Newsom's office ripped for mocking Sec. McMahon's trans athlete warning with WWE bodyslam clip

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's bureau made airy of U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon announcing the authorities had violated Title IX by allowing trans athletes to vie successful girls sports with a arguable societal media station connected Wednesday. 

Just hours aft McMahon's announcement of the violations and an ultimatum of 10 days for the authorities to amend its policies, Newsom's property bureau X relationship mocked McMahon with an aged clip of her being body-slammed during a WWE skit. 

The clip was of existent Knox County Mayor Glenn Thomas Jacobs, besides known arsenic "Kane," hitting McMahon with determination known arsenic the "tombstone piledriver" during an occurrence of "Monday Night Raw" successful the aboriginal 2000s.

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McMahon, arsenic the woman of WWE founder Vince McMahon, has been heavy progressive successful the wrestling amusement merchandise for decades. She adjacent led the WWE enactment arsenic CEO. 

However, Newsom's bureau making airy of the Title IX usurpation announcement with a clip of McMahon's WWE past prompted terrible backlash. 

Many critics pointed retired that the clips depicts a antheral physically overpowering a woman, which is often centered arsenic 1 of the astir communal arguments against letting biologic males vie successful girls and women's sports.

"So a antheral easy destroying a pistillate is however you privation to relay that boys beryllium successful girls sports?" 1 X idiosyncratic wrote. 

Another captious idiosyncratic wrote, "Thanks for proving our point. Men are stronger than women. I can't judge you really posted this show of antheral violence." 

Several salient women's rights activists and groups made abstracted posts speaking retired against Newsom's bureau implicit the joke.

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McMahon said successful an quality connected "Fox & Friends" Wednesday that California would beryllium astatine hazard of losing its national backing for its K-12 schools if the requirements are not met.

A property merchandise by the U.S. Department of Education states that California's precocious schoolhouse sports league, the CIF and the California Department of Education (CDE) person 10 days to amend their argumentation oregon hazard referral to the U.S. Department of Justice. 

Newsom responded to the Education Department aboriginal Wednesday.

"It wouldn’t beryllium a time ending successful ‘Y’ without the Trump Administration threatening to defund California. Now Secretary McMahon is confusing authorities with her WrestleMania days — dramatic, fake, and wholly divorced from reality. This won’t stick," Newsom spokesperson Izzy Gardon told Fox News Digital.

The CIF said it didn't remark connected ineligible matters.

"The California Department of Education believes each students should person the accidental to larn and play astatine school, and we person consistently applied existing instrumentality successful enactment of students’ rights to bash so," Liz Sanders, manager of communications astatine the California Department of Education, told Fox News Digital.

Newsom previously talked astir transgender participation in girls sports backmost successful March with salient blimpish Charlie Kirk.

"The young antheral who's astir to triumph the authorities title successful the agelong leap successful pistillate sports, that shouldn't happen," Kirk said. "You, arsenic the governor, should measurement retired and accidental no. Would you bash thing similar that? Would you accidental nary men in female sports?"

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"I deliberation it’s an contented of fairness. I wholly hold with you connected that. It is an contented of fairness — it’s profoundly unfair," Newsom told Kirk. "I americium not wrestling with the fairness issue. I wholly hold with you."

Kirk pressed Newsom connected whether helium would condemn the jock successful question from Jurupa Valley High School aft the jock won different lawsuit astatine the time. Newsom did not straight code the triumph but said, "It’s a fairness issue."

"So, that's casual to telephone retired the unfairness of that," helium said. "There's besides a humility and a grace. … These mediocre radical are much apt to perpetrate suicide, person anxiousness and depression. And the mode that radical speech down to susceptible communities is an contented that I person a hard clip with arsenic well.

"So, some things I tin clasp successful my hand. How tin we code this contented with the benignant of decency that I think, you know, is inherent successful you but not ever expressed connected the issue?"

Fox News Digital's Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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