Rightwingers made a “comedy” movie attacking trans women in sports & it looks terrible

The far-right and viciously anti-trans Daily Wire has announced its first feature-length comedy film written to mock trans women and girls who are fighting for the right to participate in sports as their gender.

A trailer for the film entitled Lady Ballers depicts a group of cisgender men deciding to pretend to be trans women and join a women’s basketball league as one team with the intent of dominating the sport.

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The trailer calls the film the “most triggering comedy of the year,” a derisive reference to the right-wing narrative that progressives are “snowflakes” who are easily triggered. This is ironic, considering that the people at The Daily Wire were so triggered by the existence of trans people that they made an entire movie about something that has never happened.

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Clips also show the film mocking trans activist Dylan Mulvaney – who is not a professional athlete at all – and reveal a cameo by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). Another scene also shows the actors disrespecting the concept of trans identities by saying it’s also possible to be “trans age” and play on children’s sports teams as adults. The trailer then cuts to an adult severely injuring a child during a baseball game.

The film stars several Daily Wire commentators, including one of its most well-known, Matt Walsh, who is known for his own anti-trans film, What is a Woman?

Lady Ballers also features commentators like Michael Knowles and Ben Shapiro, as well as anti-trans activist Riley Gaines (now Riley Barker after getting married). While Gaines and others like her have argued that trans women participating in sports is an attack on cisgender women, the entire premise of the film appears to be that cis women are terrible at sports and that cis men are naturally superior.

Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing posted the Lady Ballers trailer and wrote, “Hollywood won’t make a movie about how laughably absurd it is that we now allow grown men to call themselves women and then dominate women’s sports. So we did.” Gaines also touted the film, saying it highlights “the absurdity of allowing men into women’s sports.”

The film will stream on the DailyWire+, the news company’s own streaming service. And this isn’t the company’s first foray into making films attacking what it perceives as Hollywood’s progressive values.

In October, the company announced its own Snow White movie in response to what it has characterized as Disney’s “woke” agenda.

Snow White and the Evil Queen comes amid conservative backlash to Disney’s own upcoming live-action Snow White remake starring Rachel Zegler. Conservative trolls have lobbed “go woke, go broke” criticisms at the entertainment giant for casting the West Side Story actress, whose mother is of Columbian descent, as the titular princess, and for reimagining the fairy tale’s seven dwarves as “magical creatures” of different sizes, races, and genders.

The Daily Wire’s version is set to debut next year on the company’s newly launched kids’ streaming platform, Bentkey. In keeping with the pattern of simply casting the Daily Wire’s own commentators, the movie will star YouTuber Brett Cooper, host of The Daily Wire’s The Comments Section With Brett Cooper. In March 2022, The Daily Wire announced its intention to invest at least $100 million into kids’ content over the next three years.

At the time, Boreing said that Americans were “tired of giving their money to woke media companies who want to indoctrinate their children with radical race and gender theory.”