Just like anybody else on the team
Thomas was recently interviewed by Sports Illustrated and is on their daily cover.
“I just want to show trans kids and younger trans athletes that they’re not alone,” Lia Thomas told SI. “They don’t have to choose between who they are and the sport they love. I’m a woman, just like anybody else on the team. I’ve always viewed myself as just a swimmer. It’s what I’ve done for so long; it’s what I love. I get into the water every day and do my best.”
I don’t believe him. I don’t believe that is what he just wants. I think what he wants is to win a lot of races and break a lot of records. Also he’s not a woman “just like anybody else on the team.” The “just like” claim is completely wrong and false. He’s much, much bigger than they are. Swimmer’s Mother said his back is twice as wide as any of the women’s – which may not be literally true, I don’t know, but we can see from the photos that he is indeed massively bigger than they are. The shoulders alone tell the story. He’s bigger than it’s physically possible for women to be.
Her success in the water has been a controversial topic in swimming this season, but Thomas said she wants to continue to swim.
“I don’t know exactly what the future of my swimming will look like after this year, but I would love to continue doing it,” Lia Thomas told SI. “I want to swim and compete as who I am.”
Of course he would. More easy wins, more prizes, more records broken.
He wouldn’t have done this if a) he wasn’t going to win and b) if he wasn’t going to be in the change room with women. The rest is bullshit. Nothing but his lack of ability is keeping him from swimming on the men’s team. Men who don’t make the men’s team, and aren’t willing to follow the cheater’s pathway that has been inexplicably left open by the rules of the governing body, have to deal with not making the cut. And there’s nothing stopping any of them from swimming recreationally if they’d like to.
But he grew his hair long! What more physical evidence do we need? I say chop his junk off and make him get fake silicone tits at 10 lbs. each. He’s not much of a girl until he does that, at the very least. The rest is personal testimony, and well, people never lie do they. :P
Quite so. There’s competitive swimming and there’s recreational swimming. Nothing says he has to go for the competitive kind.
If he were genuinely trans, i.e. genuinely believed in the “wrong body” myth, wouldn’t he in fact refrain from competing against women, because (if nothing else) it looks so bad?
I don’t know how much more obvious it has to be before people will catch on.
And neither did he. He can still be who he is, as much as he wants, and still swim on the men’s team, just as he did for the last three years. That would have been a much more authentic demonstration.
And it isn’t that he wasn’t good enough to make the men’s team. He swam on the men’s team for three years. He could have done so again.
@ not Bruce, #1
Precisely. He wouldn’t have done it if he had no chance of winning, and it’s also about the locker room. And there are two components to forcing his way into the locker room: 1) he gets to look at them when they are naked, and 2) he gets to force them to see his naked penis. It’s difficult to say which component is more significant. One is humiliation; the other is intimidation. A lot of men get their jollies out of both.
Combine that with the active, enthusiastic support of his coach, his school, and the governing body of the university swimming organization, and he has carte blanche. Everything but a licence to kill, all with the blessing of ALL of the officials, authorities, and insitutions which, by rights, should be protecting the women in their charge and care. Swaggering and wallowing, all the while intoning a phony humility. Disgusting.
I can imagine his narc rage if any one of these levels of governance and regulation were to regain their sanity and rule against him. Satan will skate to work before that happens, but one can dream. They’ve got a news-making winner on their hands, who lets them tick off their “diversity” box, as if they were in thrall to Stonewall. Never mind that they’ve twisted the rules to allow him to cheat “legally”, they’re now all in and can’t change their tune now without admitting their complicity in the first place. Never mind that they, along with Sports Illustrated, the IOC, and any number of other captured insitutions, have overestimated the importance and influence of trans twitter. However hard they stamp their feet, they will never convince everyone that any and all who question or protest “Lia’s” presence on the women’s team are right-wing, religiously motivated bigots. They may win some skirmishes, maybe even a battle or two, but they will never win the war. You can’t fool Reality forever, because Reality is always there. It never wavers, never sleeps, and can’t be bullied. However fervently you believe otherwise, or speak out against it, Reality will always be there to condemn the lie and bite you in the ass.
Once again, that’s a claim about other people and who/what they are. It can’t mean “I am what they are” (i.e. people with a strong preponderance of innate physical traits more representative of mothers than fathers), because that’s obviously wrong. It can only mean “They are what I am”. And since the thing that makes them the same cannot be physical trait, there’s nothing left to do the trick but their minds. Hence the quote is, once again, a bold, factual claim about what’s going on inside other people’s heads. I really wish everyone on the gender critical side would make a lot more noise on this point.
“We just want to pee!”
(I will refuse to apologize for this.)
There is another trans swimmer who swims for Yale. Iszac Henig is a transman, who has had a double mastectomy but allegedly does not take T because you can’t swim on the women’s team while taking testosterone. Iszac wants to win so badly, Iszac stays on the women’s team, disproving the life saving nature of cross sex hormones and having to participate as the opposite sex in order to be one’s “authentic self.”
And as a pleasing side benefit, Iszac is not cheating anyone.