Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas can’t seem to take the hint and exit stage left. Despite causing enormous controversy by becoming the first person who was biologically born a male to win an NCAA women’s swimming championship, the athlete who performed for both the men’s and women’s teams at the University of Pennsylvania doesn’t see the problem with using his physical advantage to unfairly dominate competitions.
In fact, he’s doubling down and is now petitioning World Aquatics, the governing body of international swimming competitions, because they ruled that men would no longer be permitted to swim against females in meets. Thomas is crying foul and demanding that he be allowed to continue competing against physically smaller opponents with less muscle mass.
This guy is a real hero. Look at how he towers over his "rivals":
Despite new lawsuit to swim in 2024 Olympics, Lia Thomas is still not a woman | @chriswtremo https://t.co/vTy0nIfc4r https://t.co/vTy0nIfc4r
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 26, 2024
The effort is transparent – it’s an opening salvo in his bid to eventually compete in the Olympics against women swimmers.
Thomas believes that not letting him compete against females is discriminatory:
Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who won a women’s NCAA event in 2022 and who has said she has ambitions to compete in the Olympics, has asked the Court of Arbitration of Sport in Switzerland to overturn the rules of World Aquatics that prevent transgender women from competing in women’s divisions.
CAS, the world’s top court in matters of sporting fairness, acknowledged the case in a release on Friday and said that Thomas had asserted that the rules were unlawful and discriminatory. “Such discrimination cannot be justified as necessary, reasonable, or proportionate to achieve a legitimate sporting objective,” Thomas argued, CAS [Court of Arbitration for Sport] said in a statement that paraphrased her position.
Radio host Clay Travis didn’t pull any punches in his response. "Crazy times just keep getting crazier," he opined.
Lia Thomas, a man pretending to be a woman, is suing to be allowed to compete as a woman at the Olympics. Crazy times just keep getting crazier: pic.twitter.com/RSTNHzCyG3
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) January 26, 2024
Travis summed it up perfectly:
Lia Thomas... Lia Thomas, born Will Thomas, for those of you not familiar with this story at all, it is, I think, a window into the madness of our modern era.
Former U of Kentucky female swimming star Riley Gaines, the 12-time all-American who was robbed of a medal in a 200 freestyle race in 2022 by Thomas, has been an outspoken critic of the trans swimmer, UPenn, and the sporting bodies that allowed -- and continue to allow -- these outrages to keep happening.
See:
Star Swimmer Riley Gaines Blasts Biological Males in Women's Sports, 'I Was Reduced to a Photo Op'
Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) -- an independent institution created by the International Olympic Committee -- said that arbitration proceedings began in September 2023, and that the case had been confidential. But on Thursday, the Telegraph reported that the case had been filed.
At issue is when the transgender athlete "transitioned" (as if that was really what the problem is here):
World Aquatics, which sets rules that inform elite competitions, including the Olympics, introduced a new gender policy in June 2022, allowing transgender women to compete in women’s events only if they transitioned before the age of 12 or before one of the early stages of puberty. That effectively excludes transgender women who have undergone male puberty from participating in women’s races.
The Lia Thomas fiasco is emblematic of so much of the insanity we've seen in this country in recent years -- men are women, an open border is "secure," the economy's doing great even though you've lost a huge percentage of your purchasing power due to Bidenflation, protests causing billions of dollars of damage and numerous deaths are "mostly peaceful." The Hamas terrorists are freedom fighters, but the Israelis who dare to hit back are genocidal.
A relative texted me Friday night, "Sometimes I think I'm living in an upside-down world."
Sometimes? I responded. I'm feeling that every day.
The fact that we’re even discussing males competing in women's sports as a thing shows just how far off the rails the left has gone, and the strange and bizarre places they want to take this country.
