A former teammate of Lia Thomas, along with a rival team member who once tied with Thomas, blasted the transgender college swimmer&#8217;s championship title as illegitimate after swimming’s international governing body, the International Swimming Federation (FINA), issued stringent new restrictions on transgender swimmers.
On Monday, FINA <a href="https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/06/19/525de003-51f4-47d3-8d5a-716dac5f77c7/FINA-INCLUSION-POLICY-AND-APPENDICES-FINAL-.pdf">released</a> a new &#8220;gender inclusion policy&#8221; that allows only transgender swimmers who transitioned from male to female before age 12 to compete in women&#8217;s events.
&#8220;I&#8217;m very hopeful about it,&#8221; Thomas&#8217; teammate, who was granted anonymity out of fear of backlash, said of the new restrictions.
&#8220;I am incredibly happy that Lia Thomas will never be an Olympic gold medalist. I think that&#8217;s great. But this doesn&#8217;t actually fix the NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association],&#8221; she told The Daily Wire.
Thomas, 22, competed on the men&#8217;s team at the University of Pennsylvania before coming out as transgender in 2019 and starting testosterone blockers and estrogen. Last year, Thomas competed on the women&#8217;s team, sparking a national debate. In March, Thomas won the NCAA Division I national championship after winning the women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle event.
The NCAA&#8217;s current <a href="https://ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com/inclusion/lgbtq/INC_TransgenderHandbook.pdf">policy</a> allows biological males to compete on women&#8217;s teams after completing just one year of testosterone suppression treatment.
Thomas&#8217; teammate said she &#8220;would love&#8221; for the NCAA to rescind Thomas&#8217; championship title, although she&#8217;s doubtful that will happen. Even if the NCAA follows FINA&#8217;s lead and restricts transgender athletes on women&#8217;s teams, Thomas will likely be &#8220;grandfathered in,&#8221; the teammate said, adding that she finds that &#8220;ridiculous.&#8221;
Riley Gaines, a University of Kentucky swimmer, tied with Thomas for fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle final at the NCAA championship in March. She left the competition that day <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/04/swimmer-who-tied-lia-thomas-taken-aback-in-trophy-handling/">with a sixth-place trophy</a> after the NCAA decided to give Thomas the fifth-place trophy.
&#8220;I believe Lia is not the fastest female in the 500-yard freestyle, therefore I don&#8217;t think she should be awarded as a female national champion,&#8221; Gaines told The Daily Wire.
Gaines said the NCAA &#8220;needs to take accountability&#8221; and follow FINA&#8217;s lead on restricting transgender athletes on women&#8217;s teams, which she called &#8220;a bold first step on behalf of fairness in women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
&#8220;FINA prioritized competitive fairness which is more than any other large governing body has done thus far,&#8221; Gaines said, adding that she appreciated that FINA took into account science and the perspectives of other athletes.
&#8220;The only downfall is now that there is a set age to be transgender and allowed to compete as a female, will children be more swayed into transitioning without fully understanding what they&#8217;re doing and committing to?&#8221; Gaines asked.
Thomas&#8217; teammate who spoke with The Daily Wire also praised FINA for listening to the science, but voiced a similar concern that young swimmers could be pushed into transitioning earlier.
&#8220;The boys are actually slower than the girls under the age of 12. So scientifically speaking, that is actually the correct year to pick,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Socially, I don&#8217;t agree with that.&#8221;
&#8220;I think really, scientifically, this policy makes a lot of sense, and I&#8217;m also really happy that it&#8217;s also going to be put into place in water polo,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Water polo is a very aggressive sport. People get their suits pulled down. They get clawed. I definitely don&#8217;t want to see biological men on women&#8217;s water polo teams.&#8221;
Thomas&#8217; teammate also said that she had to share a locker room with Thomas while they were on the team together and is concerned about the larger issue of allowing biological men into female-only spaces.
She added that just because Thomas did not win every single event does not mean the national champion did not enjoy an unfair advantage.
&#8220;There have been a lot of athletes that have been caught for doping and they didn&#8217;t necessarily win gold,&#8221; Thomas&#8217; teammate said.

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Lia Thomas Teammate, Competitor Blast Title As Illegitimate In Wake Of FINA Transgender Restrictions

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Lia Thomas

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FINA, the world’s top international swimming association, announced a new policy on gender inclusion on Sunday that further restricts biological males identifying as females from elite swimming competitions.
The move comes following a vote of the FINA governing body regarding the controversial issue of biological males participating in women’s swimming.
“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 in a <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.fina.org/news/2649715/press-release-fina-announces-new-policy-on-gender-inclusion" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>.
The new policy also seeks to consider an “open” category for transgender athletic competition.
“FINA will always welcome every athlete. The creation of an open category will mean that everybody has the opportunity to compete at an elite level. This has not been done before, so FINA will need to lead the way. I want all athletes to feel included in being able to develop ideas during this process,” he added.
The only biological males who could compete in women’s swimming under the <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://resources.fina.org/fina/document/2022/06/19/525de003-51f4-47d3-8d5a-716dac5f77c7/FINA-INCLUSION-POLICY-AND-APPENDICES-FINAL-.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new policy</a> would include swimmers who have had “male puberty suppressed beginning at Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later, and they have since continuously maintained their testosterone levels in serum (or plasma) below 2.5 nmol/L.”
The new policy would prohibit athletes like Lia Thomas from competing in elite swim meets. Thomas made history earlier this year as the first transgender swimmer to win an event at the NCAA Division I women’s swimming championships.
Thomas had also shared plans to pursue professional swimming with hopes of reaching the Olympics in women’s swimming. The new policy may threaten the option for Thomas and similar swimmers.
“I intend to keep swimming,” Thomas <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-college-swimming-united-states-olympic-team-14e7fd8d820a331d7aeb72b34cdc83e6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC. “It’s been a goal of mine to swim at Olympic trials for a very long time, and I would love to see that through.”
Former U.K. swimmer Sharron Davies told BBC Sport she agreed with the decision.
“‘Four years ago, along with 60 other Olympic medallists, I wrote to the IOC and said ‘Please just do the science first’ and no governing body has done the science until now,’” she <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.bbc.com/sport/swimming/61853450?at_custom4=5FFA7C4C-EFE5-11EC-95E3-9FCC923C408C&amp;at_custom2=facebook_page&amp;at_campaign=64&amp;at_custom3=BBC+News&amp;at_medium=custom7&amp;at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
“‘That is what [FINA] has done. They’ve done the science, they’ve got the right people on board, they’ve spoken to the athletes, and coaches. Swimming is a very inclusive sport, we love everyone to come and swim and be involved. But the cornerstone of sport is that it has to be fair and it has to be fair for both sexes,’” she added.
Athlete Ally, a pro-LGBT group that supported Thomas in women’s swimming, spoke out against the new policy.
“FINA’s new eligibility criteria for transgender athletes and athletes with intersex variations is discriminatory, harmful, unscientific and not in line with the 2021 IOC principles. If we truly want to protect women’s sports, we must include all women,” Athlete Ally <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://twitter.com/AthleteAlly/status/1538548251841990663" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a> on Sunday. International Swimming Federation
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FINA Restricts Biological Males Identifying As Females From Elite Swimming Competitions

Transgender Athletes

It is indisputable that men have a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">biological advantage</a> over women in sports, and now even the far-left <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">The New York Times</a> is admitting it.
In <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/us/lia-thomas-women-sports.html">an article</a> over the weekend interviewing numerous people involved in the debate about whether biological men should be allowed to compete against biological women, the Times included a section acknowledging the biological advantages men have over women. The Times included the information under a subhead title, “The Debate Over the Science,” but the section offers little debate.
“Beginning in the womb, men are bathed in testosterone and puberty accelerates that. Men on average have broader shoulders, bigger hands and longer torsos, and greater lung and heart capacity. Muscles are denser,” the Times acknowledged while speaking to Dr. Michael Joyner of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Joyner, who “studies the physiology of male and female athletes,” according to the Times, told the outlet that the testosterone surge men receive during puberty eliminates any advantage women had by growing faster than boys leading up to puberty.
“You see the divergence immediately as the testosterone surges into the boys,” Joyner told the Times. “There are dramatic differences in performances.”
The Times then confirmed this information by noting that “records for elite adult male swimmers are on average 10 percent to 12 percent faster than the records of elite female swimmers, an advantage that has held for decades.”
The reason is due to the factors listed above: broader shoulders, denser muscles, bigger lung and heart capacity, etc.
“There are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it,” Joyner told the outlet. “Testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”
The Times also pointed out that peer-reviewed studies show that even if men suppress their testosterone for a year, per NCAA rules in order to compete again biological women, they still “retain a substantial edge.”
This is proven by the fact that biological men who enter women’s sports substantially increase their rankings. For example, the Times noted that University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who competed as a biological man for years before identifying as a transgender woman and entering women’s competitions, ranked 32nd in the men’s 1,650-yard freestyle. Once Thomas started competing in women’s competitions, the swimmer ranked 8th and even won a race by a whopping 38 seconds. In the men’s 200-yard freestyle, Thomas ranked 554th, but in 2022, competing against women, Thomas placed 5th in the NCAA championship.  Thomas ranked 65th in the men’s 500-yard freestyle. Competing against women, Thomas won the race.
“Lia Thomas is the manifestation of the scientific evidence,” Dr. Ross Tucker, a sports physiologist, told the Times. “The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage.”
Further, the Times noted that “most scientists… view performance differences between elite male and female athletes as near immutable,” citing Israeli physicist Ira S. Hammerman, who in 2010 found the obvious: women’s world record times are 10% slower than men’s world record times.
Even some transgender athletes acknowledge the unfair advantage, the Times noted. Renée Richards played tennis as a man and ranked 13th in the men’s 35-and-over division before transitioning to a woman in 1975 at the age of 41. At age 43, Richards joined the women’s pro tennis tour and was able to compete in the doubles final at Wimbledon. Richards retired at age 47, ranked 19th in the world. Richards admitted that being a biological male provided the advantage.
“I know if I’d had surgery at the age of 22, and then at 24 went on the tour, no genetic woman in the world would have been able to come close to me,” Richards <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2012/10/jewish-jocks-and-renee-richards-the-life-of-the-transsexual-tennis-legend.html">told</a> Slate in 2012. “I’ve reconsidered my opinion.”

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Even The New York Times Admits Biological Men Have A Huge Advantage Over Women In Sports

Even New York Times Admits Biological Men Have A Huge Advantage Over Women In Sports

Gender Identity

Another medical expert is suggesting that current testosterone suppression requirements for athletes is most likely &#8220;insufficient&#8221; for evening the playing field between transgender women and biologically female athletes.
As part of an exclusive Good Morning America segment on trans swimmer Lia Thomas, ABC reporter JuJu Chang also interviewed Dr. Michael Joyner, a medical expert with the Mayo Clinic.
Chang questioned Joyner whether &#8220;years of hormone therapy cannot put trans women in a place to compete with cisgender women.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that the evidence so far would suggest that period of a year, two years, three years, four years, is probably insufficient,&#8221; he said.
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🚨🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/JujuChangABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JujuChangABC</a>: &quot;Are you saying that years of hormone therapy cannot put trans women in a place to compete with cisgender women? 
Dr. Michael Joyner: &quot;I think that the evidence so far would suggest that period of a year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, is probably insufficient.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/R0kHHXyeN4">pic.twitter.com/R0kHHXyeN4</a>
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Joyner also shared his thoughts on testosterone advantages <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/us/lia-thomas-women-sports.html">in an interview with The New York Times</a>.
“You see the divergence immediately as the testosterone surges into the boys,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are dramatic differences in performances.”
“There are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it,” Joyner added. “Testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”
The NCAA Board of Governors <a href="https://www.ncaa.org/news/2022/1/19/media-center-board-of-governors-updates-transgender-participation-policy.aspx">updated</a> its transgender participation policy in January, requiring transgender athletes to document “sport-specific” testosterone levels within their sport’s approved range at the beginning of the season and ahead of championship selections.
“We are steadfast in our support of transgender student-athletes and the fostering of fairness across college sports,” John DeGioia, chair of the NCAA board and president of Georgetown University, said in a statement at the time.
“It is important that NCAA member schools, conferences and college athletes compete in an inclusive, fair, safe and respectful environment and can move forward with a clear understanding of the new policy,” he added.
But many parents and athletes do not believe this is enough — and the Times cited peer-reviewed studies that demonstrate that the fastest biologically male transgender athletes still have a &#8220;substantial edge&#8221; over the fastest biologically female athletes even after testosterone suppression.
Thomas is a great example of this: the transgender athlete shot up in national rankings after entering women&#8217;s sports, ranking 32nd in the men&#8217;s 1,650-yard freestyle and then eight in the women&#8217;s 1,650-yard freestyle, the Times reported.
In the men&#8217;s 200-yard freestyle, Thomas had ranked 554th. This year, Thomas tied for fifth place with swimmer Riley Gaines in that same race at the women&#8217;s 2022 NCAA championships (Gaines said that an NCAA official gave Thomas the fifth place trophy over Gaines, since they only had one).
Gaines <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her">first spoke out</a> about her frustration with the event in an interview with The Daily Wire, insisting, &#8220;We need to create fair boundaries that protect the integrity of women in sports.&#8221;
The Times noted that Thomas ranked 65th in the men&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle, but won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA&#8217;s swimming as a female.
Dr. Ross Tucker, a physiologist who spoke with the Times, said that “Lia Thomas is the manifestation of the scientific evidence.&#8221;
“The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage,&#8221; he said.
The Times story comes ahead of the release of The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">What Is A Woman</a> documentary, in which Matt Walsh examines the current controversy surrounding gender and biology.

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Medical Expert: Brief Hormone Suppression ‘Probably Insufficient’ To Even The Playing Field Between Trans Women And Biologically Female Athletes

Physiologist Warns Brief Hormone Suppression 'Probably Insufficient' To Even The Playing Field Between Trans Women And Biologically Female Athletes 

Good Morning America

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University of Pennsylvania

Biological male swimmer Lia Thomas seemed to suggest that competitive advantages in swimming are irrelevant since Thomas is now &#8220;happy&#8221; identifying and competing as a transgender woman.
Thomas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her">discussed backlash</a> following the NCAA Women&#8217;s Swimming Championships where the trans athlete competed against biological females, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biologically-male-swimmer-annihilates-female-competitors-in-500-free">annihilating</a> them in the 500 freestyle.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do,&#8221; Thomas told Good Morning America in an exclusive interview that aired Tuesday. &#8220;The biggest change for me is that I&#8217;m happy.&#8221;
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Trans athlete Lia Thomas, speaking out after the NCAA backlash, addresses whether biological males have advantages over women: &quot;There&#39;s a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do. The biggest change for me is that I&#39;m happy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/bXbKfcpZ2o">pic.twitter.com/bXbKfcpZ2o</a>
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&#8220;Sophomore year, I had my best times competing with the men, I was miserable, and so having that be lifted is incredibly relieving and allows me to put my all into training, into racing,&#8221; Thomas continued.
&#8220;Trans people don&#8217;t transition for athletics, we transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;Transitioning to get an advantage is not something that ever factors into our decisions.&#8221;
&#8220;You didn&#8217;t transition to win more medals?&#8221; asked ABC reporter Juju Chang.
&#8220;No,&#8221; responded Thomas.
Chang pointed out that many of Thomas&#8217;s teammates signed an anonymous letter saying that they support the biological male athlete&#8217;s right to transition but believe that it is unfair for Thomas to compete against biological women in sports.
&#8220;You can&#8217;t go halfway and be like, I support trans women and trans people but only to a certain point,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;If  you support trans women as women, and they&#8217;ve met all the NCAA requirements, then I don&#8217;t know if you can really say something like that. Trans women are not a threat to women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
Chang also interviewed Dr. Michael Joyner, a medical expert with the Mayo Clinic, asking whether &#8220;years of hormone therapy cannot put trans women in a place to compete with cisgender women.&#8221;
&#8220;I think that the evidence so far would suggest that period of a year, two years, three years, four years, is probably insufficient,&#8221; he said.
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🚨🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/JujuChangABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JujuChangABC</a>: &quot;Are you saying that years of hormone therapy cannot put trans women in a place to compete with cisgender women? 
Dr. Michael Joyner: &quot;I think that the evidence so far would suggest that period of a year, 2 years, 3 years, 4 years, is probably insufficient.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/R0kHHXyeN4">pic.twitter.com/R0kHHXyeN4</a>
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Chang also asked Thomas about the &#8220;legacy effects of testosterone&#8221; and whether biologically male athletes can ever truly eliminate all testosterone that is giving them advantages over women.
&#8220;Should that eliminate or disqualify transgender women?&#8221; Chang asked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a medical expert but there is a lot of variation among cis female athletes,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;There are cis women who are very tall and very muscular and have more testosterone than another cis woman. Should that disqualify them?&#8221;
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EXCLUSIVE: &quot;Trans people don&#39;t transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves.&quot;
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas speaks out to <a href="https://twitter.com/JujuChangABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JujuChangABC</a> about backlash and future plans to compete. <a href="https://t.co/UFQOgMNBLj">https://t.co/UFQOgMNBLj</a> <a href="https://t.co/FJcmyEChi9">pic.twitter.com/FJcmyEChi9</a>
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The interview comes ahead of the release of The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">What Is A Woman</a> documentary, in which Matt Walsh examines the current controversy surrounding gender and biology.

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Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Shrugs Off Question Of Advantages Over Biological Females: ‘I’m Happy’

'I'm Happy': Lia Thomas Shrugs Off Advantages Over Biological Females 

A female on the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s women&#8217;s swim team told bestselling author and podcast host Matt Walsh what it was really like having female-identifying Lia Thomas, who is biologically male, permitted to join the team and dominate in the Ivy League.
The UPenn Swimmer, who asked to have her identity shielded out of fear of retribution, spoke exclusively to Walsh for his highly anticipated documentary, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">What Is a Woman?</a>” The doc, which challenges radical gender theory, will be available to stream exclusively for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">Daily Wire members</a> on June 1, at 8 p.m. You can become a member <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/what-is-a-woman-official-trailer">here</a>.
&#8220;There was a lot of things we couldn&#8217;t talk about that was concerning,&#8221; the swimmer told Walsh.
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GMA interviewed Lia Thomas today. Great timing. Our film features one of Thomas&#39;s teammates. She told me that women on her team were silenced and referred to psychological counseling if they objected to having Thomas on the team. More in the full film: <a href="https://t.co/xibkNa4oHW">https://t.co/xibkNa4oHW</a> <a href="https://t.co/YRRf2S712a">pic.twitter.com/YRRf2S712a</a>
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The anonymous athlete explained that even basic concerns about the locker room were not brought up. If they were, she said, it was clear you&#8217;d be smeared as &#8220;transphobic.&#8221;
Notably, Thomas still has a penis and has not had surgery to remove it and dates females, according to teammates.
&#8220;If you even brought up concerns about it, you were &#8216;transphobic,'&#8221; she told Walsh.
&#8220;If you even bring up the fact that Lia&#8217;s swimming might not be fair, you&#8217;re immediately shut down and called a hateful person, or transphobic,&#8221; she continued.
Walsh pressed, &#8220;But there&#8217;s never any conversation &#8212; the coach didn&#8217;t sit everyone down and acknowledge what everyone is upset about?&#8221;
&#8220;So, Penn actually brought in people high up in the athletic department to talk to us, like brought in someone from the LGBTQ center, they brought in someone from psychological services,&#8221; the female swimmer started.
&#8220;So, you&#8217;re upset, and you need some support about what&#8217;s happening, so you need psychological help,&#8221; Walsh interjected.
The higher-ups told the swimmers in no uncertain terms, &#8220;Lia&#8217;s swimming is a non-negotiable,&#8221; she recalled.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve made it pretty clear, if you speak up about it, your life will be over in some way, you&#8217;ll be blasted all over the internet as a &#8216;transphobe,&#8217; &#8230; you&#8217;ll never be able to get a job,&#8221; the teammate told Walsh.
Walsh has said the documentary really exposes that the core of gender ideology is “hollow.”
“I sought out experts in every field in the gender theory world — doctors, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, politicians, activists, and transgender people themselves — and I put the question to them directly,” he explained. “I found — and you’ll see in the film — their arguments collapsed not with hammer blows or a hard push, but with simple questions, because the core of gender ideology is hollow.”
For more information, please visit <a href="https://www.whatisawoman.com/">www.whatisawoman.com</a>.
WATCH the trailer for the documentary, below:
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Coming June 1. My journey to find the answer to the great question of our time. You will not want to miss this film. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WhatIsAWoman?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WhatIsAWoman</a> 
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UPenn Swimmer Details Truth Surrounding Lia Thomas In New Matt Walsh Doc ‘What Is A Woman?’

EXCLUSIVE: UPenn Swimmer Details Truth Surrounding Lia Thomas In New Matt Walsh Documentary ‘What Is A Woman?’

Matt Walsh

What Is A Woman

<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">Biological males</a> cannot take part in competitive swimming without ruining the sport, an international organization of coaches declared in a lengthy <a href="https://www.wscacoach.org/advocacy/wsca-position-statement-on-transgender-swimming">report</a> issued this week.
The declaration from the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) follows University of Pennsylvania women’s swimmer and biological male <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lia-thomas">Lia Thomas</a> winning an NCAA championship in March, just one year after competing as a male. The organization said allowing transgender athletes to compete dooms the sport’s competitive balance.
“For the sport of swimming, the inclusion of transgender people on the grounds of fairness cannot co-exist in the current competitive model,” read the statement, reported by <a href="https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/wsca-releases-position-on-transgender-swimming-inclusion-fairness-cannot-coexist-in-current-model/">Swimming World magazine</a>. “Swimming should choose to offer competition in which the female category is protected for reasons of competitive fairness.”
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In March, Thomas became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I title after finishing first in the women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle. Some of Thomas’s teammates and competitors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/this-is-not-equality-olympians-coaches-championship-swimmers-demand-ncaa-protect-our-women-athletes">complained publicly and privately</a> that it was not fair for them to have to compete against the almost <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/us/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-ivy-league/index.html">6-foot, 4-inch</a> biological male.
The group said it is committed to finding a way to include transgender swimmers in competition, possibly by forming a “trans division.” But it was adamant that biological males should not race against women.
“The inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned male at birth (whether with or without the involvement of testosterone suppression),” the statement read. “This is the primary factor to be considered in an endeavor to balance fairness with inclusion.”
Thomas&#8217;s swimming pool exploits this year prompted lawmakers in several states to take steps to exclude biological males from participating in women&#8217;s sports. In addition, Republicans in the House and Senate sought last month to prohibit schools that receive federal funds from allowing biological males to compete in women’s sports.
“Why would we send federal funds to schools that permit an unlevel playing field by allowing biological males to compete against girls and women?” asked Republican Study Committee Executive Committee Member Jeff Duncan (R-SC). “Female athletes have a legally guaranteed right to compete with other women on a level playing field, and this must be protected for the future of women’s sports.”
The issue of gender fluidity is the subject of an upcoming <a href="https://www.dailywire.com">Daily Wire</a> documentary, &#8220;What is a Woman,&#8221;  starring <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/what-is-a-woman-why-the-left-cant-answer-the-question">Matt Walsh</a>. View the trailer <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZPMS6cSYGQ&amp;t=41s">here</a>.

Biological Males Should Not Compete Against Women, World Swim Coach Group Declares

World Swimming Coaches Association Comes Out Against Trans Swimmers Competing Against Women

WASHINGTON — The Republican Study Committee (RSC) backed legislation on Friday that would prohibit schools that receive federal funds from allowing biological males to compete in women&#8217;s sports.
“The Republican Study Committee formally endorses H.R. 426, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, introduced by Rep. Greg Steube, to bar schools that accept federal funds from letting biological males compete against biological females in athletic events designated for women or girls,&#8221; the committee said in a statement first obtained by The Daily Wire.
&#8220;RSC is committed to preserving female athletes’ legally guaranteed right to compete on a level playing field,&#8221; the RSC statement said. &#8220;The 50th anniversary of Title IX is just months away and House Democrats should be forced to show whether they still support women’s sports. We support the use of a discharge petition to bring this bill to the floor.”
The move signals increased focus from Republicans heading into the midterms on a culture war issue that <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/350174/mixed-views-among-americans-transgender-issues.aspx">resonates strongly with many Americans.</a>
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) warned in a Friday statement to The Daily Wire that “the left is trying to effectively repeal Title IX by denying the biological differences between men and women.&#8221;
&#8220;Every Democrat in Congress should have to go on the record about whether they support equal opportunity for women and girls,&#8221; he said.
The RSC will file the discharge petition next week, The Daily Wire has learned.
H.R. 426, the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/426?s=1&amp;r=5">Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act,</a> would make it a violation of federal law for recipients of federal funds to allow biological males to participate in women&#8217;s sports, specifying that sex must be based solely on a person&#8217;s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.
Bill sponsor and RSC member Greg Steube (R-FL) called the inclusion of biological males in women&#8217;s sports &#8220;an affront to female athletes around the country.&#8221;
&#8220;We have seen this practice prevent talented athletes from achieving their goals; stripping them of records, rosters, and scholarships,&#8221; he said Friday. &#8220;My bill ensures school athletics comply with the Title IX recognition of a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth.”
“Instead of constantly paying lip service to women, Nancy Pelosi should have put her money where her mouth is and allowed for the House to vote on this legislation,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But since Speaker Pelosi has refused, I call on my colleagues to join us in actually doing something to protect women and girls by signing onto our discharge petition next week.”
The Republicans&#8217; support for the measure is a response to increasing efforts by progressive groups and activists to force schools and higher education institutions to permit transgender women to compete in female sports.
As recently as March, transgender athlete Lia Thomas, a biological male, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marked-by-simmering-resentment-over-biologically-male-trans-swimmer-ncaa-womens-swimming-championships-conclude">competed</a> in multiple races in the NCAA Women&#8217;s Swimming Championships against biological females.
The NCAA has apparently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ncaa-ignores-outcry-from-female-swimmers-over-biological-men-in-womens-sports">ignored national outcry</a> over Thomas&#8217;s inclusion in the competition, despite criticism from parents and highly publicized calls for action from Virginia Tech swimmer Reka Gyorgy and University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines — both of whom competed against Thomas.
“The American people are demanding we fight back against woke liberals and organizations like the NCAA that are forcing a radical transgender agenda on the American people at the expense of women and girls,&#8221; RSC member Barry Moore (R-AL), the father of two daughters who competed in women&#8217;s athletics, insisted Friday.
&#8220;Why would we send federal funds to schools that permit an unlevel playing field by allowing biological males to compete against girls and women?&#8221; asked RSC Executive Committee Member Jeff Duncan (R-SC). &#8220;Female athletes have a legally guaranteed right to compete with other women on a level playing field, and this must be protected for the future of women’s sports.&#8221;
He added: &#8220;This should be common sense, but the radical Left is intent of redefining biological constructs and thwarting the laws of science, all to push their radical anti-woman, anti-science agenda.&#8221;

Republicans Commit To Barring Schools Receiving Federal Funds From Allowing Biological Males In Women’s Sports

Megyn Kelly slammed &#8220;queer affirming&#8221; people who are backing Penn swimmer, Lia Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a female, competing against biological women, and suggested that sending a white man to compete against women of color might put an end to &#8220;the nonsense.&#8221;
During Sirius XM&#8217;s &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDq7tU8m3SU">podcast</a> Tuesday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-levels-lia-thomas-says-this-is-not-the-womens-champion-and-has-some-nerve-pretending-to-be">host</a> was joined by guest political commentator Dave Rubin and the two talked about the insanity of allowing Thomas, a white biological male, to compete against biological women in collegiate level races. The two agreed that rather than fighting people who think it&#8217;s fine, they should just &#8220;accelerate the nonsense&#8221; to bring it to an end. That exchange starts at the 26:08 minute mark.
&#8220;This is the same way I feel about all these people who are like &#8216;it&#8217;s fine for Lia Thomas to swim against the biological women,'&#8221; Kelly explained. &#8220;&#8216;You know, &#8216;Be more queer affirming,&#8217; right? &#8216;Stop with your objections.&#8217; I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Great let&#8217;s do this thing.&#8217; Let&#8217;s get a white male tennis player who couldn&#8217;t make it on the pro-circuit who then says he&#8217;s trans and enters professional women&#8217;s tennis.&#8221;
&#8220;And let&#8217;s put him up against Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams and say he&#8217;s a woman and crush them,&#8221; she added. &#8220;And put these people, these sort of queer affirming, shaming everybody else, people in the toughest position of their life. &#8216;We know he&#8217;s secretly a white man and yet he&#8217;s beating all of our best women of color, what the hell should we do?'&#8221;
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Rubin said Kelly was probably being &#8220;slightly tongue in cheek,&#8221; but agreed with her that we should &#8220;accelerate their nonsense.&#8221;
&#8220;Because that&#8217;s where it all ends,&#8221; Rubin shared and she agreed.  &#8220;That is where it ends. I kid you not, I am 45-years-old. I have a torn ACL in my left knee. I&#8217;m pretty sure that if I said I was a woman I could make the WNBA. They&#8217;re not that great.&#8221;
&#8220;At some point there is going to be a washed up NBA player who&#8217;s 39-years-old with banged up knees, and a bad back, who can&#8217;t get a contract anymore and he&#8217;s gonna say my name is not Charles anymore &#8230; and he&#8217;s going to be in the WNBA,&#8221; he added.  &#8220;And all of the feminists are going to go, &#8216;Oh my God, look at that beautiful woman dunking all over the other chicks.'&#8221;
The former Fox News host agreed we should &#8220;accelerate the nonsense&#8221; and said that it &#8220;would be so fun to see.&#8221;
&#8220;Like truly, what does professional tennis do?&#8221; Kelly shared. &#8220;If these women who they&#8217;ve lauded, who they&#8217;ve made professional stars out of &#8230; in part based on their backstory, based on their race, based on whatever, certainly gender. If they start losing to somebody&#8217;s who&#8217;s biologically male.&#8221;
&#8220;Who just declares, &#8216;I&#8217;m no longer, I&#8217;m trans,'&#8221; she added. &#8220;I&#8217;m bringing my penis and my white skin over into women&#8217;s tennis. I hope it happens. I really hope it happens. I hope somebody decides to do it. And then we&#8217;ll see. Then the rubber meets the road.&#8221;

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Megyn Kelly Slams ‘Queer Affirming’ People Backing Lia Thomas And Offers Her Plan To End ‘The Nonsense’

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An NCAA swimmer is speaking out about the agency&#8217;s actions after she tied transgender competitor Lia Thomas, a 22-year-old biological male, in the 200 freestyle at the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships.
Riley Gaines, a senior at the University of Kentucky, first revealed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-left-there-with-no-trophy-ncaa-female-swimmer-who-tied-for-fifth-with-trans-athlete-says-officials-put-lia-thomas-ahead-of-her">The Daily Wire</a> last month that after she tied Thomas for fifth place, an NCAA official told her she was not allowed to keep or pose with the fifth place trophy. The trophy was going to Thomas, and Gaines would get her prize &#8220;in the mail.&#8221;
Gaines spoke about the experience Wednesday night with Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
&#8220;Me and Lia just recently tied at the NCAA Championships, and honestly, I think the NCAA handled everything extremely poorly,&#8221; the athlete told Carlson.
&#8220;When we finished and I went behind the podium to collect by fifth place trophy, they kind of blatantly told me that Lia would hold the fifth place trophy and that I could pose with the sixth place trophy for photos and I would be mailed a fifth place trophy in the mail,&#8221; she explained.
After questioning the official multiple times, Gaines told Carlson she was told, &#8220;We&#8217;re just gonna give the trophy to Lia. We respect and admire your swim, but Lia needs to hold the trophy.&#8221;
&#8220;I was shocked, and I know all the other swimmers who were standing by and listening to this were also shocked,&#8221; Gaines said. &#8220;And I was standing right next to Lia and she heard it all.&#8221;
When push came to shove, Gaines said the NCAA &#8220;protected such a small minority and turned their back on what the organization and Title IX really stand for.&#8221;
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A Virginia Tech swimmer last month spoke out about a teammate being brought to tears after she came in 17th place, missing the finals by one place, after she was bumped by Thomas.
“She was very emotional, and it’s hard to see because it’s her last NCAAs; she really loves that race, and it was just heartbreaking that she put all of her efforts into it today … one of the best times that’s she went in a morning session and still not make it back,” the swimmer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-virginia-tech-swimmer-bravely-speaks-out-against-biological-man-lia-thomas-says-teammate-brought-to-tears">said</a>. “It’s hard to see someone who works every day and every night still not be able to compete against someone like that.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/photog-speaks-out-after-she-says-nbc-edited-her-photos-to-soften-look-of-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas">Photog Speaks Out After She Says NBC Edited Her Photos To ‘Soften’ Look Of Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-virginia-tech-swimmer-bravely-speaks-out-against-biological-man-lia-thomas-says-teammate-brought-to-tears">WATCH: Virginia Tech Swimmer Speaks Out Against Lia Thomas Swimming In Women’s Event, Says Teammate Brought To Tears</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-feminist-tells-transgender-activist-who-identifies-as-mother-not-to-use-womens-spaces-in-heated-confrontation">WATCH: Feminist Tells Transgender Activist Who Identifies As ‘Mother’ Not To Use Women’s Spaces In Heated Confrontation</a>

NCAA SWIMMING: MAR 18 Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships

Lia ‘Heard It All’: Swimmer Who Tied Thomas Speaks Out About NCAA Actions After Race

Gender idealogues say that Lia Thomas is a woman, but they cannot tell you what they mean when they say that. What is a woman? Gender theory has made it so that the word “woman” itself, and the word man, have no meaning. Leftists, because of their ideological commitments, cannot define the terms. They say trans women are women. They say that someone can start out life as a male and transition into a woman. But how can I understand any of these claims and declarations if I do not know how they define the word woman? And how can they make any meaningful statements about women if they themselves do not know what they mean by it? So I ask very simply, as I have been asking for years, as I asked on Dr. Phil: what is a woman?
They say that biology has nothing to do with womanhood. Well, then what does have something to do with womanhood? If we cannot define a woman physically, how can we define her? What is a woman? What does the word mean? If you are on the Left, what exactly are you trying to say the word, woman, means? When you say that such and such biological man is a woman, what are you actually trying to convey about that person? What do you mean that Lia Thomas is a woman? What is that supposed to mean? 
Watch the trailer for Matt&#8217;s new documentary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42ivIRd9N8E">What Is A Woman</a>:
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I have been told, by the few that attempted to give an answer, that a woman is anyone who identifies as a woman. But that definition doesn’t work because you can’t use the word you’re defining in the definition. If I ask you for the definition of “apple” and you tell me “an apple is that which is an apple” — or even worse, “that which looks like an apple” — you have told me nothing about apples. The same goes for a woman.
You might say that a woman is an adult human female or anyone who identifies as an adult human female. But that is just another way of saying that a woman is an adult human female or not an adult human female. And that’s just another way of saying that a woman is nothing in particular. “Woman” has no definition if that is the definition. Also, the person offering that definition is him or herself drawing a distinction between a person who is the thing and a person who identifies as the thing. By drawing the distinction, a person is admitting that there is a definitional difference. The very phrase “trans women are women” seems to admit, in its construction, that trans women are not women. If they were women, why are you calling them trans? What does the trans part denote? In order for the phrase “trans women are women” to mean anything, trans women have to be a category distinct from women. If they aren’t, then the phrase is a meaningless redundancy. But if they are distinct, then they aren’t women. So if “trans women are women,” means anything, it means nothing.
What is a female? Well, a female is someone with XX chromosomes, a female reproductive system,  female gametes, or eggs, and the ability in principle to ovulate and bear offspring. There are females who suffer from illnesses, injuries, or malformations  — or who simply are post-menopausal — which prevent them from bearing offspring. This does not make them any less female. It is instead an exception that proves the rule. 
Here’s why: When a female cannot bear children, we know that something has prevented an otherwise natural process. But when a man cannot bear children, we know that it is not a sign of anything having gone wrong, because men are not supposed to bear children, and no man in history ever has. If, as a woman, you go to the doctor and tell him that you are unable to conceive children in your womb, he will run some tests to figure out why, because a reason preventing normal child bearing exists. If, as a man, you go to the doctor and tell him that you are unable to conceive children in your womb, he will run some tests to figure out what’s wrong with your mind. Or at least, that’s how he would have responded until recently. Now, because society has lost its mind, he might give the man hormone pills to help him transition into a woman. But you will note that, even after transition, still the man will not be able to ovulate or conceive children or perform any other exclusively female function, because he is not a female, and will never be one. 
Thomas is and will always be a male, with XY chromosomes, male anatomy (as the women who’ve seen him in the locker room have attested), and male gametes. But there is a lot more to being a male than just that. Indeed, the physical differences between men and women are not confined to the reproductive system. They can be found in every bodily system. In every part of the body. Lia Thomas, like any male, is male down to his bones, down to his cells, down to his DNA. When he dies and is buried beneath a giant monument celebrating him as history’s greatest female athlete, 100 years hence he could be excavated and his bones analyzed and scientists will be very confused to discover that the greatest female athlete is a male. His bones will attest to the biological reality. They will not declare his pronouns or affirm his self-perception. There will be no self. The self is gone. But the man remains. 
Many of these biological differences happen to give him a distinct advantage over women in sports, especially swimming. When Thomas got in the pool earlier this month at Georgia Tech, he swam against people with 20 percent less muscle mass on average, 40 percent <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171027-what-if-women-were-physically-stronger-than-men">less</a> upper body strength, 33 percent <a href="https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20171027-what-if-women-were-physically-stronger-than-men">less</a> lower body strength, as well as smaller fast-twitch muscle fibers, smaller lungs, smaller hearts, shorter legs, more estrogen and less testosterone, and a lower capacity to produce oxygen when they exert themselves. Courageously, Thomas has chosen to race against people who have literally dozens of immutable biological disadvantages in comparison to himself. 
These advantages are why the fastest man in the world is always faster than the fastest woman. And if the fastest man dies, the next fastest will be faster than the fastest woman. In fact, if the 100 fastest men all got on a plane to go on a fastest man retreat, and the plane tragically crashed, and they all died, the 101st fastest man, who is now the fastest man by inheritance, would still be faster than the fastest woman. And then the next 100 fastest men, if they tried to go to the same retreat, and they all crashed and died too, the next batch of 100 would still all be faster than the fastest woman, and so on. Same for the strongest men vs the strongest women. The Olympics attest to this. There has never been a time — never, not ever — when the women’s racing or swimming champions were faster on average than the men. It has  never happened, ever, in history, and never will. These advantages are why there is a whole <a href="https://boysvswomen.com/#/">website</a> dedicated to comparing high school boys track and field champions against female Olympians. 
The high school boys outperform the female olympians in almost every category, by huge margins. Here is an example. The New Balance Nationals Outdoor meet is one of the preeminent high school track meets in the country. If the 2016 High School Boys Finalists in the 100 meter were to have raced against the 2016 female Olympic finalists, the fastest woman would have come in 9th place. 9th. Gold, silver, bronze, and places 4 through 8 would all be held by high school boys, against female Olympians. This holds true in almost every event. And it’s not just track, and not just hypothetical. Back in 2017, a team of 15-year-old boys scrimmaged against the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Soccer Team and won, handily, <a href="https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/">5 to 2</a>. Male and female athletes are so different, separated by such a vast biological chasm, that you can actually count the total number of dunks made by WNBA players in the history of the league. That number: 28. And <a href="https://www.espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/32258450/2021-wnba-playoffs-brittney-griner-owns-wnba-dunking-record-coming-more">23</a> of them were by the same player. There’s a player in the NBA who dunked the ball 300 times by himself in one season. That’s one player in one year dunking it ten times more than the entire WNBA over the course of a quarter century. Men and women are different. A lot different. 
Men are stronger. They are faster. They are better at almost every competitive sport. Literally every line of evidence supports this. All of the evidence — all of it — supports the claim that men in general have biological advantages over women in sports. There is no evidence going the other way. Which is why the gender ideologues on that side do not produce evidence. They have none to produce. They cannot defend their position. They cannot even really explain it because they run into a basic logical problem. 
What it comes down to is that if the word woman means nothing, it would be nonsensical to identify as one, given that you’re identifying as something that is not really anything. Is a woman, in the end, just anyone who enjoys feminine things or dresses in a feminine way? Well, that can’t be it because we can’t define “feminine” until we have defined “woman.” Besides, the Left has been trying to break down the societal constructs of feminine vs masculine for years. You can’t go from “not all women should be expected to be feminine” to “the only defining characteristic of womanhood is femininity.” You can’t do a 180 and undermine everything you’ve been saying for the last 60 years and expect some sense to come from that. So what is a woman, according to the Left?
They cannot answer. They insist that our conception of womanhood is wrong and then when we ask them what the right conception is, they shrug their shoulders. “We don’t know what a woman is,” they say, “but whatever a woman is, Lia Thomas is it.” This is nonsense. And we all know that it is nonsense. Even most of them know that it is nonsense.  Yet we are supposed to cooperate with the idea anyway. We are supposed to abandon all the fundamental truths that all of us know, and have always known, and we are supposed to do it for no reason other than the fact that it will hurt the feelings of whoever identifies as trans if we don’t. And of course, those feelings are the only feelings that matter. Those feelings, for some reason, are supposed to outweigh the feelings of women who don’t want their sports destroyed and their privacy invaded and their very identities appropriated and stolen, cheapened, fetishized, turned into a Halloween costume. The feelings of a million women are dust when stacked up against the feelings of one gender confused dude. All of reality is dust. The truth is dust. Biology. Everything. All of it is to be discarded for one trans person’s feelings. 
Well, I say: no. I urge you all to say “no.” Do not affirm what you know are lies. Do not cooperate with what you know is wrong. Do not abandon what you know is true. Do not pretend to believe what you do not believe. It takes courage to say no in this world. It’s a word that is not said nearly enough. But all of the gender ideologues need to hear it now. All of the liars and frauds trying to coerce and shame us into surrendering our common sense need to give ear. All of the cry-bullies using emotional blackmail because they have no arguments and everyone  demanding that we pretend to believe what we do not believe need to hear it. All of them, everywhere, they all need to hear a resounding voice of reason and conviction saying: no.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Walsh

What Is A Woman? Why The Left Can’t Answer The Question

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Podcaster Joe Rogan didn&#8217;t beat around the bush when he said Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male who identifies as a female, is an &#8220;assault on women&#8217;s sports.&#8221;
During &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YJlyh2XFJHk3RTP61FvJt?si=kbCL2K0bTxqyKQRo5phsDQ">podcast</a> Thursday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-that-joe-rogan-says-if-he-has-to-walk-on-eggshells-on-his-show-he-will-quit?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">Rogan</a> and his guest comedian Yannis Pappas talked about how things are kind of backward these days and how a person can&#8217;t say something that&#8217;s not popularly accepted without hiding behind some &#8220;kind of anonymity.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-rogan-blasts-false-dont-say-gay-narrative-tells-teachers-thats-not-your-job">host</a> agreed, but noted how he&#8217;s starting to see a &#8220;pushback,” and that Thomas is an example of people having reached a breaking point when it comes to transgender individuals competing in sports. The exchange begins at the 1:25:31 minute mark in the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YJlyh2XFJHk3RTP61FvJt?si=kbCL2K0bTxqyKQRo5phsDQ">show</a>.
&#8220;What it is now is an assault on women&#8217;s sports,&#8221; Rogan explained. &#8220;And the idea that anybody would think it&#8217;s fair that someone who [was] number 462 as a man &#8230; in the nation is number one as a woman a year later, and that&#8217;s fair? … That might be the woke straw that breaks the society&#8217;s camel back.&#8221;
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&#8220;Because people are — women are so frustrated, or parents if your daughter&#8217;s competing, and they&#8217;re competing against a trans woman, it&#8217;s not fair,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s just not fair. No matter what anybody says. There&#8217;s this nonsense idea of like, &#8216;Well, there&#8217;s outliers.’”
“There&#8217;s outliers and then there&#8217;s biological males,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;That&#8217;s beyond outliers.&#8221;
The host noted how in all other areas of society, people are all &#8220;pretty accepting&#8221; of a person becoming trans. He explained that where people aren&#8217;t okay with it is in sports because it&#8217;s &#8220;clearly not fair.&#8221;
&#8220;Athletic competition, that&#8217;s where the real pushback is,&#8221; the podcaster said. “People are like, ‘Hey, the f***? This is not fair. This is clearly not fair.&#8217; There&#8217;s a reason why we have a distinction between men and women’s sports.&#8221;
Rogan also said he thinks this could be &#8220;terrible for the whole trans movement because it makes people more cynical&#8221; and &#8220;less likely to accept it.&#8221;
As previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-fed-joe-rogan-talks-trans-swimmer-destroying-female-competitors-fallon-fox-comments">reported</a> by the Daily Wire:
<blockquote>Podcast host Joe Rogan last week said it was “f***ed up” that transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who previously competed in men’s athletics, is cleaning up against biological female competitors.
Rogan told podcast host and comedian Tim Dillon that biologically female athletes are being forced to compete against biological males without having any say in the matter. In a sport like MMA, Rogan argued, a female fighter could agree to a fight a transgender fighter who is biologically male. But in a sport like swimming, you can’t choose your competitors.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mom-speaks-out-in-explosive-video-over-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-a-full-grown-male-taking-from-women">Mom Speaks Out In Explosive Video Over Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas: &#8216;A Full-Grown Male&#8217; &#8216;Taking&#8217; From Women</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megyn-kelly-levels-lia-thomas-says-this-is-not-the-womens-champion-and-has-some-nerve-pretending-to-be">Megyn Kelly Slams Lia Thomas: This &#8216;Is Not The Women&#8217;s Champion&#8217; And Has &#8216;Some Nerve&#8217; Pretending To Be</a>
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