Will make history
Lia gonna make history this week.
This week, a male collegiate swimmer who identifies as a woman will compete in the women’s NCAA Div. 1 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships. Lia Thomas is the top seed in both the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle races and will make history as one of the first openly transgender athletes in women’s collegiate sports, no matter how he performs.
It’s a crappy kind of history to make though – embarrassing as opposed to glorious. Or not so much embarrassing as shameful. Shameful of him, and shameful of all the people letting it happen. People would get this if it were a huge muscular man “making history” by playing Little League baseball, but somehow we’ve been bullied into pretending Thomas’s grotesque cheating is a glorious moment for justice.
Now, in Thomas’ first year swimming against women, Sports Illustrated describes him as throttling the competition and says Thomas has “set pool, school and Ivy League records en route to becoming the nation’s most powerful female collegiate swimmer.”
Except for the “female” part. He won’t actually be setting any records at all.
One USA Swimming official has resigned in protest.
Cynthia Millen made the decision late last year after learning that Thomas was competing in women’s meets. She describes being stunned after working for years to ensure athletes had optimal and fair conditions in which to compete.
“I thought, ‘This is wrong. This betrays all of this fairness,'” she told CBN News. “I mean, if a swimmer was wearing an illegal swimsuit we would tell the swimmer ‘go change your swimsuit. That’s not the right fabric. It’s giving you an advantage.'”
Details matter, except just this one little tiny one…
“Will make history”
I see what you did there. Well played.
Either he’s an athletic phenom the likes of which we’ve never seen before, or he has greater lung and heart capacity and his arms and legs are stronger than the competitions’ due to male puberty.
I am baffled by how he does it.
It’s the other women’s fault for not also being male. If all women were male, then this would be fair. That’s they’re problem, not his. Sucks to be them.
He’ll be getting all these medals stripped eventually… Small consolation for everyone competing with him now.
I expected this obviously dishonorable “competition” to finally peak the sportsmen. They (officials / staff / fathers) must be ashamed to have failed to protect young women from an aquatic predator.
@RevFemRebels will be protesting (again) at the championship meet next week in Atlanta.
‘throttling the competition’ wow, someone actually wrote that? It’s a bit too on the nose.
This will be the beginning of the end. It won’t happen quickly, but this isn’t going to go over as well as Hubbard beating out a bunch of dark skinned women who transgress societal expectations of women’s appearance and interests. We’re going to see lots of pretty, skinny white young women get utterly trounced by someone who other than striking a great hands on hips pose and having let his hair grow out, is so obviously male compared to his competitors. He is going to go for broke, and if the women who are going to lose to him are smart, they will slow down and let him win by an even bigger margin. Let him finish at least a full lap ahead of the pack. Make it too obvious for anyone ignore reality. Blame slow times from the anguish of knowing he couldn’t be beat.
I agree with Eava that this will be the beginning of the end. Unfortunately, I see the end of the end as pretty far off still.
The end of the end won’t be until well after the 2024 Olympics.
Big Willie wants to swim in the 2024 Olympics, and there’s no reason “she” won’t qualify.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2022/03/03/transgender-swimmer-lia-thomas-penn-belong-womens-team/9364678002/
Relatively few people pay attention to women’s college swimming. The Olympics will peak a lot of people. When other countries see Willie coming, they’ll probably float a few studs of their own as “women.” Maybe there won’t even be space for real women at all on the podium.
Jane Campion told Venus and Serena Williams that they don’t have to “play against the guys” like she does in her profession. To which I would add ‘yet’ (judging by other women’s sports). This illustrates how feminism not only has the continued uphill task of levelling the unfairness of male dominated fields, but now also the massive additional unfairness of males competing against women in women’s sports. Jane has apologized (apparently for recognizing that male and female bodies are different). This from a woman director who has taken some heat for her depiction of homosexuality in her new movie? The wokism is out of control.
From a legal perspective, isn’t this a form of sexual harrassment? Denying young women their opportunities to compete fairly because they are having to compete against a male sure sounds like it to me. It is, after all because of Willy’s being a male. Particularly the locker room situation. I wonder if anyone’s explored that possibility.
I would end the sentence at “is so obviously male”, period.
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From what I’ve read, she apologized because the Williams had their own uphill battles in a white-dominated sport.
(Which Campion’s comment didn’t deny. The offense taken does look like Woke hypervigilance to me, but I don’t think this kerfuffle was about sex.)