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The Trans Narrative Beaten in Straight Sets

1 January 2026

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In a ‘Battle of the Sexes’ match in Dubai, Nick Kyrgios beat Aryna Sabalenka convincingly — proving that biology still defines fairness in women’s sport, despite what the ABC might claim.

The progressive left perform all manner of twists and turns in an effort to produce their contorted narratives.

But try as they might, reality doesn’t bend.

And so it was that last week that reality wandered onto centre court in Dubai where it wiped its feet on the welcome mat of ideology, and refused to play along.

The match between Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka was billed as A Battle of the Sexes.

Why is wasn’t called A Battle of the Genders is something you’d have to ask the ABC.

But I digress.

An Inevitable Outcome

Kyrgios, who is ranked somewhere south of relevance (by which I mean outside the ATP top 600), smashed the world number one female player, beating her in straight sets.

The 3-6, 3-6 scoreline flattered Sabelenka…

Her side of the court was made 9 per cent smaller than Kyrgios’ side. She still couldn’t defend it.

Kyrgios — who has barely hit a tennis ball in anger for the past three years — was unfit, only intermittently interested, and clearly more engaged in arguing with the umpire than winning points.

Even then, he was never seriously challenged.

From the opening games, the outcome felt inevitable. Not dramatic. Not controversial. Just… obvious.

And that, of course, is the problem.

The ABC v Reality

ABC News reported on the event with precisely zero self-reflection, studiously avoiding the uncomfortable implication it has spent years trying to pretend doesn’t exist.

This, remember, is the same broadcaster that has championed the idea that biological males identifying as female should compete in women’s and girls’ sport, consequences be damned.

But when a washed-up male player strolls past the world’s best woman — even after the rulebook had been rewritten in her favour — you are watching biology calmly, politely, and without malice say: No.

Women’s sport has protected categories for a reason — not because women are weak, but because fairness requires acknowledging difference.

Pretending men have no physical advantage over women doesn’t make sport inclusive or fair or noble; it just makes it dishonest.

Reality doesn’t bend.

Not even for the ABC.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report. Images courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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4 Comments

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    Jon D 1 January 2026 at 9:58 am - Reply

    “But when a washed-up male player strolls past the world’s best woman — even after the rulebook had been rewritten in her favour — you are watching biology calmly, politely, and without malice say: No.”
    Exactly. Im not a fan of tennis these days the way they all carry on unhinged, cheating antics and especially after seeing her and her crew pretend to urinate on the trophy plate she won in total disrespect but this match I was glad took place even though I didnt watch it.
    So many rubbished the match but as for me it was brilliant in proving all the woke, secular lgbtqi supporters not only wrong but blew their godless ideology out of the water.
    Still wont win me back over as again there is just no respect in the game anymore. I wont have people like that in my home so im not watching them in it either. But fantastic point proven.

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    Ian Moncrieff 1 January 2026 at 1:11 pm - Reply

    “Women’s sport has protected categories for a reason — not because women are weak, but because fairness requires acknowledging difference”.

    Makes sense – which appears to be very uncommon commodity at the ABC.

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    Col 1 January 2026 at 5:43 pm - Reply

    I’m not sure why the writer of this article threw ‘trans’ into the headline because ‘trans’ has nothing to do with it.

    Just clickbait.

    In tennis, “Battle of the Sexes” describes various exhibition matches played between a man and a woman, or a doubles match between two men and two women in one case. The term is most famously used for an internationally televised match in 1973 held at the Houston Astrodome between 55-year-old Bobby Riggs and 29-year-old Billie Jean King, which King won in three sets. The match was viewed by an estimated fifty million people in the United States and ninety million worldwide. King’s win is considered a milestone in public acceptance of women’s tennis.

    This match was just another one of those, except this time the female lost.

    Nothing to do with ‘trans’.

    There was a time when the conservative side of politics were people of moral fortitude, of righteousness, being a ‘cut above’.

    Suddenly we’ve been infiltrated with the likes of the left, those people who manipulate and twist stories just like the left.

    As a conservative I celebrate female sport. I love it, watch it – AFLW, Womens Cricket…

    Look, I know this article is a jab at the ABC, but it’s also a cheapshot at womens sport. Conservatives should be above this.

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    leigh 2 January 2026 at 5:43 pm - Reply

    Col- it mentions trans because trans women are stronger physically than women=so it’s a matter of a universal principle of having fairness in sport

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