Unpacking Anti-Trans Bills in Sports with Julie Kliegman | INTERVIEWS
Spinsters
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🗓️ 15 July 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, I'm Day the Credits. Wow. I didn't even pull that over. Okay. One second. |
| 0:09.8 | Welcome to Spinsters, a podcast where Haley abandoned me this time. I'm Jordan Liggins, and today I'm so excited for you guys to hear this conversation I had with Julie Cleggman, |
| 0:22.2 | the copy chief of SI, about recent anti-trans bills that have passed and how it affects women's sports. |
| 0:29.3 | Here she is. |
| 0:31.0 | Julie, can you introduce yourself for us? |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah, hi. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:35.6 | My name is Julie Cleggman. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm the copy chief at Sports Illustrated, and I'm a non-binary sports writer. |
| 0:42.3 | I love it. |
| 0:43.4 | Thank you so much for being here on Spinster's. |
| 0:46.6 | Me and Julie go way back to the ringer. |
| 0:48.8 | We were on the copy desk together. |
| 0:50.9 | She was the best then. |
| 0:52.0 | She's the best now. |
| 0:56.3 | First thing I want to talk to you about. When people listen to this, it was a WMBA All-Star game tonight or Wednesday. |
| 1:05.0 | Benijolini and All-Star from your New York Liberty. How do you feel? |
| 1:11.6 | I mean, you love to see it, right? Like, first time All-Star from your New York Liberty. How do you feel? I mean, you love to see it, right? |
| 1:13.6 | Like, first time All-Star, she's incredible. |
| 1:16.6 | She went to Rutgers, and I used to, you know, I grew up going to Rutgers games, and I love it. |
| 1:24.6 | I mean, she got caught when so recently, right? And then went to most improved player of the year. And I love it. Now she's kicking ass. So this trajectory is steep. Like she is killing it. Killing it. And for Stephen A. Smith, Benijah Laney. Did you see that clip? |
| 1:46.5 | I did, unfortunately. Butchered it. He didn't even try, actually. He just got Sabrina's name |
| 1:52.1 | right. And he was like, I'm not even going to try Benijah Lainty's name, who is at WMBA All-Star. |
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