To start the post, I want to be very explicitly clear about my views. I don’t care who you sleep with or who you marry or what you identify as. You do you. I just wanted to get that out of the way.
As a kid, I competed in the World Championships for squash as both a junior and a senior. As a 16 year old, I trained with some of the top 3 women players in Canada. They barely got points off of me. A year old boy. I grew 3 more inches and gained 30 lbs by 22 when I played in the World Championships and Pan Am Games. That is not to offend anyone. It’s a fact. One of my closest friends used to be top 25 in the world. She is an incredible player and when we would play she would start with 6 points advantage. Relative to women, she was so much better than me, it’s staggering. Relative to me, there was no way she could beat me.
Why do I say this? Lia Thomas, the UPenn swimmer competed as a biological man for 3 years on the UPenn team and he never won anything. Wasn’t even close to the top. She transitioned his gender and is now on the women’s swim team. As a woman in a recent meet, Lia’s 1650 time was 65 seconds slower than her best as a man the previous year. But don’t worry, she won the meet be won by 38 seconds, so you’d think that maybe she had some left over in the tank.
I am all in favor of allowing her to swim, but do it as a time trial, not as a competitor. It’s entirely unfair to millions of women who have trained for their entire lives and simply can’t compete. The biological advantages of being born a man are massive. You can’t go from being an irrelevant male swimmer at UPenn as a man for 3 years and then start breaking pool and meet records by 38 seconds as a man and call that fair. It’s not.
And yet, on Day 1 of the Biden administration, be passed Executive Order 13988, officially titled “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation.” The athletes can’t speak out! They will be punished. Their parents can’t speak out. They will be attacked by the woke Mob and fired at work. Even Joe Rogan got in trouble when a formerly male MMA fighter started competing as a woman and literally broke her opponents face. He said something and got torn apart for it and he is a professional MMA commentator that knows more about the sport than anyone.
Serena Williams is, in my opinion, the best tennis player of all time. But, if a top 100 man converted to a woman, he would smoke her. Full stop.
If a middle of the road collegiate male golfer competed in the LPGA, they would win every single tournament. My son is 16, no where near as good as those guys and hits his 6 iron 215. He hits his driver 330. The average woman on the LPGA hits her driver 250.
I say again. Call yourself whatever you want. Love and marry whoever you want. But let’s recognize cis women are not able to compete with trans women. Period.
I will never be swayed to the point of view that the benefit to one athlete that is at the detriment of thousands is progress. There seems to be no care or consideration paid to cis female athletes, or the generations that came before them, that fought to make women’s sport what it is today.
Wokeness needs pushback at times when it isn’t progress, even when speaking out gets you called all sorts of names and likely deplatformed. I will not shy away from the topic and for the sake of equality in competition, this needs to be addressed.
Really #hottakeoftheday
The idea that there is another "gender" is the most fucking whacky thing ever. I don't give a fuck what people think, by natural selection a person is either born with a penis or a vagina, so if a person doesn't relate that's their own problem as they aren't normal. There is nothing in between, no matter what some fantasy court in la la land says.
Women have been reduced to a concept, so much for all the Title IX work to provide female athletes with equal access to athletic opportunities. I'm curious if they will be handing future scholarships to men who associate as women.