{"id":1273241,"date":"2022-02-05T03:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T08:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1273241"},"modified":"2022-02-05T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T13:07:33","slug":"prager-trans-athletes-the-new-york-times-and-the-ivy-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prager-trans-athletes-the-new-york-times-and-the-ivy-league\/","title":{"rendered":"PRAGER: Trans Athletes, The New York Times, And The Ivy League"},"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\">22<\/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-athletes-the-new-york-times-and-the-ivy-league%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=1273241&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\/02\/7BB99A12-DE50-4214-A0A0-48636F3E1D2D-scaled-e1644012558656-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women\u2019s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people\u2019s values and level of rationality.<\/p>\n<p>To recap, Will Thomas, a man who until two years ago was a member of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s men\u2019s swim team, announced he was female and then joined the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team.<\/p>\n<p>Now named Lia, Thomas has set national records in women\u2019s swimming, such as in the 200 and 500 freestyle. Women who have trained nearly all their lives to be competitive swimmers were cheated out of wins.<\/p>\n<p>The obvious question is: Is this fair? Is it fair for a biological male to compete as a female against females? Or is Thomas cheating?<\/p>\n<p>To most Americans the answer is clear: Thomas is cheating.<\/p>\n<p>As I recently wrote a column arguing that Thomas is a cheat, I will not belabor the point.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, I will discuss others\u2019 reactions, for, as I wrote, they reveal a great deal about those people and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>We will begin with the New York Times. Rather than as a cheat, the New York Times regards Thomas as heroic. When the Times finally got around to covering the story \u2014 weeks after the non-Left media began covering the story did any of the \u201cmainstream media\u201d cover it \u2014 the Times\u2019 writer on college sports, Billy Witz, wrote about the Thomas affair.<\/p>\n<p>He ended his column with an ode to Thomas:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so if there was something enduring about Saturday(\u2018s swim competition between Penn and Harvard), it was not the two races that Thomas comfortably won or the two relays where she gamely tried. It was the way she carried herself in the water \u2014 head down, with grace and ease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That is how \u201cwoke\u201d \u2014 a term that includes amorality and irrationality \u2014 The New York Times has become.<\/p>\n<p>Now let\u2019s proceed to the college whose women\u2019s team Thomas swims for, the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), and the colleges which have competed against Penn \u2014 Cornell and Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Like virtually every other university in America, and every other Ivy League college, the University of Pennsylvania threw its women swimmers under the bus. Not only did it not side with the women swimmers, nearly all of whom, according to reports, felt cheated when Thomas beat them in every race they competed, but it had no reaction to Thomas displaying male genitals in the women\u2019s locker room.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in the Daily Mail:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018We\u2019re uncomfortable in our own locker room.\u2019 Lia Thomas\u2019 UPenn teammate tells how the trans swimmer doesn\u2019t always cover up her male genitals when changing and their concerns go ignored by their coach\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018It\u2019s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,\u2019 one swimmer on the team told Daily Mail \u2026 Lia has told her teammates that she dates women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018While Lia covers herself with a towel sometimes, there\u2019s a decent amount of nudity,\u2019 the swimmer said. She and others have had a glimpse at her private parts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe stated that team members have raised their concern with the coach, trying to get Thomas ousted from the female locker room, but got nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Multiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,\u2019 the UPenn swimmer said. \u2018But we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there\u2019s nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s really upsetting because Lia doesn\u2019t seem to care how it makes anyone else feel,\u2019 the swimmer continued. \u2018The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UPenn\u2019s reaction:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school released a terse statement last month that it was offering mental health services to student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, neither Cornell nor Harvard defended their women either.<\/p>\n<p>And those women dare not speak out. They know their futures could be destroyed if they did. As one Penn swimmer told the Daily Mail, \u201cI might go on the record, but I\u2019m definitely a little afraid. What I\u2019m afraid of is that potential employers will Google my name and see commentary about things I said and think, oh, this person\u2019s transphobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, just in case some brave women were considering speaking out, the Daily Mail reported that the University of Pennsylvania is \u201cprohibiting students from talking to the media.\u201d One assumes Harvard and Cornell did the same.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the woke cowards of the Ivy League released this statement:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ivy League reaffirms its unwavering commitment to providing an inclusive environment for all student-athletes while condemning transphobia and discrimination in any form.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, Lia Thomas has rendered us a service. She has helped clarify the moral and intellectual state of the Ivy League and the New York Times, two formerly respected institutions. But, of course, that was a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dennis Prager is a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host and columnist. His latest book, published by Regnery in May 2019, is \u201cThe Rational Bible,\u201d a commentary on the book of Genesis. His film, \u201cNo Safe Spaces,\u201d was released to home entertainment nationwide on September 15, 2020. He is the founder of Prager University and may be contacted at dennisprager.com.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">counter-cultural<\/span>&nbsp;outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How individuals and institutions react to Lia Thomas, the biological male who is allowed to compete in women\u2019s college swim competitions, is a good indicator of people\u2019s values and level &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1273241","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\/1273241","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273241\/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=1273241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}