By MICHAEL SLOVANOS
WE can’t read swimmer Lia Thomas’ mind, but we can see and judge his actions. We say “his” because Lia Thomas war born a male, and in fact was a male swimming competitor until he decided to “transition” to the women’s competition because he “wanted to be female”.
We, like many people, were outraged that this pretend-female could simply waltz into a women’s swimming competition and clean up the trophies. Thomas posted the fastest times in the US among women – faster than National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) winning times from the previous year and faster than all of the US Olympians still racing in women’s collegiate swimming.
In 2022, Riley Gaines, a 12-time NCAA All American, tied for fifth with Thomas, who swam for the University of Pennsylvania in the women’s 200-meter NCAA championships. That same year, Thomas became the first “trans woman” to win an NCAA championship when he won the 500-yard freestyle.
“Oh tough luck girls, but I have my much bigger male muscles to power me through the water and you know I’m a girl because I say so.” We don’t know if Thomas actually said that, but his actions speak louder than his words, and in effect, that’s what he was telling the outraged women swimmers.
Thomas didn’t even cover up the fact that he still had male genetalia. In 2022 the Daily Mail reported that Thomas “has created an uneasy environment in the locker room, as she still retains her biologically male genitalia — which are sometimes exposed — and is attracted to women”, a teammate told the media outlet.
What people found infuriating was the inability of the swimming administrators at the NCAA to act against this brazen act of sabotage of women’s sport. “Trans people”, we are led to believe, are a protected species and to say “no” to them is akin to the worst kind of racism.
In fact promotion of transgenderism had become official government policy in America. Every government and corporate entity was making sure that they not only hired a transgender person, but that that person be given privileged access to the best jobs – hence the prominent trannies in the Biden administration – even the Pentagon.
So, of course a transgender swimmer could move into the women’s swimming competition. After all, what is a woman that they should not allow a trannie among their ranks!
That was the thinking and policy until an American public, sick to death of woke outrages, voted in the administration of President Donald J. Trump, who, a few days ago, literally ended the ideological baloney with the stroke of his pen on an executive order.
NBC rep;orted that the US Education Department this week “urged organizations overseeing high school and college athletics to strip records, titles and awards from transgender women who competed in women’s sports.”
The department sent a letter to the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) calling on them to “restore to female athletes the records, titles, awards, and recognitions misappropriated by biological males competing in female categories,” according to a news release from the department.
NBC quoted Candice Jackson, deputy general counsel for the Education Department, who said the “Trump Education Department will do everything in our power to right this wrong and champion the hard-earned accomplishments of past, current, and future female collegiate athletes”.
The NCAA’s policy change came the day after Trump’s executive order last week barring “trans girls and women” from competing in female sports. The order threatens to revoke federal funding from schools that don’t comply.
The order does not bar “trans boys and men” from playing on male sports teams, and the department’s letter to the NCAA and NFHS does not mention reversing awards won by trans men.
The Education Department’s release Tuesday quoted Riley Gaines, a former swimmer for the University of Kentucky who now advocates against including trans women in women’s sports.
