Oh, the solution is they do not participate in sports. That is They can't play sports. They can.
That is that what I said, Jillian. I said they cannot. You didn't let me.
They can't. A man cannot participate in women's sports. It really don't make a difference if you say he or she to me.
I'm going to make this very simple for you, Dan. Men should not play sports against women. I'm not going to get into all the that's going on out here in the world today.
Uh if anybody think that, I think they're stupid. Uh I'm not. Britney Grryer is missing from Team USA's 2026 roster, while Caitlyn Clark is in Germany representing the United States.
On the surface, that sounds like a simple basketball decision, but the timing has turned it into something [music] much bigger. Grryer has been one of the most recognizable names in women's basketball. And the women that look like biological men physically and biologically should not play with women.
There was a reason why they did this in the beginning. It's the beginning of time. There's a reason why boys and girls are separated because of physical differences.
Watching all light is moving toward Clark and toward a debate that has been growing around the WNBA. And once you look at what happened next, this suddenly stops looking like just another roster decision. Before we get into it, drop your take in the comments and subscribe if you want to follow where this story goes.
Stop it. This is a hard life ahead of them. Oh my god.
Where do you And I don't think that it's I mean what is the solution then? The solution is they do not participate in sports. The numbers make Griner's situation even more interesting.
In 2025, she averaged 9. 8 points, 5. 2 rebounds, and 1.
2 blocks per game while starting 25 of the 39 games she played. In Berlin, a lot of people were too like you take the issue like trans. You don't want to be bullied online by people by if you say what you feel.
Like you think about the athletes that were too too timid to say they didn't want to change in front of a guy. They didn't want to share the risk with the, you know, the Riley Gains, the people who did take the risk. But what you're seeing is what it it's it's a natural thing when you see somebody that you know taking a risk, you're more likely to share that risk with them.
And so dealt with an injury during the season. and Team USA is already looking toward the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. So, the question isn't simply whether Grryer is still a major name.
The bigger question is whether Team USA is already beginning to move toward a different era with younger players being evaluated for what comes next. What I said, the reason why people call Sophie Cunningham MAGA Barbie and people are starting to fill the arenas to watch her and Caitlyn Clark. She's not apologizing for saying that there should be [music] no men in this woman's sport.
It's caused an absolute crisis. People are losing their mind. Photo of Britney Grryer, a full beard after being released from a Russian prison.
The WNBA's Britney Grryer is a man. And then Caitlyn Clark entered the picture in a way that was almost impossible to ignore. Clark became the first American player since Dawn Staley in 1998 to record a double-digit assist total.
And after the victory over China, Fiba named her player of the game. Where do they compete? That is not my problem.
Of course, they can compete anywhere they want, but they do not compete with girls. Carol, do you agree that No, wait. You mean there's not playgrounds where they can play.
There's not other trans kids they can participate with. That matters because this wasn't simply about popularity anymore. Clark was producing on the court while attracting an entirely new audience to women's basketball.
Suddenly, every decision involving Team USA was being viewed through a much larger spotlight. And that created the perfect environment for the controversy that came next. Position that the Olympics have said they are not allowing trans women anymore competing in women's sports.
Um I I imagine I imagine this is going to be an issue in the Democratic primaries. It's another one where you can make Democrats die on the hill that they died on last time. If it's an issue within the Democratic party, that's their own damn problem.
Biological men should not be competing [music] against biological girls in sports. Period. [applause] That controversy had already found a very public face in Sophie Cunningham.
Cunningham openly argued that biological differences matter when it comes to women's sports, [music] and the reaction was immediate. She faced backlash, booze, protests, and even an onc court confrontation. But then something unexpected happened of her career.
It it really don't make a difference if you say he or she. To me, like when I'm out in public, like my teammates sometimes will get mad if somebody call me a he, but I'm just like, I don't care. Like, you know, we go sit down to get some food and they're like, "Sir, what do you want?
" I'm like, "Yeah, let me get the steak. Medium well. Thank you.
" I'm in TSA and I'm going through TSA and you know the guy pats me down so I could go through. I'm cool. I didn't have people come running like, "No, it's a girl.
" I'm like, "Hey, you're making it awkward. Like, I'm just trying to get through. Whoever could pat me down the fastest, I don't care.
" [music] I've had the opposite where someone was like, "Hey, you know, it's just against the rules. Like, he can't pat you down. Like, she has to pat you down.
" And then she walks up and she's looking at me. She go looking at my chest, looking me up and down, looking at my chest, trying to look at the ID, making it awkward, or they'll [music] ask me, "You really a girl? " Nah, I'm lying.
Cunningham doubled down with her famous I said what I said message, and the post reportedly received around 950,000 likes. Whether people agreed with her or not, the reaction proved one thing. This debate had moved far beyond basketball.
It had become a major cultural argument that the WNBA could no longer easily ignore. Olympics. That is a fact.
Oh, I don't get to participate with girls cuz I feel like I'm a girl. Tough This is not promoting inclusion. This is a accommodation for a guy in a female category.
Imagine if you did this in other women's sports. How would you how would that be possible? But this is this is telling you what everybody knows.
That shared podium tells you everything. Then Greg Gutfeld pushed the argument into an area that made the debate even more difficult to dismiss. He pointed to a shared podium in track and field and argued that the results highlighted differences in strength, speed, and jumping ability after puberty decision.
But but they are being prevented from playing on the team that matches their gender identity. Correct. That's the effect.
So, let me use your example from earlier. You said there is a cisgender woman. She could play on the team she wants, right?
There's a boy who identifies as a girl. He can't play on the team he wants. Take that same boy and switch his gender identity, but say he still wanted to play on the girls team.
Say he was a very unathletic boy. He likewise couldn't play on the team. So, it's not the gender identity that's keeping him off the girls team.
It's his biological sex. His gender identity is wholly irrelevant to it. Now, I agree with you.
There's a very significant disperate impact on transgender individuals by this law because they're the boys who are most likely to want to. Have we said that Title 9 never covers that kind of disperate impact in terms of its discriminatory effect? Uh well, it certainly doesn't cover dispser impact period because it uses but in terms of its discriminatory effect.
I'm just trying to understand it. Is there something to this notion that some that differential treatment in effect in this way could be something that title N cares about? A I don't think title 9 covers disparate impact even on the basis of sex and it certainly doesn't cover disparate impact on the basis of gender identity.
Okay. His argument was essentially about whether biological differences can create an unfair competitive advantage in women's sports and that opened the door to a much bigger question. If biology matters in other sports where physical performance determines the result, where exactly should the line be drawn in professional basketball is home, you're going to have a tremendous platform, but where is that going to be on your radar in terms of advocating for athletes, all athletes, transgender athletes to be able to play?
Oh, I mean, that that ranks high on the on the list of of things that I'll be fighting for and speaking up against. You know, everyone has everyone deserves the right to play. The WNBA's Britney Grryer is a man.
That's not a woman. That's not a female. That's not even a trans person.
That is a man. Britney Grryer is in fact a man. From there, the conversation moved directly into Title 9 and eligibility rules.
The debate was no longer simply about individual players. People were asking how leagues should define eligibility, what standards should be applied, and whether biological sex or gender identity should determine participation. Out all of them talking about No, no, no.
You don't get to do that. Don't talk to me about mental illness on the side of the right. But you had people talking about transgender without parental consent and and men transitioning to women and playing in women's sports and thinking that that was okay and people could be incarcerated and they could have sex changes and stuff like that.
Uhuh. No, no, no. You don't get to sit up there and just point to the right about that and not act like there wasn't craziness on the left, too.
I'm a moderate. I'm a moderate who primarily votes Democrat. That created a problem for organizations trying to satisfy completely different sides of the argument.
One side demanded inclusion while the other demanded competitive fairness. And the more officials tried to avoid defining the issue clearly, the more pressure they faced to explain exactly what their rules were supposed to accomplish. Should biological men play in the WNBA?
The answer should be no. That should be the answer from everybody. Should biological people that were born men play in the WNBA?
No. Full stop. Any other thing?
There is no Whoa. [music] So, are you saying transgenders don't have a right to man? Shut the up.
I ain't saying nothing like that. You ask me a specific question. Do transgenders belong in the WNBA if you're born a biological man.
No. Okay. Eventually, the pressure reached the WNBA itself.
A task force and lead discussions were supposed to help address eligibility and the growing controversy. But according to the commentary surrounding the issue, the debate still had not produced a clear answer. I have two little girls who play sports, who play soccer.
I they're young and I see how much hard work they put into their sport. and only to have a a boy or a man who they're biologically built different to come in and just play better and take your spot. Look, if you want to play in a trans league, go ahead.
But not in girls sports. Don't try to erase women and girls. That created another problem because uncertainty doesn't make the controversy disappear.
It usually makes it bigger. And once questions about potential lawsuits entered the conversation, this stopped being something the league could simply treat as social media noise. Suddenly there were legal, competitive and reputational consequences all sitting on the same table.
The tournament title nine in the early 70s was something that was it was a major event in feminism that we finally have this law that says at colleges right and I think high schools too but definitely colleges [music] women's sports have to be given equal to men's sports so that women aren't get you know and this led to the WNBA and lots of other stuff. this seems to be the opportunity. And then the story exploded outside the WNBA.
Independent sports commentators, podcasters, and major online personalities began covering the controversy from completely different angles. That mattered because Caitlyn Clark had already brought millions of new eyes to women's basketball. A women's league run by women decided to decided a shirt wearing [music] saying for the girls was too offensive.
Meanwhile, State Farm Arena put up a pro protrans message on the big big screen, but won't allow the shirt. the states of [music] basic biological truth. What is so offensive or scary about this message?
The genetic message of gender. The genetic message of biological sex. Wow.
The WNBA doesn't know what a woman is. The shirts that reference the XX chromosomes are banned. Every controversy connected to the league could now spread far beyond its traditional audience.
What might once have been a niche sports policy discussion suddenly became a mainstream debate. And with more commentators joining in, the pressure on the league and its players only became stronger. American record.
Britney Griner's voice. What you said was effing white girl. Is it possible that's what you said?
No. [music] Would never say that. Britney Griner called Caitlyn Clark trash and effing white girl.
Trash. Effing white girl. Britney Griner, who I can't stand.
Sad that she's a Baylor grad. She called her a trash [music] ex expletive white girl. That was the lip reading.
Yeah. Trash white girl. That is where Gutfeld's central argument comes back into focus.
His position was that women's sports exist to provide a fair competitive environment and that physical differences cannot simply be ignored when they directly affect performance. Could this culminate you in you actually playing in the WNBA? It better.
Why wouldn't they let me play? It's completely completely bigoted to deny my trans existence. He used examples involving strength, size, and athletic ability to argue that the issue isn't about attacking individual athletes.
It is about deciding what rules should exist before competition begins. And that argument became even more explosive when commentators started imagining what would happen if an elite male athlete entered a women's professional league. What does it actually mean to be equal?
You know what I mean? Like women are actually equal to men, then there would be no WNBA, would there? You would just be good enough to play in the NBA with us.
Or here's another idea that's going to be very controversial. You could shut the up. And that brings the entire story back to where it started.
Grryer is absent from the 2026 Team USA roster. Clark is producing on the international stage. and Sophie Cunningham's earlier comments have suddenly become part of a much larger conversation if Clark's head coach Stephanie White well she didn't want biological men kicked out of women's sports and she made that pretty clear I don't know that I would say that I'm educated enough from a scientific standpoint uh I don't ever believe that exclusion is an answer I just don't um I I do think um you know when we think about various levels of sport um various governing bodies of sport and things that go into that like I said I'm not I'm not educated enough at the different levels.
Um I know growing up I played with the boys all the time. Commentators continue asking whether the WNBA has clearly defined the boundaries of its eligibility rules. The most interesting part is that the debate doesn't appear to be fading.
If anything, Caitlyn Clark's growing influence has given the entire issue an even bigger audience. So now the question is simple. Was Sophie Cunningham actually ahead of the conversation from the beginning?
Competitions, the bill to keep biological males out of women's sports fails. How do you rationalize this? How does this how do you go in front of your people and say, "Yeah, I want I want dudes in women's locker room.
" You think this debate is going to become even bigger for the WNBA? Let me know what you think in the comments. And if you want more videos breaking down the biggest stories and controversies in women's basketball, subscribe to the channel.
