“South Park,” in its prime, was ahead of the cultural curve.
Take “Board Games,” a 2019 episode that poked fun at trans female athletes competing against biological women. A “strong women” athlete, who looked and sounded suspiciously like wrestler Randy “Macho Man” Savage, stormed the competition.
One competitor spoke glowingly of including trans athletes in the events … until she saw the person in question.
Cue the “Macho Man” impression, all glistening muscles and trash talk.
The show made the all-too-obvious point that men and women are biologically different. Saying otherwise may seem kind and compassionate, but it ignores the truth.
Humor matters. So does timing.
That “South Park” episode didn’t end efforts to allow trans women to play against biological women. We saw just that in the 2024 Summer Olympics, where a boxer with male chromosomes destroyed his female opponents.
So the team at The Daily Wire made “Lady Ballers,” a late-2024 comedy about washed-up male athletes who “transition” to win a women’s basketball tournament. The romp built on what “South Park” teased in that earlier installment.
Co-writer/director Jeremy Boreing leaned heavily on his web site’s pundits along with scene stealers like Tyler Fischer to satirize a core element of the trans movement.
Men and women are different. That’s OK. In fact, it’s normal and healthy. “Lady Ballers” used a silly setup to make that point clear.
Editor’s Note: This reporter is a weekly contributor to The Daily Wire.
Now, where is the “Saturday Night Live” sketch on the subject? Has “This Week Tonight” tackled the topic?
Yes, but not how you might expect.
“In our post-election show, I said there are vanishingly few trans girls competing in high school sports anywhere, and even if there were more, trans kids, like all kids, vary in athletic ability, and there is no evidence that they pose any threat to safety or fairness.”
The latter part wasn’t meant to be a joke. It is, though, assuming anyone takes Oliver seriously.
That’s why The Daily Wire should repeat how it approached its 2022 doucmentary “What Is a Woman?” The film let Matt Walsh ask some simple but fair questions about efforts to diminish the differences between the sexes.
The Daily Wire briefly released the film on X for free a year after its release. That gave the documentary a massive PR push and allowed countless X users to make up their own minds on the topic.
Why not do the same for “Lady Ballers” now? The timing couldn’t be better.
Not only has the Left refused to embrace reality when it comes to trans sports, but the WNBA is facing a new challenge to that orthodoxy.
Not one but two men want to join the league to prove that men and women are different. The league recently met to come up with a response. They’ll need more meetings to decide, apparently.
Stephen A. Smith breaks down how the WNBA is now TRAPPED after Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White declared for the league. pic.twitter.com/n1sw7mF4S9
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Some will decry “Lady Ballers” once more as transphobic. That would only draw more publicity to the film and the topic in play.
The latter is the most salient point. We should treat trans people with compassion, even if we disagree with their choices. Trans women still shouldn’t compete against biological women. It’s unfair and dangerous.
It’s not about cruelty but accepting reality on reality’s terms. Sometimes satire is the perfect way to explain that.
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story was posted briefly but removed due to a serious effort in reportage.