January 28, 2022

         "Inherently divisive concepts, like Critical Race Theory and its progeny, instruct students to only view life through the lens of race and presume that some students are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist, or oppressive, and that other students are victims."

Virginia High School Forces Kids to Play Twisted Game of 'Identify Your Privilege' Bingo

Republican Governor Glenn Younkin might finally be at the helm of the previously screwed-up, Virginia ship of state, but at least one public high school is openly defying one of the new governor’s executive orders by “asking” high school students to play a sick game called “privilege bingo.” Shocked? Me, neither.

As reported by The Federalist, Oakton High School, which is part of Fairfax County Public Schools, pretty much demanded that students participate in the “game,” which singles out kids based on characteristics of their race and family life — “privileges,” as it were — in defiance of Youngkin’s order banning “inherently divisive concepts” from Virginia’s public education curriculums. (“Curricula,” to the sticklers among us.)

Among the so-called “privileges”? Let’s see… how about “parents are married,” “never worried about food,” “heterosexual,” “Christian,” “able-bodied,” “military kid,” and “have your own bedroom”?

Translation: Common characteristics of a responsible, nuclear family. This is clearly just one more effort to program America’s kids into believing that “inherent white privilege” (based solely on skin color) and pretend “systemic racism” are inexorably part of the very fabric of America and unavoidably part of everyday life, and therefore responsible for all that ails America, 24x7x365.

When caught, the district did what the left always does when it gets caught. It lied, obfuscated, and tried to put lipstick on its racist-as-hell pig, as transcribed by the Washington Free Beacon.

[The game] was intended to provide students with an opportunity to reflect on their own experiences while building their critical thinking skills. ~~~~~~~~

Youngkin’s executive order explicitly made the above observation crystal clear, as noted by WFB:

Inherently divisive concepts, like Critical Race Theory and its progeny, instruct students to only view life through the lens of race and presume that some students are consciously or unconsciously racist, sexist, or oppressive, and that other students are victims.

January 31, 2022

       "Thomas won her 100m race in 50.55 seconds with her closest competitor coming in at 51.51. In the 200m race, she won in 1:47.08 with the second place being secured in 1:48.44...on Thursday USA Swimming announced it will release a new policy 'shortly' on whether elite trans athletes like Ivy League swimmer Thomas can compete against biological women."

        What won can take from this, I should think, is that the people at "USA Swimming" have no problem with allowing men to compete in womens' sports. Their problem is when the men WIN by huge margins. For the USA Swimming people, it appears to me, it is not about right and wrong, it is about peoples' perceptions of THEM!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10430987/Transgender-swimmer-Lia-Thomas-wins-100m-200m-freestyle-races-against-Harvard.html

Transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas wins the 100m AND 200m freestyle races against Harvard days after USA Swimming said it would release new policy on whether 'elite trans athletes' will still be able to compete against biological women

Transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, 22, was back in the pool on Saturday where she continued to beat fellow swimmers, leaving them in her wake. ~~~~~~~~ Thomas won her 100m race in 50.55 seconds with her closest competitor coming in at 51.51. In the 200m race, she won in 1:47.08 with the second place being secured in 1:48.44. 

Thomas' controversial wins saw the NCAA review its guidelines for male-to-female trans athletes on Wednesday, but the body ultimately washed its hands of the swirling row surrounding transgender athletes in college athletics. Under the new guidelines, approved by the NCAA Board of Governors, transgender participation for each sport will be determined by the policy for each sport's national governing body. 

NCAA rules on transgender athletes returned to the forefront when Thomas started smashing records late last year. She was on the UPenn men's team during her first three years, but she is now competing on the women's team this season after transitioning.

Last month, Thomas put in an astounding performance at the Zippy Invitational Event in Akron, Ohio, that saw her finish the 1,650-yard freestyle 38 seconds ahead of the next closest finisher, teammate Anna Sofia Kalandaze. ~~~~~~~~~

With NCAA taking little decisive action, on Thursday USA Swimming announced it will release a new policy 'shortly' on whether elite trans athletes like Ivy League swimmer Thomas can compete against biological women. 

February 4, 2022

        "Thomas has reportedly told her teammates that she dates women."

         Why should that be a problem? I'm sure Lia identifies as a lesbian.

https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/teammates-are-uneasy-changing-in-locker-room-with-trans-upenn-swimmer-lia-thomas/

Teammates say they are uncomfortable changing in locker room with trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas

A member of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team said some team members are uncomfortable changing in the locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, according to a teammate.

Thomas, 22, who spent the previous three years swimming with the men’s team before she began transitioning to a woman, has created an uneasy environment in the locker room, as she still retains her biologically male genitalia — which are sometimes exposed — and is attracted to women, one teammate told the Daily Mail in an interview.

“It’s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,” the swimmer said. Thomas has reportedly told her teammates that she dates women.

The swimmer told the outlet that other team members have spoken to the team’s coaches about possibly getting Thomas to change elsewhere from the rest of the team, but those discussions haven’t gone anywhere

“Multiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,” she said. “But we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there’s nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.”

She added, “It’s really upsetting because Lia doesn’t seem to care how it makes anyone else feel. The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.”

“The school was so focused on making sure Lia was okay, and doing everything they possibly could do for her, that they didn’t even think about the rest of us,” the teammate told the Daily Mail.

The swimmer said that Thomas “seems like she enjoys” all the attention the controversy has brought to her.

“It’s affected all of us way more than it’s affected her,” Thomas’ teammate said.

The swimmer told the outlet that most of the team is scared to speak out about their discomfort for fear of being labeled “transphobic.”

“If this gets a little bit bigger, I might go on the record, but I’m definitely a little afraid,” she said. “What I’m afraid of is that potential employers will Google my name and see commentary about things I said and think, ‘Oh, this person’s transphobic.'”

Some teammates have discussed possibly protesting a swim meet, she said, but many don’t want to possibly put their swim careers on hold after having lost a year of competition to the COVID-19 pandemic.

February 7, 2022

        "Interestingly, Iszac has delayed her transition by postponing her hormone therapy.  She wanted to compete for another year as a female.  Apparently, she can not only decide to change sexes, but she can decide to reach that decision after her collegiate eligibility runs out."

https://thebluestateconservative.com/2022/02/06/lia-thomas-has-exposed-the-fallacy-of-the-lgbtq-narrative/

Lia Thomas Has Exposed The Fallacy Of The LGBTQ Narrative

~~~~~~~~~ Lia Thomas is breaking all of the collegiate swim records – for women.  It seems sex is no longer defined by anatomy or genetics. It is defined by wishful thinking.  Of course, wishful thinking is the definition of fantasy, not reality.

The wokesters are going to assert that Lia really is a female, and doesn’t really have an unfair advantage.  After all, he was just beaten by Iszac Henig from Yale.  She’s a female in the process of transitioning to male.  What is it with kids these days?  They used to just get tattoos if they wanted attention.

Interestingly, Iszac has delayed her transition by postponing her hormone therapy.  She wanted to compete for another year as a female.  Apparently, she can not only decide to change sexes, but she can decide to reach that decision after her collegiate eligibility runs out.  What does it say about the whole “identify” movement that Iszac conveniently decided to postpone changing sexes until after competing for one last year as a female?  Is her “identity” situational?

But Lia’s crushing defeat by Iszac may not be that simple.  Lia’s teammates are accusing him of throwing the race to shut up his un-woke neanderthal hick critics.  They point out that he is friends with Iszac, he met with her before the race, and his race time was significantly slower than his previous times.

Where does all of this lead?  It leads to something not funny at all.  Just look a couple of states over at Loudoun County Virginia.  A transgender female (girl with a penis) has now been convicted of raping two cisgender girls (girls with vaginas) in school.  In scientific terms (XY chromosomes and all), the offender is a boy with a penis, who says he’s a girl, that likes to have sex with other girls – by force.  Are we actually to believe that he’s a transgender, female, lesbian, rapist?  I think there is a simpler explanation. He’s a disturbed young man that has learned to play the LGBTQ word game to his advantage.

Here’s a tidbit of science for the party of science.  Sex is not a choice that God (or Gaia if you prefer) has granted us.  We may choose to live as if as something other than what we were born as (that’s a gender choice), but we’re still the same sex.  We are born with a genetic code that defines our sex.  It’s the whole XX versus XY chromosome thing.  Wishing it were different, does not make it different.  We are all born with certain gifts and limitations.  Believing it is otherwise does not make it so – it makes one in denial of reality – which is the Achilles heel of the whole “identity” movement. ~~~~~~~~~

Conflict between leftist subgroups has always been inevitable.  I’m curious — how do the feminists feel about all of this?  They’ve fought for women’s rights for over a century.  But signing up to be one of the intersectionality subgroups in the leftist movement has placed them in conflict with other subgroups.  Lia Thomas represents the conflict between feminists and the LBGTQ movement.  In liberal politics, there must be a winner and a loser, and in this case LBGTQ is the winner.  Feminists demanded that females have equal access to athletics – and they got it.  But then the leftists changed the definition of “female.”  Now the athletic programs they fought for are dominated by biological men.  Do the feminists feel betrayed?  Maybe they should have built their movement on a foundation of human rights, rather than leftist victimhood.

When one believes that they can decide to be something other than what they are, disappointment and unhappiness are inevitable.  When society attempts to fix that disappointment with physical accommodation rather than psychological therapy, the unintended consequences will be legion.

• Women’s sports in which only men compete
• Naked men bathing with young girls at a health club
• Girls raped in school by another “girl” with a penis
• Rampant pregnancies in women’s prisons
• 26-year-old male sex offenders housed in female juvenile detention