for the first time that I've seen. I don't know about y'all. I don't know who's been to gym class lately. But, girls, even if you only believe in two genders, I've played co-ed sports all the time. But what this also opens the door for... Wait, what? Well, that's co-ed.

[00:20:08] See, once again, there's a word for what you're describing. It's called co-ed. It means that co... It means there's two. Right? You're... The different sexes are playing together. And so, that's a different dynamic.

[00:20:22] Like, the reason why you set up a co-ed sports league or match or something is so this way you balance the teams so you don't end up with a team that's all women getting annihilated by a team that's all dudes. Right? You got to mix up the players and try to balance out the players. And why do you do that?

[00:20:46] Because there is an understanding that there is an inherent physiological difference between men and women. Again, breaking news. Men and women are different. They are different in many ways. And that's not to say one's better or worse than the other. Takes two to tango. Literally. Literally. Although, I guess you could do a tango with two men and two dudes. But it does take two. But anyway. Well, okay.

[00:21:14] If I'm using tango as a euphemism for something else. Although, nowadays, I get... Never mind. Okay. So, here... The point is, men and women are different. They are different. And when you talk about your co-ed gym class, right? You're not making the point you obviously think you're making. You're making an argument for the other side. And if she... Like, if you were to strip out just the personal insults and the false assumptions. You don't care about women.

[00:21:45] You have reduced the abortion debate down to whether or not somebody cares about women. And that's bad faith, right? That's ascribing a motive to somebody based on a policy approach difference. I went over this the other day. We have the same goal, theoretically, right? If we have the same goal, then you want to go path A. I want to go path B. And you're like, no, path B is bad.

[00:22:13] That doesn't mean I disagree with your goal. It just means I have a different path. And you shouldn't assume that I want to take path B because I am somehow evil, right? That I don't care or whatever. It's just I'm preferring this other pathway to get there. But this is one of the verbal tricks that the Democrats do. They're never called out on it by the media because the media generally agrees with the Democrats.

[00:22:38] And so they become intellectually flabby, which is why you get up onto the floor of the U.S. House and say a bunch of stupid crap like she is saying. It's for women to try to perform a very specific kind of femininity for the very kind of men who are drafting this bill. And to open up questioning of who is a woman because of how we look, how we present ourselves, and yes, what we choose to do with our bodies. No, no, okay. So hang on.

[00:23:06] The idea of this like holding up a woman as like this feminine object and what women are supposed to look like and all that, that's actually prevalent among trans. Have you noticed this? Like they dress up like this idea that you are talking about in order to quote unquote pass as a female. Do they deserve any recrimination for that?

[00:23:34] Again, if you strip out all of the assumption of motive from her argument here, she doesn't have an argument. And she's just assuming that people are going to go start inspecting genitals, even though it's based on the birth certificate. So much dumbassery packed in two minutes. Thank you once again, AOC. Easy show prep for Pete. All right. If you're listening to this show, you know, I try to keep up with all sorts of current events. And I know you do, too.

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[00:24:55] Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. Email is Pete at the Pete Calendar show dot com. I do have a message here. It's a Pete mail from Jan. AOC blathering on about Republicans hating women and co-ed sports, making it OK for men to compete against women. First, I feel dumber having listened to her.

[00:25:22] Second, unless her co-ed sport allowed the men in her high school to shower with her in the locker room, her argument is half-assed at best. You know, I'm reminded of something my grandfather said to me after I had painted a skateboard up and I said, oh, this doesn't look half bad. And he said, yeah, it looks whole bad. And so I don't know. I think it is full. It is the full posterior of stupidity there.

[00:25:53] I did also. Hang on a second. I got a message also regarding Wilford Riley. I did see him as well. He's a frequent guest on the Vince Coakley show. He's a professor. He does a lot of crime data stats and stuff. And I saw him recently. He was on a podcast that one of my listeners, Monica, told me about called Triggernometry, which is a great podcast.

[00:26:22] And so I've been watching that for a while now. And they recently had on, I think the most recent episode was Wilford Riley. And they were he was going through a lot of the data on not just. Well, he was talking about like cop killings and incarceration and that kind of stuff. But he then broadened it out to talk about sort of this leftist way of looking at things in our society.

[00:26:50] And so, Russ, I think you I think this is what you're talking about, Russ, is that Wilford Riley said that most of the left's social stances boil down to being angry that nature exists and it doesn't line up with how they want it to be. And I think that's true. I do think that is true, I think. And I think Russ is correct. I think it was Wilford Riley.

[00:27:16] I think it was on that episode of Triggernometry where he talked about it, although he may be promoting a book. So maybe he's talked about it in other venues. But that is it. And again, I always feel it important to point this out when I talk about leftists. I try to be very clear. I say leftists. I don't say liberals. Liberals. Liberals mean something else. Leftist means something different than simply being liberal.

[00:27:43] Liberals, I think, do not want to live in a city, for example, that gets burned down in wildfires. Liberals, I think, prefer to have government operating fairly well, providing core services. The problem is they have a very weak spine in standing up to leftists because leftists can be kind of scary. I get it. And leftists are very loud and screamy and ranty and stuff.

[00:28:13] That's why they are of value when you are going out to protest the evil GOP. When you need the shock troops, the ground troops, to march on the Capitol and take over a legislative chamber, you need a lot of the leftists. Maybe you need to create some fiery but mostly peaceful protests where you burn down entire city blocks. Every now and again, they provide that service to the Democrat Party and to liberals, which is why I think they don't ever stand up for this stuff.

[00:28:43] And it's why it requires a strong opposition party because liberals need the course corrective nature of conservatives, of a Republican Party, in order to fight and tamp down that and give the liberals space to say, that's not me. I'm not like that, right?

[00:29:08] And when they get complete control, as we have seen, the leftists then come to dominate, the liberals then cower to the leftists, and then, you know, you end up not staging fire trucks in a neighborhood that's about to catch fire. That kind of stuff. So, yes. He also goes on to say a funny political cartoon on the issue of being assigned sex at birth.

[00:29:35] There's a doctor in a birthing room spinning a lotto cage, a lottery cage, before telling the parents if it's a boy or a girl. Right? Because that's how, I mean, like, why not? Like, so what? If you, like, you go into the hospital, you have your baby, and the doctor's like, I am assigning that baby to spirit as a gender or as a sex or something. Like, oh, those evil doctors assigning sex at birth.

[00:30:06] It's determinative. It's determined by your DNA. And that exists from conception. I'm sorry. Not sorry. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. So, if you'd like, please support them, too, and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecalendershow.com. Again, thank you so much for listening. And don't break anything while I'm gone.