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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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Next thing you know they’ll make up election results.
If you take any other position you are a part of the problem.
Wait, was Jackie Robinson really white?
Start a new athletic association.
Do the equivalent of “taking a knee” before or after the competition.
Do something.
SNORT!
There’s a first time for everything. :)
Not her team, then.
Fair enough.
My problem is that these young ladies most likely have highly liberal points of view and would cancel me in a minute for the lutz. Now they have to live with their ideology. Maybe they can think of it as a teachable moment.
Yes. Let’s let their end of the life raft sink.
RDS is going to be the next elected President.
The man’s got bigger balls than Lia Thomas.
(Am I allowed to say that?)
Part of the reason for the muted response from female athletes is that there is still a residue of the old feminist assertion that the only reason that females can’t compete with males is systemic sexism. For a long time, it was conventional wisdom among femininists that if women were only given equal support for their athletic aspirations, they would eventually catch up with men–on the basketball court, the swimming pool, and on every other field of competition.
Going after frauds like Lia Thomas means abandoning that assertion.
Would you voluntarily participate in a high stakes poker game when you knew the game was fixed and you had no chance of winning?
Bad analogy, Edison.
Suppose you’re a girl at a school that doesn’t have a man competing as a woman. You get to compete, you rarely come up against Mr. Thomas so he really isn’t a factor. Maybe you’re on a scholarship, maybe you have Olympic hopes. You’ve got a shot at a national ranking. You have friends, your liberal professors treat you well. Life is okay, even if you hated to see that guy at the University of Pennsylvania kind of cheating his way to victory.
So the upside of keeping your mouth shut is that you can finish your last couple of years, maybe win some prizes, graduate, and not be looked at like a Neanderthal by your peer group and your woke teachers.
The downside of speaking out is that you might lose all of your friends, you might lose your social media, you might get driven out of school by a hateful mob, you might not be accepted anywhere else, and everyone will hate you.
Not participating in a rigged poker game is easy. There’s no downside to walking away.
Maybe elected, doubtful if recognized or installed.
Optimist: The glass is half full.
Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
FJJG: The half you drank was poison and you’re going to die, probably horribly.
That is a good point. This really does not bother us. Who cares what wins some woman sports game? Why are we even bothering talking about it. It is not like anything we do will change the result for anybody much less us.
How you get to the final result is complicated as you describe, but once you’re lined up in a final heat against a 6’4″ biological male who competed as a D1 swimmer last year as a male, the final result of the biological male blowing away the field of biological females is exactly the same as sitting down at a fixed poker game ….. you’re going to lose because the game is fixed …. the biological male is cheating by claiming to be a female, and the idiots in the NCAA are fixing the game.
Every day I wake up. Life is a rigged crooked game but the only one we have.
I think I probably miscommunicated, Edison. The cost is not in losing — most girls are going to come in at something other than first place in most races, whether or not Mr. Thomas is racing against them.
The cost is in walking away. You can walk away from a poker game and lose nothing. These girls can’t walk away from collegiate athletics for this reason without risking losing quite a lot.
I doubt anything is going to get fixed if those on the inside let those on the outside do the squawking, or vice versa. It needs to be both.
I think those on the inside — that is, the women competing with the man — are paying a heavy price and resent it greatly. But they have the most to lose from speaking out, unless speaking out actually changes something.
I think, as in so many cases, normal people must speak up so that those targeted by this nonsense know they have support.
So then it’s an impasse and nothing will be done.
Only if normal people do not speak up. But I think normal people are speaking up. I think we are seeing that just beginning.
Late to the conversation, but I do know several college aged young ladies that have just quietly left rather than remain and perhaps compete against a man. Right? Wrong? It’s complicated.
Personally, my opinion is closer to that of Mr. Galt, but if we are going to have male/female competitions then we ought not make a mockery of them.
What’s surprising is that it hasn’t. There is a solid segment of the population that has bought into the transgender thing. Once you bought into the whole gay marriage lie, then it’s an easy step to transgenderism. That’s why it has gotten all the support. I hope the public slams it down but I do not hold hope.
I am not convinced that a significant segment of the population thinks this makes sense. I think most of them think it is harmless, and don’t think much about it. Abigail Schrier’s book is an excellent education, and I encourage people to read it.
Then the women NCAA athletes will have to accept competing in a sport in which they can never win, given once cheating is legal, then you can expect more biological males to continue competing as women in greater numbers in NCAA women’s sports.