There are all manner of lies that dignify the age we live in ranging from “your check’s in the mail”, “we’ll have a cable technician over to your house between 12-5 today” and “men give birth” but none are so monstrous a lie as the one that William Thomas is any kind of superstar female athlete because William Thomas isn’t female at all: he’s a slimy man who cheats at sports.
You see, William Thomas is what you call a mediocre male athlete who couldn’t cut it competing against men having been ranked somewhere in the basement of the 400s until two years ago when he hit upon the idea that he can suddenly catch ladyfeels he can enter into a division he not only could compete against but because of his natural biological advantages could smash records across the board.
And because of this distinct biological advantage as a male William Thomas has broken numerous University of Pennsylvania women’s swim records. In his 1650-meter freestyle win, Thomas beat second-place finisher and teammate Anna Kalandadze by more than 38 seconds.
Women at UPenn who had held those records no longer hold them. They have been stripped of their records because UPenn, like other universities, allows biological men to join women’s swim teams. That is the ruling of these cowards at the NCAA, who have, in their benighted wisdom, decided that all women’s teams, in all sports, must allow men to compete in women’s sports. All a man has to do to compete against women is announce that he is a woman and take testosterone suppressors for a year.
Except men who follow the usual approach prescribed are unable to reliably lower their testosterone levels into the typical female physiologic range alone with testosterone suppression.
Despite the hormone suppressants he has taken, per NCAA guidelines, Thomas’ male-puberty advantage has not been rolled back an adequate amount. In fact, for nearly 20 years, he built muscle and benefited from the testosterone naturally produced by his body and that strength does not disappear overnight, nor with a year’s worth of suppressants.
Being born a biological male gives William Thomas a distinct edge over his female competitors: he is stronger and this strength translates to his stroke and his endurance.
You want to know what else gives athletes this kind of advantage? Performance-enhancers.
As in “doping”.
Let that sink in for a moment. Let the unfairness of this wash over you.
Once upon a time we stripped a Tour de France cyclist of his titles and banned him for life when it was discovered he was doping. Once upon a time we suspended an Olympic class sprinter for having tested positive for marijuana and once upon a time we banned an entire country from sending its athletes to compete anywhere in the world because they were known to have promoted use of performance enhancers as a matter of governmental policy.
This is not just a swimming issue. Laurel Hubbard, Cece Telfer, Hannah Mouncey, Stephanie Barrett, Rachel McKinnon, Andraya Yearwood - the list goes on - these are just some of the more publicly known male-bodied athletes that have robbed thousands of women of fair treatment in sport.
Women’s boundaries, women’s bodies, their fair treatment, respect and dignity are not up for reimagining by men and if William Thomas was any kind of a man he’d cease and desist this fuckery immediately.
There is no fundamental difference between a man who cheats at sports and a man who cheats at sports while wearing lipstick, a dress and calling himself Lia and William Thomas is a slimy man who is wearing lipstick, a dress and is using that to cheat at sports.
The entire reason women’s sports exist is to enable women to compete only against other women because males have innate physical advantages in virtually every sport and if William or any other biological male is allowed to compete against biological women, women’s sports are rendered pointless and therefore unnecessary.
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