In 2021 … 62 percent of Americans said that transgender athletes should be able to play only on teams that matched their gender at birth; by 2023, that figure had risen to 69 percent. This is not bigotry at work. This year, the same pollster found that a solid majority of Americans — 56 percent — favor policies protecting trans people from discrimination. Americans are broadly fine with transgender people. They are fine with gay people. They just reject replacing the fact of biological sex with the phantasms of gender ideology…
[F]ighting a losing battle to allow trans women to compete in women’s sports and for biological men to be in women’s intimate spaces and to perpetuate risky, inadequately tested sex changes on children, including gay and lesbian ones, is dumb, offensive to common sense and risks a much bigger backlash.
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U Penn has now rescinded trans swimmer Lia Thomas’s medals.
July 3rd, 2025 at 6:40PM
A miniscule number of trans women are competing in women’s sports, and only one (to my knowledge) has been notably successful, and that was three years ago. We know that MAGA-world’s obsession with this issue is nothing more than an act of performative bigotry; they don’t care about women, much less women athletes. UPenn has capitulated to the thug in the White House because that is what modern, careerist university administrators seem psychologically predisposed to do (lookin’ at you, too, Columbia). Nothing about this has made life better for a single woman.
Meanwhile, masked gunmen are kidnapping people off American streets and sending at least some of them to third world gulags. All of the guardrails that Madison bragged about in Federalist 51 are turning to dust before our eyes. And legislation has just passed pushing us inexorably toward the next Gilded Age.
Can we maybe talk about Lia Thomas once we get some of our real problems solved?