Date: February 21st, 2022 9:57 AM
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I don’t hate Lia Thomas because she’s a transexual; I hate her because she’s a cheat.
At the Ivy League Championship Swim Meet last weekend, Thomas
easily won four events, setting pool and league records. She may be the
most-improved swimmer in history. She was ranked 462nd in the country a
few years ago, and is now ranked Number 1.
The difference is not that her swim times have gotten better.
It’s that her competition has gotten worse. Her Number 462 ranking was
against men, while her Number 1 ranking is against women.
Thomas is on the women’s swim team at Penn but went through her
entire life including her development years of puberty as a man with
male testosterone levels producing male height, weight and muscle mass.
It’s true that she has now undergone gender-change surgery.
(They call it “gender-correction” surgery, as if nature erred in giving a
male phenotype to a person with a male genotype.) She has also been
taking drugs to suppress male hormones has been taking female hormones
as well.
But no scalpel touched the musculature she’d developed from a
life as a male with male homones. And the medication she’s taking is not
retroactive. Thomas still has the height, weight and musculature of a
man. When’s the last time you saw a biological woman with those
shoulders?
Such knowledgeable notables as Martina Navratilova, Caitlin
Jenner and Michael Phelps have expressed opposition to Thomas competing
against women.
It’s not just that a man on a women’s team gives the team an
unfair advantage against other teams. Like other team sports, swimming
involves competition against other teams and also competition within the
team. There are only so many spots on the team. Thomas takes every spot
she wants, at the expense of some woman who has worked since infancy
for that spot and holds a ranking in women’s swimming far better that
Number 462.
Thomas’ teammates have objected to this outcome. In response,
their mega-woke university has explained, “shut up,” and so they now
make their objections anonymously.
The teammates are also forced to share a locker room with Thomas, and she’s apparently not the shy type.
I’m not a misogynist for mentioning the fact – yes, it’s a fact –
that women on average are smaller, lighter and have less dense muscles
than men. That doesn’t make women inferior to men; it makes them
different. It’s also a fact that women on average are more communicative
and better in languages than men, while men on average are better at
linear analysis.
I hope this doesn’t come as a surprise but – TRIGGER WARNING! – men and women are different.
How long must we accommodate men-turned-women who want to
compete against women in athletics? Women’s boxing is now an Olympic
sport. Imagine Mike Tyson in the ring against a woman. Will this amuck
wokeism continue until and after a man-turned-woman kills a woman in a
competition?
It doesn’t bother me that Thomas “identifies” as a man, though I
think “identify” perhaps exaggerates her predicament. She surely
doesn’t think she’s a woman. The most she can possibly think is that she
enjoys pretending to be one.
Fine, I’ll honor that. After all, I enjoy pretending to be a writer, and most people honor that too.
Note too that I honor Thomas’ choice of pronoun. If she wants me
to call her a “she” then I will. I take the same position with Caitlin
Jenner (for whom I’ve expressed admiration).
It also doesn’t bother me that Thomas is unwilling to consider
that her problem might be not what’s between her legs, or used to be,
but what’s between her ears. I think she needs therapy more than she
needs surgery. But that’s her business, not mine.
All that said, Thomas’ choice of a woman’s pronoun and genitals
doesn’t make her a woman even if I honor that choice out of respect for
her feelings. She’s still a man objectively. And so I do care about her
competing against women in athletic competitions. A person who went
through puberty as a male, competing against a person who went through
puberty as a female, is cheating.
I have to wonder about Thomas’ mindset. She’s aware that her
teammates think she’s playing unfair. Deep down, and probably right on
the surface, she’s aware that they’re right. Their female bodies cannot
and never will beat her male body.
Thomas obviously competes with women not despite the fact that
the women can never beat her, but because of that fact. After all, she
could still be competing against men if she wanted to, but against men
she’s only the 462nd best. She seems to revel in the attention of being
Number 1 even if it means being a woman-beater.
Thomas should be ostracized. She’s a bad man.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5036903&forum_id=2#44002946)
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