Guest post: As a proud, unrepentant sex offender

Aug 31st, 2025 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

Originally a comment by Your Name’s not Bruce? on A quiet senior.

Ms. Gaines’s approach to activism involves a weaponization of names, pronouns, physical descriptions and other language to undermine the legitimacy of transgender people’s mere existence in the world.

JFC. It was Thomas who was weaponizing all of that in order to undermine women and rob them of their safety, dignity, and awards.

In other words, she often seems to go out of her way to provoke those who are not already fully on board with her mission.

JFC. Anyone mentioning reality provokes these people. Gaines is not any different in this regard. Thomas is male; always has been, always will be. Maybe Gaines was just tired of living with and having to regurgitate the lie that he was not.

But if Ms. Gaines’s rhetoric is alienating, her specific position on transgender women and sports has increasingly widespread support.

As if Thomas’s delusional, perverted, fetish-fueled intrusion into the women’s swim team was not “alienating.” And why shouldn’t reality have “widespread support”? (Way to normalize abnormal, and, despite claims of being a “woman” criminal behaviour.) Without the protection of his bullshit “gender identity” he would have been arrested, just like any other male who did what he did. His cheating (which is bad enough) is the least of it. His presence in the women’s changing rooms was a sex crime. Thomas is not a hero. Thomas is a sex criminal. Having voluntarily outed himself as a proud, unrepentant sex offender, Thomas should be on watch lists and under restraining orders for the rest of his life. Who the fuck in their right mind wouldn’t have rooted against him?

4 Responses to “Guest post: As a proud, unrepentant sex offender”

#1
maddog1129
August 31, 2025 at 12:43 pm

*applause*

Brilliant, as usual, not Bruce.
#2
Your Name's not Bruce?
August 31, 2025 at 2:17 pm

Thank you, maddog.
#3
Papito
August 31, 2025 at 3:12 pm

Let’s not forget that Penn threatened the female swimmers to keep them from speaking up about Thomas being in the locker room.

298. The UPenn administrators went on to tell the women that if the women spoke publicly about their concerns about Thomas’ participation on the Women’s Team, the reputation of those complaining about Thomas being on the team would be tainted with transphobia for the rest of their lives and they would probably never be able to get a job.

299. The UPenn administrators told the women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas’s participation on the UPenn Women’s team, they should seek counseling and support from CAPS and the LBGTQ center.

300. The administrators also invited the women to a talk titled, “Trans 101.”

301. Thus, the women were led to understand that UPenn’s position was that if a woman on the team had any problem with a trans-identifying male being on her team that woman had a psychological problem and needed counseling.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eoCcJD9tu22jTuyrOW5VO_4ei8v67p5k/view

It’s worse than the mainstream press admits. Thomas would strut around the locker room with his penis out. Some of the female swimmers would change in closets or stalls to avoid him. When traveling, Thomas used public facilities intended for women and undressed in front of girls as young as four years old.
#4
guest
September 1, 2025 at 2:54 am

@3 I think you’re right, this wasn’t just a matter of a man wishing to participate on a women’s team, bad as that is in itself. I’ve read a few posts about Thomas’s online activity which showed he had the sexual interests commonly associated with this type of man.