Lia Thomas’s victory in the women’s 500-yard freestyle event at the NCAA championships might have been the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.”
More people have started to speak out against male athletes competing in women’s athletics, and rightfully so. Men, even if they identify as female or go through physical measures to transition, enjoy a significant biological advantage over women. Their participation threatens the very existence of women’s sports, which were created in order to make up for that biological advantage. And while more people probably should have spoken out at the beginning of the NCAA swimming season, two more voices decided to speak out this week.
A mother of a member of the University of Pennsylvania’s swimming team wrote an article urging for the protection of fair competition in women’s sports. Writing under the pseudonym “Chrissy,” she emphasized the most important issue: When large organizations like the NCAA and the Ivy League support men identifying as women, they do so at the expense of actual women.
“The NCAA, the Ivy League, and society in general are wrong to let biological men dominate sports designed for females,” the mother wrote. “In modern times, females have been gaining in the fight for the opportunity to succeed and win. Why would we go backward, erase the accomplishments of Title IX, and let males take over female sports like they do with everything else? Transgender women can still be women and compete with men. It is commonplace in swimming to see mixed gender heats. If they choose to compete with biological women, then their times should not count for wins or records. To do otherwise is simply unfair.”
Chrissy also highlighted how the female Penn swimmers were marginalized during this ordeal. She described the stress they endured and the different standards and rules the real women swimmers were forced to follow because of Lia Thomas. All the woke mob cares about is advancing a transgender agenda — those who are sacrificed along the way are considered acceptable collateral damage.
J. Seth Huston, one of the rare people with enough courage to attach a name to his comments, wrote an article for Fox News listing his reasons why letting Lia Thomas compete with women is wrong and unfair. Huston is the head coach of Rice University’s swimming team and was recently named one of college swimming’s top 100 coaches of all time.
“Denying, dismissing or minimizing the physiological benefits from androgynous growth during male puberty and then saying those differences can be mitigated medically in a time span as short as one calendar year is simply placing the agenda of inclusion over current scientific research and the integrity of sport,” Huston wrote. “In effect, current rules say biological women don’t matter.”
And that is the sad reality — to radical gender ideologues, women don’t matter. They cannot even define what a woman is. They are erasing womanhood and replacing it with stereotypical gender affectations.
