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The Disgraceful Lia Thomas
I’ve written elsewhere about this fellow, the guy who poses as a woman and crushes the hopes and dreams of real female college athletes. Finally one woman has come out publicly to complain about it, as reported in this blunt but excellent piece in the Spectator:
Reka Gyorgy showed commendable courage this weekend for finally speaking out against the National College Athletic Association’s rules regarding trans competitors. The Virginia Tech swimmer and Olympian was bumped out of a finals spot in the 500 free due to transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas’s participation.
I applaud her for having the guts to use her real name when challenging the debased orthodoxy. I’m sorry that she still felt compelled to pay lip service to Mr. Thomas, express her support for him, etc. But coming out opposed to this travesty of competitive justice is long overdue, and I’m glad to see it beginning.
I will continue to assume that Mr. Thomas suffers from some pretty serious psychiatric disorders, and that’s why he behaves so abominably and is so utterly devoid of pride, self-respect, and consideration for his teammates.
On a positive note, he and people like him will, I expect, finally turn the tide of public opinion away from the destructive foolishness that is the so-called “trans” movement.
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Here’s the thing: a lot of those swimmers are on scholarships. If they refused to swim, guaranteed that their scholarships would be pulled before they left the arena. That’s a helluva lot to ask them to give up, when they should have never even been put in that position.
Yep. But the critical thing is that they altered it at all, which should make them lose all credibility as a commentator on the issue. What if they had doctored the photo by giving him a five-o’clock shadow? Would the left be okay with their manipulation of the image?
No, you shouldn’t. You should never, ever read an article that includes a typographical error regarding a popular, well-known acronym — and particularly not one that makes an error so egregious as to replace “Collegiate” with “College.” Shoot, those words are hardly even related to each other.
It works for amateur boxing and wrestling.
Like most of the mainline Protestant churches, they are desperately trying to fill the pews. By whatever means.
The media doctored something to fit a narrative!? Like that’s never happened before. I’m not sure they care very much about lost credibility.
I believe the condition is brought on by testosterone.
A radical suggestion. Such ideas can get you cancelled, you know.
And the Five o Clock shadow. They took him from Nixon to a vixen. What a crock.
I thought that was his point.
If you sincerely believe the competition is systematically unfair, then the obligation is to the wronged competitor to voice their opposition to the cheating by not participating
If you are fine with the current position of the NCAA, then go ahead and have the women compete against men in women’s competitive sports.
I’m not sure what manual you’re consulting, Edison, to decide who is obligated to address this particular injustice. But it seems to me that we should all speak out against this kind of thing, if we’d like to live in a more decent society.
A lot have been speaking out about it, but it’s changed nothing. Until you make the NCAA feel pain for their actions, they will not change.
In fact, it’s amazing to me how few who are in any way connected to the fiasco have gone on record speaking about it.
Bari Weiss’s sister did a story on this recently for Bari’s program. Almost no one, neither parent nor competitor nor anyone else associated with collegiate sports, was willing to go on record. There’s a parents’ group that meets to talk about it, but they insist on anonymity because they’re afraid of what it will do to their children if they talk about it.
The people who should, in my opinion, speak up are those who are less vulnerable. That would include donors, people who attend the competitions, and others who aren’t in danger of losing their academic standing or bringing grief on their children.
I’m in favor of making the NCAA feel the pain, but I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect the athletes to do that. Let people stop attending the games, stop buying tickets, stop donating to the schools, stop watching on television.
All of that is difficult as long as calling Mr. Thomas a man is considered hate speech and polite people are reluctant to do it. But I think that’s changing.
The manual of unfair competition/cheating ….. Take this Lia Thomas example to the future extreme and imagine a NCAA national women’s swimming competition where nearly every participant is a biological male. Now the idiots of the woke NCAA have effectively inadvertently eliminated women’s sport altogether since the only participants or biological males. Coaches will begin recruiting only biological males to stay competitive, mediocre male athletes will start considering whether to take the drugs or get the surgeries to be considered female in whatever NCAA guidelines are used to determine this type of weirdness.
If the vast majority of those women currently on NCAA collegiate teams did not to participate in protest, the NCAA would be forced into either banning biological males from competing in the women’s sports, or the NCAA would have to eliminate women’s sports altogether due to lack of participants.
Yes it’s a severe penalty to those women currently on athletic scholarship or those women who simply enjoy competing in the sport they love, but it would work, and it would work right away in real time as the MSM Sports media and the NCAA wrestled with the unintended consequences of their woke-ism.
It’s a race to the bottom in perversity (meaning, in this case, defiance of reason).
60 Minutes gave Pete Buttigieg a big boost. William “Lia” Thomas will soon be making the rounds.
By whom?
Thomas is “out” to cash in on the notoriety.
Twitter, presumably.
The noxious little fascistic… excuse me while I check the rule book regarding what obscenities I may and may not use when referring to the cesspool that is Twitter…
Seriously? That’s it?
Okay. Twitter, presumably.
Was he expecting F2M athletes?
I just don’t think it’s realistic to expect a bunch of girls who don’t have a Lia Thomas on their team to give up their dreams in protest. These young ladies are at ground zero of wokeness, victims of our gutless higher-ed establishment, with everything on the line. I can’t fault them for just wanting to fly under the radar for another two years and get out.
But comments here raise an interesting question:
Who will speak for the victims of Lia Thomas and the NCAA?
So I saw this, written by a Genders Study professor, of course.
Twitter suspended her.
Sorry, I should have been clearer.
This is the best description I have seen.
Here is the article I got it from.
https://mandystadtmiller.substack.com/p/university-of-pennsylvania-systemically?s=r
Some conferences do not permit athletic scholarships (Ivy League) as does the entire NCAA DIII.
Maybe some cleaver person could photoshop a mustache on Thomas.
And yet the numbers are dwindling every year.
Maybe they could start a Women’s Only league.