Lia Thomas - Will this change college sports for women or a nothingburger?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html

Twitter is going crazy about Lia Thomas’ record-setting performance last weekend. Do you think she is a unicorn and we should all just calm down or is it likely that women who were born male fundamentally change college sports and scholarships?

Not fundamentally because stories like this are exceedingly rare. But for the athletes in these particular swimming events, this is a difficult situation.

Exceedingly rare now, but wait 5-10 years. That is OP's whole point.

A "difficult situation?" That's the best you can do?

what do you want? My kid is not the strongest athlete in her sport. She competes hard. there was one transgender kid on the team who was not talented at all regardless of gender...which is typical. most people are not gifted athletes.

I don't think this is a common situation at all. That swimmer was transgender AND a good athlete. That is a rare combination.

The transgender males could have a physical disadvantage in sports competitions when trying to compete against male athletes. That is what it is.

I dont understand what you want? where are these people supposed to compete?

Birth gender or as me. She was an ok male swimmer and is now a record setting female swimmer. No one is dumb enough to think any transgender female will be the best at a sport, but you’d have to be equally dumb to to think that a decent male athlete won’t perform at a much higher level as a woman

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html

Twitter is going crazy about Lia Thomas’ record-setting performance last weekend. Do you think she is a unicorn and we should all just calm down or is it likely that women who were born male fundamentally change college sports and scholarships?

Not fundamentally because stories like this are exceedingly rare. But for the athletes in these particular swimming events, this is a difficult situation.

Exceedingly rare now, but wait 5-10 years. That is OP's whole point.

A "difficult situation?" That's the best you can do?

what do you want? My kid is not the strongest athlete in her sport. She competes hard. there was one transgender kid on the team who was not talented at all regardless of gender...which is typical. most people are not gifted athletes.

I don't think this is a common situation at all. That swimmer was transgender AND a good athlete. That is a rare combination.

The transgender males could have a physical disadvantage in sports competitions when trying to compete against male athletes. That is what it is.

I dont understand what you want? where are these people supposed to compete?

Birth gender or as me. She was an ok male swimmer and is now a record setting female swimmer. No one is dumb enough to think any transgender female will be the best at a sport, but you’d have to be equally dumb to to think that a decent male athlete won’t perform at a much higher level as a woman

You would have to be dumb to think that a decent make athlete would pretend to be transgender to break some.swimming record that hardly anyone knows or cares about and will forget about tomorrow. This is an uncommon occurance.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html

Twitter is going crazy about Lia Thomas’ record-setting performance last weekend. Do you think she is a unicorn and we should all just calm down or is it likely that women who were born male fundamentally change college sports and scholarships?

Not fundamentally because stories like this are exceedingly rare. But for the athletes in these particular swimming events, this is a difficult situation.

Exceedingly rare now, but wait 5-10 years. That is OP's whole point.

A "difficult situation?" That's the best you can do?

what do you want? My kid is not the strongest athlete in her sport. She competes hard. there was one transgender kid on the team who was not talented at all regardless of gender...which is typical. most people are not gifted athletes.

I don't think this is a common situation at all. That swimmer was transgender AND a good athlete. That is a rare combination.

The transgender males could have a physical disadvantage in sports competitions when trying to compete against male athletes. That is what it is.

I dont understand what you want? where are these people supposed to compete?

Birth sex only. Obviously

[Anonymous]

This has been a big discussion in track. Cece Telfer won a ncaa title as a transgender woman but was deemed ineligible for the Olympics.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html

Twitter is going crazy about Lia Thomas’ record-setting performance last weekend. Do you think she is a unicorn and we should all just calm down or is it likely that women who were born male fundamentally change college sports and scholarships?

Not fundamentally because stories like this are exceedingly rare. But for the athletes in these particular swimming events, this is a difficult situation.

Exceedingly rare now, but wait 5-10 years. That is OP's whole point.

A "difficult situation?" That's the best you can do?

what do you want? My kid is not the strongest athlete in her sport. She competes hard. there was one transgender kid on the team who was not talented at all regardless of gender...which is typical. most people are not gifted athletes.

I don't think this is a common situation at all. That swimmer was transgender AND a good athlete. That is a rare combination.

The transgender males could have a physical disadvantage in sports competitions when trying to compete against male athletes. That is what it is.

I dont understand what you want? where are these people supposed to compete?

Birth gender or as me. She was an ok male swimmer and is now a record setting female swimmer. No one is dumb enough to think any transgender female will be the best at a sport, but you’d have to be equally dumb to to think that a decent male athlete won’t perform at a much higher level as a woman

You would have to be dumb to think that a decent make athlete would pretend to be transgender to break some.swimming record that hardly anyone knows or cares about and will forget about tomorrow. This is an uncommon occurance.

Are you kidding? “Lia” is in the way to $tardom

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10282301/Transgender-UPenn-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-smashes-records-weekend-meets-14-SECONDS-ahead-rival.html

Twitter is going crazy about Lia Thomas’ record-setting performance last weekend. Do you think she is a unicorn and we should all just calm down or is it likely that women who were born male fundamentally change college sports and scholarships?

Not fundamentally because stories like this are exceedingly rare. But for the athletes in these particular swimming events, this is a difficult situation.

Exceedingly rare now, but wait 5-10 years. That is OP's whole point.

A "difficult situation?" That's the best you can do?

what do you want? My kid is not the strongest athlete in her sport. She competes hard. there was one transgender kid on the team who was not talented at all regardless of gender...which is typical. most people are not gifted athletes.

I don't think this is a common situation at all. That swimmer was transgender AND a good athlete. That is a rare combination.

The transgender males could have a physical disadvantage in sports competitions when trying to compete against male athletes. That is what it is.

I dont understand what you want? where are these people supposed to compete?

Birth gender or as me. She was an ok male swimmer and is now a record setting female swimmer. No one is dumb enough to think any transgender female will be the best at a sport, but you’d have to be equally dumb to to think that a decent male athlete won’t perform at a much higher level as a woman

You would have to be dumb to think that a decent make athlete would pretend to be transgender to break some.swimming record that hardly anyone knows or cares about and will forget about tomorrow. This is an uncommon occurance.

Are you kidding? “Lia” is in the way to $tardom

You think he is pretending to be transgender? I guess that is your opinion. I don't see it.

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I mean, if he was going to pretend to be transgender to get attention...why swimming? No one cares about swimming other that every 4 years at the olympics and this athlete is not olympic caliber.

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Anonymous wrote:Unless this turns around, and quickly, this is the beginning of the end of women's sports. You heard it here first.

It's another way of marginalizing women and girls.

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They need to skip out on the outdated concept of binary gender altogether and just go to DNA based sports classes.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, if he was going to pretend to be transgender to get attention...why swimming? No one cares about swimming other that every 4 years at the olympics and this athlete is not olympic caliber.

I assume the women swimming teams who have spent years training and setting goals and working hard care about this.

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Don't see how it fundamentally changes college sports. This is the only transgender college athlete I have ever heard of. Ever.

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Anonymous wrote:They need to skip out on the outdated concept of binary gender altogether and just go to DNA based sports classes.

Oh okay. The notion of binary gender has basically what made the world turn ‘round, since the beginning of time, but in the last 30 minutes it’s become “outdated” and people like pp are ok with that.

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Anonymous wrote:Don't see how it fundamentally changes college sports. This is the only transgender college athlete I have ever heard of. Ever.

You don’t get out much, do you?

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Anonymous wrote:Don't see how it fundamentally changes college sports. This is the only transgender college athlete I have ever heard of. Ever.

You don’t get out much, do you?

Just list all the others and educated us about how transformational this apparently is. Are there hundreds out there? Who are they?

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Anonymous wrote:Don't see how it fundamentally changes college sports. This is the only transgender college athlete I have ever heard of. Ever.

You don’t get out much, do you?

Just list all the others and educated us about how transformational this apparently is. Are there hundreds out there? Who are they?

NP and you’re missing op’s point. The question is not about the current situation. The question is about where this leads in the future