Taunt taunt taunt
I get so tired of the mockery.
A transgender swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania women’s team continued to smash records in the pool over the weekend.
Yes haha very funny. Of course a man continued to smash records set by women. Quit rubbing our noses in it.
Lia Thomas won the 200-yard freestyle in 1:41.93 at the Zippy Invitational in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday to break the school’s all-time mark and establish the best time in the nation this season, according to the university. On Sunday, she won the 1,650 freestyle by more than 38 seconds in 15:59.71 to set another university record.
Yes, because he’s a man, doing what’s known as “cheating.”
In a previous meet against Ivy League rivals Princeton and Cornell, Thomas won the 500 free in what was the best collegiate time (a Princeton record 4:35.06) so far, in addition to capturing the 100 and 200.
Blah blah blah. In other news, an elephant can carry more than a sparrow can.
Thomas, from Austin, Texas, could become NCAA Division 1 swimming’s first transgender All-American or national champion, Outsports reported. The championships are in March in Atlanta, and Thomas has established herself as a strong contender.
No, he’s established himself as a determined cheater. He’s not any kind of “contender.”
Swimming is “a huge part of my life and who I am. I’ve been a swimmer since I was 5 years old,” she told Penn Today in June. “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?”
It looks like shameless cheating, that’s what it looks like. As he knows damn well. None of this is hidden or obscure.
Thomas, who’s competing as a senior after the Ivy League canceled the previous season due to the pandemic, added: “Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding.”
Yes it has. It has affected your ability to cheat by competing against women when you have a male body.
Hold on. If he could win against men, wouldn’t that be even more validating? He could say: “Look, I’m such a valid swimmeress, I can even out-swim men!”
Why is “gender identity” the only thing that needs to be validated? How about talent and strength? In most sports, it’s so much more impressive if you can out-perform men.
Look at that disgusting subheading.
Taken as it was probably meant, this statement is an admission that transitioning did not harm his performance. What I find insulting however is that he phrased this as if declaring himself a woman might have made it harder to win, when the very act of making that declaration is actually an attempt to cheat.
How does no one at either university or the governing sporting association see this? Have they hollowed themselves out of sensible people?
Holms, I know, right? Of COURSE it’s affected his ability to do this sport, by giving him a massive unfair advantage. We were supposed to read it from The Martyr Point of View: oh alas they might have shunned me or killed me because trans but a MIRACLE occurred and they didn’t. Puhleeze.
Or, depending on whether or not he took harmful drugs and did irresponsible surgeries, perhaps: “I was worried that all the shit I did to my body would have made me unable to get up from a chair, but look, I can still swim, yay!”
It’s such a heartwarming story, isn’t it? Like Seabiscuit, or Man-O-War, only if they were running against yearlings. I wonder who will play him in the movie, celebrating his amazing achievements?
Certainly not Eddie Redmayne.
How do his times stack up against other men swimmers?
“Was I going to keep swimming? What did that look like?”
It should look like you, possibly wearing a different style swim suit, in the men’s races. That’s all. Nothing has prevented you from doing that. Liar and cheat.
My guess is that if you looked at the times of the men, this person would not have finished in the top spots. I suspect that at least some of these people are motivated more by a desire to win than anything else. Now that it’s somewhat accepted or encouraged, all they have to do is pretend to be women for a while (maybe even take hormones for a time). Then they smash records and win all kinds of accolades. It might be easier in some sense than taking anabolic steroids because they will likely catch you if you do that. But you say you’re a woman, no matter your muscle mass, and it somehow isn’t cheating officially.
I have noticed that transmen are not clamoring to play on the men’s teams or compete with them. There was one (or possibly just non-binary) on one of the women’s soccer teams at the Olympics and no one was suggesting he/they play on the men’s side.
Amy@7:
Your guess is exactly right. Other stories have reported that he was either “unsuccessful” or “unremarkable”, depending on who wrote it, when competing against men.
See? Doesn’t that prove he’s a woman? Doesn’t that just prove it? And that he has no unfair advantage over women? Which of course we all know men don’t have anyway, so what’s the problem, TERF?
I am really beginning to look forward to my ultimate demise. It seems to be the only way I will escape such nonsense.
Wouldn’t it be much more validating to be beaten by other men?
How can he feel validated smashing Women’s records?