An Ivy League Education Apparently Doesn’t Cover Human Biology – Opinion

We are located below the decks at RedState’s sports desk and our interest is slightly lower in the Ivy League swimming champion than we are in the Super Bowl. Or the World Series. Or Stanley Cup Finals. Or NBA Finals. Oder allergies. I think you get the picture.

The Penn swimmer Lia Thomas joined Yale’s Iszac Shenig to compete in the Ivy League swimming title. As to why their participation raises an eyebrow, we’ll let ESPN explain. This may require some aspirin or a good lie down session.

Lia Thomas, University of Pennsylvania swimming coach made her Ivy League debut Wednesday night. She led the Quakers’ 800-yard freestyle relay. Thomas finished her leg in first place, 0.15 seconds ahead of Yale’s Iszac Henig, but Penn finished third behind Harvard and Yale. Thomas and Henig both identify as transgender. Thomas is transgender, while Henig is transgender.

You can expect some memorable locker room moments.

Now, almost all of us at some time in our childhood played Let’s Pretend, in which we assumed for ourselves the role of a superhero or some such. As adults, we all let these fantasies go. But many of us still believe we are what we see ourselves as. That is an issue for another day.

Most people have also realized that girls and boys are constructed differently. Literally, there are many differences in how plumbing is constructed. In our patriarchal society, men are stronger and faster than women. It is not possible to have equity between the genders and biology says so. Ask Aaron Donald, the best female athlete in your sport to block Aaron.

No matter what identity one chooses, it is impossible to forget the truth of who you are. Actively accepting your inherent and inherited limitations can be a sign of wisdom. It is impossible to make someone else out of yourself. Yes, it is possible to and should strive for the best you. But you’re still you. “Wherever you go, there you are” isn’t strictly the one memorable line from an otherwise forgettable science fiction satire. It’s absolute fact.

Why is it that so many people don’t understand the reality of transgenderism and abandon logic and reason? If someone was born a man and decides along the line they’d rather be a woman, that is their concern and none of mine. Have your sex-change operation, and I hope you’re happy. But don’t insult our intelligence and insist that a biological man does not have an inherent advantage over a woman in athletic endeavors involving speed and strength. They do. They do. And the all-out bleating about individual rights does not negate this advantage, nor its unfairness for female athletes.

Let’s not get into that. On to our detailed analysis of the upcoming WNBA draft and … hey, where’d everybody go?