Some people are pissed about this.
I don’t get why.
Lia Thomas, a 22-year old transgender swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, has been shattering women’s records at the school.
Before her transition, she competed for three years at Penn as a man, named Will Thomas.
At a meet including Princeton and Cornell on Nov. 20, Thomas had a 1:43:47 time in the 200-meter freestyle and 4:35:06 in the 500-meter freestyle. These times were records for Penn and would have placed Thomas second and third, respectively, in the NCAA Women’s Championships, according to the website OutKick.
It is unknown when Thomas transitioned from male to female, but the swimmer competed as a man as recently as November 2019. NCAA rules mandate at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment to be eligible to compete as a woman.
Thomas, co-chair of the UPenn club Non-Cis, spoke to Penn Today this past June.
“(Swimming) is a huge part of my life and who I am. I’ve been a swimmer since I was 5 years old,” Thomas said. “The process of coming out as being trans and continuing to swim was a lot of uncertainty and unknown around an area that’s usually really solid. Realizing I was trans threw that into question. Was I going to keep swimming? What did that look like?
“Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding.”
As is always the case in stories like this, there is a lot of controversy about fairness of people who are born as men competing as women.
Will “Lia” Thomas pic.twitter.com/eiTTHuQ6IX
— Large Marge (@largemarge777) November 30, 2021
My two daughters swim competitively. They practice 3-4 times a week almost year round. My girls and many others work their ass off for years and even decades. This kind of shit angers me to no end. This is not progress.
— Joe Hatfield (@Hatfield75) December 1, 2021
There are none. Stop the capitulation
— Egg Man (@BoiledEglon) December 1, 2021
Why don't all the women simply refuse to compete? That would end this nonsense quite quickly, wouldn't it?
— Aylmer Johnson (@Aylmer51) December 2, 2021
I am genuinely curious if this person would feel guilty at all. He was a great swimmer on the mens team just two years ago… now she is the best swimmer on the women’s team.
— Harris Richard (@XxiLiKeEggs69xX) December 1, 2021
“Well of course women’s records are being smashed!” tweeted Chicago-based sports performance coach Linda Blade. “Lia competed as male for first three years in #NCAA. This is not right! We need to return to #SexBasedSports! #SexNotGender to preserve fairness for female athletes.”
The Daily Mail documented a number of other social media users who felt similarly.
This past June, the Department of Justice argued that laws in Arkansas and West Virginia barring athletes who were born as men from competing in women’s sports were unconstitutional.
Yes, George Washington was a big supporter of trannies in sports.
Then again, Washington also famously said “traps are not gay” – so you have to take his views with a grain of salt.
But we have to follow the Constitution, which says that faggots should take over everything and destroy society, because that’s our values and who we are.