OK, NBC News, what have you got for us? There’s been plenty of debate over University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who as a woman is shattering records left and right in the pool. Is that fair to the biological females on the team? It was just this January when NBC News reported that there’s “little scientific evidence” that biological males have an advantage in women’s sports. Is it possible NBC News found “little scientific evidence” because so many might be afraid to get canceled if they were to point out the obvious?
Now we have NBC News reporting on Thomas and the long tradition of “gender policing” female athletes. This ought to be tedious; let’s have a look:
For as long as women have excelled at sports in the modern era, their gender and sexuality have faced fierce scrutiny, historians say. https://t.co/HbKgT4EsIQ – @NBCOUT
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 16, 2022
"historians say" 🤡
— Kathleen Stock (@Docstockk) March 16, 2022
Julie Compton reports:
“Historically, there’s just been a concern that sports would masculinize women or that women might either feminize sports or that you would lose gender distinctions that many people valued,” said Susan Cahn, a history professor at the University of Buffalo and the author of “Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women’s Sport.”
She added that trans and intersex athletes — those who are born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that does not fit the typical “male” or “female” categories — further blur boundaries and raise questions about how separate and distinct sex and gender really are.
“The dislike of women who appear masculine or seem to compete in ways that are masculine extends to transgender women and intersex people competing as women,” Cahn said.
OK, but what about the guy who swam as a man a year ago and this year is swimming as a woman. We know Thomas is biologically male — this is not a secret.
This article would have more poignancy if it was about actual women, but it’s not.
— Peter Garrett (@TheUnrealPeterG) March 16, 2022
Lia Thomas is male
— Clarice Starling KPPS (@CStarlingFBI) March 16, 2022
Sadly you folks have lost the plot. Men are not women. Comparing “masculine” women to men like Thomas is misogynist and homophobic.
— Jill #nothankyou🟥 (@Jills9123) March 16, 2022
This is insane. Literally, you all are crazy.
— Greg Thomas—Population Expert (@gregthomaswv) March 16, 2022
He's not a woman, he's a man, so this article isn't even relevant to the current situation.
— liz (@lizisnotacat) March 16, 2022
It’s weird that so many people in academia and in the media have become so divorced from truths/facts that pretty much everyone else in society still acknowledge. Mind blowing.
— 🦴Pauly Bones🦴 (@PaulOsteopath) March 16, 2022
Julie Compton is a GLAAD nominated jounalist
— Stella sccp (@stella_sccp) March 16, 2022
No kidding.
Related:
NBC News reports some say there’s ‘little scientific evidence’ biological males have an advantage in women’s sports https://t.co/MlN05EPKw0
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) January 8, 2022
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