In an exclusive interview with ABC News’s Juju Chang, Lia Thomas – the male swimmer who wants to be recognized as female — was asked about his female teammate’s objections.
CHANG: The women who signed the letter anonymously said they absolutely supported your right to transition but they think it’s unfair for you to compete against cisgendered women.
THOMAS: You can’t go halfway and be like, ‘I support trans women and trans people but only to a certain point.’ Where if you support trans women as women, and they’ve met all the NCAA requirements, I don’t know you can really say something like that.
This is the same point made by Mr. McKinnon, whose first name was Rhys until age 29 (though he has twice picked different feminine names). McKinnon was permitted to compete at the women’s UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championship and finished first (naturally). He then behaved monstrously towards any woman who dared point out the blatant injustice of this.
Like Thomas, McKinnon told Sky News: “If you want to say, ‘I believe you’re a woman for all of society except this massive central part of sport’ then that’s not fair.”
Alrighty then.
You timid people who know full well that trans women are men but are too frightened to say so, Lia Thomas is calling your bluff. If you care about women, it’s time to drop the act, to stand up and say: I was only trying to be polite but fine, you got me: I don’t actually support this. I think it’s nonsense. Do what you like, call yourself what you like, but as a man, you don’t belong in the women’s team.