Posted on 03/19/2022 8:52:54 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
When Lia Thomas “won” the NCAA swimming championship in Atlanta, it elicited the usual level of controversy, and the “boos” definitely outweighed the “yays.” The answer why is obvious: Thomas is a biological male who is competing against biological females, and every sane person still left in America knows why this is absurd.
The New York Times reported:
But Thomas’s triumph in Atlanta — indeed, her very presence at the swimming championships as a contender — came amid a far larger storm, particularly in statehouses and right-wing media, about sports participation by transgender girls and women. The issue, which on Thursday drew a handful of demonstrators to the Georgia Tech complex that hosted the championships, had long buffeted the college sports industry. But it intensified as Thomas posted times that left opponents far behind and put some collegiate records under new pressure.
The Times is right – much of the resistance to Thomas’ “victory” is coming from the right – but it appears that even women’s groups and feminists are beginning to take umbrage at the idea that biological men should be able to compete against females. They contend that people like Thomas are encroaching on their sports by using their biological advantages to dominate. RedState’s Sarah Lee wrote:
Given that Lia has made no real moves toward transitioning to a woman besides hormone treatments and simply verbally embracing the female gender — the male parts remain as does a reported interest in dating women, by some reports — this is all starting to feel very like something most women have had to deal with in some version or another in their lives: men supplanting them in accolades despite their hard work and achievements.
In short, it’s beginning to feel a lot like toxic misogyny.
RedState’s Sister Toldjah echoed Lee’s sentiments, pointing out how women who dare to speak out against the idea that biological males should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports are often scolded into silence. She wrote:
Remarkably, that very same scenario is playing out as we speak. Any woman – even those who have been highly regarded in the past as feminist and/or LGBT icons – who speaks out against the allowance of biological males in women’s sports gets told to shut up, sit down, and stay in their lane – and the shutuppery is coming from the very side of the aisle who just a few years ago repeatedly shouted through their megaphones about how the GOP was waging a “war on women” because of pro-life bills and judges who appeared to share that philosophy who were being confirmed.
This debate has been raging for years now, and even now, the far left is hard at work trying to convince America that Thomas’ “victory” is something to be celebrated. They are attempting to enforce this idea by shaming anyone who gives anything other than unadulterated praise as transphobic bastards. They seek to intimidate people into going along with this farce. This is how they have been able to get away with this absurdity for so long.
Let’s cut through the horse manure.
Everyone knows this is wrong. All of us, regardless of political affiliation, can see it. The emperor has no clothes. So, when the hell are we going to do something about it?
The fact that the hard leftists who want us to heap praise on Thomas are loud (and obnoxious) is not a reason for us to remain silent. Some of the parents of the women whom Thomas defeated have made their feelings known. Indeed, parents of other female athletes who have had to compete against biological males in other sports have also spoken out.
But, we need more.
Progressives pushing this foolishness are not invincible, nor do they have a monopoly on speech. Female athletes and their parents should loudly protest. Voters should support officials who are willing to take on this issue without being afraid of being labeled a bigot. Let’s stop pretending the far-left is a Leviathan that cannot be defeated.
Want some proof?
Look at what is happening in the debates over Critical Race Theory (CRT), gender theory, and other progressive ideas being infused in America’s classrooms. We saw parents come out in full force to protest. They swarmed school board and city council meetings to express their opposition to this attempted indoctrination. Many, like RedState’s Kira Davis, are running for school board seats to oust members who support the injection of wokeism in schools.
To put it simply, we are winning the battle. Despite incessant whining from the left, voters have gotten legislation passed in states like Florida that are designed to protect the rights of parents to know what their children are being taught. They are winning victories against those who believe children belong to the state, not the parents.
If people who oppose the notion that males should compete against females are willing to show up in full force to push back, this will change. It has to. But again, we have to be ready to stand up against the crybullies who will just pretend we are bigots. Otherwise, this new trend will become ensconced. At some point, it will be too late to push back. The question is: Are we prepared to fight this battle?
It’s like everything else in America. Nobody cares anymore. It’s a pretty sad situation. They’ve destroyed this country
You answered your own question - “Female athletes and their parents should loudly protest.”
I don’t understand why we haven’t seen such protest.
All the real girl swimmers should just quit swimming. Leave Lia to herself with all the pansy coaches who obviously don’t know how to coach women.
“Nobody cares anymore.”
True. The stages of grief are about played.
The women should not swim. Bob around in their lane, point and laugh. Why are they swimming? Little sympathy for those who won’t fight for themselves.
I would like just once to see ‘Lia’ standing alone just before the start goes off.
The real women should just walk away.
Liberals attacked the traditional role of women, when they pursued feminism all those years ago. Now they’ve attacked feminism, by pursuing transgenderism, ie., men being allowed to compete in female sporting events. While trying to eliminate masculinity, they’ve actually ended up demeaning the female species as a whole, while destroying female sexuality, and femininity.
When we become a serious country again. We’re not serious, except seriously degenerate.
Bingo! Let the clown who claims to be a woman, swim by himself. See how long that lasts. Ask if he has been castrated, that would make him a eunuch, not a pretend woman.
On Thursday, Concerned Women for America filed a formal complaint with the US Department of Education Office for Civil Rights against the University of Pennsylvania for allowing a biological male who identifies as a woman and goes by the name Lia Thomas to compete on the women’s swim team.
In a letter to Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Catherine Lhamon, the group stated that the complaint was filed against the school "for its egregious violations of the protections for women on the basis of sex secured a half-century ago in the landmark passage of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972."
"Thomas is anatomically/biologically a male who should not be eligible to compete in women's sports, depriving anatomically/biologically female athletes of the opportunities afforded to them by law."
...and there is is; there's either Title IX as law or there are trannies in women's sports. There can't be both.
Follow the money. They won’t quit because they get scholarship money.
“”We”? I don’t care if some disturbed dude breaks every record ever set by a real woman. The “trans” sickness in our society would not even exist without the aid and support of women, who’ve been whining about and trying to get rid of masculinity for decades. Now that it’s bitten them in the butt I’m supposed to care?”
Yes. The Karens brought this on themselves. They need to fix it themselves. The first step is to grovel in front of the people they have slandered.
From what I understand, there aren’t athletic scholarships in the Ivy League. If that’s true, at least some of these women didn’t have scholarships to lose for standing up for what’s right.
And say good-bye to their athletic scholarships?
The organizations that now certify transgender race results need to be convinced to change their rules. That might be legally messy. It's not obvious to me what the best solution would be.
exactly correct.
The reason people are upset about this is such a shallow reason as well. Its because the transwomen are winning.
If they weren’t dominating, would they care?
Thismis whats totally wrong with the argument.
Something like this is only wrong because “the wrong people” are winning.
You people here who are against it have no problem with it if they wouldn’t be winning. Hardly a solid moral argument against it.
And before you say you have some moral underpinning against it, you don’t. Everyone is only upset because the people you don’t want to win, are winning.
You know why thats your only reason? Because you have never once said its not right for trans-men to be on mens teams, for the moral reason they are women and they are robbing a real young man/man of a place on that team just to make a personal statement.
You’re hypocrites. I am against men on womens teams and women on mens teams. Its wrong not just because the people we don’t want to win, dominate over others. Its wrong because no matter who wants to do it, is wrong. Its wrong to rob spots from BOTH men and women on their male and female teams. Its wrong because transsexuality is a mental illness, no matter if a woman has it or a man has it. Its something that needs to be corrected, not accomodated. No matter if its a woman or man.
Its not wrong because some people we dont like have physical advantages over others and they can win more easily. thats the basest, shallowest, hollow argument you can offer. Object to it on moral grounds. Psychological grounds. Object to it because sports should not be made peoples’ personal woketard places to make personal statements. Obejct to it because every opposite sex person on the wrong team takes up a space that should have gone to a real man or woman. Object for some higher reason other than “they are winning and we don’t like that”. Its the stupidest weakest argument out there. Aim higher.
They could just refuse to swim. If the coach threatened them with the cancelation of their scholarships they can remind him that they did not decide to go to that college to swim against a guy pretending to be a girl.
Their entire memory of swimming there is marred by seeing Lia taking a shower and having to look at his weiner.
All of this “ transgender” nonsense is being pushed by homosexuals who hate women (any psychiatrist worthy of the name will tell you such.)
Notice how women are diminished and degraded with the implementation of this demonic nonsense.
My mother played Golf with a woman who asked the PGA if she could compete.
They said ‘if you can play well and make the cut we are very happy to have you play with us.’
She did and played for a while, did not win.
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