In this monologue, Dennis Prager condemns a walkout by Broward High School students who protested the removal of a transgender student from the girls' volleyball team. Prager frames the incident as part of a broader left‑wing agenda that undermines women’s sports by allowing biological males who identify as female to compete against girls. He critiques the students’ moral reasoning, labels their stance as narcissistic, and argues that the walkout reflects a feelings‑based, leftist culture that places youth and emotion above reason. Prager references specific local figures—Monarch High School principal James Cecil, student Alexandria (Almeida) Cecil, and Broward School Superintendent Peter LaCotta—while highlighting Florida’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act signed by Governor Ron DeSantis, which bans transgender females from girls’ teams. He juxtaposes Florida’s policies and perceived moral clarity with other states, suggesting that such policies make Florida a more attractive destination for families. Throughout, Prager uses rhetorical questions, personal anecdotes, and moral judgments to argue that protecting girls’ sports is essential and that the left’s emphasis on “trans rights” is a destructive cultural shift.
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The devolution of our society continues, and the tip of the spear is saying that men can become women and women can become men. Broward High School students stage walkout in support of transgender student. Now you have to understand, it's not a matter of support of transgender student, it's support of a transgender student competing against women. A man who says he is a woman competing against other women. So you realize that if it was hundreds, I, I have to take the article at face value, I guess. And if it was that amount of kids, in this high school in Florida, they were marching against the women's team. They were not just marching for one narcissist. I say I am a woman, therefore I can compete in sports against women. That's pure narcissism. You can't get more directly narcissistic than that. I say X, the world will adapt to my saying I am X. That's— it transcends arrogance, it enters hubris, and it confirms narcissism. So they are marching against their own girls' team. My God, I get to Florida often. I would love to speak at Monarch High School. Hundreds of students. You know, I don't buy this notion, well, they're kids and you know, what do you expect? Kids don't think clearly. First of all, kids can think clearly if they're taught to think clearly. Okay, no, that's number one. Number two, if the kids can't think clearly, why do you accept it when they say that they are the other sex? Why is that all of a sudden clear? So if that's clear, then these kids are clear, and you should be ashamed of every one of those kids who marched in that march. Those parents have wittingly in many cases deliberately and in many cases not, produced a fool, a moral idiot for a child. See, this is not a matter of accepting people at face value. This is a matter of destroying female sports. That's the issue. The issue is not do we allow this person, if this person now looks like and acts like and takes a female name, it's none of our business. Fine, do what you want. It is now, it is a matter of shall we protect girls in female sports? Why have, if I could ask them one question, if this is okay with you, then why do we have girls' teams? What would they respond? What would these pathetic kids— see, this notion of, "Oh, they're just kids, don't attack kids." Then why listen to them? We're told all the time, "Listen to kids, listen to kids." So you can only listen, but you cannot criticize or even attack? If they were 25 years old, could I attack them as moral idiots? At what age do you cease to be allowed to be? At what young age? In my religion, after 13, you're an adult. These kids are well over 13. Hundreds, they say. I really wonder if that's true. It might be. Staged a walkout during school hours. So, see, if we lived in a country that had rules, they would all be disciplined for walking out of class. But there's no such thing anymore. As my father used to say when I had him on my show on his birthday every year, biggest difference between the America he grew up in and the America of the time we were speaking was that the kids run the house, not the parents. The kids run the schools. In fact, the kids run the government. Leftism And childishness are very much related. I feel you will honor my feelings. One day after their principal and 4 other staff members were reassigned to non-school sites amid an investigation that a transgender student had been playing on the girls' volleyball team, state law— God bless Governor DeSantis called the Fairness in Women's Sports Act prohibits transgender female students from playing on women's and girls' sports teams. It does not affect transgender men playing on male teams. In other words, if you're a girl, you can play on a man's team. The event, which lasted about a half hour, happened on school property and was peaceful. The group congregated at the football field starting around noon before making their way to the fence at the parking lot on the north end of the school. Once there, they shouted chants including "Let her play," "Trans rights are human rights," and "Free Cecil now." Cecil refers to Monarch principal James Cecil. I'd like to speak to James Cecil. If Aladdin brought me a magic lantern and said, "I give you a wish," it would be to speak to James Cecil. Alexandria Almeida, senior at Monarch, says she heard about the walkout through social media Monday. "I saw a lot of my friends posting about what was happening, what was going on." She said, and I decided that I wanted to go with them out there and be supportive. Of what exactly? Almeida said she thought the 5 staff members to be reassigned was, quote, ridiculous that it was happening in the first place, unquote, and hoped the walkout would, quote, bring more awareness to the situation. So that people see what's happening in our Florida schools. So, dear, dear Almeida, Alexandra Almeida, people are seeing what is happening in Florida schools, and it is one of the reasons Florida has a remarkably great net immigration, as opposed to California, which has a net emigration. We do look at what is happening in Florida schools, and we decide it is better to send a child to a Florida school than a California school, or an Oregon, or Washington, or New York, etc., etc. My dear Alexandra, you have allowed yourself to be guided by feelings rather than reason. By feelings rather than morality. But that's the way people have been raised. All of my life in the United States, I have been talking about this for 40 years. We live in a feelings-based society. How do you feel about it? Not there is a right and a wrong. How do you feel about it? Well, then it lists the other 4 employees. Finally, at a brief press conference Tuesday morning, Broward School Superintendent Peter LaCotta said he had heard some adults at the school wanted to start the walkout. He said the school district had reached out to staff there and to the Student Government Association about it. Quote, "We understand," he said. This is— who is this? Broward School Superintendent. Now please tell me what the statement means. "We understand and we will always protect students. I don't know where it started from. I do know that we want to make sure students are safe." What does that mean? I'm not at all sarcastic. So what is his position on a boy playing on a girls' team? He's the superintendent of Broward Schools. Does he have a position? Students should always be safe. If you really want students always safe, you don't want a male body on a girls' volleyball court. Girls have been really hurt by guys who say they're girls smashing the bowl in their face.
