The rise of “gender-affirming care” among medical professionals and subsequent acceptance among many on the Left has resulted in numerous cultural battles from bathrooms to classrooms, but one of the most obvious consequences of radical gender theory is the threat it poses to girls and women’s sports.
Men crushing women athletes — which makes for on-screen comedy gold as seen in The Daily Wire’s “Lady Ballers” — is an ever-increasing threat facing many female athletes at the high school, college, and professional levels. The following list is an up-to-date rundown of the men who have dominated women’s sports.
Lia Thomas — Swimming
Former UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas, the athlete who arguably started the national conversation about men competing in women’s sports, dove into the spotlight in March of 2022 when he won a national championship title in the 500-yard freestyle over standout Virginia swimmer Emma Weyant.
Just to show you how absurd this is. Here’s the trans swimmer “Lia” Thomas crushing all of the female competitors by 40 seconds. This is what that looks like in real time. A total farce.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 15, 2021
Thomas later competed in the 200-yard freestyle, tying Kentucky’s SEC-champion swimmer Riley Gaines. For comparison, when Thomas competed in the men’s 200-yard freestyle, he ranked 554th overall. In the 500-yard freestyle, Thomas was ranked 65th overall among men before “transitioning” to female and coming out on top in the women’s 500-yard freestyle.
Just months after Thomas destroyed his competition in the pool, some of his teammates spoke out about what they had to go through in the locker room.
One of Thomas’ teammates told The Daily Mail in 2022 that the locker room she shares with Thomas is “definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women.”
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Hailey Davidson — Golf
The top golfer at the NXXT Women’s Classic in January wasn’t a woman. It was Hailey Davidson, a man who identifies as a woman. With his victory at the women’s tournament, Davidson inched closer to an LPGA qualifying tour.
The tournament win puts Davidson at the top of the season’s leaderboard for the women’s league where the top five players at the end of the season get exemptions to participate in the Epson Tour, which is the official developmental tour of the LPGA Tour. Davidson also took home a $1,576.51 award for the NXXT Women’s Classic win, putting his total winnings for the season at $4,206.84. He leads the NXXT Women’s Tour in total Eagles with three and total Birdies with 50.
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Davidson received a scholarship to play on the men’s golf team at Wilmington University. He then transferred to Christopher Newport in Virginia, where he continued to compete on the men’s team. The trans-identifying golfer started hormone treatments in September 2015 and had gender surgery in 2021. While Davidson retains that he fairly won the NXXT Women’s Classic, he admitted that men do have advantages over women in sports.
Laurel Hubbard — Weightlifting
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Five years after identifying as a female and beginning hormone treatment, Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand took gold at the Australian International & Australian Open in Melbourne, competing in the heaviest category against women.
Hubbard was allowed to compete thanks to approval from the International Olympic Committee and the International Weightlifting Federation, which set the requirements for trans-identifying athletes seeking to compete in women’s sports. The next stop for Hubbard was the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, where he was expected to win a medal. Hubbard’s Olympic Games were cut short, however, after three failed lifts knocked him out of medal contention.
Fallon Fox — MMA
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Fallon Fox began competing in MMA fights and dominating women even before “coming out” and telling people that he was born a male and underwent gender surgery. The news sparked outrage in the MMA world as commentators such as Joe Rogan pointed out that even though Fox had received gender surgery and hormone treatments, he still had a physical advantage over the women he was fighting.
Between 2012 and 2014, Fox boasted a 5-1 record against women, winning three of the fights by technical knockout (TKO) or knockout (KO). Fox reportedly faced at least three women before disclosing that he was born a male.
Sadie Schreiner — Track
Track athlete Camden Schreiner changed his name to Sadie after high school and began identifying as female before breaking women’s track records at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). In December, Schreiner set a new school record in the 300m dash at an event at Nazareth University in New York, clocking in at 41.80 seconds, which was also good for first place in the race.
Schreiner reportedly competed in the same track event a year before as a male and finished in 19th place in the 100m dash.
Just a month after setting a new RIT school record, Schreiner was back in the record books, besting his 300m dash time and setting a new 200m dash record of 25.27 seconds. Schreiner also helped his team win first place in the 4x400m relay, which secured him a Liberty League Women’s Track & Field Performer of the Week award.
The thing that never happens happened again
Male, Sadie (Camden) Schreiner, broke two more women's collegiate records at @RITtigers
Women's records mean nothing if they're set by men pic.twitter.com/wtveNpPqsn
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) January 29, 2024
Kelly Morgan — Rugby
Kelly Morgan, born Nicholas Gareth Morgan, played rugby as a teenager before he began identifying as a woman and landed on a women’s rugby team in Wales. The Welsh Rugby Union allows Morgan to play as long as he keeps his testosterone levels within a certain range.
The BBC reported that Morgan “stands out among her teammates” at nearly 6 feet tall. One of Morgan’s teammates said she remembered Morgan folding an opponent “like a deck chair” in one instance, and Morgan admitted that trans-identifying men like himself have an advantage in women’s sports.
“I do feel guilty, but what can you do?” she says. “I don’t go out to hurt anybody. I just want to play rugby.”
This is Kelly Morgan, nicknamed ‘The Beast’, born Nicholas Gareth Morgan. Standing at nearly 6ft, Morgan plays on a women's rugby team in Wales.
Morgan's team captain recounts with amusement an instance when Morgan "folded a girl like a deckchair."https://t.co/RLA1HbKCJo pic.twitter.com/eju8jLS6ut
— Genevieve Gluck (@WomenReadWomen) May 18, 2021
Tiffany Abreu — Volleyball
Tiffany Abreu, a 6-foot-4 Brazilian man started playing professional volleyball in 2017, just five years after he retired from international competition as a male. Initially after identifying as a woman and receiving gender surgery, Abreu looked to change his career because he didn’t think he could play in a women’s volleyball league.
“But then I received the offer to play for women after my complete transition, fully hormonal and with the documents to be able to play for women,” Abreu said. “I didn’t really believe it, but as my manager understood the rules of the IOC and the international confederation, I said ‘ok.’”
Abreu reportedly set a record for most points scored by a single player in a match with 39, which was later broken by a woman.
" In Brazil, Tiffany Abreu became the first transgender player in the top-flight women’s volleyball league in 2017, after a lengthy career as a male competitor," Piers Morgan. You started these things, the Banyankore say 'Murwemarire' pic.twitter.com/30ctUyzunO
— Martin (@AhabweMartin) March 4, 2019
Anne Andres — Powerlifting
Anne Andres, a 40-year-old man, set a women’s national powerlifting record and an unofficial women’s world record at a championship in Canada last August. In the competition, Andres posted a total score — which factored in weight lifted for the bench press, and deadlift and squat — of 597.5 kg (roughly 1,317 lbs.). That bested the highest woman’s score by more than 200 kg (or roughly 440 lbs.).
In a clip that went viral, Andres criticized women’s powerlifting, asking, “Why is women’s bench so bad?”
“I mean not compared to me. We all know that I’m a tranny freak, so that doesn’t count” Andres said.
“I mean standard bench in powerlifting competitions for women, I literally don’t understand why it’s so bad,” he added.
🏋️Trans identifying male, Anne Andres is Alberta Canada's women's powerlifting record holder in bench
🚨competes next month in women's category at the 2023 CPU National Championships🚩Recognizes no understanding of upper body strength differences btw males & females
🧵 pic.twitter.com/DYEyEWZTLr— ICONS (@icons_women) January 4, 2023
Andraya Yearwood — Track
Cromwell High School in the spring of 2017, track athlete Andraya Yearwood, a boy who identified as a girl, won the girls’ 100m and 200m dashes and helped his team take second in the 4x100m relay. Yearwood ran on the boys’ track team in middle school but told the school district he wanted to be on the girls’ team when he got into high school. The school district agreed to allow Yearwood join the girls’ track team.
Yearwood made it all the way to the girls’ state final for the 100m race in 2018, but he finished second, falling behind Terry Miller — another boy who identified as a girl.
Terry Miller of Bulkeley wins the 100m girls dash i. 11.72 (meet record). Andraya Yearwood of Cromwell 2nd, RHAM’s Bridget Lalonde 3rd #cttrack pic.twitter.com/4GmLRyicDI
— GameTimeCT (@GameTimeCT) June 4, 2018
Liz Kocab — Fencing
Trans-identifying Team USA fencer Liz Kocab won his eighth world fencing title last October after defeating Finland’s 14-time world champion Marja-Liisa Someroja in the 70+ division at the Veteran Fencing World Championships. The win gave Kocab his a world championship in three different age categories: 50s, 60s, and now 70+. Kocab took the title at the Veteran Fencing World Championships in 2018, 2019, 2022, and 2023.
2023 Vet World Championships-Day5🤺
Interview with the Vet 70 Women's Individual Epee winner 🥇Elizabeth KOCAB🇺🇸
#fencing #veterans #worldchampionships #epee
🎥Bryan Wendell/USA Fencing pic.twitter.com/iUmNGkVzO1— FIE (@FIE_fencing) October 16, 2023
Veronica Ivy — Cycling
Veronica Ivy, who used to go by Rachel McKinnon, won gold at the 2018 UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championship after placing first in the 35-44 age group.
Ivy, who is also a philosophy professor, argued that the issue of men competing in women’s sports “is bigger than sports and it’s about human rights.”
“By catering to cisgender people’s views, that furthers transgender people’s oppression. When it comes to extending rights to a minority population, why would we ask the majority?” Ivy asked. “I bet a lot of white people were pissed off when we desegregated sports racially and allowed black people. But they had to deal with it.”
Last year, the Swiss-based Union Cycliste Internationale body banned anyone who had undergone male puberty from competing against women and created a category labeled “Male/open” for trans-identifying to compete in, sparking Ivy’s outrage.
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