Nathaniel Stephey

I think the "trans athlete debate" might be the current culture war that is most emblematic of the primary divide in this country right now. The reality vs the completely fabricated. On one side, you have something that literally just isn't happening: Trans women infiltrating women's sports en masse. It isn't happening. On the other side, you have troglodytic conservatives pretending publicly to care about women and children when they have spent every bit of political cache they have doing the exact opposite. Abolishing women's reproductive rights, stripping away food assistance programs that overwhelmingly support children. Their problem, however, is massively twofold (at minimum): 1. Only the biggest losers on the planet really are willing to go in public and argue about this. Of ALL THE NBA PLAYERS IN HISTORY you have Enes Kanter (sucked, career grifter) and Royce White (scared of planes, can't win an election, career grifter) stumping for your cause. They are loud and FOX News, Outkick, et al. will platform them, but no one actually likes them. Royce White couldn't even win a primary this year. Not exactly inspiring figures with legitimate rallying cries. 2. Republican men only have so much time and energy to pretend they care about women's sports. This group deviates from the strange, obsessed anti-pedophile crowd who can spend all hours of the day and night pretending their core value set is to protect children, but worship our dual threat pedophile and pedophile protector president. Those guys have some real energy, but you're just not going to get these morons to pretend they're watching women's sports. Their argument on the youth level leans on this family man protecting the young persona, but that putters out when these loser weirdo's daughters progress into adolescence and their focus becomes no longer about "protecting" these young girls, but turning the young women they've become into the suppressed, meek wives they want them to now be. Giant losers, all of them.