A sports fact that I recently learned and find striking is that the women's record for a one-mile run is 4:12 (4 minutes, 12 seconds). On the men's side, Roger Bannister famously ran the first sub-4-minute-mile in 1954! Today the men's record is 3:43.
These numbers are easy to understand, and show the truly huge difference in performance between men and women.
As a follow up to asking if Lia Thomas transitioned to win more medals, I wish the interviewer had asked about Lia Thomas taking five years to graduate and transitioning in the covid year to swim as a woman. Lia Thomas did not wait to live her best life, but did to graduate.
It begins: "The women on the Princeton University swim team spoke of collective frustration edging into anger. They had watched Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who swam for the University of Pennsylvania, win meet after meet, beating Olympians and breaking records.
On Jan. 9, the team met with Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference. The swimmers, several of whom described the private meeting on condition of anonymity, detailed the biological advantages possessed by transgender female athletes. To ignore these, they said, “was to undermine a half-century fight for female equality in sport.”"
And later: "College female athletes who speak of frustration and competitive disadvantage are labeled by some trans activists as transphobes and bigots, and are reluctant to talk for fear of being attacked."
The cancel culture is silencing women athletes. It is impossible for me to believe that there is a single one of them who truly believes that competing against men is in any way fair.
A sports fact that I recently learned and find striking is that the women's record for a one-mile run is 4:12 (4 minutes, 12 seconds). On the men's side, Roger Bannister famously ran the first sub-4-minute-mile in 1954! Today the men's record is 3:43.
These numbers are easy to understand, and show the truly huge difference in performance between men and women.
As a follow up to asking if Lia Thomas transitioned to win more medals, I wish the interviewer had asked about Lia Thomas taking five years to graduate and transitioning in the covid year to swim as a woman. Lia Thomas did not wait to live her best life, but did to graduate.
That's interesting. Maybe Lia just thought the COVID year was a good time since there weren't any competitions going on. Might as well do it.
NYT piece, "What Lia Thomas Could Mean for Women’s Elite Sports": https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/us/lia-thomas-women-sports.html
It begins: "The women on the Princeton University swim team spoke of collective frustration edging into anger. They had watched Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who swam for the University of Pennsylvania, win meet after meet, beating Olympians and breaking records.
On Jan. 9, the team met with Robin Harris, executive director of the Ivy League athletic conference. The swimmers, several of whom described the private meeting on condition of anonymity, detailed the biological advantages possessed by transgender female athletes. To ignore these, they said, “was to undermine a half-century fight for female equality in sport.”"
And later: "College female athletes who speak of frustration and competitive disadvantage are labeled by some trans activists as transphobes and bigots, and are reluctant to talk for fear of being attacked."
The cancel culture is silencing women athletes. It is impossible for me to believe that there is a single one of them who truly believes that competing against men is in any way fair.