Lia Thomas did it, so why can’t Iszac Henig? Lia is the University of Pennsylvania swimmer who performed indifferently on the men’s team and then proclaimed that he was a woman. Competing on the women’s team, lo and behold, suddenly he became a championship swimmer, breaking records left and right and winning an NCAA swimming championship. It was the strength he got from being transgender and enduring bigotry and hate, right? So we should expect that Iszac Henig, who used to be a female swimmer and now says she is a male, would perform at the same stellar level, right? Well, it didn’t quite turn out that way. It turns out that in the cases of both Thomas and Henig, biological reality can’t simply be wished away.
Henig, according to OutKick, “finished the 2021-22 NCAA season as a women’s all-American while transitioning from female to male.” However, she “is now swimming on the guy’s team and is struggling mightily to not finish in last place at meets.” Why, this is dumbfounding! What could possibly account for Henig’s precipitous decline from the top of the ranks of female swimmers to a mediocre (at best) allegedly male swimmer? It must be deeply ingrained “transphobia” among the judges at swim meets, right?
Of course, it isn’t anything of the kind. The simple and obvious reason why Thomas did better competing against women and Henig did worse competing against men is that males naturally have greater upper body strength and can thus generally swim faster and farther than their female counterparts. Those who are enraged by this should take it up with God; there isn’t an authority on earth, much less a surgeon, who can redress this inequity. Thomas became a champion because he is a man competing with women. Henig became a poor swimmer because she is a woman competing against men.
It is absurd that anyone would refuse to acknowledge these realities, and just as absurd that in our ridiculous age, they have to be restated and restated again. But Henig was given lavish space in the New York Times Thursday to make her case in an article entitled “I Chose to Compete as My True, Trans Self. I Win Less, but I Live More.” The article is nearly two thousand words of the current delusions and self-deceptions, as is evident from the title itself. If Henig were competing as her true self, she would have remained on the women’s team. She wins less because of the inescapable physical realities, that is, her true self, which she is determinedly ignoring.
In her Times article, Henig recounts: “I placed fourth in the 50 free at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships my first season, and I was the highest point scorer on the women’s team in my sophomore year.”
There is more. Read the rest here.
I’ll leave the reading of nonsense to you Robert. Thanks for doing this for us.
There are RARE exceptions to the gender performances but NOT at the “elite” levels! When I was a kid one of my friend’s SISTER was as mean and tough and athletic as the boys. She was also bigger and stronger that most of us, but she never competed against boys “her own size”! I guess it’s about the same with those “Waffle House Warriors” until they get on the OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTER!!
Some years back I made the acquaintance of a family of four.. two boys two girls, all late teens and early twenties. Great folks, our paths still cross on occasion.
One of the daughters happened to have unusual upper body strangth.With her older brother coaching, and just to be a punk and beat both of her brothers, she learned the mechanics or arm wrestling. Word spread. At casual group gtherings the boys would challenge her to arm wrestle. I never saw her bested, even by guys considrably bigger than she. It was all funa nd gaems, though. No woerd perversions. She is today a normal Mom of four kids of her own some into their ealrytens already. I don’t think she arm wrestles any more… she’s just a bit too pudgy these days tobe strong and competitive. All it was good for was fin talk and laughter. She never had a point tto prove, just always put hr best forward in all she did. If that meant tossing a few guys five yars or so older than she was, fine. All good sport. And fun to watch. I was a VERY serious cyclist in those days, five thousand miles or more a year, two hndred mile plus days… I offered to leg wrestle her once. Knowing my condition she politely declined. We all laughed at that one.
‘Oh what a tangled web we weave/When first we practice to deceive,’
The godless are obsessed with playing “god.”
They can chop up their genitalia, gorge hormones, and grow beards or wear makeup.
But they can’t change their DNA.
This seems to be just one side-effect of Marxist ideology. I seem to recall the Lysenko theories of biology back under Stalin. They claimed that traits could be acquired by experience instead of through genetic mutations and evolution. The postmodernist brand of Marxism thinks that all things are possible. The triumph of the will. But it does not work with sports. The best female athletes can beat average, untrained males very often. I could never in my life have competed against the best female athletes, but the best male athletes usually beat women. Probably women can beat men in dance or ballet or sports that do not depend on brute strength and stamina. But we do not need athletic women as much as intelligent women. They can beat men in academic fields, as we are seeing, for example. It is just common sense, All this should be painfully obvious, but not to ideological Marxists, it seems.
W hy we bother to celebrate mental illness is is beyond me.
There is one God and Creator. You are what he created you as, Male or Female. Arguing against that is arguing against God himself, it is trying to make God out to be a liar and you to be smarter/better than God. Get over yourselves and start looking at things in a realistic manner. Turn from your foolish and evil ways, seek after God and you will find him.
Next, trans swimmers will swim on both teams. Why not? Anything goes.