{"id":1499246,"date":"2022-06-01T08:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1499246"},"modified":"2022-06-01T08:01:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T12:01:29","slug":"lia-thomas-is-happy-to-force-everyone-else-to-deal-with-transgender-narcissism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lia-thomas-is-happy-to-force-everyone-else-to-deal-with-transgender-narcissism\/","title":{"rendered":"Lia Thomas Is \u2018Happy\u2019 To Force Everyone Else To Deal With Transgender Narcissism"},"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\">26<\/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%2Flia-thomas-is-happy-to-force-everyone-else-to-deal-with-transgender-narcissism%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=1499246&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\/06\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-31-at-4.56.31-PM-1024x677-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Transgender-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas \u2014 a man who claims to be a woman and recently dominated his NCAA female competitors \u2014 finally broke his silence with an interview on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America,\u201d and here\u2019s what he wants you to know: \u201cI\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas was thrust into the limelight after the lackluster male swimmer took wrong-sex hormones for a year and subsequently the women\u2019s Division I swimming title, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/25\/why-is-nbc-news-doctoring-photos-of-lia-thomas-to-look-less-masculine\/\">causing quite a stir<\/a>. When ABC interviewer Juju Chang asked about his competitive advantage \u2014 the question Thomas\u2019s teammates, opponents, and critics can\u2019t get past \u2014 Thomas shrugged it off. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do, and the biggest change for me is that I\u2019m happy,\u201d Thomas said in an undeniably male pitch. This \u201chappy\u201d theme permeated the whole interview, interspersed with an air of entitlement from the swimmer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also don\u2019t need anybody\u2019s permission to be myself and to do the sport that I love,\u201d Thomas declared, adding later, \u201cTrans people don\u2019t transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kicker for Thomas, which is obvious to the watching world, is that actually, yes, you do need permission to be yourself and play the sport you love when that self defies the laws of biology and that sport is a collegiate program designed for the very real, immutable category of \u201cwomen.\u201d Any other student-athlete knows that if her \u201cauthentic self\u201d is obese or jacked up on steroids, for instance, she will not get permission to play a collegiate sport, her sincere love for it notwithstanding. Where does the gender-bending left get the idea that they\u2019re entitled to inclusion without permission?<\/p>\n<p>The sorry state of the NCAA and the country\u2019s cultural mores at large are actually in many ways a result of the \u201cLia Thomas mindset,\u201d more commonly known as narcissism. When science and empirical data have said, like Chang, that males have a competitive advantage over females, the transgender-allied left, like Thomas, have dismissed it with a \u201cThey\u2019re happy!\u201d and a \u201cLet them be their authentic selves!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The rejoinder is obvious and unavoidable: What about the very real women whom Thomas dominated by virtue of him being a man? What about their happiness and their \u201cauthentic selves\u201d as the best female swimmers? What about his troubled peers who have been flashed by Thomas\u2019s penis in the women\u2019s locker room and been forced to expose themselves in front of him? Although a happy Thomas insists, \u201cTrans women are not a threat to women\u2019s sports,\u201d what are the runners-up supposed to do with the mountain of evidence to the contrary?<\/p>\n<p>The rules of the game have been set not by logic nor reason nor basic and once-widely accepted facts, but by the narcissism of the minority. Perhaps \u2014 if their entitlement and lack of empathy rise to the level of diagnosable narcissism \u2014 the correlation of that narcissism with the trans-allied left should be no surprise. <\/p>\n<p>After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/cspicenter.org\/reports\/born-this-way-the-rise-of-lgbt-as-a-social-and-political-identity\/\">research<\/a> shows a leftist ideology, mental health issues, and LGBT identity go hand in hand in what\u2019s known as the mental health-sexuality-liberalism nexus. If Thomas actually has gender dysphoria, perhaps that mental health issue corresponds with other mental health problems, narcissistic personality disorder being no exception.<\/p>\n<p>The predictability of the narcissism, however, is no excuse for it. Nor is empathy for those with mental health problems a license to indulge them, especially when it comes at the expense of others. Thomas and the swimmer\u2019s gender-bending allies have declared that their delusional and norm-shattering behavior is fine because they\u2019re happy, but that\u2019s textbook narcissism, and we\u2019ve enabled it far too long.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transgender-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas \u2014 a man who claims to be a woman and recently dominated his NCAA female competitors \u2014 finally broke his silence with an interview on ABC\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499246","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\/1499246","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\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1499246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499246\/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=1499246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1499246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1499246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}