Mark Twain famously once said, “The past does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
Well, Meghan Cortez-Fields may not sound like the name Lia Thomas, but the collegiate swimming situation playing out at Ramapo College in New Jersey is an awful lot like what happened at the University of Pennsylvania. As a journalist who broke the original Thomas story, I noticed the situations are eerily similar.
In both instances, the universities had college students who were members of their university’s men’s swim team for years, only for both to change their minds during their senior year, identify as women, swim on women’s teams, and break women’s swimming records. Also, just like Thomas, Cortez-Fields is from Texas.
Cortez-Fields joined the women’s team this year after competing on Ramapo’s men’s team for three years, the New York Post reported. Last November, the male-born swimmer broke the school’s women’s record for the 100-yard butterfly at a meet in Pennsylvania. Last week, Cortez-Fields broke another women’s record at the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships, this time in the 200-yard individual medley, breaking the record set by Brenda Arthur, an actual woman, in 2016.
But women’s college swimming has had enough of these aqua men. Just because they are the best male swimmers in a pool full of women doesn’t mean they belong there.
Radical LGBT ideology has brainwashed the adults in charge and corrupted schools around the country. Educated adults have become willing accomplices in denying women — real, actual, legitimate women — athletic opportunities because, at this point, they are essentially cult members following the orders of a rogue and extremist political ideology.
Current political activist, public speaker, and former collegiate swimmer Riley Gaines, who has her own experience in competing against men claiming they are women, commented on Cortez-Fields’s setting “records.”
“Male swimmer from Ramapo College sets another school record in women’s event,” said Gaines, a former All-SEC swimmer. “Now tell me again the strides of women have made when society applauds a man for pushing us off our own podium… Title IX literally means nothing at this point.”
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Men and women do not belong in the same swimming pools competing against one another. They are different. If they were not different, individual men’s and women’s sporting leagues never would have been established. It would have been an athletic free-for-all in every sport, leaving most women excluded from fair competition and participating in sports.
At some point, the radical extremists in charge of these things must exhibit common sense. If not, then students, teachers, parents, and anyone else who supports truth, justice, fairness, and common sense must engage in appropriate political activism to fight back against what is happening. Sooner or later, patriots must take a stand against this ideological tyranny.