A decade or two ago, who would have thought a topic such as this would be newsworthy or relevant? Athletic competitions and sports leagues were always separated by age, gender, weight class, or other physical attributes which could convey an unfair advantage to some athletes, with a goal of creating a âlevel playing field.”
Yet here we are today, in the age of wokeness and virtue-signaling, with biologic males, under the guise of transgenderism, competing against biologic females, putting the latter at a huge and often insurmountable disadvantage. Howâs that for one of the pillars of the modern woke movement, namely âequityâ?
Most readers are likely familiar with the past yearâs saga involving a transgendered college swimmer. I am referring to Lia Thomas, winner of the NCAA collegiate womenâs swim championship 500-yard freestyle event. But Lia wasnât always Lia. He was born and grew up as a boy…