Congressman Burgess Owens Calls Out Nike Over Alleged Transgender Study on Children: ‘This is Evil’

Congressman Burgess Owens discusses the controversy surrounding Nike's alleged funding of a study on transgender children, which he criticizes as "evil" and exploitative. Owens highlights the disturbing notion of using children—some as young as six years old—in experiments to explore the effects of gender identity and competitive sports. Drawing a parallel to historical injustices like the Tuskegee experiments, he condemns Nike for potentially undermining American values and exploiting children for ideological purposes. Owens demands accountability from Nike, urging them to come clean about their actions or face the consequences. He also warns about the dangers of woke corporate culture, stressing the importance of holding corporations to the values that built America.

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Sam Stone: Welcome back to Breaking Battlegrounds. Here's Chuck Warren. I'm Sam Stone. Continuing on now with Burgess Owens, congressman from Utah's 4th Congressional District and a friend of the program.

Chuck Warren: So, Congressman, Nike has allegedly funded a trans study on children. Can you tell us a little bit about it? You've been a very vocal opponent of this. They also seem to be not answering any questions, which tells me they're guilty. But that's, you know, that's my observation. Can you tell us a little bit about what they're doing? And they've gone giving us all the silent treatment now.

Congressman Burgess Owens: Well, first of all, I want to thank OutKick. They saw this. They continued to post it. Now American people are waking up. Let me tell you one thing about our nation. Every generation has always, always felt we will sacrifice. We will do whatever it takes.

We'll go to war to make sure our kids have a much better future than we have. We want our kids to stand on our shoulders. We want to protect our kids. The evil, the evil ideology that uses kids and they abuse them. They take advantage of their innocence. That's something we will never, ever allow in this country.

And right now, the thoughts are, the report that came out is that Nike was actually looking at experimentation. to see what it would take to make sure that when boys compete with girls, they can compete on a fair ground. I mean, just put your head around that. We're talking about kids, by the way. We're talking about six-year-olds.

We're talking about eight-year-olds, 12-year-olds. Any of us who care about our nation, care about, have any kind of good heart, have any idea of what God is and who He is, We shake our heads. How can people think that way? Well, believe it or not, that's the way people thought in the old days. I mean,

I go back and I made the point of the Tuskegee experiment, back when Black men were used in experimentation with Tuskegee. That's evil. That's not our country. So we're expecting one thing for Nike to do. Don't hide out. Don't think it's going to go away. Let us know if you did it.

If you did, just apologize and let's move forward. But don't be surprised. When woke happens to corporations, this is what happens. You have people... who are the head of the corporation, who don't believe there's a God in heaven, who become, they think they can become God. And they're going to change everything they think they can change.

Nike needs to be held accountable for this. They need to be held accountable for the fact they made billions of dollars in China where slave labor is the way they produce their goods. This is an organization that people need to understand it's not at all... holding to the American culture and dreams and values that we have.

So if that's the case, we'll wait for Nike to come out. It's been, I think, 11, 12 days. They haven't responded. We're not going to forget it. And the more people like yourself can talk about this, the more they'll have to come to the plate and make a statement one way or the other.

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