(06/15) HOTL Hour 2
Handel On The Law
KFI AM 640
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Handel on the law. |
| 0:03.0 | Marginal legal advice where I tell you you have absolutely no case. |
| 0:08.0 | Bill Handel here, hopefully ruining your life. |
| 0:11.0 | This is a case about transgender, transgender issues. |
| 0:15.0 | There is a transgender woman, formerly a man, Leah Thomas. |
| 0:26.2 | In 2022, she won in swimming the NCAA individual title. |
| 0:34.1 | So she is now going out for the Olympics because the winner of the NCAA swimming competition, |
| 0:36.5 | I mean, that is world-class stuff. |
| 0:41.0 | So she now goes out for the Olympics and the U.S. Olympic team or the U.S. Olympic committee says, no, no way. Absolutely no way. |
| 0:50.7 | Now, she tried to sue, but the court for arbitration of sport, I mean, there is a whole thing there, |
| 0:57.0 | where there's a whole legal system going up. |
| 1:00.0 | And that court ruled in arbitration that she lacks standing for her challenge because the rule of swimming's world governing body does not allow women who are |
| 1:13.2 | formerly men or men who are formerly women to engage in Olympic sports, particularly swimming. |
| 1:24.1 | And so what is going, what's happening here? Well, the policy dictates that a male to |
| 1:32.2 | female transgender athlete can be eligible if the transition was before the age of 12. Now, |
| 1:40.3 | there's a whole world to that. Someone transing, transitioning before the age of 12? |
| 1:47.5 | Man, how controversial is that, huh? |
| 1:50.4 | Or before they reach two of the puberty, Tanner stages. |
| 1:55.8 | I have no idea what that means. |
| 1:57.4 | Okay, so what's going on with this? |
| 2:00.7 | Because you have the NCAA saying saying yes, you have the Olympic |
| 2:04.2 | committee saying no, and officials of world aquatics that sort of oversees amateur sports. Doesn't |
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