{"id":1387882,"date":"2022-03-18T00:22:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T04:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387882"},"modified":"2022-03-18T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:29:41","slug":"washpost-columnist-defends-lia-thomas-in-a-way-everyone-is-trans-there-is-no-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washpost-columnist-defends-lia-thomas-in-a-way-everyone-is-trans-there-is-no-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"WashPost Columnist Defends Lia Thomas: &#039;In a Way, Everyone Is Trans&#8230; There Is No Normal&#039;"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fwashpost-columnist-defends-lia-thomas-in-a-way-everyone-is-trans-there-is-no-normal%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=1387882&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Transgender male intrusion into women\u2019s swimming is all OK because people should recognize that sports are about personal liberation, not fair rules competition, according to Sally Jenkins, a writer at Jeff Bezos\u2019s\u00a0<em>Washington Post.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the things that makes NCAA sport so captivating is the vast assortment of characters emerging from their chrysalis [like a transformed butterfly] into the broader world,\u201d Jenkins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/17\/lia-thomas-ncaa-swimming-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> March 17.<\/p>\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<p>\u201cHate to tell you, but in a way, everyone is trans,\u201d Jenkins wrote.<\/p>\n<p>On March 17, Lia Thomas, the trans male butterfly, emerged from his chrysalis to shove three non-trans women down the podium at the awards ceremony for the NCAA\u2019s 2022\u00a0500-yard freestyle competition. \u201cThe race was close until the final 100 yards \u2026. [and] Thomas was stronger at the end,\u201d NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnewyork.com\/news\/sports\/lia-thomas-becomes-first-transgender-woman-to-win-ncaa-swimming-championship\/3605073\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of the women in the race were demoted one place by Thomas\u2019s victory.\u00a0\u201cAll of us in life\u2019s competitive arena are on the way to becoming someone profoundly different than we were,\u201d Jenkins wrote, without using the words\u00a0\u201cfemale\u201d or \u201csubordinate.\u201d<\/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\">Round of applause for Emma Weyant, the UVA swimmer who placed second in the 500y freestyle tonight, behind Lia Thomas. Second is the new first. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/savewomenssports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#savewomenssports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NtHookm3qQ\">pic.twitter.com\/NtHookm3qQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Angela Morabito (@AngelaLMorabito) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AngelaLMorabito\/status\/1504617589221244929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sports is about personal liberation, regardless of yesterday\u2019s focus on fairness, teams, leagues, scores, rules, boundaries, definitions, or society, says Jenkins, the wealthy author of several best-sellers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What is the real aim and value of NCAA competition? Is it not to grow people? Surely, it\u2019s about more than just vaulting a small subset of young talents on to a podium for the sake of name-image-and-likeness deals and spots in the Olympics. It\u2019s supposed to be about exploring who you are, whether on the pool deck or starting block or basketball floor, and the truth is that \u201cevery person has multitudes in them,\u201d as [T.] Cooper\u2019s wife, journalist Allison Glock, observed in her own work. That\u2019s the real worthwhile inquiry of college sports.<\/p>\n<p>Using this as a starting point in the Thomas debate seems a much smarter approach than the uncivil fearmongering over bone density and hand size. And it allows you to ask without insult: Is Thomas\u2019s presence preventing other swimmers from finding out who they are?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Besides, the difference between men and women is all very complicated, confounding, and confusing, she wrote. People, sex, sports are all very complex, and \u201cthe science remains unsettled,\u201d so the opponents of men in women\u2019s sports really have no foundation to demand fairness, she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Jenkins\u2019 argument is a noble-sounding response to the many polls that show the public wants sports to be about fair competition on level fields, within clear rules, and according to consistent definitions. \u201cRight now, our opposition wins the debate on trans youth in sports against any and all arguments we have tried for our side,\u201d admitted a\u00a0 recent \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/30\/trans-activists-admit-theyve-lost-the-debate-urge-stealth-tactics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Messaging Guide<\/a>\u201d by the Transgender Law Center in California.<\/p>\n<p>Once sports is no longer about fair competion, men would display their liberation in any sport, Jenkins suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We can only continue to calibrate judgments around the important question: Does our current collegiate model, with its inclusion of Thomas and other trans athletes, call forth competition that is interesting, meaningful and valuable? The answer is yes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pro-transgender sports can be a mechanism for progressives to transform society from the ugly caterpillar of traditional rules into a new butterfly of progressive possibility, according to a pro-transgender legal claim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/03\/17\/lia-thomas-ncaa-swimming-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quoted<\/a> by Jenkins:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is no normal. There\u2019s common, there\u2019s typical, but there\u2019s no normal. Whether it\u2019s gender, physical or mental ability, or another categorization used to make assumptions about people, sports help break down barriers that society imposes. If we can begin to shift away from the mirage of normalcy and instead view deviations from the common through a lens of possibility, we can increase access to sports and all the benefits they provide.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Still, progressives\u2019 welcome of transgender butterflies and rule-ending possibilities does not apply to the sources of their own wealth and status. For example, Jenkins is happy to have her\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=22422683381&#038;msclkid=e3bc81e0a66611ecb2a985cb3673e5fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">books<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sally_Jenkins\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">university credentials<\/a> guarded against copyright-violating, chrysalis-emerging\u00a0butterflies by the very non-diverse chainmail fist of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/title17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal copyright law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender male intrusion into women\u2019s swimming is all OK because people should recognize that sports are about personal liberation, not fair rules competition, according to Sally Jenkins, a writer at<\/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-1387882","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\/1387882","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=1387882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387882\/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=1387882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}