Cody Rhodes comes from a legendary wrestling family and is one of the biggest stars in the WWE. And the four-time tag team champ has a message for the masses: Wrestling is for everyone!
At a recent WWE show in Fresno, Califorina, a fan presented Rhodes with a transgender flag. When Rhodes saw the Progress Pride colors, he didn’t hesitate.
The 2024 Royal Rumble winner held up the flag and posed for a pic. The fan who presented the flag to Rhodes expressed their admiration for his gesture of goodwill.
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“I was lowkey [scared] bc there were some guys around that looked a lil unimpressed but i came out of it unscathed so hey im really glad i did it, esp seeing how many other trans people this has touched !,” the fan posted on Reddit.
The picture is beautiful, inclusive and heartwarming. We’re rooting for you, Cody!
Rhodes posing with the Progress Flag in Fresno is significant for a couple of reasons. As one of the marquee names in wrestling, his support for the LGBTQ+ community speaks to pro wrestling’s evolving culture. It wasn’t that long ago when the WWE and other promotions relied on racist, sexist and homophobic gimmicks to gin up fan interest.
But now, the landscape is changing. CM Punk, a former WWE superstar who now headlines for All Elite Wrestling (AEW), held up a sign that said “support LGBTQ+ youth” at a show last June.
Punk, one of the most revered wrestlers today, took a stand supporting the LGBTQ+ community.
When Punk spoke into the mic, the former WWE champ said he knows what it’s like to be different. Growing up, he didn’t fit in because of his physical appearance, which he could change. LGBTQ+ kids, however, don’t have that easy option.
“It was because of the clothes I wore, what my hair looked like, the music I listened to, those are all things I could rectify. I could cut my hair, I could listen to jazz. I don’t know what,” he said. “But to be somebody who’s gay, lesbian, especially trans I don’t know what it feels like to be trapped in a body that I don’t feel I belong.”
AEW is also the home of Anthony Bowens, the first out gay champion in the promotion’s history. Bowens, a 2024 Queerties nominee, is unapologetically LGBTQ+. He once shared a photo of him kissing his partner, YouTuber Michael Pavano, in front of anti-gay protesters at a Pride match.
At an AWE show last Pride season, fans serenaded Bowens with an affirming chant: “He’s gay!”
Bowens, 33, shared the special moment on social media.
“If you told me years ago I’d have an arena chanting HE’S GAY at me in the most POSITIVE of ways, I’d say you’re crazy. There’s obviously still progress to be made but I’m proud at how far we’ve come. Happy Pride,” he posted on Instagram.
There have also been a few out wrestlers in the WWE, which is valued at an astonishing $8.7 billion. Though Rhodes isn’t LGBTQ+ himself, his visible allyship goes a long way towards creating a more inclusive environment.
Speaking of environment, it’s worth noting the recent WWE show happened in the San Joaquin Valle, one of the most conservative areas of California.
That’s another reason why Rhodes holding up the Progress Flag was so great: it didn’t happen in a liberal enclave.
Fans on social media expressed their gratitude. (For what it’s worth, the fan drew Rhodes’ logo on the flag as well!)
I didn’t know I needed another reason to be a Cody Rhodes fan but here we are ????? https://t.co/3fILCNOHTV
I’m only just getting into wrestling but I can see this is a guy I need to watch. I first heard of him because of the #WeWantCody thing which went beyond wrestling fandom and into my world even. He seems like a good guy and I’m glad he saw you and respects you 🏳️⚧️
Rhodes made his WWE debut in 2006, lasting 10 years in his first stint with the company. His father, Dusty, was one of the most famous wrestlers in the 1970s and 80s. Known as the “American Dream,” Dusty Rhodes is part of four separate wrestling Hall of Fames.
Upon returning to WWE in 2022, Rhodes immediately ascended up the card. He’s the only wrestler in company history to win the Royal Rumble in consecutive years, guaranteeing himself a championship match at Wrestlemania, the biggest PPV of the year.
While Rhodes is known for elite in-ring skills, and a baby face look, he’s continually used his platform to talk about diversity. A few years back, he cut a promo celebrating the upcoming birth of his daughter, who’s mixed-race.
“Prior to 1961 in Atlanta, Georgia, there was segregation. Blacks and whites could not attend the same schools,” he said. “And in 2021, in the very same city, my wife, my wife will give birth to a beautiful, a beautiful white, a beautiful Black American princess who will have both identities, shun neither.”
At the aforementioned show in Fresno, Rhodes also posed with a fan who was holding up the following sign: “Blindness can’t stop me from seeing Cody.”
Wrestle crowds are not renowned for embracing gay athletes… but times are changing.
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No, you don’t. If you stood for humanity, you wouldn’t support biological males replacing, denigrating, abusing and stealing opportunities from biological women. That is not standing with humanity. It is the opposite of humanity.
“You are loved
You are valued
You have value
And don’t let anyone try to take that away from you.”
People who believe that biological males shouldn’t be beating up biological females are not trolls.
69% of all Americans concur, BTW.
Males like you and your twisted friends abfab and dbmcvey, who believe that trans-identified-males should be allowed to beat up women,. are anti-woman bigots.
You’re totally correct. I still find it hilarious these people spew all this nonsense and time and time again, tho they peddle it as if it were fact, it comes up false and fake.
Like how the whole Hunter Biden crime syndicate is collapsing around them now.
Most likely, he means the volleyball player in a concussion from a spiked trans volleyball. Zzbomb’s kumbaya sounds like Michaela Cavanaugh trotting out Peak Kristin Wiig on ‘SNL.’ Yall sound dangerously close to losing it.
You state you don’t support violence, when in fact, you are supporting violence.
Just yesterday in the Daily Mail:
“Massachusetts high school girls’ basketball team was forced to forfeit its game after a transgender player on the opposing team injured three players.”
This is not uncommon and through your own ignorance, you are supporting the abuse and violence of biological women.
BARON WISEASS, I checked your comment out and it’s seems to be only reported in RIGHT WING RAGS. So one has to wonder if it’s actually true. As usual you push BS and excel in that.
Second, watch the abuse with your own eyes on YouTube.
Lastly, isn’t it sad that more mainstream media wouldn’t pick this story up? Where is CNN? ABC? NYT? Since the facts don’t fit their narrative, it is ignored. Sad that the corporate, mainstream media is so bigoted.
The hell are you talking about. In general no one should beat anyone regardless of gender. If you’re talking about sports, professional sports are a controlled environment. Meaning lots of drug testing, weight tracking, and other health concerns. In my high school, our wrestling team was gender inclusive. This was back in 2010 and my school has been doing this since the 1980s. So it’s not new. They weigh and track their strength level of opponents to make sure it’s an even playing field. So sometimes it’s a female vs a male wrestler. We also have a cis female baseball and soccer player too. And our cross country and tennis team are gender mixed. The only sport that was separated by gender was our basketball team only because there are a lot of interest from both genders to play. Most of the time it’s the male players who have a problem with competing against a girl because they don’t want to get “beat up” aka loose to a girl.
But WWE and AWE are a different kind of sport. They are more performing than actually fighting. So they have matches where it’s boys vs girls or teams featuring different genders matching up. Even amateurs performance wrestling does this all the time. At the end of the day, sports are meant to be fun. And sports are for everyone to play and to watch.
We’ve been through this. You prattle on about Obamacare. It’s $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system. If you care so much instead of scoring sarcastic virtue signaling, try shutting up and fixing your mess.
@dbmcvey is a T-chaser (and that GOP troll abfab), the “pervert” remark is total projection. You know what they say, every accusation is a confession. More reason for gay men and lesbians to give these homophobic cretins the boot.
Last week in Massachussetts, the coach of KIPP Chartre School’s girls basketball team forfeited a game they were winning (31-14) in order to protect his players after three of them were injured.
You can see the video of Collegiate School’s 6 foot transgirl girl violently slamming one of them to the ground here.
youtube dot com /watch?v=OrURB0HA0wE
itemlive dot com /2024/02/14/gender-identity-in-play-on-kipp-basketball-team/
This is the kind of violence we are subjecting women because of misogynistic hate-mongers like Zzbomb lying about the physical advantages of male puberty.
“Let me know when you want to actually have a conversation based in reality.”
No, you don’t. I’ve asked you multiple times to address what I posted, and as usual, you replied with childish insults.
Since when is YouTube a “fake news website”? The abuse and violence is right there on video, what is fake about it?
I’m sure the young women who were injured knew there was a possibility of injury when the transgender woman came onto the court and was six feet tall with facial hair.
Hey Zzbomb: Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
Youtube is not now and never was considered to be viable source material.
After the numerous times Project Veritas has been sued into irrelevance over youtube videos they claimed were true, you’d think you’d learn??? But education isn’t strong with yall after the word “terminology” literally stumped one you last week after you tried to put down my education level.
Sue Toronto Sun for libel then. Another reminder: Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
^^^^
More lies, but in copy and paste form! How original!?
And another thing you want to casually gloss over: Detransitioners have been abused by therapists. Maybe try reaching out to the autistic teen lesbian who had her breasts removed in the New York Times. See how far your “Obamacare fixed everything” and “I had therapy” shtick gets you. She’s a hurting person in your community.
Fix it in your own backyard before lecturing everyone else, Zz.
More from the non-partisan Calmatters:
More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data. The vast majority of them — close to 90% — lost Medi-Cal coverage because of so-called “procedural reasons,” often meaning problems with paperwork. California has the fourth worst rate of terminations linked to procedural issues in the nation, according to the health policy research organization KFF (formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation).
You’re the unwell one here and again, thank you for positively showing how showing some humanity upsets those who have almost entirely lost theirs. Really, thank you.
Look it up on the Calmatters website then. Crosscheck your discrepancy and contact the actual journalists who are paid to do this sort of thing. (Not you, a mentally ill unemployed person.) Get back to us about what happened next.
I’ll give you a helpful hint. Copy and paste the following sentence and stick it into Google. (More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.) What do you know? The first Google result is Calmatters, a non-partisan website affiliated with NPR. Contact the actual journalists who are paid money to compile government data and say you disagree with their findings despite their journalism degrees and your status as a mentally deranged unemployed person yelling at clouds on a Wednesday afternoon. Be sure to let us know how it goes, Zz.
And just so everyone is clear. The following sentence produces the article on Google as the first result: “More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.”
Zzbomb is a willful liar. He learned his tactics well from Donald Trump.
Wow, that was the article you’re referring to? Where a KNOWN change in policy momentarily displaced people participating in a program? Where an overwhelming MAJORITY of those affected returned back to the program?
Be nice if you actually had some serious concerns or perhaps reading comprehension.
Again, good luck on your new “blogger” gig. I’m sure you’ll be just as successful changing minds there as you have here.
And just so everyone is clear: Decrans takes single sentences out of articles, runs with them as facts, without providing any context, and then tries to paint others as untruthful.
Yeah. They were displaced for months. That’s your Medi-Cal health care system overburdened with paperwork, Zz. People of color had lapsed health insurance for months because of an ineffective system. It’s nothing to be proud of.
And Calmatters has a slew of Medi-Cal articles including “Why mental health providers say Medi-Cal’s latest reform may force them to cut services.” I do not want to hear how your state Medicaid is perfect or Obamacare fixed everything from you ever again. You’re willing to throw poor people of color underneath the bus to score cheap political points. That’s sick.
“Will the state’s big Medi-Cal plan really fix mental health care for low-income Californians?”
That was published just a few weeks ago. Calmatters has articles from actual journalists who do the research a mile long. We can keep going all day. Again, I don’t want to hear Obamacare fixed everything from you ever again. Non-partisan journalists doing the work claim otherwise.
Uh huh. Tell that to the low income people of color who might need mental health care in that lapsed time frame. Have a cup of water and a seat again, Zz. I got you an ergonomic chair.
And I said it’s $400 a month in some states. Tell that line to the 30 million uninsured right now, Zz. You wanted to feign fake compassion. I called you on it with non-partisan journalists. You failed.
Well one thing we learned today, Decrans doesn’t have employer provided healthcare benefits. So either troll farms aren’t very well paying w/ benefits, or decrans is unemployed and likely not a tenable employee which also wouldn’t be surprising. I mean imagine behaving as any of them do in the work place? Instant termination.
Either way, they sit here day in and day out screaming at the sky. Can’t imagine it’s a happy or productive life.
Yeah. The California canvassing jobs don’t offer employee benefits either. Indeed.com claims the California Democrats pay $15 an hour. That’s on yall! But in other news, I accepted a blogging job on trans issues from a national conservative online magazine yesterday. They do have benefits. Shrugs. See y’all more on the Interwebs soon!
Boy did I hit that nail on the head! A “blogging job.” Well if you’re as successful there as you are here, I’m not worried about seeing you anywhere much less on the interwebs.
Meanwhile, zzbomb reads (check notes) a site that started out as a blogging website with Jossip. You’re not at your best today, zz. You might need a cup of water and a chair.
Nope. Compassionate liberalism in action. It’s another reason I hitched my wagon to the Republicans. They’re upfront about their callousness. They don’t lie about it on top of it.
@decrans, As you know, I’m a liberal and I probably agree with ZZ 90% of the time (and generally I think YOU are nuts!) but I think he looks terrible in this comment thread. I was annoyed already about CalMatters, then he goes and insults poor people just for being too poor to afford health insurance! ZZ lost the debate here I think!
He usually loses every debate with me. He thought Ben Shapiro still lived in Los Angeles. Was adamant about it. Meanwhile, I cashed the extra day players’ paychecks from his basketball movie. He flails his arms too hard and falls flat on his ass. Poor thing.
Wow before I saw this whole comment thread had been held captive, I was gonna make some corrections about A. CM Punk being back in the WWE and B. Cody being the 4th person to go back to back at two consecutive Royal Rumbles. The Royal Rumble was payperview concept started by deceased WWE legend Pat Patterson who’s had his share of controversies, none coming close to all the scrutiny Vince McMahon has been coming into as of late. And yeah fake but they can’t all be as authentic as your Andy Cohen produced docudramas, right?
Today, Joe Biden delivered remarks in Los Angeles on his plan to ‘cancel’ student loans ahead of the 2024 election. Buying votes has been a specialty of President Biden’s prior to election time.
Of course, the student loans are not actually canceled. Biden is just transferring the financial burden to middle-class Americans who never went to college.
Biden struggled during his remarks and lost a battle with his teleprompter – again.
They really do. See: Homelessness in California and the education system in California. The neolibs of Cali are experts at flushing money down a crapper. California was the wake-up call I needed to poop out the last remains of my leftism. It really was.
I have lived in Los Angeles since 1987. It has been a great place to live, but not anymore. I’m thinking of leaving just like some of my friends have moved.
I moved to Tennessee, called my College Republican PR friend and rebranded my music journalism/canvassing background as a political blogger on trans issues for conservative websites. I never thought it would turn out like this! Life comes at you fast in Gavin Newsom’s California, though. I also think my friend wants to plug me in as a canvasser for Marsha Blackburn. Better her than that crazy woman from East Tennessee.
Inbama…another EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN……same old bullshit. shift your focus away from the girls…they don’t need your help, in fact you make it worse for them. Like you care.
Your beard which hangs from you stinking c unt. TMY bitch…TMI Nothing will make you look good, esp here….but you generate comments and $$$ so you can stay.
Did you see that sixteen year-old Oklahoma girl beaten for using the girls’ room in her high school who dies the next day? Self-diagnosed as “gender fluid” – made up nonsense to make lesbian, gay and autistic kids feel like there’s something “wrong” with them. Oh it’s a hoot for entertainers to wear a dress and sport a moustache, but teens have to live in the real world – which is a lot more dangerous than Hollywood. And these poor kids, who think TikTok has all the answers, take this nonsense seriously. “Nonbinary” with “they, them” pronouns is 1 in 5 LGBT young adults. We came so close to succeeding to make the world safe so they could embrace themselves, but along comes a greedy industry pushing Iranian-style conversion therapy, and your “authentic self” is not you as you are but the handiwork of endocrinologists and plastic surgeons.
Interesting how Little Trumpy McAbs seconds a feel-good trans post at the top of the comments and uses trans slurs at the bottom. I wonder if his sock puppet accounts will point out the glaring hypocrisy. Hmm. How will trans slurs make trans people feel next to your empty Hallmark sentiments? He usually calls me tranyzzz to be fair. Your ardent defenders, trans people! Exhibit A.
I’ve always believed that wrestling is for everyone, and it’s not like the WWE has strict weight classes. Professional wrestling could lead the way in transgender inclusion done right.
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ZzBomb
Before all the trolls jump on this article to trash trans people I want to say this:
You are loved
You are valued
You have value
And don’t let anyone try to take that away from you.
I stand with humanity. I hope you’ll stand with me.
Have good day all.
dbmcvey
Hear Hear!
abfab
Truth!
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
“I stand with humanity.”
No, you don’t. If you stood for humanity, you wouldn’t support biological males replacing, denigrating, abusing and stealing opportunities from biological women. That is not standing with humanity. It is the opposite of humanity.
“You are loved
You are valued
You have value
And don’t let anyone try to take that away from you.”
Agreed.
ZzBomb
Unsurprisingly Baron is triggered by a post supporting and recognizing other people’s humanity.
monty clift
Wow, how cloyingly saccharine. Lol.
dbmcvey
Good for him!
inbama
@ZzBomb
People who believe that biological males shouldn’t be beating up biological females are not trolls.
69% of all Americans concur, BTW.
Males like you and your twisted friends abfab and dbmcvey, who believe that trans-identified-males should be allowed to beat up women,. are anti-woman bigots.
Beating up women is not a human right.
ZzBomb
I have no idea what you are talking about and I don’t support violence of any kind except for wannabe dictators.
69% of made up numbers are 100% lies every time.
dbmcvey
@ZzBomb,
inbama doesn’t know what he means either. He just says stupid crap thinking he’s going to “own the libs.”
ZzBomb
DB,
You’re totally correct. I still find it hilarious these people spew all this nonsense and time and time again, tho they peddle it as if it were fact, it comes up false and fake.
Like how the whole Hunter Biden crime syndicate is collapsing around them now.
decrans
Most likely, he means the volleyball player in a concussion from a spiked trans volleyball. Zzbomb’s kumbaya sounds like Michaela Cavanaugh trotting out Peak Kristin Wiig on ‘SNL.’ Yall sound dangerously close to losing it.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
You state you don’t support violence, when in fact, you are supporting violence.
Just yesterday in the Daily Mail:
“Massachusetts high school girls’ basketball team was forced to forfeit its game after a transgender player on the opposing team injured three players.”
This is not uncommon and through your own ignorance, you are supporting the abuse and violence of biological women.
ZzBomb
Oh look, Decrans, the one who is in most need of therapy still hasn’t seemed to head the call.
decrans
Same to you, Kristin Wiig. You sound insane.
ZzBomb
LOL amazingly how Baron and Decrans show up at the same time w/ the exact same fake talking point.
Tell me you work at the same, failed, troll farm without telling me you work at the same, failed, troll farm!?
Hilarious
decrans
Kind of like you in your sock puppet accounts: Diversion Dickvaney and Little Trumpy McAbs.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Instead of the childish insults, please address what was posted. Too difficult?
Are you unable to address why you support biological males replacing, denigrating, abusing and stealing opportunities from biological women?
decrans
They never are. When they’re backed into a corner, they become overgrown children. Good luck trying to convince the vast majority of America, kids!
ZzBomb
Amazing how Baron and Decrans show up at the same time w/ the exact same fake talking point
decrans
Amazing how he still reads my comments a mere second later. Therapy, Zz. Look into it.
Mack
BARON WISEASS, I checked your comment out and it’s seems to be only reported in RIGHT WING RAGS. So one has to wonder if it’s actually true. As usual you push BS and excel in that.
Baron Wiseman
@Mack
First, Daily Mail is not a right-wing website.
Second, watch the abuse with your own eyes on YouTube.
Lastly, isn’t it sad that more mainstream media wouldn’t pick this story up? Where is CNN? ABC? NYT? Since the facts don’t fit their narrative, it is ignored. Sad that the corporate, mainstream media is so bigoted.
abfab
I’d beat the shit out of you and you’re not a woman….although who the hell knows, You offer no proof, INBAMA.
decrans
Little Trumpy McAbs forgot to take his pills again. Somebody better lower down the bucket into his hole.
dmarcus
The hell are you talking about. In general no one should beat anyone regardless of gender. If you’re talking about sports, professional sports are a controlled environment. Meaning lots of drug testing, weight tracking, and other health concerns. In my high school, our wrestling team was gender inclusive. This was back in 2010 and my school has been doing this since the 1980s. So it’s not new. They weigh and track their strength level of opponents to make sure it’s an even playing field. So sometimes it’s a female vs a male wrestler. We also have a cis female baseball and soccer player too. And our cross country and tennis team are gender mixed. The only sport that was separated by gender was our basketball team only because there are a lot of interest from both genders to play. Most of the time it’s the male players who have a problem with competing against a girl because they don’t want to get “beat up” aka loose to a girl.
But WWE and AWE are a different kind of sport. They are more performing than actually fighting. So they have matches where it’s boys vs girls or teams featuring different genders matching up. Even amateurs performance wrestling does this all the time. At the end of the day, sports are meant to be fun. And sports are for everyone to play and to watch.
dbmcvey
To any trans people who click on this, ignore inbama, he’s a disgusting pervert.
decrans
This site caters to privileged white gays virtue signaling. You know this better than anyone.
ZzBomb
Decrans is triggered and still in need of therapy.
Getting the help you need is nothing to be ashamed of.
decrans
We’ve been through this. You prattle on about Obamacare. It’s $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system. If you care so much instead of scoring sarcastic virtue signaling, try shutting up and fixing your mess.
ZzBomb
Decrans
I’m not even reading anything you write anymore. My simple reply forever more will always be this:
You are an unwell person with a sick obsession over other people’s lives who do not affect yours in the least. YOU NEED THERAPY
decrans
Yall have said that since July. Couldn’t care less.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
“YOU NEED THERAPY”
States the one who has repeatedly called for the assassination of Donald Trump.
ZzBomb
Amazing how Baron and Decrans show up at the same time w/ the exact same fake talking point
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Amazing how Zz can’t stay on subject and directly address what has been posted.
(I don’t blame you. I’d be embarrassed as well. 🙁 )
decrans
Like a child whining when he doesn’t get his way. It’s scary we allow these people voting privileges.
inbama
@dbmcvey
So being a proud and honest gay man is being a “pervert” now?
Buy yourself a mirror, freak.
monty clift
@dbmcvey is a T-chaser (and that GOP troll abfab), the “pervert” remark is total projection. You know what they say, every accusation is a confession. More reason for gay men and lesbians to give these homophobic cretins the boot.
decrans
Little Trumpy McAbs is missing in action. He’s probably jerking off in his trailer somewhere to pictures of Lindsey Graham.
ZzBomb
I’m glad I got my original comment in.
Humanity > Trolls
Baron Wiseman
I’m sure you are.
If only you did support humanity and not biological males replacing, denigrating, abusing and stealing opportunities from biological women.
decrans
More white people virtue signaling to each other on a site with privileged gay white people. Filed under: white people be white peoplin’.
dbmcvey
And, of course, Barren and decraps are here to prove ZzBomb correct and show us all just how disgusting they are.
ZzBomb
Humanity > Trolls
inbama
Last week in Massachussetts, the coach of KIPP Chartre School’s girls basketball team forfeited a game they were winning (31-14) in order to protect his players after three of them were injured.
You can see the video of Collegiate School’s 6 foot transgirl girl violently slamming one of them to the ground here.
youtube dot com /watch?v=OrURB0HA0wE
itemlive dot com /2024/02/14/gender-identity-in-play-on-kipp-basketball-team/
This is the kind of violence we are subjecting women because of misogynistic hate-mongers like Zzbomb lying about the physical advantages of male puberty.
ZzBomb
WOW a fake news website said something and you’re running with it?
Let me know when you want to actually have a conversation based in reality.
decrans
There’s an article about it in the center-left Toronto Sun. Second page of Google News results.
ZzBomb
Decrans
Seek therapy. That is all
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
“Let me know when you want to actually have a conversation based in reality.”
No, you don’t. I’ve asked you multiple times to address what I posted, and as usual, you replied with childish insults.
Since when is YouTube a “fake news website”? The abuse and violence is right there on video, what is fake about it?
I’m sure the young women who were injured knew there was a possibility of injury when the transgender woman came onto the court and was six feet tall with facial hair.
But hey, you’re all about “humanity”.
ZzBomb
Youtube is edited and not source material. Yall ever get tired of being duped by your own lies?
decrans
Sue the center left Toronto Sun for libel.
Baron Wiseman
@ZzBomb
Watch the video and tell me where it is edited when there are no edits! As if it was some grand conspiracy!
Since there are no edits, next you will be telling me it’s AI.
Absolutely pathetic.
decrans
Hey Zzbomb: Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
ZzBomb
Youtube is not now and never was considered to be viable source material.
After the numerous times Project Veritas has been sued into irrelevance over youtube videos they claimed were true, you’d think you’d learn??? But education isn’t strong with yall after the word “terminology” literally stumped one you last week after you tried to put down my education level.
decrans
Sue Toronto Sun for libel then. Another reminder: Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
ZzBomb
Youtube is not now and never was considered to be viable source material.
decrans
Sue an internationally renowned publication then. Put up or shut up, Zz. Simple as that.
ZzBomb
Youtube is not now and never was considered to be viable source material.
Nothing to sue anyone over b/c this fact. Weird thing to suggest.
decrans
Sue The Toronto Star for reporting it. Lemme guess. Fake news! God, you people are exactly like Trump. Abfab, too.
ZzBomb
LOL I don’t sue people over fictitious things which don’t exist. That’s for Trump, Kari Lake, and the others to do.
I have a life and clearly my humanity in tact.
SoPluckyWhat
YouTube is a news site? I’m pretty sure it’s just a site to post videos.
ZzBomb
Humanity > Hateful Fake News
decrans
Seek therapy.
decrans
Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
That is all. Your daily reminder.
ZzBomb
I had and it helped me. You should look into it too!
ZzBomb
Obamacare is $400 monthly for working class people in some states. The politically neutral Calmatters claims overlogged case loads under your perfect Medi-Cal system.
^^^^
More lies, but in copy and paste form! How original!?
ZzBomb
Wait, so Decrans, if you’re repeating this am I correct in assuming then you do not have employer provided healthcare benefits??????
decrans
And another thing you want to casually gloss over: Detransitioners have been abused by therapists. Maybe try reaching out to the autistic teen lesbian who had her breasts removed in the New York Times. See how far your “Obamacare fixed everything” and “I had therapy” shtick gets you. She’s a hurting person in your community.
decrans
No lies, Zzbomb. Calmatters is not One America News. It’s non-partisan! Sad when grasping at straws is all you have left.
decrans
Fix it in your own backyard before lecturing everyone else, Zz.
More from the non-partisan Calmatters:
More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data. The vast majority of them — close to 90% — lost Medi-Cal coverage because of so-called “procedural reasons,” often meaning problems with paperwork. California has the fourth worst rate of terminations linked to procedural issues in the nation, according to the health policy research organization KFF (formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation).
decrans
Try not replying to me again. That lasted all of (checks notes) 20 minutes.
ZzBomb
Seek therapy, you fall for utter nonsense.
And you wasted your own time peddling all those lies, not mine. So sit there and be mad at yourself.
Try not to reply back, you never saying anything of value anyway with your hatred.
decrans
Once again, Zzbomb is confronted with facts from government data and a non-partisan news source and wants to claim it’s Newsmax.
Self-reflection, zzbomb. Call your therapist, sweetie. This obstinacy might be a sign of mental illness like the Trumpers you disdain.
ZzBomb
Got to come at me w/ facts first.
decrans
I came at you with government data. Try again.
ZzBomb
Mmmmmmm no you didnt
decrans
More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.
More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.
More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.
ZzBomb
Repeated Lie
Repeated Lie
Repeated Lie
I can do this too. You’re not special aside from being deeply sick in the head.
decrans
Tell it to the non-partisan Calmatters, zz. You look desperate and deranged.
decrans
Or do what adults do. Refute. It.
Refute it.
Refute it.
ZzBomb
How about scream about it at the sky more? It cares
ZzBomb
There’s nothing to “refute” over something that is untrue. Duh
decrans
I’m done. It’s government data. You’re deranged and deeply unwell. Most logical people can see you lost this argument. Badly.
ZzBomb
It’s not gov’t data, I checked your bs.
You’re the unwell one here and again, thank you for positively showing how showing some humanity upsets those who have almost entirely lost theirs. Really, thank you.
decrans
What’s your source on that, Carl Bernstein? Your ass?
decrans
For example, my sources are neutral organizations such as Calmatters and Kaiser Health News that regularly contracts with NPR.
ZzBomb
I checked your “sources”
Guess what came up?
Nada
Weren’t you done here? Pretty sure you said you were done. Guess that was another lie. Oh well!?
decrans
Look it up on the Calmatters website then. Crosscheck your discrepancy and contact the actual journalists who are paid to do this sort of thing. (Not you, a mentally ill unemployed person.) Get back to us about what happened next.
ZzBomb
I started at Calmatters, found nothing, just as I knew I would.
I’m not one for confirmation bias, but this is a bit ridiculous when every new “story” you peddle ends up evaporating into the ether.
Humanity > sanctimonious right wing “bloggers”
decrans
I’ll give you a helpful hint. Copy and paste the following sentence and stick it into Google. (More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.) What do you know? The first Google result is Calmatters, a non-partisan website affiliated with NPR. Contact the actual journalists who are paid money to compile government data and say you disagree with their findings despite their journalism degrees and your status as a mentally deranged unemployed person yelling at clouds on a Wednesday afternoon. Be sure to let us know how it goes, Zz.
decrans
And just so everyone is clear. The following sentence produces the article on Google as the first result: “More than 928,000 people had their Medi-Cal terminated between June and October, according to state data.”
Zzbomb is a willful liar. He learned his tactics well from Donald Trump.
ZzBomb
Wow, that was the article you’re referring to? Where a KNOWN change in policy momentarily displaced people participating in a program? Where an overwhelming MAJORITY of those affected returned back to the program?
Be nice if you actually had some serious concerns or perhaps reading comprehension.
Again, good luck on your new “blogger” gig. I’m sure you’ll be just as successful changing minds there as you have here.
ZzBomb
And just so everyone is clear: Decrans takes single sentences out of articles, runs with them as facts, without providing any context, and then tries to paint others as untruthful.
Humanity > cherry picked right wing narratives
decrans
Yeah. They were displaced for months. That’s your Medi-Cal health care system overburdened with paperwork, Zz. People of color had lapsed health insurance for months because of an ineffective system. It’s nothing to be proud of.
decrans
And Calmatters has a slew of Medi-Cal articles including “Why mental health providers say Medi-Cal’s latest reform may force them to cut services.” I do not want to hear how your state Medicaid is perfect or Obamacare fixed everything from you ever again. You’re willing to throw poor people of color underneath the bus to score cheap political points. That’s sick.
ZzBomb
A month, not like medi-cal killed a million people in a year
That’s an honor reserved for someone looking down the barrel of 91 indictments. Nothing to be proud of.
decrans
“Will the state’s big Medi-Cal plan really fix mental health care for low-income Californians?”
That was published just a few weeks ago. Calmatters has articles from actual journalists who do the research a mile long. We can keep going all day. Again, I don’t want to hear Obamacare fixed everything from you ever again. Non-partisan journalists doing the work claim otherwise.
decrans
Uh huh. Tell that to the low income people of color who might need mental health care in that lapsed time frame. Have a cup of water and a seat again, Zz. I got you an ergonomic chair.
ZzBomb
I never said the ACA fixed everything. I said it cover mental health which you clearly need. LOL
decrans
And I said it’s $400 a month in some states. Tell that line to the 30 million uninsured right now, Zz. You wanted to feign fake compassion. I called you on it with non-partisan journalists. You failed.
ZzBomb
Yeah, and referring to that is meaningless b/c I’m not telling other people to get mental health, just you.
ZzBomb
” You wanted to feign fake compassion. I called you on it with non-partisan journalists.”
You cherry picked one line. Not exactly a winning argument when everyone got back on coverage.
decrans
The winning argument is an archive on Medi-Cal coverage on Calmatters.org. Water is wet.
still_onthemark
I found the story easily on the CalMatters site; don’t know why ZZ couldn’t find it.
‘They told me I have no coverage’: Californians surprised by loss of Medi-Cal insurance
BY ANA B. IBARRA
DECEMBER 18, 2023
decrans
Political agendas. Same as some ardent Trumpers. Facts are a tricky thing in our current national discourse.
ZzBomb
Humanity > Youtube Videos
dbmcvey
Yes. It’s disgusting. decraps, Barren, inbama. Why? Why all this bile emanating from them?
ZzBomb
Well one thing we learned today, Decrans doesn’t have employer provided healthcare benefits. So either troll farms aren’t very well paying w/ benefits, or decrans is unemployed and likely not a tenable employee which also wouldn’t be surprising. I mean imagine behaving as any of them do in the work place? Instant termination.
Either way, they sit here day in and day out screaming at the sky. Can’t imagine it’s a happy or productive life.
decrans
Yeah. The California canvassing jobs don’t offer employee benefits either. Indeed.com claims the California Democrats pay $15 an hour. That’s on yall! But in other news, I accepted a blogging job on trans issues from a national conservative online magazine yesterday. They do have benefits. Shrugs. See y’all more on the Interwebs soon!
decrans
Either way, they sit here day in and day out screaming at the sky. Can’t imagine it’s a happy or productive life.
Self-reflection time again. Better get a hold of that therapist, Zz.
ZzBomb
LOL
Boy did I hit that nail on the head! A “blogging job.” Well if you’re as successful there as you are here, I’m not worried about seeing you anywhere much less on the interwebs.
decrans
They thought so. I sent them screenshots of this website comment section. My various owns including you. They thought it was comedy gold.
ZzBomb
So other undereducated people thought you, the undereducated, were funny?
In other news: Water is wet
Again not worried
decrans
Meanwhile, zzbomb reads (check notes) a site that started out as a blogging website with Jossip. You’re not at your best today, zz. You might need a cup of water and a chair.
decrans
In other news, I have benefits. The canvassers over at the California Dems? Not so much. Party of the working class or some shit.
ZzBomb
Well either way, I think you demonstrated how showing some humanity deeply upsets those who lost theirs wonderfully.
Thank you.
still_onthemark
Nice story, but WWE wrestling is still as fake as Caitlyn Jenner’s b00bs.
ZzBomb
Humanity > sanctimonious right wing “bloggers”
still_onthemark
Humanity > pr!cks who insult poor people without health insurance
WTF. Not a good look, ZZ.
decrans
Nope. Compassionate liberalism in action. It’s another reason I hitched my wagon to the Republicans. They’re upfront about their callousness. They don’t lie about it on top of it.
still_onthemark
@decrans, As you know, I’m a liberal and I probably agree with ZZ 90% of the time (and generally I think YOU are nuts!) but I think he looks terrible in this comment thread. I was annoyed already about CalMatters, then he goes and insults poor people just for being too poor to afford health insurance! ZZ lost the debate here I think!
decrans
He usually loses every debate with me. He thought Ben Shapiro still lived in Los Angeles. Was adamant about it. Meanwhile, I cashed the extra day players’ paychecks from his basketball movie. He flails his arms too hard and falls flat on his ass. Poor thing.
ZzBomb
You lost a debate? When?
ZzBomb
Correction – I*
Cherry picking articles for one liners isn’t a debate last time I checked
And Still? When did I ever insult poor people? Be specific
decrans
He’s so triggered. He has to dredge up day old posts. Call your therapist to cope.
dbmcvey
It’s just cruelty with these nasty right wing transphobes.
TimidTim
Wow before I saw this whole comment thread had been held captive, I was gonna make some corrections about A. CM Punk being back in the WWE and B. Cody being the 4th person to go back to back at two consecutive Royal Rumbles. The Royal Rumble was payperview concept started by deceased WWE legend Pat Patterson who’s had his share of controversies, none coming close to all the scrutiny Vince McMahon has been coming into as of late. And yeah fake but they can’t all be as authentic as your Andy Cohen produced docudramas, right?
Baron Wiseman
Today, Joe Biden delivered remarks in Los Angeles on his plan to ‘cancel’ student loans ahead of the 2024 election. Buying votes has been a specialty of President Biden’s prior to election time.
Of course, the student loans are not actually canceled. Biden is just transferring the financial burden to middle-class Americans who never went to college.
Biden struggled during his remarks and lost a battle with his teleprompter – again.
dbmcvey
Yawn.
dbmcvey
Your guy is a convicted rapist and fraud.
Baron Wiseman
@dbmcvey
I didn’t think it would bother you that Democrats are continuing to buy votes. They have done it for decades with unions.
Convicted rapist? Egads! Who?
Perhaps we should ask Tara Reade.
abfab
He’s telling the banks to eat it. Good.
dbmcvey
God, Barren’s an idiot.
Baron Wiseman
@abfab
Just like a Leftist!!!
He’s not telling the banks to eat it! The American taxpayer is going to eat it
You lefties just think money grows on trees. Sad.
decrans
They really do. See: Homelessness in California and the education system in California. The neolibs of Cali are experts at flushing money down a crapper. California was the wake-up call I needed to poop out the last remains of my leftism. It really was.
Baron Wiseman
@decrans
I have lived in Los Angeles since 1987. It has been a great place to live, but not anymore. I’m thinking of leaving just like some of my friends have moved.
abfab
Go already.
decrans
I moved to Tennessee, called my College Republican PR friend and rebranded my music journalism/canvassing background as a political blogger on trans issues for conservative websites. I never thought it would turn out like this! Life comes at you fast in Gavin Newsom’s California, though. I also think my friend wants to plug me in as a canvasser for Marsha Blackburn. Better her than that crazy woman from East Tennessee.
monty clift
Given that Cody Rhodes has a cross-dressing brother, it’s really no surprise that he would support this.
abfab
Given that.
TimidTim
Dustin “Goldust” Runnels actually has a transsexual child too.
inbama
UPDATE: KIPP Academy has now canceled their next game because their trans player who slammed those girls around has gotten death threats.
Of course, brain-dead ZzBomb will deny any of this is happening because the video is on youtube.
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13109169/kipp-academy-basketball-team-trans-player-cancels-game dot html
decrans
As always say, dumb people gonna dumb.
Baron Wiseman
@inbama
Like some issues, I don’t believe this one will be go away. For those who believe in justice, this issue will never die.
abfab
Inbama…another EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN……same old bullshit. shift your focus away from the girls…they don’t need your help, in fact you make it worse for them. Like you care.
still_onthemark
Baron and dbmcvey should wrestle! Imagine the costumes:
Baron looking like he does on the pizza box, Second Reich mustache and all
db, hmm, but what does a Social Justice Warrior uniform look like, exactly? But it must be pretty cool!
Baron Wiseman
@still_onthemark
Nope. I don’t look good in a mustache, but I’m told I look quite fetching with my beard. 🙂
Wrestling dbmcvey? I don’t it would be fair for me to wrestle a beta boy.
decrans
Judging by the amount of whining Diversion Dickvaney does, my wagers are going with Baron.
abfab
Your beard which hangs from you stinking c unt. TMY bitch…TMI Nothing will make you look good, esp here….but you generate comments and $$$ so you can stay.
decrans
What that even a complete sentence? Someone needs to gift Little Trumpy McAbs with a Hooked on Phonics subscription.
inbama
I don’t understand how you can be so heartless.
Did you see that sixteen year-old Oklahoma girl beaten for using the girls’ room in her high school who dies the next day? Self-diagnosed as “gender fluid” – made up nonsense to make lesbian, gay and autistic kids feel like there’s something “wrong” with them. Oh it’s a hoot for entertainers to wear a dress and sport a moustache, but teens have to live in the real world – which is a lot more dangerous than Hollywood. And these poor kids, who think TikTok has all the answers, take this nonsense seriously. “Nonbinary” with “they, them” pronouns is 1 in 5 LGBT young adults. We came so close to succeeding to make the world safe so they could embrace themselves, but along comes a greedy industry pushing Iranian-style conversion therapy, and your “authentic self” is not you as you are but the handiwork of endocrinologists and plastic surgeons.
R.I.P., Little Nex Benedict.
abfab
Baron decranzeetrans is an EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN.
”They never give up”.
decrans
Interesting how Little Trumpy McAbs seconds a feel-good trans post at the top of the comments and uses trans slurs at the bottom. I wonder if his sock puppet accounts will point out the glaring hypocrisy. Hmm. How will trans slurs make trans people feel next to your empty Hallmark sentiments? He usually calls me tranyzzz to be fair. Your ardent defenders, trans people! Exhibit A.
Fahd
I’ve always believed that wrestling is for everyone, and it’s not like the WWE has strict weight classes. Professional wrestling could lead the way in transgender inclusion done right.