🧩 BND Motif Index · M1294
Men in women's sports
Trans women are said to take girls' medals, scholarships and podium places with a body built for an unfair advantage, so women's sport must be kept for those born female.
- 4claims filed under it
- 4left shows it came up on
- 6right shows it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (4 left-leaning, 0 center, 6 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- 🐘 The Michael Berry Show 2 claims
- 🐘 Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 1 claim
- 🐘 Louder with Crowder 1 claim
- 🫏 Pod Save America 1 claim
- 🐘 The Benny Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Dan Bongino Show 1 claim
- 🫏 The Kyle Kulinski Show 1 claim
- 🫏 The MeidasTouch Podcast 1 claim
- 🐘 The Remnant 1 claim
- 🫏 The Young Turks (podcast) 1 claim
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “a boy who could not make the high school entrance running team ... he goes, oh, I'm a girl.” “let men into women's sports And the bathrooms” “men in women's dresses to go into your little girl's restroom” “men should be able to identify as women and play in women's sports.” “that's a boy who's pretending. To be a girl.” “they voted to let men into girls' sports” “women who've lost medals, scholarships, podium placements because someone decided last month... that they are now a woman” “you want boys to play in girls sports”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-10-31 “Boys are allowed to compete in girls' sports because they can identify as women.” 2
- 2026-10-28 “Transgender women playing in women's sports provides an unfair competitive advantage.” 2
- 2026-10-26 “Democrats will let men into women's sports and bathrooms.” 2
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-11-02 “Socialism in America means replacing American workers with foreign workers and letting boys play in girls' sports.” 5
M1294 · first seen 2026-10-29 · last 2026-10-31 · what this is · how the index works