Lia Thomas was not a woman but wanted to force his teammates to believe he was
Christopher Tremoglie
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By now, everyone knows the story of Lia Thomas, the former collegiate swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania who declared himself transgender and began swimming competitively against women. He hasn’t swum competitively for over a year, yet he resurfaced last week on a podcast to comment about his former teammates and their unwillingness to bend the knee and accept his delusional declaration that he was a she.
When I initially broke the story on Thomas in December 2021, I commented on the absurdity of it all. I accused Penn, my alma mater, of oppressing women. As a former classmate of Thomas, I sat next to him during a class in the fall semester of 2018. I couldn’t wrap my head around his subsequent demand to be considered a woman. Even harder to understand is how he became the face of women’s collegiate swimming in 2021. Thomas dove into his delusion and was peeved that not all of his female teammates would embrace his change from William to Lia. It was yet another example of his mental health issues and arrogance.
“They’re like, ‘Oh, we respect Lia as a woman, as a trans woman, whatever. We respect her identity. We just don’t think it’s fair,'” Thomas said. “You can’t really have that half-support. Like, ‘I respect you as a woman here, but not here.'”
And this is where Thomas’s thinking goes off the rails. Here is a guy who claimed he was the “Jackie Robinson of trans sports” now whining about how his former teammates weren’t rushing to accept a man claiming to be a woman. They had every right to be upset that a man was on their women’s team, depriving them of opportunities and bringing his full set of male genitalia into the women’s locker room.
Lia Thomas wanted to force his teammates to think he was an actual woman. Thomas was the problem — not the group of female college swimmers forced to accept this radical, ideology-driven nonsense. In truth, no one was ever bound by his delusions but himself. Biology supersedes the whims of college men who think they are women.
“They’re using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs,” Thomas complained. “I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people but don’t want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out. And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half-support.”
Lia Thomas didn’t like hearing “no” when he was on the women’s swim team. He felt entitled and demanded that everyone genuflect to his fanatical demands that others feign ignorance and call him a woman. There wasn’t any implicit bias from his former teammates; they just wanted to swim competitively against women — real women. Moreover, they had every right to reject Thomas’s womanhood simply because he is not a woman.
None of this is fake feminism or “transphobia,” a made-up word used to demonize anyone who rejects the falsehood that people can switch genders. Thomas’s divisive and hateful comments are indicative of the ultimate goal of transgender ideology — to force bizarre, fanatical views and lifestyle choices onto everyone else.