{"id":1153381,"date":"2021-12-25T08:20:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T13:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1153381"},"modified":"2021-12-25T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T13:20:59","slug":"prager-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-is-a-cheat-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-is-a-cheat-period\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Is A Cheat \u2013 Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fprager-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-is-a-cheat-period%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1153381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If you want one exemplar of the moral and intellectual chaos that characterizes the age in which we live, there are a number of candidates:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving fewer police leads to a decrease in violent crime\u201d is one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen give birth\u201d is another.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps the most obvious moral and intellectual absurdity of all is the notion that Lia Thomas, a member of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team, won fairly in the team\u2019s recent meet against the Cornell University women\u2019s swim team.<\/p>\n<p>You see, Lia Thomas was a man until two years ago, when he announced that she is really a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Now, neither I nor most fair-minded people care if Lia Thomas considers herself a woman. Many of us are even prepared to refer to Lia as \u201cshe\u201d \u2014 especially if she dresses, acts and looks like a woman. (For the record, most people who watch Lia\u2019s interview online and did not know that Lia claims to be a woman would assume that they are watching a man.)<\/p>\n<p>But no fair-minded person can accept that Lia should be allowed to join a women\u2019s swim team and compete against female teammates and against other women\u2019s swim teams.<\/p>\n<p>That Lia wishes to be considered a woman is entirely irrelevant to the question of whether it is at all fair for this individual to compete against women. As far as sports are concerned, one\u2019s biology, not one\u2019s gender identity, is all that matters.<\/p>\n<p>If Lia or any other biological male is allowed to compete against biological women, women\u2019s sports are rendered pointless and therefore unnecessary. The entire reason women\u2019s sports exist is to enable women to compete only against other women \u2014 because males have innate physical advantages in virtually every sport.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Lia Thomas has broken numerous University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s swim records. In her 1650-meter freestyle win, Thomas beat second-place finisher and teammate Anna Kalandadze by more than 38 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the women who had held those records no longer hold them. They have been stripped of their records because the University of Pennsylvania, like other universities, allows biological men to join women\u2019s swim teams. That is the ruling of the woke cowards of the NCAA, who have decreed that all women\u2019s teams, in all sports, must allow men to compete in women\u2019s sports. All a man has to do to compete against women is announce that he is a woman and take testosterone suppressors for a year.<\/p>\n<p>It is revolting that LGBTQ activists, virtually all sports writers (a band of sheep, if there ever was one) and just about the entire Left claim this is fair.<\/p>\n<p>Headline in the left-wing Independent:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLia Thomas: LGBT-plus rights campaigners defend swimming champion amid transphobic abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing activists who run the Human Rights Campaign defended Thomas:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiving your truth is an incredible and powerful feeling \u2026 We\u2019re in solidarity with Lia and all athletes who compete in the sports they love and on teams consistent with their gender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Headline of an article by The Hill left-wing staff-writer, Brooke Migdon:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollege swimming champion Lia Thomas targeted by transphobic rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe assumption that being born with a male body automatically gives transgender women a leg up when competing against cisgender women is not well founded,\u201d Migdon writes, quoting the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>The ability of people to lie to themselves is a depressing fact of life.<\/p>\n<p>The fact is this issue has nothing to do with trans acceptance or \u201ctransphobia.\u201d It is purely a moral question: Is it fair?<\/p>\n<p>As John Lohn, the rare honest editor of Swimming World magazine, wrote on Sunday:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the hormone suppressants she has taken, in accordance with NCAA guidelines, Thomas\u2019 male-puberty advantage has not been rolled back an adequate amount\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, for nearly 20 years, she built muscle and benefited from the testosterone naturally produced by her body. That strength does not disappear overnight, nor with a year\u2019s worth of suppressants\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are stating is this: The effects of being born a biological male, as they relate to the sport of swimming, offer Thomas a clear-cut edge over the biological females against whom she is competing. She is stronger. It is that simple. And this strength is beneficial to her stroke, on turns and to her endurance. Doping has the same effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoping has the same effect.\u201d Read that a few times and let the unfairness sink in.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the Left, we are living \u2014 no, drowning \u2014 in an ocean of lies.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever wonder why your kind, sweet friends on the Left differ with you, here is a big part of the answer: They do not know what we know. Google \u201cLia Thomas\u201d and you will not find a single result in any mainstream media. For example, no reader of The New York Times or The Washington Post knows about this.<\/p>\n<p>But those who know understand that Lia Thomas is a cheat.<\/p>\n<p>The views expressed in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want one exemplar of the moral and intellectual chaos that characterizes the age in which we live, there are a number of candidates: \u201cHaving fewer police leads to a decrease in violent crime\u201d is one. \u201cMen give birth\u201d is another. 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