Here we go. The end of the Olympics for women. And feminists will cheer it on.
Fox News: Former Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, the focus of a media firestorm this year after transitioning and competing on the women’s team following three years on the men’s team, says she has a goal of competing in the Olympics.
“I knew there would be scrutiny against me if I competed as a woman. I was prepared for that but I also don’t need anybody’s permission to be myself and do the sport I love,” she said in the interview, which aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America.”
Thomas, 23, addressed concerns that despite going through a year of hormone therapy, she still had a physical advantage over other female swimmers.
“There’s a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do and the biggest change for me is that I’m happy and sophomore year, when I had my best times competing with the men, I was miserable. So having that be lifted is incredibly relieving and allows me to put my all into training and racing,” Thomas said.
“Trans people don’t transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves. Transitioning to get an advantage is not something that ever factors into our decisions.”
I’m certain that all the Russian males who suddenly decide they wish to compete as women will all be doing it for reasons of pursuing internal peace.
I love how he denies any physical advantage.
Yeah, no physical advantage whatsoever.
May 31, 2022 at 4:00 pm
I refuse to see or acknowledge a male or female as transgendered. There is no such thing. We are either male(XY) or female(XX). If your body is healthy and functioning normally and you as a man believe you are really a woman in a man’s body it is not your body that is ill but your mind. We do not celebrate mental illnesses, we try to cure or treat it. This is what we try to do with those we care about and are mentally ill. It is not being transphobic.
The idiots perpetuating the lies that people can transgender and encourage them in their illness are using the mentally ill for what ever purpose they have. It is despicable, selfish, and cruel and one day the enablers will have to answer for their hatred of the mentally ill.
May 31, 2022 at 6:36 pm
Worse yet, he doesn’t deny physical advantage. He says it doesn’t matter so long as he’s happy pretending to be a woman instead of miserable as a man.