Commentary on the Ivy League Swimming Debacle Surrounding Transgender Lia Thomas

Brian C. Joondeph : Feb 22, 2022
American Thinker

"A number of scientific papers have recently shown people who have undergone male puberty retain significant advantages in power and strength even after taking medication to suppress their testosterone levels."

[AmericanThinker.com] Rock group Aerosmith released a song in 1987 entitled, "Dude looks like a lady" about a man with an effeminate appearance who could be mistaken for a woman. Today the inverse is playing out in the athletic world, where a lady who looks like a dude—a male who has transitioned to a female as much as basic biology permits—is making a mockery of women's sports. (Image: via American Thinker /YouTube screengrab)

I speak of Lia Thomas,  a transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer who, last week, "Dominates 200-yard freestyle at Ivy League swimming championships and sets a new tournament record." But Lia wasn't always a woman swimmer. In fact, not too long ago she was a dude; ...'she' still swims like a dude, and that is where the problem lies...

...In other words, virtually any male Olympic swimmer competing as a female would have taken the women's gold medal. How is that fair? In this day and age, where life, especially at colleges and universities, revolves around equity, tolerance, and diversity, how does a biologic male competing as a female, regardless of testosterone levels or levels of wokeness, demonstrate equity? If biological men can compete as women, it makes women's sports irrelevant... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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