Posted on 12/28/2023 9:09:58 AM PST by george76
Former ESPN anchor Sage Steele said in an interview this week that her former employer demanded she stop speaking about Will “Lia” Thomas, the male swimmer who identifies as “transgender” and competed against women at the University of Pennsylvania. Thomas won races and robbed women of opportunities.
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Steele made the revelation in an interview with women’s sports advocate Riley Gaines, who competed against Thomas at the NCAA championships and tied against him. In the aftermath, Steele and another ESPN colleague, Sam Ponder, had spoken out against Thomas competing against women, which angered some at the company.
“I was asked to stop tweeting about it. I was asked to stop doing anything, saying anything about it on social media because I was offending others at the company. I made sure I sent up another tweet that night after I received that email because like, no,” Steele said on Outkick’s “Gaines for Girls” podcast.
“Let’s stop living in this lie. And once again, oh, you’re going to silence me and Sam. She was told the same thing, for this issue, but they were going to let everybody else talk about all these other things that are not even related to sports on our sports programming,” she added.
“I’m going to stand up for all these women, many of whom are afraid,” she continued. “I already had the lawsuit going. I didn’t know how it was going to end. But I literally said, this is the hill I will die on 100 percent because it’s facts. This is not even my opinion about a vaccine mandate or whatever, these are facts. This is science, this is biology. This is all of the things. Come at me. Tell me I’m wrong. Tell me to stop supporting women. Go ahead, tell me.”
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Townhall previously covered how a woman named Paula Scanlan, who was teammates with Thomas, shared how the girls were forced to share a locker room with him.
“It [the locker room] was uncomfortable. I did notice a few girls – there’s a few bathroom stalls in the bathroom – and I did notice some girls changing in the bathroom stalls for practice, which I’ve never really seen that before,” Scanlan said. “For me personally, the biggest thing was, when you’re changing, there’s all these people talking in the background, all these women’s voices, and then all of a sudden you hear a man’s voice. I’d always kind of jump a little bit [hearing Thomas’ voice].”
In addition, Scanlan detailed how school staffers tried to scare the girls into being silent.
“There was something going on in that athletic department that wanted to keep us quiet. And I was like, ‘this is getting scary,’” Scanlan explained. She said that girls were told in a meeting, without Thomas present, “do not talk to the media, you will regret it.”
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“Another thing they said is, ‘Lia’s swimming is non-negotiable,’ and then they provided us with counseling services to help us be okay with Lia swimming,” she added. “I was petrified.”
Thou Shalt Not Criticize The Trannies. I guess...
“then they provided us with counseling services to help us be okay with Lia swimming,”
I remwhen they used to call that re-education camp
it doesn’t matter if she was angered or offended that her first amendment rights were being stifled- all that mattered to woke espn was the delicate feelings of trannies and their supporters-
The left has the world tip-toeing around the delicate sensitivities of the mentally ill who get triggered by anything and everything-
In a few years, this will all be forgotten. Like streaking and pet rocks. No one will talk about it any more.
The maimed children will only get MSM attention when they win a huge lawsuit, which will happen occasionally.
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.
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Was it the Clockwork Orange style or the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest style?
“Follow the Science”: men are women.
Science says men have XY Chromosomes.
So only Leftists are allowed to be angered. How inclusive.
Have to disagree with you. This is something totally different.
Streaking and pet rocks were fads. Totalitarianism and satanism are NOT fads.
. I lived thru streaking and pet rocks. No one forced us to streak or buy pet rocks. No one compelled us to swear an oath of loyalty to streaking or pet rocks. No one fired us for speaking out against streaking or pet rocks.
Streaking and pet rocks faded away quickly and naturally.
Totalitarianism and satanism are NOT fads and will NOT fade away on their own.
They will only go away when they are forcibly DEFEATED.
(“Let’s stop living in this lie.”)
Agreed.
Some want us to be silent about the reprobate agendas.
The spirit of antichrist is working overtime in the goats 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 these days.
These absurdities are a necessary pain of preparing the world 🌎🌍 for the coming Antichrist.
Could be, and you make some excellent points.
But the lawsuits are coming. The young people who were mutilated aren't going to go away.
It's hard to see how it's going to end.
The left will try doubling down, and then will double down again. But eventually, the human victims of the transgender phenomenon will accumulate to an unacceptable extent. I mean, to an extent unacceptable to the forces that are pushing transgenderism.
Also the girls who are hurt, and sexually molested and violated, won't disappear either. It's hard to see how these aggrieved constituencies can be bought off, or otherwise made to disappear.
It's like the disasters that are unfolding in big cities, like San Francisco. I can't see how the Left is going to keep sweeping these things under the table. But so far, they seem to be succeeding.
And you are correct.
Another thing in a long list of why ESPN Sucks.
“Science says men have XY Chromosomes.”
I’m guessing you didn’t detect the sarcasm in my post.
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