So she was in 17th place, but itâs all the fault of the one trans swimmer that she didnât win.
At least Lia Thomas has some supporters.
I havenât read this yet, but I have been told that it is bad. Given the Guardian/Observer policy on transgender issues for the last 8 years or so, I have no reason to think otherwise.
She turns 26 in a few months, but is competing at the collegiate level with college students 4-8 years younger than she is. Iâd say she couldnât keep up with them because sheâs aged out.
Yep⌠thatâs why she lost. Asshole.
I just read the first 3 paragraphsâŚ
Yep. Sheâs too old at 26.
â Women achieved peak freestyle swim speed at ages 20â21 years for all distances with the exception of 800 m. In the 800 m, women were fastest at ages 26â27 years.â
This was the 500 yard competition.
Intergenerational transphobia
So awful even a mother couldnât bear to be on the same continent with him.
âBut whatâs even more frustrating is not knowing which stateâs gonna be next,â he adds. âYou might move to a safe state, and then in two, three, four years, youâre in the same boat again.â
Fuck⌠theyâre not wrong to be worried⌠What we need is yet another constitutional amendment that explicitly lays out a shared set of rights that canât be infringed upon. Be clear, concise, and unambiguous that these sorts of laws that infringe upon peopleâs rights are flat unconstitutionalâŚ
Unfortunately, roughly 30% of the country views the existence of trans (probably all LGBTQ+) people as an infringement upon their rights.
Yeah⌠itâs crazy, but entirely true. Iâd expand that to include POC and women who are not entirely subservient to men.
I have seen clips of popular alt-righters promote the idea of state mandated relationships, so men arenât lonely.
I assume these are men who express concern that they will be forced to date trans women.
â Heading into the NCAA Division I Womenâs Swimming & Diving National Championship, some projected that University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas would âdominateâ her three events, and âsmashâ American records.â
â The participation of Thomas, a 22-year-old transgender woman, was held up by some as âthe beginning of the end of womenâs sports.â Yet ultimately, out of the meetâs 18 events, Thomas won one race and placed in the top eight in two others.
She didnât break any records. Her race times were not extraordinary.â
â It was other women who dominated the meet, held at Georgia Institute of Technology. University of Virginia swimmers won 11 out of 18 events, and were back-to-back national champions. Junior Kate Douglass left with eight national titles, and broke three American records in three different strokes, an astonishing and never-before-seen feat.â
I have seen a few podcasts about TERF Island over the last month. The search function on my podcast software is a bit shit but I did find this one
I havenât listened to it because this is the hell I live in.
But, is Ms. Douglas sufficiently feminine? I mean, that seems to be the most important question! (/s)
