Lady Ballers centers on the story of three-time high school state champion coach Rob Gibson (Boering). In the 15 years following his last victory, Gibson has seen his life fall to pieces. His wife, Dharby (Lexie Contursi) has divorced him. He has just been let go of his position coaching reprobates at the town’s youth center. To make matters even worse, the CD store he used to work at has become a drag restaurant called Dollies. His star athlete, Alex Cruise (Daniel Considine), is a blonde-bewigged serving wench at that fine establishment. Learning of a $5,000 prize in competing in a community decathlon, Gibson arranges for Alex to enter as a trans woman. Alex wins every category, setting new records in shot put and javelin. Chuffed with their brief success, they are accosted by journalist Gwen Wilde (Billie Rae Brandt). Wilde has an immodest proposal for them: enter the competition to be part of the new Global Sports competition as trans women. In exchange, they will grant Wilde exclusive control of all media content concerning Gibson’s team of trans athletes.
Being primarily a farce, Lady Ballers leans in on broad comedic brushstrokes. Much slapstick and terrible wordplay ensues in the execution of Gibson and Wilde’s plot. That Wilde is also a domme who’s into binding and branding her paramours, is wonderfully played for laughs. I enjoyed a minor subplot involving sensitivity training, wherein a white man with a touch of Native American ancestry becomes a full-blown impersonation of an American Indian – or at least his idiotic conception of such. Lady Ballers has a great big heart, and it has a great many moral lessons to provide us, the viewers. In exploring the absurdist zeitgeist decision of permitting Trans women into women’s sports, and thus destroy women’s sports for biological women. I personally don’t care how much hate I receive for this next zinger. I, for one, am glad Riley Gaines got to have a cameo in this as a swimmer bested by one of these alleged trans women, paralleling her defeat swimming against Lia Thomas. The particularly masculine form of Lia Thomas grates on me that this person, who would otherwise be a mediocre male swimmer, bests every great female swimmer and gets away with it. Lady Ballers is a tongue-in-cheek farce. It’s clearly prepared for the audience who would subscribe to the Daily Wire+ and is loaded with Daily Wire personalities such as Ben Shapiro, Brett Cooper, and Matt Walsh. Seek it out if you’re intrigued.
