All OutKick founder Clay Travis did was challenge the WNBA and “the Science” cult to put their money where their mouth is and prove that biological males don't have an unfair physical advantage over women in sports, and the alphabet soup mafia in the media are already losing their collective mind.
Travis pledged $10 million August 3 for the WNBA to put their defending champion Las Vegas Aces up against a boys’ high school basketball team of his choosing, with the apparent intent of showcasing the idiocy of biological males competing in women’s sports.
Jana Shortal, an anchor of Twin Cities NBC-affiliate TV station KARE 11 personality, short-circuited her brain seething over Travis’ challenge during the August 3 edition of her show Breaking The News. “Today, [OutKick’s] founder took to a new stunt — one that really makes no sense if OutKick is really concerned about caring about women in women’s sports.” Nah, it makes plenty of sense actually, Shortal.
Androgynous Twin Cities news anchor is big mad at @ClayTravis. pic.twitter.com/xQm2v1GwGw
— Joe Vazquez (@JV3MRC) August 5, 2026
Shortal sneered that Travis “thinks it is so impossible for any group of women — let alone the best in the game — that they could ever beat younger and more inexperienced boys.”
But of course, Shortal is arguing a strawman, or straw-woman, or straw-gender-non-conforming humanoid (whatever). This had nothing to do with Travis’s point. Proving empirically that trans women who are biological males naturally hold a major physiological advantage over biological females literally has nothing to do with the notion that boys are better than girls at sports. But the androgynous “they/them” personality railed that Travis was guilty of spewing a “thinly-veiled sexist joke revealing the actual truth of how he and his organization feel about women’s sports.”
If the boys win, I will give them $10 million to distribute as they see fit to their team members. Game on pay-per-view with all profits donated to Tunnel 2 Towers to provide mortgage free homes to families of deceased soldiers, police & first responders.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 3, 2026
The “actual truth” Shortal? What, that only biological women should compete in women’s sports? That’s a shocker to you? What about that screams in your view that Travis thinks “women’s sports is a joke?”
In reality, it’s those who believe transvestites are eligible to play in sports meant to promote — *check notes* — “female” athleticism who are treating it as a joke. Even President Donald Trump jested himself in 2022 that if he were to ever coach in the current woke culture of the WNBA that’s become increasingly hostile to biological female exclusivity, “I'd ask LeBron [James], 'Do you have any desire to be a woman?'" If the biological differences between men and women are so trivial, as Shortal is implying, why shouldn't the WNBA accept the challenge?
"If I coached in the WNBA, I'd ask LeBron, 'Do you have any desire to be a woman?'"
A 2022 video of President Trump is resurfacing online, showing him joking about recruiting LeBron James to his hypothetical WNBA team while discussing the growing scrutiny surrounding women's… pic.twitter.com/FXEANP0mZC— Fox News (@FoxNews) August 5, 2026
But all this was predictably lost on the “Lady Uniform”-abandoning Shortal who NBC News reported in 2017 believed that her femininity was “slowly killing me, because it was like costuming almost.” Your biological sex is "like costuming?" And Shortal is acting like Travis is the one who's cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs?
Pardon us at MRC Business if we don’t consider her artificial “masculine style” an authority on women’s sports.
