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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Exactly what I have been saying all along.
These are “special” people, the little darlins...
I mean, really, don’t they deserve a “SPECIAL” category.
OH, and by the way, LIA, you are NOT a woman, you are a TRANSGENDER.
Wear that with the PRIDE you are always talking about.
If you don't have a vagina, a uterus, mammary glands and two X chromosomes you're not a woman. You're not and it's high time this bulls**t was stopped.
I’m identifying as a giraffe today. A giraffe has the same number of neck vertebrae we humans do. Seven all told. So....
G-Day Bruce. Hot today, eh Bruce?
Aye Bruce , hot today. Hot enough boil a monkeys bum!
The girls should corner him in the locker room and break his arms and otherwise beat him to a pulp.
They are capable atheletes
He ain’t a her, regardless of whether we’re talking Bruce or Lia.
And remove the offending body part as well.
A mad conservative is still mad!
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