Rebel News Podcast - What is the purpose of an army？ Seems like a simple question

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Boy, what a show today. It is so jam-packed. I start off by comparing

00:00:04.920 military recruitment ads, one from Russia, one from China, one from America. Boy, they're just

00:00:11.440 incredible ads. But the heart of today's show is actually the guest interview. I interview

00:00:17.180 a tag team, Coach Linda Blade and colonist Barbara Kay, who are the co-authors of a new 1.00

00:00:24.680 book that Rebel News published today called Unsporting. It's about trans sports, about

00:00:32.780 people who are born male, transition to be trans women, and then want to play women's sports.

00:00:40.840 It's a very powerful book. I hope you get it. I hope you enjoy it. Before I get to today's podcast,

00:00:46.800 let me invite you to become a subscriber to Rebel News Plus, which is the video version of this

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00:01:10.720 All right, here's today's show.

00:01:21.720 Tonight, what's the purpose of a military? Seems like a pretty simple question. It's May 28th,

00:01:32.480 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:36.240 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:39.960 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:43.600 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:54.600 Today, we launched a new book. It's our first book in a year since my bestseller, China Virus.

00:02:01.380 China Virus is a provocative title, but the subtitle explains things, I think.

00:02:05.360 How Justin Trudeau's pro-communist ideology is putting Canadians in danger.

00:02:09.840 The book was well-received. Zoomed up the bestseller list. I just checked today. I hadn't looked in a while.

00:02:16.420 And it's got an average of five stars in reader reviews. That feels good.

00:02:22.000 And incredibly, it's still ranked number seven in Canadian political books, and I couldn't believe it.

00:02:28.420 Another one of my books, called Trumping Trudeau, is actually number four. How did that happen?

00:02:33.980 That book is, I don't know, that book's more than four years old now.

00:02:37.620 Anyways, sorry to talk about myself. I hadn't checked those stats in a while, and I was pleasantly surprised.

00:02:43.620 Anyways, the reason I mention them is because China Virus was banned.

00:02:48.180 I don't know if you remember that, but Amazon refused to put it up for sale for two months.

00:02:53.540 And then when they relented and finally put it up for sale for a few days, and it instantly zoomed to the bestseller,

00:02:59.480 then I don't know what happened, the Chinese embassy or the World Health Organization,

00:03:02.900 where someone complained because Amazon then took the book down,

00:03:08.520 saying it contradicted official sources, but they wouldn't tell me what sources.

00:03:13.500 And then, after a few days, they relented and unbanded and put it back up.

00:03:18.480 How crazy is that?

00:03:19.560 Well, I have to tell you, the book we're launching today has an even greater likelihood of being censored than China Virus,

00:03:24.600 because it is about the most censored subject in the world.

00:03:28.260 Not Islam, not Trump, not the pandemic, but transgenderism. 0.97

00:03:33.120 In particular, athletes who were born male, but then transition and call themselves trans women, 0.89

00:03:39.500 and then go and crush it in women's sports like this. 1.00

00:03:43.520 This is Hannah Mouncey.

00:03:45.440 Mouncey, up in the rock, gets her own crumb. 0.96

00:03:48.820 She straightens up. 0.80

00:03:50.820 Oh, no, she hasn't, has she?

00:03:52.520 And that's one to Mouncey. 0.96

00:03:56.020 Mouncey shrugs her tackle.

00:03:58.360 Open goal square, bang, that's two for Mouncey. 0.98

00:04:01.480 Mouncey, at the foot of the pack, throws her on the boot.

00:04:05.420 There's no one home.

00:04:06.480 It's a lucky bounce, that's three for Mouncey. 0.99

00:04:09.220 Back with the flight, Mouncey. 0.97

00:04:11.860 Too big, too strong, too good.

00:04:14.040 Yeah, how much fun is that for the other girls on the team? 1.00

00:04:16.920 So, yeah, you say something like that, and you're canceled.

00:04:22.380 I mean, anyone can be canceled for tangling with trans.

00:04:25.420 Even J.K. Rowling, the most commercially successful author in a generation, 0.71

00:04:30.700 she's the Harry Potter author, who, by the way, is very woke, and very feminist, and very pro-gay,

00:04:37.320 but she dared to say girls and boys are different. 0.97

00:04:40.320 Well, off with her head. 1.00

00:04:43.840 Trying to find a publisher to publish a book like that.

00:04:46.960 Well, you're looking at them.

00:04:51.600 Unsporting is the name of the book, and we will interview the authors,

00:04:56.260 Coach Linda Blade and our friend Barbara Kaye, in a moment.

00:04:59.360 You can get the book at unsporting.com or on Amazon.

00:05:04.660 If they haven't banned it yet, seriously, I think there is a real chance they're going to ban it,

00:05:09.140 but we have a backup plan if that happens.

00:05:11.180 I won't tell you the plan right now.

00:05:12.440 So, that feature interview is our big part of the show today,

00:05:15.980 and we'll get to that in about five minutes.

00:05:17.540 But first, I think it's sort of related.

00:05:19.140 What's the purpose of a military?

00:05:24.560 Pretty sure it's to destroy the other side. 0.76

00:05:28.040 To do violence.

00:05:29.260 When politics and diplomacy fail, to do violence, I'm sorry about that.

00:05:34.400 To get kinetic.

00:05:36.000 To be as harmful to the other side as possible. 0.85

00:05:38.460 To finally break their will, but first by breaking a lot of their stuff.

00:05:43.220 There are other values in society, especially a democracy like ours.

00:05:46.320 There's fairness, inclusion, being nice, not being rude, smelling good.

00:05:52.260 Let's call those politenesses or social graces, but those are not valuable in a military.

00:05:58.520 Really, the only thing valuable in a military is winning.

00:06:01.120 By being tougher, stronger, faster, smarter than the other guys.

00:06:04.460 That comes ahead of everything.

00:06:06.540 In a way, it's like sports.

00:06:07.460 It's a pure meritocracy.

00:06:09.020 There are no excuses.

00:06:10.180 Either you win or you don't.

00:06:11.760 There's no affirmative action for short basketball players or fat marathon runners.

00:06:15.760 It's pure achievement.

00:06:17.340 I know that's not nice, but the job of the military is not to be nice.

00:06:22.360 Can I show you a mash-up of two countries' military recruitment ads?

00:06:25.640 Now, I checked.

00:06:26.760 This U.S. Army ad that I'm about to show you really is real.

00:06:30.120 I thought it was a spoof, so I went to the official U.S. Army account, but no, it is real.

00:06:34.740 Take a look at this.

00:06:35.700 It begins in California with a little girl raised by two moms.

00:07:03.840 I also marched for equality.

00:07:07.060 I like to think I've been defending freedom from an early age to marry my other mom.

00:07:13.200 With such powerful role models, I finished high school at the top of my class.

00:07:17.880 And after meeting with an Army recruiter, I found it.

00:07:21.580 A way to prove my inner strength.

00:07:23.580 I'm U.S. Army Corporal Emma Malone-Lord, and I answered my call.

00:07:28.540 That's real.

00:07:29.460 Now, that tweet by Pardesilla went viral.

00:07:33.860 Senator Ted Cruz retweeted it.

00:07:35.720 It went even more viral.

00:07:37.320 And then the fact-checkers attacked, claiming that this video, it came from a far-right website or something.

00:07:44.100 They didn't deny its veracity.

00:07:45.860 That really is a U.S. Army ad in there.

00:07:47.600 Yeah, they were real, from Russia and America.

00:07:51.460 So why was the corporate media, the fact-checking leftist media, so upset with that?

00:07:58.280 I mean, don't they support the fact that the U.S. Army is becoming more inclusive now?

00:08:03.680 That they're putting tenderness and compassion ahead of killing?

00:08:08.360 Listen, I like tenderness and compassion, but not when you're going up against, like, missiles.

00:08:13.560 Have you ever watched a Chinese military recruitment ad?

00:08:16.680 I watched too many of them.

00:08:18.880 I want to show you one from 2018.

00:08:21.980 It's not pure violence.

00:08:23.500 It's not pure machismo like that Russian ad.

00:08:25.960 But I thought it was very effective.

00:08:28.920 I mean, I'm about to show you Chinese propaganda now.

00:08:33.240 All countries do propaganda, especially when you're recruiting for your military.

00:08:37.900 I'm not converted to being a Chinese communist.

00:08:40.580 I'm just saying, wow, I can see this work on an emotional level.

00:08:44.240 This is inspiring, if you are a Chinese communist.

00:08:48.180 Take a look.

00:08:48.800 Take a look.

00:09:18.800 Take a look.

00:09:21.500 Take a look.

00:09:22.360 Take a look.

00:09:23.360 Take a look.

00:09:25.160 Take a look.

00:09:28.480 Terعم. 0.57

00:09:37.720 Take a look.

00:09:39.820 Take a look.

00:09:43.860 Da Ma! Da Ma! 1.00

00:09:54.020 I am of הצ� worried and didn't stand while giving him time.

00:09:58.860 I am the ambassador of the People.

00:10:03.880 The Emperor is really the peace.

00:10:07.480 The war is war.

00:10:11.700 拿起钢枪,就要放下儿女秦城,穿上军装,就要舍弃舒适安逸,征战将长,男儿本色,从军报国,此生无悔。

00:10:41.700 我是中国军人,我是人民子弟兵,我是美好生活的守护者。

00:11:02.700 destru此需要讲平直、人。

00:11:08.140 We will be the best care!

00:11:09.700 把整理设计酌上者, substitute平直至是什么时候能做真正 copperners可以做一点。

00:11:10.700 个lus韵 below你的 comforts。

00:11:12.700 做什么要做。

00:11:13.700 都是你的用анием。

00:11:14.700 Are you even allowed to say that words like that in Canada or the United States anymore?

00:11:18.700 Let me show you a speech that Kamala Harris gave just, I think it was today, to the Naval Academy.

00:11:25.700 Do you understand anything about what she's saying here?

00:11:30.140 You are electrical engineers

00:11:32.660 who will soon help convert solar and wind energy into power,

00:11:40.200 convert solar and wind energy into combat power.

00:11:46.860 And just ask, any Marine today,

00:11:51.680 would she rather carry 20 pounds of batteries 0.63

00:11:57.080 or a rolled-up solar panel?

00:12:00.860 And I am positive she will tell you a solar panel,

00:12:05.860 and so would he.

00:12:16.320 I don't know what on earth she's talking about,

00:12:19.580 but I know the meaning to me,

00:12:22.360 which is the U.S. military is no longer about killing bad guys.

00:12:26.440 It's no longer about beating Russians or Chinese.

00:12:30.580 It's, I don't know, I don't know exactly what it's for.

00:12:33.280 It's about using the right pronouns, I guess.

00:12:36.100 But I think the leftists inherently don't like the military,

00:12:39.320 not just for its militarism,

00:12:41.460 but for whatever remaining masculinity is there.

00:12:45.020 You'll notice Kamala Harris said the typical Marine is a she. 1.00

00:12:47.460 It's not statistically true, but, boy, she wants it to be.

00:12:51.520 I think the left wants to destroy the military

00:12:53.940 for that reason alone,

00:12:55.680 that it is masculine,

00:12:58.020 let alone their sympathy with Russia and China.

00:13:01.480 How very odd.

00:13:03.520 The left hates masculinity in the military,

00:13:07.000 where I think it belongs.

00:13:08.840 But their willingness to push masculinity

00:13:11.520 into girls' sports

00:13:13.240 seems like just the opposite, doesn't it?

00:13:15.480 That interview above the book is next.

00:13:18.460 That interview above the book is next.

00:13:45.480 Bye-bye.

00:13:58.020 Bye-bye.

00:14:01.060 Bye-bye.

00:14:02.200 Bye-bye.

00:14:04.940 Oh my gosh, I want to read that book.

00:14:32.700 Well, I already have, because guess what?

00:14:34.400 Red Rebel News is publishing that book, Unsporting, co-authored by Linda Blade and Barbara Kay.

00:14:42.120 And they join me now via Skype.

00:14:44.920 Linda Blade in Edmonton and Barbara in Montreal.

00:14:48.700 Linda, congratulations.

00:14:50.600 Is this your first book?

00:14:53.300 Well, yes, it is my first book other than the PhD thesis I wrote long ago and a little manual on coaching.

00:15:00.860 But this is definitely my first book.

00:15:02.880 I'm thrilled.

00:15:03.940 I mean, you couldn't have picked a spicier topic. 1.00

00:15:07.740 This subject, I want to let you know, this subject is the most censored subject in all of social media.

00:15:14.060 More than critical comments about radical Islam, more than anything about Donald Trump, if you take on transgenderism in sport, your books will be banned, your accounts will be banned.

00:15:27.420 And why would you be motivated to write a book about such a controversial subject?

00:15:33.200 Maybe it has something to do with your history as a leader of women's sport.

00:15:37.160 Well, yeah, I mean, I've been an athlete, I've been a coach, and now I'm president of Athletics Alberta, and I'm in charge of sport policy.

00:15:45.640 And it's just a silly issue.

00:15:47.100 I mean, we all know that there's a difference between males and females in sports. 0.50

00:15:51.300 I mean, it's just so simple.

00:15:52.880 I can't really believe it's so controversial, actually.

00:15:56.380 Well, I mean, it is extremely controversial, even calling men who transition into women, even calling them men, that's called misgendering now.

00:16:08.400 And using the names their parents gave them, that's called dead naming now.

00:16:13.320 Those are things, just misgendering a trans athlete is enough to get you banned, in trouble, I don't know, fired from your job sometimes.

00:16:22.520 Ah, but there's the catch there, because even in Canada, when they introduced Bill C-16, they explicitly stated that there's a difference between biological sex and gender identity.

00:16:36.080 And so I can always express my terms in biological terms, because that's recognized under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

00:16:44.220 I'm not misgendering because I'm not calling them like a man.

00:16:49.320 I'm saying they're male.

00:16:50.340 They're male.

00:16:51.160 They're biologically male.

00:16:52.520 And they can maybe identify as a woman. 0.84

00:16:55.500 I can recognize their right to do that in society.

00:16:58.600 But in sport, we compete on the basis of biology.

00:17:03.000 So for me, the gender identity, gender expression, it's just one of your identities, just like your religion, your politics.

00:17:11.740 We don't pick our athletes on that basis.

00:17:14.000 Well, J.K. Rowling, I think, took the same position you did, and she was practically fired by her own publisher.

00:17:20.360 I promise you won't be fired by your publisher at Rebel News.

00:17:23.580 Barbara Cain, you have been one of the bravest Canadian columnists.

00:17:29.640 Very, very few columnists in Canada even dare talk about this.

00:17:33.800 I find it remarkable that you're still allowed to talk about this subject in the National Post, and I give them credit for that.

00:17:40.600 I'm so glad you teamed up with Linda Blade.

00:17:42.820 How did the two of you get to know each other?

00:17:44.500 I think the first time we got together on this was when Linda published or wanted to publish an op-ed in the post-millennial.

00:17:57.620 And I helped her sort of craft it to be a little more punchy and more in the op-ed style.

00:18:04.460 And we went back and forth.

00:18:05.920 And I was just so impressed with what she had to say.

00:18:08.000 And at that time, Ezra, you and I had been chatting about some of your books and how well they're doing.

00:18:14.280 And I kind of, I said, you know, I think this coach, Linda Blade, first of all, she was the only coach in Canada, still is, I think, who was speaking out on this topic.

00:18:25.260 And I thought, it's one thing for a columnist like me, I write on a lot of topics, to speak out, I don't consider it courageous, I just think it's common sense.

00:18:34.000 But for someone who is in the athletic world, for someone who is a stakeholder in the athletic world to speak out, it seems to be you need far more courage than I would need.

00:18:45.320 And coach Linda Blade was doing it, unsupported by other coaches and other associations.

00:18:52.700 She, you know, her Alberta Athletic Association supports her in it.

00:18:57.480 So she's in a position where she's not going to be fired because her people in Alberta have common sense.

00:19:04.880 And I thought, man, I can't write this book because I don't have the authority or the credibility.

00:19:10.020 But here's somebody who's not only a coach, but she's a former fantastic athlete who coaches high performance, Olympic level performance athletes herself, who is, has a PhD in biology, so knows what she's talking about as a scientist.

00:19:29.460 She's got it all.

00:19:30.460 And I thought, I can see that she's a quick study, because when we were working together on her op-ed, she learned in about 10 minutes.

00:19:38.480 You know, it was, I didn't really have to help her very much.

00:19:41.820 She, she got it.

00:19:43.160 And I just said to you, Ezra, I said, I think I have somebody who should be writing a book on this very hot topic.

00:19:49.600 And you kindly said, well, if you recommend her, go for it.

00:19:54.240 So I said, Linda, you've got to write this book, and I'll be happy to help.

00:19:59.160 Well, let me tell you, I have read this manuscript very carefully.

00:20:03.860 In fact, I was a small part of the editing process.

00:20:07.020 And so I wanted to know exactly what we were getting into, because we're not afraid of controversy at Rebel News, but I wanted to know the tone and the style.

00:20:14.540 And I was very impressed.

00:20:15.820 Let me just tell you what I like about the book.

00:20:17.760 It is not a mean book.

00:20:20.260 It's not antagonistic.

00:20:21.980 It's not hateful or anything like that.

00:20:24.620 There's a kindness to it.

00:20:26.440 And I would say it's a pro-girls book.

00:20:30.380 You know, there's no, there's no antipathy towards anyone with their own gender issues or identity.

00:20:37.180 It's just, what about the safety of girls?

00:20:39.940 And what about the notion of fair play?

00:20:41.660 I like the title of the book, Unsporting.

00:20:43.980 I don't know.

00:20:44.440 I, it was more scientific than I thought it would be.

00:20:46.920 It was more facts, not just feelings than I thought it would be.

00:20:51.960 But I left after reading the book.

00:20:54.120 I thought, well, this is an absolutely compelling case against allowing male to female trans in girls sports. 0.90

00:21:02.580 But I didn't feel like I would, like at the end of it, like it was mean or an attack.

00:21:07.460 I felt like it was, wake up, folks.

00:21:09.440 Realize what you're doing.

00:21:10.780 I don't know.

00:21:11.020 That's how I felt.

00:21:13.860 You approached it with a certain kindness, Coach Blade.

00:21:17.880 Tell me a little bit about your own interactions with trans athletes.

00:21:22.600 Well, you know, Ezra, I haven't had many.

00:21:26.980 I've had a few conversations with some.

00:21:30.020 But, you know, the fact remains that I really want everybody involved in sports.

00:21:35.780 That's our job.

00:21:36.980 Our job is to try to help everybody in and have a good competitive experience.

00:21:43.440 And we're not excluding anybody.

00:21:45.560 If we say there's one category that's restricted to this certain kind of person, and then other people can go into these other categories, that's not excluding anybody.

00:21:56.040 That's just recognizing the level playing field.

00:21:59.780 So I never felt like it was anything against anybody.

00:22:03.720 It was simply to reassert the biology-based, sex-based boundaries.

00:22:09.480 And that's really our right.

00:22:11.320 Again, it's our right.

00:22:12.600 So I think we can balance this thing.

00:22:16.040 And there are solutions offered in the book.

00:22:18.440 So, you know, I was really looking for a way that the politicians and the bureaucrats and sport, everybody, can get on the same page.

00:22:26.580 We can recognize and honor and respect everybody's identity.

00:22:30.520 But we can also play fair play.

00:22:33.120 And that's really the goal here.

00:22:35.340 Yeah.

00:22:35.740 The book is called Unsporting, How Transactivism and Science Denial Are Destroying Sport.

00:22:41.900 You can get the book on Amazon.

00:22:44.420 Or we've set up a special website, Unsporting.com.

00:22:48.340 I love that title, Unsporting.com.

00:22:50.440 Now, Barbara, I know that this topic has felled giants.

00:22:55.960 Like, I'm talking about people at the highest heights of celebrity in the sports world, in the literary world.

00:23:01.520 I mentioned J.K. Rowling, even Martina Navratilova.

00:23:03.900 We've seen Amazon yank other books.

00:23:10.460 When I was reading this manuscript, I was in the back of my mind thinking, what would Amazon say?

00:23:15.000 Not that we would, you know, cut things out or comply with them.

00:23:19.280 I was just thinking, okay, is there going to be a fight?

00:23:22.060 There's nothing in this book that's, quote, hateful.

00:23:24.480 There's nothing in this book that's misinformation or disinformation.

00:23:28.580 But that won't stop people for targeting it.

00:23:32.340 And I want to tell you that we are resolute here at Rebel News.

00:23:35.920 We'll stand by this book no matter what.

00:23:38.000 My own book, China Virus, was censored for about a week by Amazon.

00:23:43.380 But finally, they relented.

00:23:45.760 I don't want this book banned, but I think it will be almost immediately pounced on by people who professionally take offense.

00:23:57.200 What do you think?

00:23:59.820 Well, I think it's, I mean, considering what's happened to other books that have dealt with the whole trans issue at all,

00:24:06.660 that's been our fear and almost an expectation, although I don't want to jinx it.

00:24:13.380 And it would be a shame because, as you say, we're not angry at anybody.

00:24:19.200 We're not fighting.

00:24:21.380 You know, we want everybody to live and let live is our motto.

00:24:26.420 But, you know, you can't be both inclusive and exclusive at the same time.

00:24:30.940 And in this particular, there's only a few realms in which the inclusivity of people who identify as the opposite sex

00:24:40.060 becomes exclusionary of women if it's followed through on.

00:24:46.760 One of them is prisons, for example.

00:24:48.780 I've written about male bodies in women's prisons. 0.99

00:24:52.420 It's a disaster.

00:24:53.880 Or in locker rooms.

00:24:55.640 Or in women's private spaces where they fear for their own security and safety. 1.00

00:25:03.300 So it is a big safety issue.

00:25:05.620 Rugby, world rugby, finally put a stop to male players in the women's side because it was becoming a safety issue. 0.98

00:25:15.980 And there were actual injuries.

00:25:22.380 And so you can't, when rights collide, and sometimes they do, I think you have to look at fairness and safety.

00:25:33.900 And if you do, then you have to say, this is where the line is.

00:25:37.860 This is where we draw the boundary.

00:25:39.100 It's not to say that men who identify as women can't compete.

00:25:42.940 They can compete in the male division.

00:25:45.180 Or we could have an open division.

00:25:47.000 There are ways to fix this.

00:25:49.120 But the way to fix it is not to spoil it for women, but to make it appropriate for everybody. 0.98

00:25:54.680 Yeah.

00:25:55.380 Linda, the idea of women in sport, it's a pretty recent idea, frankly.

00:26:02.320 I mean, for the longest time, professional sports was just a male thing.

00:26:06.040 I mean, it wasn't until less than a century ago that the Boston Marathon even allowed women to run.

00:26:11.760 I mean, there's these iconic photos of police trying to grab a woman who's running the Boston Marathon and pull her out.

00:26:19.260 How dare you?

00:26:20.580 So, I mean, we've lived through the golden age of women in sport.

00:26:24.880 And it's almost the only age of women in sport. 0.93

00:26:28.560 And we all see images of a trans, male to female trans athlete standing, hulking above two biological women or girls on a podium.

00:26:40.620 And there's a feeling of unfairness there.

00:26:43.860 But I know that the upcoming Olympics, there's going to be trans athletes there.

00:26:48.700 When it's no longer just one unusual trans athlete who wins and then the girls who are in second and third.

00:26:56.980 But when all three of the first, second and third gold, silver, bronze, podia have a trans athlete,

00:27:04.700 I think then we'll realize that what we're actually doing is bringing to a close the golden age of women and girls in sport.

00:27:11.820 And as a dad, I should tell you, that's an absolutely terrible thing to have sports cut off for women and girls going forward.

00:27:21.440 I think that's really where we are right now if this continues.

00:27:26.180 Absolutely, Ezra.

00:27:27.040 I totally agree with you.

00:27:28.560 We have had a wonderful century of women in sport.

00:27:32.600 And it's taken a long time for all of us to climb up.

00:27:35.840 You know, for example, when the Olympics first started, maybe they had one or two sports where women could compete in. 0.88

00:27:41.000 And then by 1928, you know, women, the track and field started up.

00:27:45.960 And then by 1984, finally, they let women do the marathon.

00:27:49.400 And so we've been slowly accumulating events to reach parity.

00:27:55.020 I'm not saying equality, parity.

00:27:56.520 So whatever events the men do, the women have their version of it. 0.99

00:28:00.860 And so the minute we get to, it's just ironic that the minute that we get to the point in history where we finally reach parity,

00:28:07.820 where the same number of athletes, same number of events and sports for men and women,

00:28:12.660 all of a sudden, the International Olympic Committee changes the rule and allows male bodies to self-identify into women's sports.

00:28:20.320 And it just seems absurd to me.

00:28:21.940 And you're right.

00:28:22.760 It is going to ruin sports.

00:28:24.280 It's going to ruin not only women's sports. 1.00

00:28:26.020 And this is what I argue in the book.

00:28:27.180 It's going to ruin a lot of grassroots sports because a lot of our, you know, for boys and girls,

00:28:33.400 a lot of our volunteers are parents and women and people who might feel uncomfortable or feel like they're going to be charged with hate

00:28:40.220 if they don't go down some path they don't agree with.

00:28:43.500 And I think this is very disruptive to the world of sport.

00:28:46.160 And I just really worry, especially for young girls, because females really benefit. 1.00

00:28:53.460 Young women benefit so much from sport.

00:28:56.340 I mean, all kinds of data out there to show that if a girl, high school girls are involved in sport,

00:29:02.120 they have higher grades, they're less likely to get pregnant.

00:29:05.260 They actually are more likely to graduate.

00:29:08.060 And then once they do graduate, most of the CEOs, like females who get to the CEOs of the Fortune 500 companies, 0.84

00:29:15.840 all have had sports in their background.

00:29:17.860 It's very important for the self-confidence and understanding how to even lose properly as a woman.

00:29:26.260 Like, it's not only about winning.

00:29:27.800 It's about learning how to compete in the economy, in your job, in your life,

00:29:35.020 and to stand up and take responsibility for yourself, and that knowing that when you do that,

00:29:40.120 the playing field will be level and fair, but you have to do your part to fight hard.

00:29:45.840 But if we take that lesson away from young girls, we don't have those opportunities anymore.

00:29:51.440 And I think not only will sport suffer, I think the broader society will suffer,

00:29:56.080 and I think the economy will even suffer.

00:29:57.700 I feel we won't have the kind of female leaders and women leaders that we want. 0.99

00:30:02.720 And it's not only sports that does it, but sports is a way to get those skills and achieve that kind of confidence

00:30:11.920 so that women, we can have strong families, we can all move forward. 0.99

00:30:16.380 And I think it's just a pity and a shame that we're throwing all this away for some nonsense.

00:30:22.040 It just doesn't make sense.

00:30:23.220 Like, the rule itself does not make sense.

00:30:25.280 And what you have to have when you have a scheme for developing a rule system, first comes safety, second comes fairness,

00:30:34.580 and lastly comes inclusion.

00:30:36.620 And it has to be like that because we just cannot afford to be, like, even in contact sports,

00:30:43.600 having all kinds of injuries with women running into a, you know, 220-pound male.

00:30:48.720 We just can't do it.

00:30:50.480 Well, and we know this because in other sports, we separate people by weight class.

00:30:55.600 I mean, you don't have a super heavyweight boxer picking on a featherweight boxer.

00:31:00.780 That's not sport.

00:31:02.120 You could call that inclusion, but it's not entertainment, and it's not fair, and it's not fun for anyone.

00:31:07.240 And like you say, it's not even safe.

00:31:09.280 Hey, Barbara, I got a question for you.

00:31:10.900 It's a political question.

00:31:11.960 For more than a generation now, political shorthand has said, you've got to win the soccer moms. 1.00

00:31:20.880 That's a phrase that politicians use for moms who are involved in the community and are out in, you know, 1.00

00:31:29.000 take their sons or daughters out for sports, and you've got to reach them in a way that's a little bit different than, let's say, their husbands.

00:31:36.800 They might have different issues.

00:31:38.040 They might care more about, worry about their kids getting involved with drugs, as opposed to maybe the husband might be more concerned about taxes. 1.00

00:31:46.120 I don't know.

00:31:46.520 It's just political shorthand.

00:31:48.700 Soccer moms, soccer moms, soccer moms, the gender gap. 1.00

00:31:52.160 You know, it's shorthand for things like neighborhood crime and needles in parks and schools.

00:31:58.700 My point is, for a generation, politicians have at least said they care about soccer moms and what they think.

00:32:06.020 And I'm literally thinking about a mom in soccer, which isn't particularly a high-contact sport, although it can be.

00:32:13.660 Put aside soccer moms. 1.00

00:32:15.060 You know, any other sports moms, hockey moms even. 1.00

00:32:18.620 And this seems like an absolute political attack on mama bears who care about their kids and their community. 0.91

00:32:27.660 And so my question to you, Barbara, is where are the opportunistic, pragmatic politicians on the left or the right in the liberals or the conservatives or the new Democrats or the Democrats or the Republicans saying, I'm not even getting into the wokeism here.

00:32:44.100 I just want to, I just know that 90% of normal, you know, soccer moms are sympathetic to people with different identity issues, but they don't want their daughter smashed in a rugby match with a 220-pound guy.

00:32:58.740 Why are politicians not grabbing this?

00:33:01.140 No, you're absolutely right, Ezra.

00:33:03.060 This is, it's very interesting.

00:33:04.500 I think that when you speak to people and you talk about inclusion, in abstract, if you're talking about the theory or the abstract idea, oh, yes, everybody should be included.

00:33:14.680 It's when you start getting down to the nitty-gritty, so then you're fine with, you know, your 13-year-old daughter playing hockey against a 13- or 14-year-old male who's gone through or who's going through puberty and packing on muscle and bone and speed and power.

00:33:36.260 You're fine with that.

00:33:37.520 Oh, well, you know, I think when it comes down to your own daughter, you recognize immediately.

00:33:44.680 And if you see it actually happening in front of you, you have to, I guess you have to have a bit of an imagination.

00:33:51.040 I can vividly imagine how awful it would be to having learned to sport a girl as good at what she does and then to be intimidated on the ice or on the field by having a soccer ball, say, slammed into her at twice the speed that any girl can kick it at.

00:34:10.500 That hurts.

00:34:11.340 And that puts you off your game and it puts you off your confidence.

00:34:14.680 And it may mean that next year, you know what, I don't think I want to go out for soccer anymore because you already know there's going to be one or maybe two people on the opposing team that you're afraid of, that you're literally, you know, afraid to come into contact with.

00:34:28.780 That's just not okay.

00:34:30.220 It's just not okay.

00:34:31.020 So, uh, as a mom, as a grandmom, I mean, I have a 15 year old granddaughter who's a very serious hockey player and she's terrific as a girl.

00:34:41.540 She's a great female hockey player, but now she's 16.

00:34:44.640 She couldn't compete against a 16 year old boy hockey player.

00:34:48.080 There's just, you know, when she was nine, she was playing against boys and she, but the minute that puberty starts, the girls have to be on their own team and the boys have to be, that's just the way it is. 0.73

00:34:58.020 And everybody understands the, the, the, the level of, of, um, uh, speed and size and weight and everything else goes up.

00:35:06.080 So an aggression on the boys side, it's just, it's a different sport.

00:35:11.160 It's a different sport and, uh, pragmatic people, people who are realists, they understand that.

00:35:17.300 Uh, so, uh, yeah, I think you're a hundred percent right.

00:35:20.960 Well, it's not even sport.

00:35:22.540 It's not even sport to see a six foot something guy crush a petite girl.

00:35:27.400 That's not sport.

00:35:28.600 And, uh, that's why I think the title of the book, Unsporting is so spot on.

00:35:33.840 Well, listen, it's such a pleasure to talk with you two.

00:35:36.100 I really enjoyed the book.

00:35:37.360 I learned a lot from it.

00:35:38.760 I didn't actually think I would, that's some arrogance on my part, but it was also ignorance.

00:35:42.720 I just didn't know all the science and all the history and all the politics and the statistics in here.

00:35:49.000 We've got graphs in the book.

00:35:50.340 There's a ton of footnotes.

00:35:52.440 Uh, I really feel like I benefited from this book.

00:35:55.380 I'm really excited that we're publishing it.

00:35:57.920 I promise you that we will lean into the hurricane.

00:36:00.980 If one comes, we will not allow this book to be deplatformed.

00:36:04.820 And in fact, I don't want to give it away,

00:36:06.380 but we learned a few things from when China virus was deplatformed.

00:36:11.180 And I can promise you too, that God forbid this book is deplatformed in its first distribution mode.

00:36:18.800 We have an emergency backup ready.

00:36:21.580 And I don't want to get into that because God willing, it'll, it'll proceed.

00:36:24.720 I would like to speak to the viewers directly and say this.

00:36:28.760 It's an excellent book.

00:36:29.720 You should read it because it's an excellent book.

00:36:31.020 It's interesting.

00:36:31.640 It's timely, uh, you're going to learn things you didn't know.

00:36:35.980 I, I, I felt like I knew this issue before I learned so much in it, but I think it is absolutely

00:36:41.780 critically important.

00:36:43.140 I'd even call it a sort of patriotic duty that if coach blade and Barbara Kay write this book

00:36:49.200 and we publish it, we've got to support this because they are showing tremendous courage.

00:36:54.720 Tell me another Canadian author or even an American author that's written a book like this.

00:36:58.020 Tell me another publisher that would do it.

00:37:00.460 So we have to show the world that just because the woke karate don't want this book published, 0.73

00:37:07.940 don't want it read, doesn't mean we're going to comply.

00:37:11.140 So if you go to unsporting.com, you can learn a little more about the book, see a little book

00:37:16.700 trailer and you can order it right there.

00:37:18.840 And I hope you do, because if we can get this book to be number one on the amazon.ca list,

00:37:24.980 and I think that's a possible goal.

00:37:28.320 Not only that will be a wonderful signal to Linda and Barbara about how the book is being

00:37:33.680 received by viewers, but it'll be a signal to the rest of the cowardly class that they 0.98

00:37:39.040 don't need to be so afraid anymore.

00:37:40.940 In fact, if they show a bit of courage and a bit of intellectual honesty, they might actually

00:37:44.780 be rewarded by the public and by book viewers and book readers and book buyers.

00:37:50.440 So please go to unsporting.com.

00:37:53.780 Linda and Barbara, great to talk with you today.

00:37:55.880 Congratulations on this book.

00:37:57.680 Well done.

00:37:58.900 And I hope you have great success with it and we'll do our best.

00:38:03.440 Thank you so much, Ezra.

00:38:05.000 Just great to be with you and thank you for your tremendous support.

00:38:08.720 It's true.

00:38:09.580 I don't think we could have gotten published by anybody else in Canada.

00:38:14.120 Uh, so, well, it's an outstanding book.

00:38:17.200 Thank you so much.

00:38:19.160 Thank you.

00:38:19.920 Thank you, Ezra.

00:38:20.700 Thank you, Barbara, too.

00:38:22.120 I mean, Barbara, you helped me through this.

00:38:24.520 So I'm not the writer.

00:38:25.740 That's why I can write this book.

00:38:26.800 I'm not a writer.

00:38:27.520 I'm a coach.

00:38:28.540 So you're a writer now.

00:38:30.260 No, you're a writer now.

00:38:32.000 Well, I have to say, just as a final thing, what a great pleasure it was to work with Linda.

00:38:37.480 I don't think we ever had a tense moment between us.

00:38:40.000 Uh, we're both, uh, you know, it was about the book, not about ego, not about, you know,

00:38:45.180 uh, so it was just, uh, from beginning to end, it was my COVID project and, uh, made the time

00:38:51.000 go fast.

00:38:51.580 And I loved every minute of, uh, made a new friend, a great friend.

00:38:56.220 Thank you.

00:38:56.400 Me too.

00:38:56.820 That's wonderful.

00:38:57.780 And it is my goal that tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of Canadians

00:39:03.580 read this book.

00:39:04.820 I think the facts in it will change hearts and minds.

00:39:07.720 It'll give people ammunition and arguments to fight back, and maybe we'll help move the

00:39:12.780 culture just a little bit.

00:39:14.400 So the book again is called Unsporting, How Transactivism and Science Denial are Destroying

00:39:20.160 Sport.

00:39:21.460 Stay with us.

00:39:22.360 More happy.

00:39:34.220 Hey, welcome back on my show last night.

00:39:36.260 Bruce writes, fact checkers only became a thing when the truth started getting out.

00:39:42.020 Yeah, I think it, it became a thing when leftist media or corporate media or establishment media

00:39:48.200 started trying to disparage and discredit their own competitors.

00:39:53.400 So often fact checks are for rival journalists, not even politicians.

00:39:59.500 Tame thing writes, fact checkers to keep the facts in check, not check for what's factual.

00:40:04.320 Yeah, you know, I don't mind a fact check.

00:40:06.800 If there's a fact that's wrong, I think that's actually pretty important.

00:40:09.940 But I'd say 95% of what calls itself a fact check these days is actually an opinion check.

00:40:16.860 Mark writes, I like what the guest said at the end.

00:40:19.260 Google is not worried about hiding.

00:40:20.940 They have a woke agenda.

00:40:22.120 You're so right.

00:40:22.660 You're talking about Alan Bocari.

00:40:23.660 Yeah, once upon a time, these tech companies, when they were just testing the limits, what

00:40:29.600 could they get away with?

00:40:30.680 They were taking baby steps.

00:40:31.960 Can we ban Alex Jones?

00:40:34.380 Like they would start with the, they would be so careful, so cautious, and only take on

00:40:38.460 the most rambunctious cases.

00:40:39.940 But now they don't care.

00:40:41.260 Who knows?

00:40:41.560 Who's going to stop them?

00:40:42.340 Joe Biden?

00:40:42.800 Well, what a week, eh?

00:40:45.200 I hope you have a chance to pick up our book, unsporting.com.

00:40:49.520 Buy it because it's a good book.

00:40:50.520 I read the book.

00:40:51.360 I learned a lot from it, which I didn't honestly expect.

00:40:54.520 I thought it was very well briefed in trans politics.

00:40:56.520 I was not.

00:40:57.660 At least by the standards of this book, I learned a lot.

00:41:00.320 Linda Blade is a bit of an expert, and I enjoyed that part of it, but also get it because

00:41:07.160 I think Rebel News is the only place in Canada that would publish a book like this.

00:41:12.800 So I want to show the rest of the world that it's okay, that in fact, you might even have

00:41:17.260 a bestseller on your hands if you take a stand on something.

00:41:21.120 So it's morally important to me that this book do well and be seen to do well.

00:41:25.560 I want it to go up the bestseller charts so we can say to the world, look, if you actually

00:41:30.560 get out of your woke mindset, you'll do well.

00:41:34.880 It's our show for the week.

00:41:36.320 Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,

00:41:39.920 good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

00:41:42.800 Yeah.

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