'Lady Ballers' Film Gets Hundreds of Positive Reviews Despite LGBTQ+ Backlash

https://www.newsweek.com/lady-ballers-rotten-tomatoes-transgender-film-1848952

Lady Ballers, made by Daily Wire co-creator and co-CEO Jeremy Boreing, is a comedy about a school basketball coach, played by Boreing. He creates a team made up of men who dress as women as a means to dominate women's sport and salvage his reputation.

The film has been slammed as transphobic by LGBTQ+ people and their allies, but many people took to movie-rating website Rotten Tomatoes to give Lady Ballers five stars. Its release comes amid an ongoing cultural war about transgender rights, especially around competing in sports with cisgender women.

Since premiering on The Daily Wire website on Friday, Lady Ballers has managed to pick up a 96 percent viewer rating from around 500 reviews. However, the movie is yet to receive a critic's rating.

People who left written reviews of Lady Ballers were divided about the film.

"Pathetic. Poorly written and poorer 'acting.' It's nothing more than a money grab from the people who align with their hatred of everything they disagree with. This sort of movie has been done before with much better writing, acting, and way less hatred and cheap mockery," wrote one person.

However, another had a different take: "Not every day you see something original and fresh. Haven't laughed this much in a long time. Highly recommended."

A third person wrote: "I think the movie is transphobic and unfunny."

And a fourth commented: "Loved it! Funny and original; this movie does what others don't have the balls to do!"

"Users tried to review bomb #LadyBallers ... Rotten Tomatoes, to its credit, just wiped out those reviews knowing the film isn't available yet for streaming," Toto wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

Toto himself reviewed the movie for his website Worth It or Woke? and described it "as laugh out loud funny" and "one of the best comedies of the year, maybe of the last 5 years."