Pressure from transgender activists silenced progressives’ concerns over the role of men in women’s sports, confessed Malcolm Gladwell, a famous left-wing author.
“The reason I’m ashamed of my performance of that [March 5, 2022] panel [is] because I share your [pro-women] position 100 percent, and I was cowed,” Gladwell said Tuesday on the podcast The Real Science of Sport.
In contrast, Breitbart News has never been cowed by transgender pressure, even before the November 2024 election.
WATCH — President Trump: Having Women Compete with Trans Athletes Is “Demeaning to Women”:
In 2022, for example, Breitbart posted roughly 400 articles on the transgender ideology. The ideology insists that the government must enforce individuals’ claims to have somehow switched sex via their claimed but unverifiable “gender identity.”
In the days before and after Gladwell’s conference, Breitbart posted multiple articles on the aggressive, revolutionary, damaging, and unpopular agenda of the transgender activists:
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Gladwell’s confession came when he was interviewed by Ross Tucker, a podcaster who was on the 2022 panel and spoke out against transgenderism. National Review transcribed the comments:
Malcolm Gladwell: The [organizers] stacked the panel. They stacked against you, Ross. They put a trans athlete and a trans advocate and you on the panel and I was the moderator. And it was one of those strange situations where I my suspicion is that 90 percent of the people in the audience were on your side, but 5 percent of the audience was willing to admit it. [Emphasis added]
Ross Tucker: My recollection of it is that everything I said was met with deathly silence, and everything the other two said got cheered.
Gladwell: Well, but the cheers were very — I mean I think there was a hardcore of people who were ideologically committed to the position, but the idea that that — I mean there’s many interesting things to say about that conversation. One was that it was a particular moment which has passed. If we did a replay of that exact panel at the Sloan conference this coming March [2026], it runs in exactly the opposite direction.[Emphasis added]
And it would be, I suspect, [the] near unanimity in the room that trans athletes have no place in in the female category. I don’t think there’s any question. I just think it was a strange — I mean I felt I mean I was — the reason I’m ashamed of my performance of that panel [is] because I share your position 100 percent, and I was cowed.
“Gladwell regrets it now, and he’s not alone, as a whole sector of center-left pundits and thinkers are taking this brief thaw in the Stalinist edifice of progressive politics to register their dissatisfaction with being required to pretend that men are women — at least when it comes to competitive athletics,” National Review reported.
This debate among intellectuals is made possible by the generosity of ordinary Americans — including Breitbart News readers — who contributed their views to the outcome of the 2024 election.
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