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Posted on 03/04/2022 8:58:27 PM PST by Morgana
On the coveted cover of the latest issue of Sports Illustrated magazine, there is a striking image of the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, ploughing her way through water, sleek and powerful.
The 22-year-old American is the most controversial athlete in the world at the moment, making waves amid a passionate and polarising debate about whether she should be allowed to compete against biological females.
'The very simple answer is that I am not a man,' she told the esteemed sports publication. 'I'm a woman — so I belong on the women's team.'
Yet while Lia has many supporters, she is also facing mounting criticism from her fellow swimmers and people inside and outside the sport, and the interview has fuelled the controversy.
Critics say because Lia was born a biological male, she has advantages in the pool that biological women don't have, and the precedent she is setting could be a direct threat to female athletes in every sport.
One of the most forthright critics of this fraught situation — though not of Lia herself — is Caitlyn Jenner.
Caitlyn, of course, was previously Bruce Jenner, the athlete who won gold in the Decathlon at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, and who later blazed a reality TV trail as the father of a brood of glamorous step-daughters and daughters in Keeping Up With The Kardashians.
Her gender transformation in 2015, aged 65 — announced by her posing in a satin bustier on the cover of Vanity Fair — made Caitlyn the most famous trans woman of the modern age.
Always a cool, reasoned and intelligent voice, Jenner fostered greater understanding of what it means to be a transgender person.
But that was in a different, less complicated, more innocent time. Now, Caitlyn despairs at the bitter gender wars raging today.
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I didn’t notice Bruce refusing all the adulation he received back when. If he’s starting to see the monster he helped create, I guess that’s positive.
Caitlin reminds me more and more of Dame Edna every day.
G-day Bruce!
Trans athletes need to compete under their own catagory.
That’s all there is to it.
Otherwise, it remains a stilted and bizarre game of ‘Let’s Pretend’ with everybody saying things they don’t really believe. Too much thought is being poured into this one topic when the swimmers should have their minds focused on their swimming.
He is making some sense, but I don’t understand how he can also make no sense by claiming he is a woman now. A person cannot change their sex, it is written into every cell of our bodies. We either have a double x or an xy chromosome. It’s as simple as 2 + 2.
And that would be... "5". Right? Or is it "3" this week?
Sometimes, Winston, it is all of them at once.
Its insane!
Neither one of them is a “her” or a “she.”
Dogs come on male and female. If you cut the nuts off of your male dog, paint his toenails in pink, dress him in “girly” clothes and put a pink bow in his hair…he is still a male dog.
Ditto for humans. Your biology is in every cell of your body, and that cannot be changed. XY makes you a male, XX males you a female. That, and ONLY that should govern whether you compete against men or women.
Wow, that's amazing. Great stuff.
You forgot to factor in mental illness. Your neutered male dog is not mentally ill and thus does not believe himself to be a bitch.
Although he might be pretty pissed off at you for cutting his nuts off.
I’m identifying as a broccoli today and demand to have my own extra special swim category. Well, until there’s too much competition and then I’ll demand a whole other category. It’d be easier on everyone to just give me a gold medal and be done with it.
But "she" is a he.
Poor Bruce....maybe hanging out with the Kardashians made him crazy.
But he’s a he, like Lia whatever the swimmer.
Jenner is not a SHE. If YOU change the pronouns YOU are WOKE. (a fully woke Daily Mail)
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