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Nike-Backed Smithsonian Exhibit On Trans Athletes Criticized By Jillian Michaels
Outkick ^ | 14 August 2025 | Dan Shakseske

Posted on 08/14/2025 5:17:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Apparently, there's an exhibit at the Smithsonian – inside the National Museum of American History – that asks visitors to give their opinions on transgender athletes. Not only that, but the exhibit is sponsored, in part, by sports apparel giant Nike.

Jillian Michaels, one of the original "fitness influencers" and a staunch defender of women's sports, brought it up during a segment on CNN, asking why the exhibit exists and why it is promoting a false claim.

"[The exhibit]… talks about how it's complex to do gender testing in sports. It's not complex. It's basic science," Michaels said. "Is it it fair to have biological men competing against biological women in sports? No, but why is this in the Smithsonian?"

To Michaels' point, gender testing is not complex. As OutKick reported, World Athletics has implemented testing for athletes so that only women can compete in the women's category. The "complex" test they plan to conduct on athletes to prove their biological sex is a cheek swab that is then used to check for XX or XY chromosomes. It's simple: if a person has XY chromosomes, they can't compete in women's sports. That's not complicated, nor invasive.

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To President Trump's greater point, what the hell is this doing in The Smithsonian?!
1 posted on 08/14/2025 5:17:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

They must be pretty hard up for a new exhibit.


2 posted on 08/14/2025 5:18:52 PM PDT by GingisK
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

3 posted on 08/14/2025 5:21:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: Rummyfan
(Nike-Backed Smithsonian Exhibit On Trans Athletes Criticized By Jillian Michaels)

Nike and friends are apparently run by Woke Democrat Godless Reprobates - they DEMONstrate it repeatedly

All According to SATAN'S Plan

Rainbow White House happened on Friday, June 26, 2015 - turning the White House into a Godless Reprobate Abomination



DO NO HARM, Christians, but REJECT this
Godless Reprobate Agenda.

(For the thread)


4 posted on 08/14/2025 5:23:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

According to Ric Grennell, the woke sh!t at the Smithsonian is going DOWN! Huge audits of the organization are starting. I saw him interviewed this morning, either on Newsmax or Fox.


5 posted on 08/14/2025 5:24:29 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Rummyfan

Looks like NIKE is still being run by those who lionized Colin Kaepernick and threw a gazillion dollars at him for a sponsorship deal. They’ll learn when the Board of Directors sees too many deep dive loses in earnings.


6 posted on 08/14/2025 5:32:31 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Rummyfan

It is time to wind of the Smithsonian and distribute out its collections to legitimate museums.


7 posted on 08/14/2025 5:39:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: GingisK

It seems like every day something is read on these page that is even more ludicrous than the day before. Don’t see what any of this possibly has anything to do with the Smithsonian.


8 posted on 08/14/2025 6:25:02 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: Rummyfan

I have boycotted Nike for decades.


9 posted on 08/14/2025 8:05:18 PM PDT by Spok (If man was meant to think, the Creator would have given him brains.)
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To: Rummyfan
"... an exhibit at the Smithsonian – inside the National Museum of American History – that asks visitors to give their opinions on transgender athletes..."

WTF Alert!

10 posted on 08/14/2025 8:21:46 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: oldtech

(It seems like every day something is read on these page that is even more ludicrous than the day before.)

It’s unbelievable 😲😲😲


11 posted on 08/14/2025 9:13:26 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Rummyfan

Nike: we din’t give a sheet, just buy our shoes....who else can we whore ourselves to? Hamas?


12 posted on 08/14/2025 10:37:01 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Rummyfan

The end goal for the progs is to memory hole the whole institution. Burn it to the ground. Erect some George Floyd and Obama statues. I am glad I never had the displeasure of seeing that place hearing what a liberal democrat commies have turned it into to.


13 posted on 08/15/2025 12:00:32 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower. )
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To: Rummyfan

Throw. These sick freaks off some very tall buildings.


14 posted on 08/15/2025 4:57:49 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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To: Rummyfan

It’s pay-for-play.

And I’ll bet Nike didn’t have to spend much.


15 posted on 08/15/2025 4:58:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: oldtech

Perhaps anthropology related to modern species. Tough call.


16 posted on 08/15/2025 6:50:23 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: Rummyfan

Nike has gone full retard.


17 posted on 08/15/2025 7:06:51 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: Rummyfan

Nike is a monopoly in college sport and taking charge, and this is what happens.


18 posted on 08/15/2025 8:31:56 AM PDT by WhiteHatBobby0701
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