{"id":400370,"date":"2021-06-03T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=400370"},"modified":"2021-06-04T15:44:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T19:44:34","slug":"clay-travis-backs-governor-desantis-on-transgender-sports-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/06\/03\/clay-travis-backs-governor-desantis-on-transgender-sports-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Clay Travis Backs Governor DeSantis on Transgender Sports Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: It\u2019s all about owning the language, all right. If you own the language, you own the war. If you invent the game and all the rules, you\u2019ll always win. Rush knew when you own the language, you control the debate. He knew that the left was absolutely obsessed with forcing people to pretend that men were women; teaching that to the kids. Here, <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/01\/21\/denver-post-columnist-fired-for-saying-there-are-only-two-sexes\/\">Rush talks about a man who lost his job for refusing to lie about this.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6257104315001&amp;w=466&amp;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>RUSH: A columnist for the Denver Post says that he has been fired after disputing the idea that there are more than two sexes. Jon Caldara is his name. He\u2019s &#8220;president of the Libertarian Independence Institute and a columnist for the Denver Post.&#8221; He said that he\u2019s been fired from the Post, and he chalked it up to &#8220;a difference in style&#8221; that his editors found &#8220;too insensitive.&#8221; He\u2019s a journalist and he\u2019s been canned. Here\u2019s what he said in his statement: &#8220;My column is not a soft voiced, sticky sweet NPR-styled piece which employs the language now mandated by the victim-centric, identity politics-driven media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"zype_5ec681c6fc0b430001d19c1e\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.zype.com\/embed\/5ec681c6fc0b430001d19c1e.js?api_key=6yUf3WZePk78GtpC3BXdZSqZ5ma_gYmV_rEJ8OYJZ0wq3AlDKM2RFnOcBN0xiMco&amp;controls=true\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\nSo this guy, Caldara, he wrote a column in which he criticized a directive in the Associated Press Stylebook which says that sex and gender are not binary. He said: &#8220;There are only two sexes,&#8221; I\u2019m sorry, &#8220;identified by an XX or XY chromosome. That is the very definition of binary.&#8221; There are two of them. &#8220;The AP ruling it isn\u2019t so doesn\u2019t change science.&#8221; But, yes, you see it does. AP can overcome science. There\u2019s a consensus, you see, of opinion at AP that only two genders isn\u2019t correct, in a political sense.<\/p>\n<p>He says: &#8220;The AP ruling it isn\u2019t so doesn\u2019t change science. It\u2019s a premeditative attempt to change culture and policy. It\u2019s activism.&#8221; He\u2019s exactly right. He\u2019s accusing modern American journalism of being activism, not journalism. This a January 3 column. &#8220;In a column two weeks later, Caldara also railed against a 2019 Colorado law that required elementary school children to be instructed in transgender ideology.&#8221; Elementary school kids without their parents being told or consulted are now being taught transgender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some parents weren\u2019t thrilled a couple of years back when during school their little ones in Boulder Valley School District were treated to videos staring [sic] a transgender teddy bear teaching the kids how to misuse pronouns or when Colorado\u2019s &#8216;Trans Community Choir\u2019 sang to kids about a transgender raven,&#8221; Caldara wrote. &#8220;What are the protections for a parent who feels transgender singing groups and teddy bears with gender dysphoria might be &#8216;stigmatizing\u2019 for their kid?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s exactly right. Are parents not to be given any say-so in this kind of perversion that their kids are being taught? So he got fired for all this. He said that &#8220;he was fired by the paper\u2019s editorial page editor, Megan Schrader. &#8216;Megan told me I was the page\u2019s most-read columnist. But there\u2019s now a permanently and perpetually offended class, and, in order to speak, you need to use their terminology. There\u2019s a whole lot of you-can\u2019t-say-that-ism going on right now.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hell\u2019s bells is that ever true!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can\u2019t say that.&#8221; You know how many times a day I hear that? &#8220;You can\u2019t say that.&#8221; The hell I can\u2019t. I just did. &#8220;In an email to the Washington Free Beacon, Schrader confirmed that she fired Caldara but declined to discuss the reason. &#8216;I am writing a job description as we speak to fill his position,\u2019 she said. &#8216;I hope that conservative Colorado writers will apply knowing that we value conservative voices on our pages and don\u2019t have a litmus test for their opinions.'&#8221; Unless they happen to assert that there are only two genders.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s male and female. What else is there? (impression) &#8220;Well, there\u2019s cisgender. There\u2019s cisbinary denial gender. There\u2019s denial cisgender touchy-feely &#8212; pick \u2019em. You know, whatever oddballs that exist, they\u2019ll assign a gender to them so that they have a sense of value and a sense of belonging, Mr. Limbaugh. It\u2019s easy for you who think you\u2019re normal to laugh at this, but there are people who are much more diverse in their thinking and behavior, and you must recognize them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can recognize \u2019em all day long. But you don\u2019t get to arbitrarily change science, except that they do.<\/p>\n<p>TODD: And in West Coast states &#8212; and in other states, but I know specifically the West Coast states &#8212; children who are 13 can force their parents\u2019 insurance company to pay for wrong-sex hormones in their body, and there ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 the parents can do to stop it. In the state of Oregon, they can force the parents to pay for the surgery. Right? These things have real-world consequences, and this is something that Rush has been on the forefront of and the network has been on the forefront of.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of that, later in June &#8212; right here at this time on this radio station &#8212; there\u2019s a new radio program that\u2019s going to debut on the EIB Network. Buck Sexton (a guest host alum) and Clay Travis will host that program. Yesterday, Clay Travis, who\u2019s also a Fox News contributor, appeared on Fox yesterday with Sandra Smith to discuss why he supports the Florida Governor DeSantis bill from a position of fairness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierenetworks.com\/shows\/clay-travis-and-buck-sexton-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-400378 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-and-Buck.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-and-Buck.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-and-Buck-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-and-Buck-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CLAY: Look, this is a challenging aspect for many people because it is still a relatively new story. And my position has been straightforward, particularly for adults. If an adult wants to make a decision to make them happier, that is fine. But it shouldn\u2019t translate into the world of athletics. Here is an easy example, one that actually Caitlyn Jenner agrees with me on running for governor of California.<\/p>\n<p>SMITH: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n<p>CLAY: If Caitlyn Jenner after being Bruce Jenner and winning the Decathlon, four years later had decided to come back and be a woman competing in the Decathlon and the Olympics, that wouldn\u2019t have been remotely fair. She has acknowledged that as well, because even though now she has transitioned, she still has the physical stature of a male which would allow her to be more competitive and to beat the other women in this competition.<\/p>\n<p>Good stat for you: In the state of Texas recently, over 300 high school boys ran the 100-meter faster than the fastest woman in the history of the world has ever done it. Men are bigger, stronger, and faster. That\u2019s not an insult to women\u2019s athletics. If anything, we are protecting the right of women to compete against other women and find out who the best man or the best woman is. But we can\u2019t allow, I don\u2019t believe, biological men to be competing against women because it sets up a fundamental unfairness.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-400374\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-on-FOX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-on-FOX.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-on-FOX-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/APP-20201-060321-Clay-on-FOX-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>TODD: That\u2019s Clay Travis making sense. And, of course, Bruce Jenner, if he did make that change, right (of course, he has) and he went back and said, &#8220;Okay. Now I can compete,&#8221; what would we do, right? How would people respond to this? Point of fact. I think it was the Seattle Women\u2019s Pro Soccer Team trained against high school boys and lost. The world team, all right? There is such a thing as men and women, and &#8220;woman&#8221; is defined as adult, human female; &#8220;man&#8221; as adult, human male.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODD: There&#039;s a new radio program that&#039;s going to debut on the EIB Network. 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