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You're Wrong About

Renée Richards with Julie Kliegman

You're Wrong About

Sarah Marshall

True Crime, Society & Culture, News, Culture, Politics, History

4.623K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sports Illustrated’s Julie Kliegman volleys with Sarah about trans athlete Renée Richards’s fight for her right to play in the U.S. Open. They also dig into how the dialogue surrounding trans athletes has and hasn’t changed in the 40-plus years since. Plus, are tennis balls hollow? An investigation.

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0:00.0

I went to the Queens Museum recently and I was like I had no idea the US Open was so near the

0:06.0

climax of Men in Black.

0:18.5

Welcome to your wrong about I'm Sarah Marshall and today we're talking about Renee Richards

0:24.9

with our pal Julie Cleakman. This is your wrong about first tennis episode. This is an episode

0:32.6

about sports and gender and the debate over trans kids and sports trans people and sports but of

0:39.8

course especially as always in America trans youth. We have a little trigger warning for you for

0:46.7

suicide and suicidal thoughts which comes up briefly in conversation. It's not something that

0:53.1

happens in this story but it is a topic of thought. Speaking of Pride Month we have a special

0:58.4

Pride episode bonus offering for you with our Frank Chelsea Weber Smith in whose closet I am

1:04.9

recording this right now. Carolyn informs me that it's funny that I guess came out of the closet

1:12.2

and yet here I am trapped in the club but Chelsea Weber Smith is the only closet I would ever

1:17.2

want to be in. We did a great episode together where they told me all about the gay agenda.

1:24.2

I really love doing it with Chelsea. I love Chelsea's work. Please go listen to American

1:28.7

hysteria if you haven't yet. You're in for a treat. Buckle up Cowboys. Here we go. We're headed for

1:35.2

the US Open.

1:37.2

Welcome to your wrong about the podcast. We're very occasionally. We talk about sports and here we

1:48.0

go again with Julie Cleakman. Hello. Hi. How are you? I'm great. Thanks for having me. I am so happy

1:56.2

you wanted to come and talk to us because I do feel like this show secretly is like a little bit of

2:01.2

a sports show just very occasionally. A little bit. I think one of the things I love about

2:07.3

talking about sports is whether we know it or not, I think we're always talking about gender,

2:11.7

which is part of today's show. Absolutely. I'd say that's exactly right and that is already

2:19.7

a more perceptive understanding of sports than like 90% of people interested in sports have.

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