Despite all the transsexual sports craziness currently out there that is demeaning females of all ages, we likely will not see any time soon a top male professional athlete—any sport—identify as a female and dominate the sport.
This from redstate.com.
However, until that day comes, we will have the memory of this 70-year-old male poker player winning a Florida Ladies Poker competition.
David Hughes gave us something fun to watch last weekend: he entered a women’s poker competition and decimated the competition, winning the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and walking away with $5,500.
He was able to enter because Florida anti-discrimination laws require casino officials to let men play—even in women’s tourneys. The other participants pretended to act cheerful, but you can hear one woman tell Hughes:
Good luck! Not really.
Playing the @WPT ladies event today, and Dave here is the only man. (Filmed w/permission!)
While we appreciate the dead money, I really wish men would get what these events stand for.
So I put a $300 bounty on his head and Tamra & Noah Piderit matched it.
Let’s get him. pic.twitter.com/dXVZVlriAP
— Ebony Kenney | Poker & Purposeful Pleasure (@Ebony_Kenney) April 29, 2023
Several players put a “bounty” on his head, which means that other players would have been rewarded if they bounced Hughes from the competition.
Nevada has similar laws, so the World Series of Poker’s Ladies event gives women a 90 percent discount in hopes of discouraging dudes from entering. Does this seem like discrimination to you?
Although other men have joined women’s tournaments before, sometimes to raise money for charity, sometimes just because they’re greedy, Hughes’ entry got people’s attention. Reactions were mixed, with some thinking he was just being a jerk and others opining that by doing this he’s shining a harsh light on the debate over single-sex sports, bathrooms, events, and more.
Poker News reports on what professional player Charlie Carrel had to say:
1) Hilarious that he won.
2) It pokes fun at the idea that anybody can identify as a woman and be allowed to enter women’s spaces. [Note: It has not been reported that Hughes identified as a woman, even just for the tournament. He entered it as a man.]
It’s a real issue that people are taking advantage of in many different areas, including sports, prisons, and changing areas. This has led to some horrific repercussions (female inmates being raped in prison, or women getting destroyed in MMA fights by somebody who spent 95% of their life as a man).
It does suck that it comes at the expense of the women’s only space. I wouldn’t do it, even though I probably share the same criticisms. Female only spaces in poker are really needed. Mixed poker can often be absolutely horrendous environments for women to be a part of.
The trans issue is a lot easier to handle in poker, as the stakes are relatively low. The difference between male and female players is negligible enough that the incentive for men to join women’s spaces isn’t really there. It does speak loudly to the insanity that’s playing out on a larger scale.
Another pro, Matt Glantz, pointed out that if Hughes had simply identified as a woman everyone would clam up:
So a guy won the Ladies Event at Hard Rock and everyone pissed. I'm sure the guy is an asshole and for sure it's a dick move. But what I don't get is if this same guy decided he wanted to 'identify' as a woman and then played, nobody would say shit about it. You'd all clam up. pic.twitter.com/bLqJxXS3Wp
— Matt Glantz (@MattGlantz) April 30, 2023
The motivation of Hughes is unclear—was he just being a jerk, or was he trying to get across a message?
Note: Hughes did not claim to identify as a woman.
Whatever his reasons, he did expose the silliness of the current push by some to allow anyone who identifies as female to compete, use the facilities, and basically inject themselves into women’s spaces.
The effort by the “progressive” left to erase women continues. And there will, as the commenter points out below, be consequences.
I don’t care. I as a man have been saying biological men should not be allowed in women’s spaces, like sports, competitions, locker rooms. But NOOO! I was draged through the mud for being a transphobic bigot. Unless women stand up and say enough is enough this is what you get.
— Stan Shivell (@SteedsndPeel) May 3, 2023
I don’t care. I as a man have been saying biological men should not be allowed in women’s spaces, like sports, competitions, locker rooms. But NOOO! I was draged through the mud for being a transphobic bigot. Unless women stand up and say enough is enough this is what you get.
— Stan Shivell (@SteedsndPeel) May 3, 2023
Final thoughts: This was entertaining at face value, perhaps. BUT let’s stop the bullsh*t. Women’s activities for women, men’s for men, girls’ for girls, and boys’ for boys.
Stand up for yourselves, women. And when a female athlete chooses to object and stand up for herself and female sports, come forward en masse and support her. Your role in this country, in our American families is being ridiculed.
