Trump talks women's sports with The Undertaker, joke about wrestler 'transitioning' calls back to Randy Savage South Park episode

2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump sat with WWE superstar Mark Calaway, known best by his ring name The Undertaker, in a podcast episode that aired Monday, talking about protecting women’s sports from biological male athletes.

Trump spoke on the controversy at the Paris Olympics over the summer, in which two athletes, Algeria’s Imane Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-Ting, both won gold in their respective weight classes in women’s boxing. Controversy arose over Khelif and Lin previously failing gender eligibility testing at the International Boxing Association's 2023 world championships. The IOC stated that "As with previous Olympic boxing competitions, the gender and age of the athletes are based on their passport."

Noting the outcome of the women’s boxing in the Olympics, Trump quipped, "how would you like to play this guy," gesturing toward The Undertaker. "He decides to transition, I don’t think we’d have to worry, but this would not be pleasant."

The image draws a parallel to the season 23 episode of South Park titled "Board Girls," in which a Strong Woman competition is held and character "Heather Swanson," a biological male who began identifying as transgender two weeks prior, competes and decimates opponents, which included the reigning champion and repeat character on the show Vice Principal Strong Woman. 

When asked before the competition how she feels competing against a transgender competitor, Strong Woman, who show writers created to be as politically correct as possible in a jab towards those on the left, says she feels amazing and honored. By the end of the competition, which consists of a variety of strength and athletic events, Swanson, whose character design was based on the late professional wrestler Randy Savage, is seen celebrating on the top of the podium with Strong Woman in second and a third-place finisher battered and bruised.

The November 2019 episode is now reflected in real life, with biological males taking the top spots on podiums across all sports. According to She Won, which is dedicated to showcasing the spots lost by women to biological males, 717 female athletes across all levels of playing in 37 sports have lost out on 1055 medals, records, scholarships, or other opportunities to biological males across 522 competitions.

The archive, which is consistently being updated as new incidents emerge, goes back to 2001 and saw an increase in 2014 in such instances, and an explosion in 2019 and onwards.

The inclusion of biological males has seen podiums nearly swept by them, including a pair of trans-identified males winning first and second at an Illinois cycling championship in late 2023, and women getting hurt, including a high school female volleyball player in California receiving a concussion after being at the receiving end of a spike issued by a biological male student. 

Female athletes who have spoken out on their experiences have said the transgender athletes they ran against in track "completely reshaped girls’ track – and our high school experience – as they broke 17 track meet records, took 15 state championship titles, and deprived girls of advancement opportunities more than 85 times."

"No school should allow that to happen to girls. Yet it’s growing increasingly common for activists – and even the Biden-Harris administration – to try and erase differences between men and women by forcing women’s sports leagues to allow men to compete. We can’t let that happen on our watch," they wrote.