Posted on 03/04/2022 4:00:15 PM PST by MarvinStinson
On Thursday, Sports Illustrated published a long retrospective of the highly controversial University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas portraying the swimmer as an embattled hero who insists, “I am here to swim.”
Born male, Thomas has undergone hormone replacement therapy but has not engaged in any surgical measures to “transition.” And Thomas swam on the men’s team for several years at the university before announcing a change of gender.
The article never dwells on the fact that, on the men’s team, Thomas’ career was far less remarkable than what he achieved on the women’s team.
The magazine takes pains to impress on the reader that Thomas feels less powerful as a “woman” and that his stamina and strength are diminished with the HRT treatments. However, the magazine also lists more than half a dozen records set by women that Thomas has shattered.
SI described Thomas as, “The shy senior economics major from Austin became one of the most dominant college athletes in the country and, as a result, the center of a national debate—a living, breathing, real-time Rorschach test for how society views those who challenge conventions.”
But if reports that Thomas has bragged about how much faster he is than his female opponents are true, “shy” does not seem accurate.
The magazine portrays Thomas as a hero standing up for “transgender kids throughout the piece.”
The article quoted Thomas saying, “I just want to show trans kids and younger trans athletes that they’re not alone. They don’t have to choose between who they are and the sport they love.”
The article also ridicules parents of other UPenn swimmers who support Thomas’s desires to “transition” but feel his participation on the women’s swim team is unfair to natural-born female athletes.
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He’s probably right.
Maybe they can put him on the cover in a bikini next issue.
He belongs in a padded cell.
Just my opinion.
Then chop off your d!**, hero.
that takes balls
lia has big ones
This is one of the reasons I cancelled my SI subscription. Not interested in propaganda masquerading as a feature story on an athlete (2nd rate one at that). The other is that they cut the publication from once a week to once a month.
Hero, no. Shero. Pronouns are fundamental.
A real “Lia” wouldn’t.
Funny how you don’t see women who believe they are men trying to compete on men’s teams.
They are unwittingly and selfishly proving that there is a distinct difference between men and women, particularly if you have to use HRT to “downgrade.” If not, he would be participating as a “women” on the men’s team he abandoned.
Sports Illustrated has been a lefy wing political rag for the last thirty years.
Article proves SI is run by homos.
He belongs in therapy.
The Dead Kennedys, 'Terminal Preppie'
Freakshow
Yes, Farts Illistrated is a teriffic ‘sports’ magazine.
No sonny, you belong on the freak team.
He doesn’t have the balls to compete as a man. Oh wait . . .
“Maybe they can put him on the cover in a bikini next issue.”
Forgive them father for they know not what they say.
wy69
It’s time to do away with “men” and “women” teams. They are sexist.
Whether you are a woman or man doesn’t matter.
You are either XX team or XY team as decided by your DNA test. You may be a man or a woman and change daily but your team stays the same, which simplifies life.
Lia would be a woman on the XY team.
SI once did sports. Sad.
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