{"id":1209283,"date":"2022-01-11T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1209283"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:20:18","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T00:20:18","slug":"washington-posts-liberals-jeer-transgender-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-posts-liberals-jeer-transgender-swimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post&#039;s Liberals Jeer Transgender Swimmer"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fwashington-posts-liberals-jeer-transgender-swimmer%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=1209283&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Lia-Thompson-Penn-Athletics-Facebook-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The <em>Washington Post<\/em> finally mentioned the Ivy League sex-and-swimming scandal, and the reaction from its liberal Democratic readers is overwhelming; Male swimmer Lia Thomas does not belong in women\u2019s swim races, even if he thinks he has a woman\u2019s \u201cgender identity.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Well, here&#8217;s one Democrat that thinks this is ridiculous. She competed as a man two years earlier. That should disqualify her from competing as a woman. I don&#8217;t even know why this is a debate. Transgender should have their own category. This is a matter of fairness, not equality.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guitar Cat (@_GuitarCat_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_GuitarCat_\/status\/1480604126492856320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am all for inclusion but this is ridiculous<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jose F (@jfriano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jfriano\/status\/1480697567214247938?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Author Rick Maese\u2019s January 10 article tried to thread the needle between his pro-transgender peers and the newspapers\u2019 pro-fairness, pro-women readers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Since she [sic] obliterated two school records and posted nation-leading times at a meet last month, Thomas has garnered attention from across the swimming community and right-wing media. Credentialed media at Saturday\u2019s meet included Fox News, Newsweek, the Daily Mail and ESPN. Tennis icons Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert have publicly said Thomas has no business competing in women\u2019s swimming, as has Olympian Erika Brown, who said last month it\u2019s \u201ctime to start standing up for women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Hogshead-Makar, chief executive of Champion Women, a women\u2019s sports advocacy organization, said concerns around Thomas\u2019s spot on the women\u2019s team aren\u2019t rooted in transphobia or discrimination. Hogshead-Makar\u2019s issues are with the rule book that allows Thomas to compete in women\u2019s sports and with sports officials whom the advocate argues are putting Thomas\u2019s competitors at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis topic is very uncomfortable for people. They don\u2019t understand it, and so they took the lazy way out,\u201d said Hogshead-Makar, who won four swimming medals at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. \u201cThe lazy way out is saying, \u2018Put them in the women\u2019s category.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo blow up the women\u2019s category is just not the answer. This makes the women\u2019s category meaningless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of tweeted responses to the article were scornful of the claim that men who claim to be women should be allowed to participate in women\u2019s sports:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This needs to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Making a personal choice is fine. There should be clear caveats with these choices.<\/p>\n<p>Ramming it down the throat of collegiate athletes is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 American Birthboy (@AramNYC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AramNYC\/status\/1480890776829952003?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">While I support transgender athletes, particularly in middle and high school, were sports are about teamwork, the mechanics of a body born male are different than one born female. Perhaps there needs to be a separate category for transgender athletes at the elite level.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 everlovinaddie (@AddieShepherd19) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AddieShepherd19\/status\/1480791830073679881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I absolutely believe in supporting the trans community. But no way should a man compete with women. I absolutely stand up for trans people, and I absolutely will stand up for women. Somehow in this whole conversation we have lost common sense.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 DonajueDee (@DonajueDee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonajueDee\/status\/1480599361067405323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When LGBT-friendly icons like Martina Navratilova say this is unfair \u2013 it&#8217;s unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @The_C_Agenda (@c_agenda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/c_agenda\/status\/1480635726026915848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The response also used laughter to criticize the <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s acceptance of the claim that a man must be treated as a woman whenever he says he feels like a woman.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1v7xyTcIig\">pic.twitter.com\/1v7xyTcIig<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barbara Trudell (@trudell_barbara) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trudell_barbara\/status\/1480612221096968202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Except those elites working in media and the whole Democrat Party, I don&#8217;t think there is any support for this craziness.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf2 (@rtoh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rtoh\/status\/1480601825120337929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m looking forward to the day when we transcend not just sex, but species, too. When cheetahs and horses can be identified as human and crush the land records of Usain Bolt. Because it&#8217;s just about the speed, right? Not specific categories of living creatures competing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Califasauros (@califasauros) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/califasauros\/status\/1480632116526284801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BDNt2IOTn9\">https:\/\/t.co\/BDNt2IOTn9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RevFemStreetBeat (@RevFemStBeat) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevFemStBeat\/status\/1480964686153601025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There were a few supporters who tweeted their support for Thomas:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trans women are women so I don&#8217;t understand the controversy. Maybe just jealousy because she is a bad a** who is clearly an amazing swimmer. I would love to see her go after Katy ladecky records<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Igor Sdorov ( he \/ him) \u2013 lockdowns work! (@ISdorov) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ISdorov\/status\/1480607364093038598?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The polls have shifted decisively against the transgender activists, partly because of coverage from mainstream media outlets, such as Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Washington Post&nbsp;<\/em>article was posted a few days after a strategy guide by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/30\/trans-activists-admit-theyve-lost-the-debate-urge-stealth-tactics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">transgender activists admitted<\/a>&nbsp;that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/transgender-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many polls<\/a> show the public has already rejected the transgender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/30\/trans-activists-admit-theyve-lost-the-debate-urge-stealth-tactics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;on December 30 about how the advocacy group is urging allies to conceal transgender advocacy under sympathy for various other groups:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cRight now, our opposition wins the debate on trans youth in sports against any and all arguments we have tried for our side,\u201d admits a \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5fd0f29d0d626c5fb471be74\/t\/61b13d00236e2f7f2dbb9a36\/1639005441624\/Transgender+Youth+and+the+Freedom+to+Be+Ourselves.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Messaging Guide<\/a>\u201d by the California-based Transgender Law Center.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, \u201cwe can at best elicit sympathy, a passive and often patronizing attitude that alienates our base [of current supporters] and fails to generate sustained interest from persuadable audiences\u201d of swing voters, said the guide, which is titled \u201cTransgender Youth and the Freedom to Be Ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The counter-strategy is to stealthily hook their aggressive ideology to the public\u2019s existing sympathy for poor people, women, and racial minorities, according to the messaging guide:<\/p>\n[Advocates should use] \u201c\u2026the Race Class Narrative to tell a convincing story of how \u2026 by coming together, we can ensure we all have the freedom to be ourselves and support one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The guide offered several examples of how the advocacy can be concealed, including an ironically titled \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/5fd0f29d0d626c5fb471be74\/t\/61b13d00236e2f7f2dbb9a36\/1639005441624\/Transgender+Youth+and+the+Freedom+to+Be+Ourselves.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Authentic Selves<\/a>\u201d pitch that matches the&nbsp;<em>New York Times\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;coverage of the&nbsp;<em>Jeopardy!<\/em>&nbsp;sex scandal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Across our races, backgrounds and genders, we want to be treated with dignity and respect. But today, certain politicians are pushing laws that restrict our freedoms because of the color of our skin, what\u2019s in our wallets, or because we are transgender. They exploit divisions and fears among us so they can get and hold onto power, denying us the basic rights, resources, and respect all people deserve. By [rejecting this division and] passing protections against discrimination, we can ensure each one of us has the freedom to be ourselves, pursue our dreams, and have a good life \u2014 no exceptions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The advocacy group downplayed the huge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/cross-sex-hormones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">health<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/09\/06\/survey-transgenders-cut-98-percent-of-romantic-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">psychological costs<\/a>&nbsp;for people who claim to be transgender. But even the <em>Washington Post\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;op-ed section spotlighted the dangers in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may be harming some of the young people we strive to support \u2014 people who may not be prepared for the gender transitions they are being rushed into,\u201d said a<em>&nbsp;Washington Post<\/em> op-ed&nbsp;by the two prominent advocates of the transgender ideology, psychologist&nbsp;<span class=\"gray-darkest b bb bc-gray bt-hover b-none\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/www.drlauraedwardsleeper.com\/new-page-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Laura Edwards-Leeper<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"\"><span class=\"font-xxxs gray-darkest font-xxs-ns\">and&nbsp;<\/span><\/span>Erica Anderson, who says she is transgender.<\/p>\n<p>The article was given a very prominent position \u2014 three-quarters of the first page in the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;prestigious Outlook section on Sunday, November 28.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em> has yet to address the transgender sex scandal, despite its extensive coverage of the #MeToo sexual-assault scandal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post finally mentioned the Ivy League sex-and-swimming scandal, and the reaction from its liberal Democratic readers is overwhelming; Male swimmer Lia Thomas does not belong in women\u2019s swim &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1209283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}