{"id":44231,"date":"2022-01-12T07:08:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44231"},"modified":"2022-01-12T07:08:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T12:08:23","slug":"this-is-all-very-confusing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44231","title":{"rendered":"This Is All Very Confusing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, Hot Air<\/a> reported that Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania swim team, recently lost the 100-meter freestyle race to another transgender swimmer. Okay, fair is fair. That seems logical. However the story gets a little weird after that.<\/p>\n

The article quotes an Outkick article:<\/p>\n

Penn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who had been crushing her competition since joining the women\u2019s swim team after three years swimming as a biological male, met her match Saturday in the 100-meter freestyle during a tri-meet with Yale and Dartmouth.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas won the 200-meter and 500-meter races at Penn\u2019s final home meet of the season, but she finished sixth in the 100-meter where Yale\u2019s Iszac Henig, a transgender swimmer who is in the process of transitioning from female to male, crushed Thomas. Henig finished the 100 in 49.57 while Thomas touched the wall in 52.84.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t prepared for that. Everything is messed up. I can\u2019t wrap my head around this. The NCAA needs to do something about this. They need to put science into the decision and discussion,\u201d a Penn swim parent told The Daily Mail.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article at Hot Air concludes:<\/p>\n

Not all of the irony has been removed from the story, however. What this really means is that trans swimmer Thomas was beaten by an actual woman<\/em>, so how well would Thomas do against the guys? This is a subject we touched on<\/a> when the story first emerged last month. Thomas may be setting records for the University of Pennsylvania and for these specific meets, but all of the times posted thus far are still slower than the current NCAA women\u2019s division records for those events. And they are laughably far behind the men\u2019s division records. And now, even with the distinct biological advantage that Thomas enjoys, the swimmer has been defeated in multiple events by an actual female.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That doesn\u2019t remove all of the injustice from the situation, of course. There are still plenty of other legitimate female college athletes who are being bumped down the charts. As the linked article indicates, one parent of a female Penn swimmer was once again calling for the NCAA to \u201cput science into the decision and discussion.\u201d We already saw one collegiate swimming official end her career<\/a> in protest over what\u2019s been going on. Sadly, the NCAA has clearly drunk deeply from the new chalice of wokeness and they aren\u2019t likely to voluntarily embark on a return to sanity any time soon.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This makes my head hurt.<\/p>\n

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