In a stunning display of tone-deaf political theater, California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s office attempted to ridicule Education Secretary Linda McMahon — and ended up proving her exact point about the erosion of women’s rights under radical gender policies.

McMahon, who serves in President Donald J. Trump’s second-term cabinet, issued a clear warning to states like California: failure to enforce federal Title IX protections for female athletes would result in a loss of federal funding.

“Letting men beat women in their sport of choice is illegal and wrong,” McMahon wrote on X, tagging Newsom. “You can either stand up for women or answer to the law.”

In response, Newsom’s team posted a GIF from a 2003 WWE wrestling match featuring McMahon’s former professional persona being lifted and slammed to the ground by a male wrestler — Glenn Jacobs, who now serves as the Republican mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.

The caption?

“Live look at Linda’s legal claims.”

The move was meant to mock McMahon, but it backfired catastrophically. By using a violent image of a woman being physically dominated by a man to make a political point, Newsom’s office highlighted the very danger McMahon was warning about: male athletes overpowering and displacing women in competitive spaces, both physically and institutionally.

And the irony didn’t stop there.

Newsom’s team doubled down with another jab, saying:

“Secretary McMahon is confusing government with her WrestleMania days — dramatic, fake, and completely divorced from reality. This won’t stick.”

But if anything is “divorced from reality,” it’s the radical left’s continued denial that forcing women to compete against biological males is unfair, unsafe, and flatly illegal under Title IX.

McMahon, never one to back down, responded with class and clarity in an interview with Fox News.

“Gavin Newsom doesn’t really take this seriously at all,” McMahon said. “We have women who are training to compete in these sports who lose scholarship and sponsorship opportunities, who get injured, who are compelled to be in dressing rooms or their intimate spaces with men, and that is absolutely unfair.”

She added that Newsom has already admitted — in an earlier interview with conservative commentator Charlie Kirk — that allowing males to compete against females is unfair. Yet when confronted publicly, his response was mockery and memes.

McMahon, the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, has become one of the leading defenders of women’s rights in education and athletics. Since joining the Trump administration, she’s worked tirelessly to reverse Biden-era rules that undermined the legal definition of biological sex — endangering fairness, safety, and opportunity for women and girls.

And now, for taking a stand, she’s being targeted with sexist imagery by a sitting Democrat governor’s official communications team.

Make no mistake: this isn’t just bad optics — it’s a revealing look into how the progressive establishment truly views women who speak out. They’re not treated as equals in the debate. They’re belittled, mocked, erased, and — in this case — body-slammed.

For the Left, the message is clear: fall in line with the gender agenda, or get thrown to the mat.

But for McMahon and the Trump administration, the message is even clearer: they’re not backing down. They’re standing with real women, real fairness, and real science.

What was intended as a “gotcha” moment by Newsom’s team ended up spotlighting the Left’s cruelty and condescension — and further cemented McMahon as a champion for women nationwide.