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Caitlyn Jenner Drops a Nuke on the Unfairness of Biological Males in Women Sports – Opinion

By Pluralist / March 18, 2022

Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer, was awarded first place at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships in the 500 freestyle on Thursday.

But it didn’t go down well with some of the other competitors and others in the audience. You can see here how there’s wild cheering for Emma Weyant, the freshman who was awarded second place. Thomas got polite claps, however. One girl doesn’t even clap.

Here’s Thomas talking about competing there.

The size differences can be seen here.

The situation was discussed with parents.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that it isn’t fair to the women and good on the editor at Swimming World  John Lohn for calling out the unfairness when so many others would just be silent on the damaging effect this is having on women’s sports.

Thomas reached the wall at 4:33.82 in the prelims. This time earned her top seed for final. Tylor Mathieu of Florida, ninth place finisher was prevented from reaching the final by Thomas’ presence. Her presence – and the NCAA’s inaction – kept 17th-place finisher Reka Gyorgy of Virginia Tech out of the consolation final. Mathieu, Gyorgy were both well-deserved stars in the limelight. Both were denied.

Years down the road, Lia Thomas’ name will be listed as the titlist of the 500 freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Championships. An asterisk should appear next to her name. The NCAA is going to be remembered as having turned its back on biological females and created a hostile environment for them.

Lohn noted male puberty and testosterone as well as “A 6-3 frame. Higher natural strength. Hands and feet that are larger. Enhanced lung capacity. None of these edges, for the record, can be fully mitigated…A transgender female competing against biological females is not a fair fight.”

Lohn claimed that Thomas’ opponents were transphobics when Swimming World suggested alternative competition options.

Martina Navratilova, who was a tennis legend for women’s sports, also spoke out against the unfairness of it all, suggesting that perhaps there should be an asterisk on the “win.” She also proposed that the answer to the question would be to allow biological women to compete against biological women and then have an open category. She’s also been attacked for speaking up for fundamental fairness for women.

Caitlyn Jenner (also transgender) provided the most comprehensive response to the question. Jenner had weighed in saying, “I don’t see how you can be happy beating other girls under these circumstances. You have to have a sense of personal responsibility.” Then Jenner was attacked by Pink News who called the remarks a “disgraceful attack” on transgender people. Jenner then attacked them.

“No, I just had the balls to stand up for women and girls in sports,” Jenner said.

Unfortunately, the NCAA and much of the media don’t.

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