Susan Shaw, a women’s and gender studies professor at Oregon State, penned a recent op-ed in Forbes titled “Transgender Swimmer Lia Thomas’ Body is Not the Problem.”
But that headline relies on a fallacy increasingly recognized by the public as such: Lia Thomas’ body is exactly the problem.
Not satisfied with stealing the NCAA Division I, 500-meter freestyle championship from a woman in 2022, Thomas is now suing World Aquatics in the international Court of Arbitration for Sport for its refusal to let Thomas, who was born male but “identifies” as transgender, compete in the women’s category in elite swimming events, such as the USA Olympic team swimming trials.
Their onerous regulation? World Aquatics permits transgender women to compete in women’s events only if they transitioned before age 12 or before one of the early stages of puberty.
Shaw…
