Right-wing troll Christian Walker has been on an anti-trans Twitter tear the past few days, railing against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for winning first place in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s first division swimming championship and ripping into Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for refusing to engage in a transphobic debate with Marsha Blackburn during her Supreme Court nomination hearing.
Related: Ketanji Brown Jackson handles Lindsey Graham like a boss during extremely stupid line of questioning
Yesterday, the 22-year-old gay son of U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker tweeted: “Last week a biological male beat women in a women’s sports division. This week a Supreme Court justice nominee refused to define the word ‘woman.’ There’s a war on women. We need to step up to protect our mothers, sisters, and daughters.”
Last week a biological male beat women in a women’s sports division. This week a Supreme Court justice nominee refused to define the word “woman.”
There’s a war on women. We need to step up to protect our mothers, sisters, and daughters.
— Christian Walker (@ChristianWalk1r) March 23, 2022
This isn’t the first… or second… or third time Walker, who believes Black people are “more racist” than white people and objects to being called “gay”, preferring to be called “a conservative who likes men”, has made transphobic comments on social media.
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Last week, he posted a video of himself yelling in his car about how he is “done” with “ball sacks in women’s spaces.” This immediately drew criticism from people who reminded him that he used to be a competitive cheerleader in high school and shared videos of him wearing high heels while dancing to Christina Aguilera’s song “Dirrty” in a women’s dance class.
NO BALLSACKS IN WOMENS SPACES pic.twitter.com/sakN7oTcDl
— christian walker videos (@ChristianWVids) March 18, 2022
Now, here’s how folx responded to Walker’s transphobic tweet about the “war on women” yesterday…
Where was your outrage when @Caitlyn_Jenner was awarded woman of the year?
— Andthetruthshallsetyoufree (@Nmydefenseiwas2) March 24, 2022
No, you don’t. We are fine.
— Penny (@Pennylane2017) March 23, 2022
Just what women want, another man telling them what they need.
— Joseph Chagnon (@chagnon_joseph) March 24, 2022
Please I beg you, be more original with your tweets.
— GaudyShock (@GaudyShock) March 23, 2022
A biological male beat a woman.. 👀https://t.co/sLvyBQHQR0
— Angela (@Angela14777869) March 24, 2022
Discrimination against Americans is not a policy platform.
— WalkingSpirit (@WalkingSpirit99) March 23, 2022
So you’ll be going to Russia to help free our female athletes detained?
Can you find russia on a map.
— 🇺🇦🌻😷 dale undetected+ (@daleundetected) March 24, 2022
There’s a war on women that’s coming from the Republican side of the aisle. And unless you identify as a woman, you should sit this one out.
— NotafanofTrump 🌊🌻 (@ducksinmypool) March 24, 2022
I can protect myself thanks
— Jamartin (@jamartin49) March 24, 2022
Gurl what? pic.twitter.com/ODof5pJRPE
— Grayling2 (@GraylingForReal) March 23, 2022
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
CatholicXXX
I can see that.
There’s no denying that there would be some distinct advantages.
ZzBomb
Uh huh, and your credentials on human physiology, anatomy and endocrinology are?????
Polaro
ZZ, he told what his credentials are: eyes. Anyone with eyes can see the physical difference between Lia and the women she handily beat. Sometimes seeing is believing. Of course you have no references for your academic successes in human physiology, anatomy or endocrinology. Would it be fair to require that of you as well? You clearly must have noticed the size difference between Lia and the women she beat, if you are honest.
At the end of the day, for ~99.9% of the planet, boys and girls do fall clearly into two distinct camps based on penises and vaginas. As in most species on this planet males are bigger, stronger and faster than females. It is irrelevant that some males are smaller, weaker or slower than some females. It does not matter that a small percentage of people ~.1% have ambiguous genitalia, except to create a diversion for how that matters when dealing with people who do have distinct genitalia. (I am not saying there are not trans people, I’m saying it is a brain issue, not a body issue.)
Real medical and scientific studies on transgender people is sparse and most of it was done with a clear bias, for or against. More research is needed. A lot of the results are questionable or have been applied questionably. What conclusion can we reach based on all the gender science? Each of us is unique. That’s about it.
So, in the end, what people see, with their eyes, is a very large, fit male in a women’s swim suit, who identifies as a woman, dwarfing competitors and beating them handily in swimming races. Evidence.
I feel for Lia, but I think she is being selfish. You? I just think your out of control.
ZzBomb
@ Polaro, I’m out of control? Look at the moronic rant you just wrote.
barryaksarben
ZZBOMB you are my new hero. I love the guy who is saying he educated himself by using Websters as his biology source. Really? cmon already people. Websters is a dictionary where words are added, deleted and changed as times change. IT is not a scientific journal. This proves the point AGAINST his point. WOrds are not people. Add some humanity to your mind and beliefs. I cant even imagine how many defination and how many words themselves have been added or changed since Mr Webster was alive. Anti trans are idiots and you can spot all the fake gay men and in the case of Marcy fake trans accounts whenever trans issues are mentioned. Real gay men are comfortable supporting other minorities without fear
The Accidental Polemicist
If you believe that male genitalia belongs in the girls/women’s locker room, there is something morally wrong with you.
kish
The presence of a body part is so traumatizing that anyone who causes this or supports this is morally bankrupt?
Ok, sure.
Cam
So then your argument is that people should change privately and schools should have the extra funding to do that.
Polaro
Locker rooms suck. I don’t know the answer to the predicament of trans girls with penises in girls locker rooms. I do know it hasn’t been properly addressed. I certainly know putting trans boys in boys locker rooms isn’t a good idea. I didn’t feel safe as a boy in the boy’s locker room. We do need an honest and compassionate discussion on this. While I do not think trans girls should compete against girls in sports without some kind of accommodation, I do believe ALL children need access to sports. It is a conundrum that the harpies on both sides won’t address reasonably or honestly. Welcome to the modern age of assholiness.
The Accidental Polemicist
@Polaro
Are you sitting down, Polaro?
I agree with you. 🙂
Polaro
I hope to be thoughtful and not mean. I do not always succeed.
ShiningSex
If you think you’re smart…you’re sadly mistaken. Hate and ignorance are NOT acceptable. Stop the stupidity you moron!
202gay.com
Accurately noted! Bravo!
Ronbo
What is ‘fair, right and just’ depends upon your perspective. XX and XY are 99.99% clear and definitive. At the same time, while ‘gender’ is subsequent and socialized it is very, very real. They both play a part in the fabrick of society.
I feel feminine a good share of the time and clearly understand wanting to express ‘traditional’ female elements and behaviors. Let’s hope that as society evolves in a way that respects the nature of genetics AND gender. Both are valid, valuable and worthy of respect and acknowledgment.
Because of the complexity – I simply do not trust ANYONE who ignores or demeans either reality. So please, instead of expressing hate or denigration – recognize the complexities, perspectives and context.
Fahd
Ronbo is a worker on a Russian troll farm who has been assigned to comment on Queerty. Usually he seeks to sow discord and once a post has aged a bit he goes back in and types in some obvious Russian propaganda and disinformation. I see that today he’s (they’re) practicing English prose with mostly bland crap. It’s just awful that the evil empire Russia has its subjects engaged in these sort of counterproductive activities.
Ronbo stands for Russian operative now being observed.
Kangol2
Break it down about this one, Fahd. The other thing is that Ronbo will spout pollyanna-ish commentary about being respectful, etc., yet became unhinged and lashed out when I made a factual comment about William Hurt, after praising Hurt’s acting. He did exactly what he has repeatedly upbraided others about. The hypocrite meter went off the charts.
Cam
The right wing troll brought out THREE of it’s screenames. Nothing gets it more furious than a Trans topic. I also love that one of it’s screenames is trying to pretend it’s more reasonable than the others, especially when it has been defending bigots on other posts.
Cam
You can tell how panicked Republicans are now that their anti-American support of Putin was so obviously exposed.
When they are worried and want to deflect they go to the border and Trans issues and hope that people will stop asking them about their rac-ism and support of Russia.
Polaro
Bingo, this is a purposeful distraction. But we do need to realize they chose this topic because it resonates with a lot of people. I noticed that polls on trans women in women’s sports changed dramatically against after Lia destroyed women in several races. The reality is Lia proves what a bad idea it is to allow trans women to compete in women’s sports. Stubbornly denying this in the face of clear evidence is exactly what the traitorous republicans want. We will, of course, oblige.
SamB
Competitive cheerleading is for BOTH sexes, so why are people getting bent out of shape?
Polaro
Think about it and you tell us. I know you’re smart enough to figure it out.
Polaro
Well, he got it half right. The negatives of trans women competing against women in sports out weighs the positives of being supportive of trans women transitioning. They can continue to compete against men. Not ideal, but I’m siding with women in this instance.
As far as Ms. Jackson smartly dodging the loaded demand to define what woman means, she’s 100% correct. Trans women exist. In almost all instances, I believe trans women should be treated at women. This is an issue that will likely come before the court.
The sports issue is a red herring, and we’ve fallen for it, again. The true battle is in legally defending the rights of trans people for heath care, employment, housing and security. Allowing the haters to push us into the weak battle over allowing men who have taken some hormones to dominate women in sports is arrogant and a losing strategy, which the left smugly loves to do.
ZzBomb
So many people up in everyone else’s business.
Look did you swim in the competition? If the answer is ‘no’, you have nothing to say on the subject. If you did and had a problem with it, you take it up with the NCAA and let them explain it to your ignorant @$$. But since not a single person, that I’ve read about regarding this swim competition, has made even 1 iota of a stink over Lia Thomas’ competing no one else has really any place to say jack squat on the subject matter.
Oh and for those who childishly ask what the “definition of a woman is” clearly never went to see the Vagina Monologues. Educate yourselves.
Polaro
Educate yourself. A woman did complain who was the person pushed out of the competition because Lia took her spot. Many won’t complain because of the backlash, which was done by a letter from some of her teammates that did so anonymously.
Everything about your comment is arrogant. Perhaps you should stay in your lane since you are not a woman. Which of course is disrespecting your opinion…something you love to do.
SamB
Zz: You said it: “Oh and for those who childishly ask what the “definition of a woman is” clearly never went to see the Vagina Monologues”
Women, have vaginas. Finally we agree.
ZzBomb
@ Polero, yet you don’t provide a citation?
So you’re lying. Good bye
ZzBomb
@ Sam, so you never actually SAW the vagina monologues then? B/c they cover this in it and no it’s not just a vagina that makes a woman a woman.
UlfRaynor
@ZzBomb-Okay, I took your advice and decided to “educate myself” since I only had seven years of matriculation in evolutionary biology to support my suppositions as opposed to you being so elevated above the rest of us academically.
Here’s what my exhaustive research has found:
Merriam Webster:
Woman noun
wom·?an | \ ?wu?-m?n
, especially Southern ?w?- or ?w?-\
plural women\ ?wi-?m?n\
Definition of woman
1a : an adult female person.
Female noun
Definition of female
1a : a female person : a woman or a girl
b : an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs.
Last I checked my biology books, to be capable of bearing young and producing eggs requires ovaries, a uterus and of course a vagina.
What part aren’t you understanding, because unless you were born caesarean, you gestated inside a woman’s womb and came out of a woman/female vagina.
That’s all the monologue I require for substantiation.
Your belief in your ideology is not proof, no more than the Christians assertion that Jesus walked on water is.
Gender is a concept, just as scientifically unprovable as any other faith based religion and is why there is NOT ONE, single peer reviewed scientific study or report that substantiates it.
So maybe the next time you think about telling someone to “educate yourself” you might try practicing what you preach minister.
Jaquelope
@Polaro : I’m curious about something. You say the feedback was a letter sent anonymously (on this story), yet on another article where the focus was on the incident itself (and Gov. DeSantis’ hissy fit about it), you stated that it was just the mother of the woman who was runner-up who complained, not other women competitors sending an anonymous letter.
Can’t keep your story straight?
ciasteczek
Yeah, im sure biological women are super excited about competing against Lia Thomas. Nothing weird or unfair here.
Observant
@Polaro — I want to thank you for your comments on this and other recent related articles. You clearly and concisely explain the nuances and complexities of this issue. I hope those on both sides of this debate are open to your wisdom.
Polaro
@Observant well thank you. I’m not always right, but I try.
Inspector 57
Same here, Polaro. Thank you.
barryaksarben
lol really? name one womens ncaa champion in any sport other than swimming without cheating to show how super involved you are with womens sports and how important it is to you. The biggest overiding problem in women;s sports is the huge financial inequity between mens and womens programs. You dont give a F**K about women or their sports or you would KNOW THIS. SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPOSED WISDOM. HOW pathetic that these other screen names think you are wise. LOL yes tell me which womens teams you follow. My niece is an ncaa champion a college coach where the lack of funding caused the women to drop sports the men have and to have freakin bake sales and car washes and she was a coach at an IVY LEAGUE school. IF you really cared about college women sports THAT is what would outrage you but hey there must be about a doz trans athletes that you can pick on. LOL WISDOM.
Eternal.Cowboy
There is no correlation to athletic performance and sexual reproductive organs.
UlfRaynor
There are structural/morphological differences between males and females. The differences between the sexes in body composition are well known: males typically have proportionately more muscle mass, more bone mass, and a lower percentage of body fat than women. These differences are, in a large part, the consequence of the well-documented effects of gonadal steroid hormones on skeletal muscle and bone metabolism.
What is less commonly recognized is that there are structural/morphological differences between adult males and females for many (if not all) organ systems that can have significant impact on physiological function. For example, sex differences in lung size have important consequences. Men have larger lungs, wider airways, and greater lung diffusion capacity than women, even when these values are normalized to height. An important consequence of this structural difference is that in contrast to healthy young men, maximal exercise capacity may be limited by pulmonary capacity in women, especially as they age
There are well-defined differences in brain structure that result from fetal exposure to gonadal steroid hormones. These morphological differences, in concert with the effects of sex steroid hormones on neuronal function, are proposed to support diverse nonreproductive differences between males and females such as differences in pain threshold and cognitive style and the greater glucocorticoid response to stressors exhibited by females compared with males. Receptors for sex steroids are found in multiple brain regions and mediate the effects both of circulating gonadal steroid hormones and of locally produced neuroactive steroids. Steroid receptors are abundantly located in brain regions involved in autonomic regulation and thus have the potential to influence a wide range of homeostatic regulatory processes
There are multiple differences between women and men in terms of their normal cardiovascular function. For example, men have significantly greater left ventricular mass and chamber size than women. Because the left ventricular ejection fraction is the same in both sexes, the stroke volume is larger in men than in women. Furthermore, there are sex-related differences in the expression of myosin isoforms in animal models, suggesting that there may be sex-based cardiac differences that are more complex than a simple difference in size . In addition, blood pressure regulation differs between sexes in several respects. Women have a lower resting blood pressure and higher resting heart rate and exhibit reduced tolerance to orthostatic stress and impaired venous return. The electrocardiogram Q-T interval also is longer in women than in men, reflecting an underlying sex difference in the fundamental electrophysiological properties of the heart; consequently, the incidence of life-threatening arrhythmia triggered by drugs that prolong ventricular repolarization is higher in women than in men.
The development of sex differences in cardiovascular function typically shows a temporal correlation with developmental changes in sex steroid hormone levels. For example, sex differences in the heart rate and Q-T interval do not develop until adolescence . Similarly, while blood pressure is lower in premenopausal women than in men, blood pressure gradually rises in postmenopausal women to levels equivalent to those of men. Experimental have demonstrated widespread effects of sex steroid hormones on vascular tone as well as on lipid metabolism, hemostasis, and the regulation of fluid and electrolyte balance. However, while these documented actions of the sex steroid hormones undoubtedly contribute to the observed differences between men and women in both normal cardiovascular regulation and development of cardiovascular disease.
So, yes, Cowboy, the physical differences between male and female are literally due to their genitalia.
I can see how you might have become confused, when ignorant, uneducated writers like Graham Gremore eschew logic, science and reason in favor of their ideological *beliefs* or just to maintain and fuel the fabricated outrage culture he and this site cultivate for views.
If ignorance is truly bliss then Queerty and its bevy of near illiterate buffoons writing for it, must be near euphoric transcendence.
Eternal.Cowboy
Interesting. So you can take an all cis gendered running team and tell whom is the fastest simply based on their reproductive organs? Of course not, to suggest otherwise would be ridiculous. Why? Because, as I stated, there is no correlation to reproductive organs and athletic performance. I’m not confused in the slightest and it’s strange that you would take exception to the statement given that is objectively true.
Further there is variation within people and biological markers that make people better athletes are not distributed evenly even within a single sex. So again, if you take two cis gendered men and have them both do the same training for a running race one is likely to simply be better than the other because one has some genetic advantage. The vast majority of men can train like a pro at any given sport and they aren’t going ever be a pro. Genetic difference that allow people to perform at an elite level are just the reality. Women are the same, there is a range and women fall within that range. So you are being disingenuous when you try to call out the ways men have advantages are you are speaking in absolutes. But if that were accurate then there would be no women that could out perform women at anything but the can and do.
So the “men are just genetically better at sports” trope shows a lack of understanding of science and is objectively false when you look at real world results in sports. It is an indication of sexism though. And sexism is at the heart of this, it’s why trans women are focused at the exclusion of trans men. For example, in Utah there was a bill that was passed (and vetoed) that banned trans women/girls from participating in sports not trans men/boys, only women/girls. You know many trans athletes there are in Utah? There are four and exactly one of them is a trans girl. The state was passing a bill to target a single person who had the audacity to identify as a girl and want to play with her friends.
So, this isn’t about ignorance, buffoons or manufactured outrage. It’s about a group of people that lack any sort of empathy that have decided to target the tiniest of minorities, most of them being children, and try to ostracize and vilify them. It is pure cruelty. Y’all are just reprehensible people and you can try to hide being science all you want to but we see what you are doing. It’s disgusting.
UlfRaynor
Funny how your entire argument flushes down the toilet when “Lia” as a man placed at 433 in male collegiate swimming yet “miraculously” excels in women’s collegiate sports and now stands a chance to go Olympian.
No, there’s nothing to see here folks just move along and ignore the overwhelming self substantiating evidence.
Your call for empathy is rich, coming from someone who lacks such empathy for the females this person displaces without any regard for them or their feelings.
What’s disgusting is your misogynistic lack of concern for disenfranchised women and the invasion of their safe spaces by biological men.
Stuff your faux outrage and your pseudo-intellectualization that amount to you telling women they just need to just suck it up and shut up and just let men be women in women spaces, or someone like you might *gasp* call them transphobes.
Eternal.Cowboy
Wow, you just became entirely unhinged. All I did was point out that sexual reproductive organs aren’t a predictor of athletic ability which is both accurate and completely mundane.
I get that you and the other bigots want to hid behind protecting women but the bit of nonsense is exposed fairly quickly as none of you seem to know much about the challenges that women in sports face. For example, women get paid less that their male counterparts. Women to not have get the same sponsorship opportunities as men. Women do not get the same level of coaching as men. Women don’t generally have access to the same quality of training facilities as men. People like Larry Nassar are allowed to sexual abuse female athletes while institutions turn a blind eye. These are just some of the things female athletes endure. But you, you are the true champion of women in sports and not because you are tackling any of these systemic issues, for some reason you don’t even raise them as an issue. No, you are going to save women sports by personally insulting Lia Thomas and insisting that not be allowed to complete. You can save the hyperbole about misogyny. You have given no indication that you want to help women with the issues they face in sports. All you want to do is exclude a single trans person. Stop using women as props in your bigotry.
Jaquelope
@UlfRaynor : You stated “Your call for empathy is rich, coming from someone who lacks such empathy for the females this person displaces without any regard for them or their feelings.” Imagine for a moment that Lia hadn’t been in competition, and a “biological” woman had beaten the person who Lia beat, would there be so much concern for the feelings of the other women competitors?
I highly doubt it.
Going by what you and a few others have been saying, the girls who are with the boys on the local wrestling teams should not be able to win any of their matches because males are superior to females in sports, yet the very first girl who demanded, and got to join the wrestling team, has managed to win the majority of her matches on her own merits, and when she began, did it despite the opposing boys trying to “put her in her place”.
UlfRaynor
I offer you empirical data on the biological difference between men and women and you strawman it with rhetorical gibberish and nonsense, and like a true gaslighter you fall back on the ages old “what about the children?” trope.
Well, what about the children? What about the female children forced to submit, yet again, to male dominance in their safe spaces? Where’s your show of concern for them?
Talk about unhinged, you totally embrace a cult like ideology and think everyone should genuflect an rewrite the entire history of biology to suit your sanctimonious, pontificating religion that invariably turns on its own.
There are no worse people on the face of this planet than people like you, who screech acceptance and diversity so long as it aligns with your chosen ideology.
You do you while I sit back and watch it all unravel around you.
As Noam Chomsky pointed out to Foucault, the father of post modern deconstructionism and gender ideology, that it was nothing more than thinly veiled totalitarian imperialism, to which Foucault agreed, with Chomsky informing him that the answer to imperialism is always authoritarianism… take a look around you, how many states have liberals lost to the GOP, how many states are now completely under their control. You’re losing ground everyday and you’re to stupid to realize it. Sadly, Trump, Belisario, Boris Johnson, Andrzej Duda, Xi Jinping, just to name a few, continue to grow in popularity and power while the one group that did more than any other to help the LGBT community now is starting to feel threatened by it.
Yeah, you go gurl, you got this. Enjoy, you deserve it.
UlfRaynor
@verbalJaquelope- There are exceptions for every rule and all power to that girl for making her mark on the local level.
Just so you know, here locally at our university, three female wrestlers challenged one male wrestler and instead of offering them individual matches, he took them on all at the same time. The whole match lasted less than four minutes with the male wrestler forcing a verbal submission by all three females, and guess what? They all had fun doing it and everyone walked away smiling.
As for the first part of your argument, clearly the difference is that the females would have legitimately lost to another female, not a male who has been through male puberty and with all the advantages garnered by doing so.
There’s no escaping biology on this one, you can keep trying to accuse the facts of bigotry and transphobia all you want, but I don’t think biology cares about you beliefs.
The sun is not the moon and the moon is not the sun no matter how brightly it shines, its still nothing more than a mere reflection of the real thing.
And just for the record, you win extra @$$hat points for lying.
I never once said men are superior to women physically or otherwise.
But that’s the problem with you faith based people, your not big on the truth, just puerile attempts at villainizing those who don’t share your gender theological dogma.
Eternal.Cowboy
Let me know when you can come up with anything but straw man arguments.
Inspector 57
Eternal.Cowboy, the main logic of your first long post here is completely fallacious. In it, you argue that the fact that there is variation within any population absolutely negates the value of comparing one population to another. That is such a basic, basic fail in the application of the scientific method.
I would also add that the politics of the state of Utah and the behavior of Larry Nassar are totally irrelevant counterarguments against the facts that UlfRaynor presented.
UlfRaynor
Oh, yes, because in gender woo woo land science, logic and reason aren’t real, while an autogynephilic pretending to be a woman in women only spaces, who parades his genitalia around in the locker room for all the girls to see and take note of his male dominance of their once safe space, while also appropriating limited women’s resources and depriving a real women, a real spot on what was meant to be a women’s team, yet somehow Lia is the real victim in all this.
Fact, Thomas couldn’t cut it (meaning he couldn’t even break the top ten in his school) on the boys team, thus dashing his childhood dream of going to the Olympics, but one year later, as Lia, he is now an Olympic hopeful on a girls team.
Straw manning? You’re pitching bails of it.
Eternal.Cowboy
Inspector 57
On the contrary I didn’t say anything variation within a population negating the value of comparing one population to another. You, like the other person responding, are reading an argument into what I said based on your one bias. I sad reproductive organs are not indicated of athletic performance. They aren’t, you cannot tell how an athlete will perform based on their reproductive organs. The intent of the post was to point out that athletic performance is a complex subject that can’t be reduce to something like reproductive organs. Which is what y’all are doing.
Larry Nassar is relevant. If someone claims to be protecting women’s sports then they should be concerned about systemic issues that impact women’s sports. These things aren’t brought up because they don’t give a crap about women, they care about attacking trans people. Hell the Republicans that now care about women’s sports were previously trying to get sports exempt from title IX because giving women the same access to sports as men would harm men. It’s a joke.
Utah is relevant because it shows what the real impact is.
@ UlfRaynor
Your are the troll formerly know as TallSkin. You gave it away with your langue choice. Under that name you weren’t an evolutionary biologist. So you have added made up degrees to your bullshit. Sorry sis, you have been busted.
ShiningSex
This coming from a tired queen in which most straight folks would say cheerleading is a women’s sport. I remember when men tried to be on cheerleading teams in school and caused so much drama when I was younger. Hmmmmm…..times have changed (at least they should have). If you feel that transwomen should not be in “women’s” sports, then you are transphobic. Don’t say “I support trans folk BUT…..”. Just admit your ignorance!
UlfRaynor
I’m a liberal and an evolutionary biologist and I say trans women should not be competing with biological women because they have a physical advantage over women. If you can’t see that, then you are willfully ignorant and hardly in a place to pass judgement.
Just because I see the difference doesn’t mean I don’t support trans people., but it is NOT up to me, you, or any man to tell women they have to sacrifice THEIR safe spaces to substantiate the gender ideology of any trans person.
Fahd
The media is so lazy to let themselves be manipulated by Republican spin doctors. The story about American trans athletes was even on Spanish television news today. How ridiculous!
The Senate judiciary committee now is a clown show of cultural wedge issues.
Shame on the media, including Queerty, for uncritically allowing the Republicans to shape the discussion with their “talking points”. Hell in a handbasket.
MarcyMayer
Red Wave coming in November!!!
SDR94103
she nasty.
Inspector 57
No she balanced and mature. Her crazy ass be the first to tell you dat.
mlo88
Queerty, please STOP giving hateful trolls like this press! Even if it is to criticize or shame them. You are giving them a platform and free publicity. Stop it please
inbama
People shouldn’t be allowed to speak because you really can’t dispute their argument?
The gay movement succeeded because we won the argument. That’s the American way – not censoring and bullying and refusing to honestly discuss the issue.
MarcyMayer
So you’re a member of the LGBTQ+ thought police?
A lavender gestapo?
Joshua333
The funny thing I’ve noticed with Conservatives and Trans Women in Women’s sports is that its all “unfair and unbeatable” and then they lose.
UlfRaynor
Funny how this liberal noticed said athlete easily crushed the competition in the main event, the one they were shooting for to place in Olympic trials, then “suddenly” placed well below their established times in previous competitions in the events they were less concerned about.
I wonder what could possibly explain that?
barryaksarben
The only person making sense here is the eternal cowboy
Inspector 57
FWIW, I am 100% gay. And, for whatever reason, the bullying and discrimination that I’ve experienced all my life has made me sympathetic to other oppressed groups, no matter how different they are from me and without regard to whether or not I personally fully “get” their situations. (Don’t know how that happened, and I don’t think I deserve a medal for it. I just wish the phenomenon were more universal.)
That said, I firmly believe that M->F trans people have a biological physical advantage over cisgendered females. And they should therefore be disallowed from participation in competitive sports against cisgendered females.
I also firmly believe that the Russians have better things to do right now than training their bots’ or agents’ sights on Queerty discussion boards. But that’s not really relevant to the topic at hand here, is it?
202gay.com
If you are gay and are being discriminated against, then you live in the wrong country. Or something is wrong with you
Josh in OR
This kid is proof positive that being pretty and rich and ‘famous’ doesn’t make you smart.
Or worthy of attention.
nitejonboy
Well of course he doesn’t want balls in women’s spaces, it takes away from all the room he’s taking up in them.