Yesterday The Free Press of Bari Weiss revealed that 16 female athletes were suing The National Collegiate Athletics Association [NCAA] for allowing Trans Females to not only compete with girls at the college level but to share locker rooms with them even while still endowed with male genitalia.
The Free Press article focused on the example of Lia Thomas who from 2017 to 2020 competed as a Male on the U. of Pennsylvania swim team with little success, but, after undergoing hormone therapy, was allowed to compete as a Female in 2022, resulting in the award of All American status in three separate events. The disparity in his/her levels of success as a male and female are of course disconcerting. As pointed out by the Independent Council on Women’s Sports, the agency through which the lawsuit was launched, Males who undergo hormonal therapy in their attempt to “transition,” often continue to enjoy testosterone levels 5 times higher than the average female.
The Free Press article cited, among others, the testimony of Kylee Alons, an accomplished swimmer with the North Carolina team who said she was so disconcerted at the prospect of getting naked in front of Thomas, a six foot individual with a penis, that in the 2022 NCAA Championships held at Georgia Tech, rather than changing in the officially designated area, she found an obscure storage closet where she could be all on her own. Her discomfort, clearly shared by her fellow complainants, as well as the obvious advantage granted Thomas by the facts of Human Biology, would seem to make the result of the Independent Council’s lawsuit a foregone conclusion. Sadly, given that Western Culture is now dominated by “woke” sentiment for “oppressed minorities” rather than the dictates of Reason and Fair Play, we can only hope sanity prevails in the long run.
The Left’s descent into madness is perhaps best exemplified by the fact that “conservatives” who in some cases were justifiably seen by Feminists as oppressors of Women fifty years ago, are now ironically being demonized for defending Women’s rights against an oppressive ideology supported by many on the Left!