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Lady Ballers is a 2023 American sports comedy film starring, directed and co-written by Jeremy Boreing, co-CEO of conservative media company The Daily Wire. It also stars Daniel Considine, David Cone, Tyler Fischer and Daily Wire hosts Jake and Blain Crain. Boreing plays a down-on-his-luck-coach who will do anything to win, even bring his old male basketball team together to compete in women's sports.
The film has cameos from Daily Wire contributors and other prominent right-wing figures. Senator Ted Cruz and former competitive swimmer Riley Gaines both made cameo appearances as themselves. Daily Wires Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, Michael Knowles, Andrew Klavan, Brett Cooper and Jordan Peterson all make appearances. The film is the debut of Billie Rae Brandt and Rosie Seraphine Harper.
Rob and Alex reassemble their championship basketball team to compete in a women's basketball league as transgender athletes. Initially skeptical, the team is convinced of the plan by Rob's 8-year-old daughter after she explains gender identity concepts with them. The Lady Ballers dominate their opponents, quickly gaining celebrity status. Gwen comes on to Rob sexually. Their newfound fame soon causes the team to play in all women's sports and little girls' sports and Rob's actions strain his already fragile relationship with his disapproving ex-wife, and especially after his daughter tells him she wants to be a boy because boys are winners. However, he assures her girls are better than men at things like building community, raising families and encouraging civility, telling her, "no women, no world".
When Alex expresses to Rob that he is beginning to believe he is actually transgender, Rob affirms that if Alex needs help, he will support him in obtaining it by physical violence. Rob questions Gwen if their actions are negatively affecting the female athletes. In response, an angry Gwen orchestrates a plan to put the Lady Ballers up against a team of African American men also claiming to be transgender.
The Lady Ballers find themselves badly losing at halftime and after Gwen attempts to kill Rob with a sniper rifle, he arranges for his daughter and a team of her friends to replace the Lady Ballers. The opposing team plays against the little girls lightheartedly, letting them pass to each other and lifting them up to slam dunk the ball, but still win by 400 points. Rob reconciles with his ex-wife and the Lady Ballers officially disband. Rob builds a rec center for little girls and it is revealed that Rob's ex-wife's hippie boyfriend is actually Matt Walsh, having orchestrated she get back with him for the "sake of the child."
In a post-credits scene, Alex is participating in talk therapy with Jordan Peterson.
Valerie Richardson of The Washington Times said that "pundits at the Daily Wire predicted that their first feature-length comedy, Lady Ballers, would trigger the left, and they weren't wrong."
John Serba of Decider.com was reminded of the film Juwanna Mann, and said: " Lady Ballers is funny on occasion, but only unintentionally". He concludes it "isn't offensive as much as it's just depressing" and encourages audiences to "skip it". Katelyn Burns of MSNBC said the film was "anti-trans propaganda", and that the film was dishonest about transgender people's ability to compete in sports. Mey Rude, writing for gay magazine Out, described the movie as "completely unfunny". She said "It almost seems like the people who made the movie understand that if their premise was real, there would be real-life examples of groups of men like this taking over women's sports. There aren't."
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