Can You Name Any Of The Women Lia Thomas Beat?

It’s time to forget Lia Thomas and celebrate real female athletes

In what will be seen as fantastic and reality-affirming news for world class female athletes — and a devastating blow to mediocre male athletes who may or may not be mentally ill — swimming’s international governing body, FINA, effectively admitted over the weekend that men have a biological advantage over women in the field of physical competition.

FINA’s new policy bars male swimmers from competing in women’s swimming events if they “transitioned” after the age of 12 years-old, and went through “any part of male puberty.” 

“We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women’s category at FINA competitions,” FINA President Husain Al-Musallam said, before noting that an “open category” may be a suitable alternative for men who can’t beat other men in the pool.

Now, the notion that biological men have an advantage over biological women is obvious, especially given the fundamental physical differences caused by the developmental changes triggered during puberty. While FINA’s admission is certainly a welcome move, the fact that an official policy had to be released in order to acknowledge such elementary facts is demonstrative of the scale of the society-wide insanity we’re facing.

And, of course, part of the problem here is that a politically-obsessed class of pseudo-activists have — rather successfully — infiltrated the world of sports in recent years, using the field of physical competition as another platform to promote radical change.

At the center of this push in the United States in the world of swimming is Lia Thomas, a biological man who has dominated both the headlines and the swimming pool, winning an NCAA Division I national championship…as a “woman.” 

Thomas — who underwent hormone therapy after several years competing on the men’s swimming team at the University of Pennsylvania and went from the 554th ranked male in the 200 meter freestyle to the fastest “woman” in the 500 meter freestyle this year — will now be banned from competing against female swimmers.

As he should be.