Huge win. Will wear my XX XY gear proudly all summer. Thanks for protecting women’s sports for my daughter and all female athletes. All the administrators who enabled this farce should resign or be fired.
and be sued into personal bankruptcy and beyond. A future of extreme penury—ideally, living out the ends of their lives in a cardboard box under a bridge—would be a ••start••.
Not big enough IMO. Penn should have to pay the female students swimmers who suffered through their abuse. I wonder how this settlement affect their lawsuit.
That's my thinking too. Unfortunately for us, without going to court to get a verdict, all the issues will remain muddled and the ridiculousness of all these transgender ideology won't be disputed on an official public forum.
The written apologies from Penn to the women on the swim team are probably admissible in the lawsuit. The lawyers defending Penn have to be squirming. Penn would be foolish not to try to settle this, if they can.
You are a special interest voter. Trans people are less than 2% of the population. Even less will play any organized sports. You are the pot calling the kettle black. We have way bigger problems in this country, but you’re worried about genitials.
It's ONE of the things I voted for. Fairness in women's sports is important to the real women who have been cheated by men pretending to be women. Do you think those women want to hear your bullshit about 2% of the population? One woman cheated is too many, OK retard?
No one cares about your Genitials. It's you folks who wnt everyone to know about them. We would rather you all go live in a single state and die out as you can't procreate if you are to be who you say you are.
W/out Heteros you all could not even propagate to the next generation.
Most of you will get AIDS or some other STD that will force you to pay Big Pharma to keep you alive the rest of your life and the 'Freedom' you embraced will only be the Enslavement to Big Pharma all the days of your life.
Then at the end of your life......you will pass through the Door of 'Death' and then what?
I'm actually surprised. Perhaps more than his wall of BDSM equipment was brought into the harsh light of day. Also, perhaps the defamation and coercion of the female swimmers was starting to look like what it was, harassment and coercive control. I predict we'll know before the week is out.
As am I, though it shouldn’t matter what he was into or how nice (or nasty) he was; none of that changes the fact that he was a man competing against (and getting changed with) women.
Except that being into fetish gear and activities indicates how he was truly not safe in the same locker rooms with female athletes. It appears he's an autogynophile, a male who gets aroused by violating women's boundaries, wearing women's clothing (especially lingerie) and the thought of himself as a woman in various sex acts. Sorry to bring up the odious details. I collect the sole data in the world on women who divorced these types. They're physically/sexually abusive to the wife about 35% of the time, in my information from 70 trans widows.
According to studies going back to the 70s a substantial percentage of men wanting to change sex boils down to fetishism around arousal from "being" a woman. Gay pride parades and drag bars are giant red flashing lights that a sizable part of the trans lunacy is about fetish and also perversion including the subset of pedophilia.
Sure. But this risks getting bogged down into trying to distinguish between men who are ok to let into the women’s locker room and men who aren’t. When, of course, the correct answer is “no men in the women’s locker room, end of story.”
Actually my point is not to say anything about the "can people change their sex" question or codify that it's ok for some men and not others to "change sex". It merely adds some immediate jeopardy to women's circumstances in sport and the locker room. Of course you can't change your sex, it's an idiotic position akin to being trans species or trans weight or trans limbed - which is already a thing amongst the mentally and emotionally disturbed. What makes the entire argument for cutting off penises and the like even more ridiculous is that the medical profession does not react to other body dysmorphias unscientifically, only sexuality related ones. We don't cut off people's arms because they believe they should be missing a limb; we don't stop feeding women with anorexia so they'll achieve their thin goals.
This is almost entirely social contagion of people fixated either on getting attention and/or creating a control mechanism in the life of people who feel they have no control and are living in hell. Nobody changes their sex.
That is a great point! Kind of an aha! moment for me. I think most of the men who dress up and sex up their desire to dress like women are doing it due to their sexual fetish (is that redundant?). I have no empathy for their inability to control their sexual urges and their narcissistic, transgressive behavior. But I also believe that there are men who want to be a woman solely because they have a psychiatric disorder. They need help, but they also have no right to be in women’s spaces. Thank you. I love it when I read a comment that teaches me something!
YES! If the investigation uncovers more than what the surface story says, one must wonder if charges against Mr. Thomas would be in order. Things are about to get interesting.
Anyone who believes that men who think they are women should be allowed to compete against biological women in most sports or that they belong in women's restrooms, locker rooms and prisons is either cognitively impaired or intellectually dishonest. Unfortunately most Democrats now fall into one of those two categories.
I had this discussion yesterday. My friend, who seems to feel sorry for men who say they are women, offered this: "Really, they should have sports divisions by weight, then. Let 140-pound people compete against one another. That would be fair."
My response: Since when is a 140-pound man incapable of raping a 140-pound woman? His musculature and arm reach almost always prevail. And the point is that a man is a man.
This friend listens to WNYC and NPR, reads the NYT, and says their reporting is always very well balanced, with pros and cons on the matter.
One can tear out one's hair, listening to such idiocy.
Imane Khelif was in a weight class, and that person beat the shit out of the women boxers. So just restricting people to weight classes won’t be effective.
Exactly. Men at the same weight as women have on average 150-200% of the punching strength. Huge difference in upper body density, muscle density and oxygen uptake, shoulder and neck thickness etc. the sexes are not even close to comparable in the same weight class
I am surrounded by people (including friends) like yours. I think growing up being told that norms are violent, history is all oppressor vs oppressed, and thathaving a belief in God is grotesque obviously unmoors a person from reality. To many in the West who have not had to deal with privation and feel terrible for anyone not like themselves, every group that complains, especially where race and sexuality are concerned is moral north. There's a complete abasement of oneself if you believe that your group has to be bad and others have to be good and just in their very existence. It's intellectual laziness and false humility.
They listen to sources like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who "sound" oh so reasonable and "scientific" with such nonsense. If you have a Y chromosome, and you go through puberty, you will have an advantage in almost every sport. But comparative advantage is not the only issue. Title IX was designed to help women, i.e., those only with XX chromosomes. Big money is involved. It isn't right to divert dollars meant for supporting XX athletes to athletes with either XY or XXY chromosomes. There are lots of other arguments. But comparative advantage arguments by body weight aren't even scientific, as B.'s 140 pound male raping a 140 pound woman example proves. For crying out loud, Imane Khelif was in the same weight class as the women she destroyed in the Olympic boxing matches. Those friends that you cite, wittingly or unwittingly, are misogynists. If they happen to be women, they are, wittingly or unwittingly, self-loathing misogynists.
Agreed on all accounts. In the simplest terms, what Tom Sowell has maintained for decades is the truth: very educated people of a certain intellect have no need of rationality. They trust their own intelligence over data to support stupid ideas. In essence, intelligent people of a certain weight in the marketplace of ideas are often quite stupid.
You are correct, we came so close to the erasure of women & female in this country. There are still millions out there that are apathetic to this crisis that we must not take our foot off the gas. We can 🙌 but must keep pushing through until female only sports and spaces are restored.
Oh happy day!!! President Trump and Secretary McMahon carried out their promise to restore women’s sports to women alone and protect the integrity of Title IX! Jennifer thanks to you, XX-XY Athletics and courageous young female athletes like Paula Scanlon and Riley Gaines who have stood up for women’s sports and against the insanity of allowing biological males trying to be women from taking opportunities away from actual women. Let the dominoes fall!
I cannot wait to tell my daughter about this moment in woman’s sports!! We plan on wearing our XX-XY and I stand with Riley shirts to the 4th of July parade in my home town. The DNC office is on the parade route every year. We will have massive smiles on our faces as we walk past them. Victory for women and girls!! We are so grateful for your efforts!! God bless.
Yes! Yes! Yes! To everyone out there standing up against the madness on these issues, congratulations, and stay strong. Much more to be done, but this warrants big celebration.
The WSJ's article on this momentus development is bland in the extreme. It is the kind of neutral language you'd hope newspapers would use on political topics. But this is not political, it is criminal. And obviously so. The WSJ quotes Paula Scanlon without also reporting that she is a past victim of sexual assault who had to experience Will Thomas prance around the WOMEN'S locker room with his dick and balls swaying out for any to see. The WSJ does not report that Penn leadership told Scanlon to just get over it. And of course, the WSJ permits no comments on the article. You can imagine how captured the WSJ newsroom is.
The kicker for me was the fact Thomas was straight and had a girlfriend. Had he been gay, he at least would not have been gawking at the women. But there is no way a straight male in his twenties can stand in a locker room with naked young women and not be turned on.
They were against their will giving sexual kicks to a man who had no business being in their locker room and when they complained were told by Penn to get over it. The gall of Thomas and the University.
Thank you for being the voice of reason, sanity, and relentless persistence and courage.
"The world is finally catching up to what us sane people knew all along: men cannot become women and men must compete in the men’s category to retain the integrity of women’s sports."
Huge win. Will wear my XX XY gear proudly all summer. Thanks for protecting women’s sports for my daughter and all female athletes. All the administrators who enabled this farce should resign or be fired.
and forfeit their fat pensions. That is whete the hurt would be.
and be sued into personal bankruptcy and beyond. A future of extreme penury—ideally, living out the ends of their lives in a cardboard box under a bridge—would be a ••start••.
Not big enough IMO. Penn should have to pay the female students swimmers who suffered through their abuse. I wonder how this settlement affect their lawsuit.
I would imagine lawsuits will be forthcoming if it's determined that Title 9 was protective during the swimmers' time at Penn.
That's my thinking too. Unfortunately for us, without going to court to get a verdict, all the issues will remain muddled and the ridiculousness of all these transgender ideology won't be disputed on an official public forum.
Actually the former students (they graduated) already filed suit. But that includes only those who are parties to the lawsuit.
The written apologies from Penn to the women on the swim team are probably admissible in the lawsuit. The lawyers defending Penn have to be squirming. Penn would be foolish not to try to settle this, if they can.
The least bit of intelligence would have prevented this.
Me too! In fact I am going to buy more!
This is what I voted for.
You are a special interest voter. Trans people are less than 2% of the population. Even less will play any organized sports. You are the pot calling the kettle black. We have way bigger problems in this country, but you’re worried about genitials.
It's ONE of the things I voted for. Fairness in women's sports is important to the real women who have been cheated by men pretending to be women. Do you think those women want to hear your bullshit about 2% of the population? One woman cheated is too many, OK retard?
No one cares about your Genitials. It's you folks who wnt everyone to know about them. We would rather you all go live in a single state and die out as you can't procreate if you are to be who you say you are.
W/out Heteros you all could not even propagate to the next generation.
Most of you will get AIDS or some other STD that will force you to pay Big Pharma to keep you alive the rest of your life and the 'Freedom' you embraced will only be the Enslavement to Big Pharma all the days of your life.
Then at the end of your life......you will pass through the Door of 'Death' and then what?
I care about his or her genitals insofar as he or she doesn't pretend they don't mean anything. Women don't have penises. Men can't be women.
Me too!
I'm actually surprised. Perhaps more than his wall of BDSM equipment was brought into the harsh light of day. Also, perhaps the defamation and coercion of the female swimmers was starting to look like what it was, harassment and coercive control. I predict we'll know before the week is out.
I'm hoping we learn what they uncovered in the investigation.
As am I, though it shouldn’t matter what he was into or how nice (or nasty) he was; none of that changes the fact that he was a man competing against (and getting changed with) women.
Except that being into fetish gear and activities indicates how he was truly not safe in the same locker rooms with female athletes. It appears he's an autogynophile, a male who gets aroused by violating women's boundaries, wearing women's clothing (especially lingerie) and the thought of himself as a woman in various sex acts. Sorry to bring up the odious details. I collect the sole data in the world on women who divorced these types. They're physically/sexually abusive to the wife about 35% of the time, in my information from 70 trans widows.
According to studies going back to the 70s a substantial percentage of men wanting to change sex boils down to fetishism around arousal from "being" a woman. Gay pride parades and drag bars are giant red flashing lights that a sizable part of the trans lunacy is about fetish and also perversion including the subset of pedophilia.
Sure. But this risks getting bogged down into trying to distinguish between men who are ok to let into the women’s locker room and men who aren’t. When, of course, the correct answer is “no men in the women’s locker room, end of story.”
Actually my point is not to say anything about the "can people change their sex" question or codify that it's ok for some men and not others to "change sex". It merely adds some immediate jeopardy to women's circumstances in sport and the locker room. Of course you can't change your sex, it's an idiotic position akin to being trans species or trans weight or trans limbed - which is already a thing amongst the mentally and emotionally disturbed. What makes the entire argument for cutting off penises and the like even more ridiculous is that the medical profession does not react to other body dysmorphias unscientifically, only sexuality related ones. We don't cut off people's arms because they believe they should be missing a limb; we don't stop feeding women with anorexia so they'll achieve their thin goals.
This is almost entirely social contagion of people fixated either on getting attention and/or creating a control mechanism in the life of people who feel they have no control and are living in hell. Nobody changes their sex.
That is a great point! Kind of an aha! moment for me. I think most of the men who dress up and sex up their desire to dress like women are doing it due to their sexual fetish (is that redundant?). I have no empathy for their inability to control their sexual urges and their narcissistic, transgressive behavior. But I also believe that there are men who want to be a woman solely because they have a psychiatric disorder. They need help, but they also have no right to be in women’s spaces. Thank you. I love it when I read a comment that teaches me something!
YES! If the investigation uncovers more than what the surface story says, one must wonder if charges against Mr. Thomas would be in order. Things are about to get interesting.
Shame on CNN.
Hopefully this will start a domino effect to take down the insanity. This is the real war on women.
Shame on those who haven’t spoken up and used their platform like you have
And shame on all the sports companies who have put dollars ahead of fairness
This never should have happened to female athletes! Glad the tide is finally turning. Thank you🌟
Anyone who believes that men who think they are women should be allowed to compete against biological women in most sports or that they belong in women's restrooms, locker rooms and prisons is either cognitively impaired or intellectually dishonest. Unfortunately most Democrats now fall into one of those two categories.
I had this discussion yesterday. My friend, who seems to feel sorry for men who say they are women, offered this: "Really, they should have sports divisions by weight, then. Let 140-pound people compete against one another. That would be fair."
My response: Since when is a 140-pound man incapable of raping a 140-pound woman? His musculature and arm reach almost always prevail. And the point is that a man is a man.
This friend listens to WNYC and NPR, reads the NYT, and says their reporting is always very well balanced, with pros and cons on the matter.
One can tear out one's hair, listening to such idiocy.
Imane Khelif was in a weight class, and that person beat the shit out of the women boxers. So just restricting people to weight classes won’t be effective.
Exactly. Men at the same weight as women have on average 150-200% of the punching strength. Huge difference in upper body density, muscle density and oxygen uptake, shoulder and neck thickness etc. the sexes are not even close to comparable in the same weight class
Yes, and how an intelligent person can not see the difference is beyond me. Weight categories my foot.
I am surrounded by people (including friends) like yours. I think growing up being told that norms are violent, history is all oppressor vs oppressed, and thathaving a belief in God is grotesque obviously unmoors a person from reality. To many in the West who have not had to deal with privation and feel terrible for anyone not like themselves, every group that complains, especially where race and sexuality are concerned is moral north. There's a complete abasement of oneself if you believe that your group has to be bad and others have to be good and just in their very existence. It's intellectual laziness and false humility.
They listen to sources like Neil deGrasse Tyson, who "sound" oh so reasonable and "scientific" with such nonsense. If you have a Y chromosome, and you go through puberty, you will have an advantage in almost every sport. But comparative advantage is not the only issue. Title IX was designed to help women, i.e., those only with XX chromosomes. Big money is involved. It isn't right to divert dollars meant for supporting XX athletes to athletes with either XY or XXY chromosomes. There are lots of other arguments. But comparative advantage arguments by body weight aren't even scientific, as B.'s 140 pound male raping a 140 pound woman example proves. For crying out loud, Imane Khelif was in the same weight class as the women she destroyed in the Olympic boxing matches. Those friends that you cite, wittingly or unwittingly, are misogynists. If they happen to be women, they are, wittingly or unwittingly, self-loathing misogynists.
Agreed on all accounts. In the simplest terms, what Tom Sowell has maintained for decades is the truth: very educated people of a certain intellect have no need of rationality. They trust their own intelligence over data to support stupid ideas. In essence, intelligent people of a certain weight in the marketplace of ideas are often quite stupid.
The Departement of Education is good for something??? Under a Harris presidency none of this world have happened.
You are correct, we came so close to the erasure of women & female in this country. There are still millions out there that are apathetic to this crisis that we must not take our foot off the gas. We can 🙌 but must keep pushing through until female only sports and spaces are restored.
Oh happy day!!! President Trump and Secretary McMahon carried out their promise to restore women’s sports to women alone and protect the integrity of Title IX! Jennifer thanks to you, XX-XY Athletics and courageous young female athletes like Paula Scanlon and Riley Gaines who have stood up for women’s sports and against the insanity of allowing biological males trying to be women from taking opportunities away from actual women. Let the dominoes fall!
I cannot wait to tell my daughter about this moment in woman’s sports!! We plan on wearing our XX-XY and I stand with Riley shirts to the 4th of July parade in my home town. The DNC office is on the parade route every year. We will have massive smiles on our faces as we walk past them. Victory for women and girls!! We are so grateful for your efforts!! God bless.
Yes! Yes! Yes! To everyone out there standing up against the madness on these issues, congratulations, and stay strong. Much more to be done, but this warrants big celebration.
The WSJ's article on this momentus development is bland in the extreme. It is the kind of neutral language you'd hope newspapers would use on political topics. But this is not political, it is criminal. And obviously so. The WSJ quotes Paula Scanlon without also reporting that she is a past victim of sexual assault who had to experience Will Thomas prance around the WOMEN'S locker room with his dick and balls swaying out for any to see. The WSJ does not report that Penn leadership told Scanlon to just get over it. And of course, the WSJ permits no comments on the article. You can imagine how captured the WSJ newsroom is.
The kicker for me was the fact Thomas was straight and had a girlfriend. Had he been gay, he at least would not have been gawking at the women. But there is no way a straight male in his twenties can stand in a locker room with naked young women and not be turned on.
They were against their will giving sexual kicks to a man who had no business being in their locker room and when they complained were told by Penn to get over it. The gall of Thomas and the University.
"The kicker for me was the fact Thomas was straight and had a girlfriend. " That is news to me. What is your source?
It was back in 2022, Riley Gaines article where she mentioned Thomas was dating a woman. Found this 2024 story about her interview on Joe Rogan.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/joe-rogan-asks-riley-gaines-lia-thomas-sex-girls
WSJ isn't a serious paper anymore. It hasn't been for going on 10 years.
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I would expect that from the NYT but not from the WSJ.
It’s about time
Finally, something positive. Keep it going.
Thank you for the great news, Jen! Wow. CNN. SMH.
Thank you for being the voice of reason, sanity, and relentless persistence and courage.
"The world is finally catching up to what us sane people knew all along: men cannot become women and men must compete in the men’s category to retain the integrity of women’s sports."
Too little, too late. A mockery perpetuated on everyone.
It could be better if the NCAA follows suit in rescinding all previously awarded trannie medals.
Better late than never!
Sanity returns to a world of stark raving madness. Thank God for the honor roll of female heroes like Jennifer Sey, Riley Gaines, and JK Rowling ❤️