Pablo Torre

We may be living in a different America.

That is how insanely important this issue and resonant this issue seems to be.

And the whole thing, Roy, why that's a good exercise here is not just because what a crazy sliding doors possibility.

It's that there is now this entire population of people who claim to really care about women's sports.

And their lens to see women's sports through is through the trans issue.

Right.

These guys who otherwise could not who actually actively insulted women's basketball over the years.

The WNBA, women's sports in general, who are all making fun of it, are now rebranded as the foremost protectors of it because it is politically useful.

and because there is the easiest target in America, which is to say the most downtrodden, like attempting suicide at a rate of one in three kind of downtrodden population, which is the trans person in America.

And so the trans athlete, the reason why there's this other story that I've been trying to tell people is because, and this is sort of spoiling the episode, so please go and listen to it in the way the chef intended, but the real thing you have to understand

is that the University of Kentucky, one of Riley Gaines' best friends, as she calls him in her book, somebody who she's called a really good coach over the years, someone she's been very close to, is the head coach of the UK women's swimming team, the former head coach now, a guy named Lars Jorgensen.

And Coach Lars himself was accused of rape by multiple teammates on that same UK swim team that Riley Gaines comes from.

And that premise of why do you not know the story of an actual male predator inside of the locker rooms that Riley Gaines and Donald Trump are trying to defend?

Right.

The sanctity of the safety of the protection of these women.

Why does no one know about that story?

Why does Riley Gaines literally, except for one tweet, never even acknowledge that it happened?

It speaks to the entire, not just like hypocrisy, but the mutant version of how the safety of women is being used against the interests of women.

And it's not just like a whataboutism, it's literally the question of, we are always trying to figure out who gets to get the protection and the attention of Americans at a time when that is scarce and very competitive.

And what Riley Gaines is telling you is, look over at the time that I tied for fifth place.