Lia Thomas: National Champion

Beats me. I think it is a poor way to go through life but they are choosing it, not me. I can't possibly tell you why someone else chose poorly instead of doing better. You would have to ask them.

The bottom line is we all get dealt whatever hand at birth and then we play that hand. You could be born into poverty and choose to climb out or born into poverty and choose to stay and repeat the cycle with your children.

I was born into a bad situation. Better than some, worse than many. I made choices so not only do I have a better life than previous generations if my family but my child was born into a better situation than I was. It is all choice made outside the race I happen to be.

Only on wacky LetsRun could a thread start off talking about a woman with a penis, and somehow morph into discussing poor decision making of African Americans.

Nah, it's a deliberate tactic meant to divert attention from the topic at hand.

A couple of months ago, trans campaign organizations put out a strategy document/action plan saying that they were worried that they were failing to win public support for males using gender identity claims to participate and compete in girls' and women's sports.

The action plan told trans activists and advocates that the best way to counteract this trend is to enter discussions where people are expressing opposition to males like Lia Thomas participating in women's sports and change the subject to race and racial segregation.

The aim to is to draw a parallel and equivalence between sex and race so that sex and sex differences can be dismissed as oppressive social constructs invented and exaggerated by "cis" people from Western countries to marginalize trans and "gender nonconforming" people the way race and race differences have been used to establish and perpetuate white supremacy, white colonialism and hegemony, and to keep down people with black and brown skin colors generally. The end goal is to insinuate and overtly argue that sex segregation and female-only sports are as immoral, unjust, hateful, bigoted and unjustifiable as the separate water fountains and "whites only" areas of past eras were.

According to gender ideology, keeping males who claim to "identify as" women and girls out of female sports - and out of previously female-only facilities like girls' and women's locker rooms, restrooms, rape crisis centers, hospital wards, domestic violence refuges, women's shelters, workplace lactation rooms, lesbian orgs and social spaces, women-only sleeping quarters and bathrooms in nursing homes, women's prisons and so on - is just as unconscionable as all the racist policies and customs characteristic of Jim Crow in the US and apartheid in South Africa.

A woman with a penis doesn't really have a case as to why they should be allowed in a lactation room. What would be the point? What exactly would they be lactating?

When woke libidiots realize that they are losing a debate, they ALWAYS pivot to whataboutism.

Well done.

By excluding transwomen from lactation rooms, you are denying them access to a place women have traditionally used, including for purposes beyond breast feeding such as socializing with other women, thus denying their identity as women.

I think it's bonkers, but that's the argument.

So your answer to why so many African Americans are stuck in a cycle of poverty is because they chose to do so. Got it.
That’s all I need to know from you.

If there is one topic that can unite 90 percent of America, its this one. This is totally ridiculous and unjust. Needs to be like a 5 year adjustment period after sex change, before any competition.

You think someone on LetsRun was changing the topic on purpose because they were directed by trans activists to do so? lol

Thinking how damn stupid this whole thing is. Why is this man being allowed to compete as a female when he obviously isn't a female? Does anyone have the answer to that, what is the answer to that? So any man who wants to play soccer vs the girls or basketball or volleyball can now do that, really?

Hahahahahahaha....what have we become?

I can see it now...

3am in the morning.

wife.....pssstttt hear that?

husband......what?

wife.....that, hear that?

husband.....yes I did, go check it out.

What you're saying is very racist--I think you know it is--but there is a seed of truth here, and here it is:

Poverty is the problem. It either directly causes or closely informs every single social problem that exists in capitalist society. Poverty very often follows lines of race, but it need not. That's why we have emancipation movements. There is nothing about being black, in and of itself, which means one ought experience poverty. There is no lack, in black.

But poverty, as a concept perching above race, gender or anything else, is defined at its very foundation by lack. It is impossible to talk of poverty, or even conceive of it in the first instance, without the concept of relative or absolute lack.

So when we talk about race as a variable which tends to define lack of opportunity, we miss the point. Poverty defines lack of opportunity. If more black people, by percentage, experience poverty, this only serves to underscore the fact that poverty itself is the problem. Poverty exhausts all attempts to redefine it as anything lesser than itself.

The problem with wokism, it its very core, is a failure or refusal to see poverty as the defining social problem. There exists a complex heirarchy of privilege identifiers, crossing the entire gamut of the human experience... except for those privileges with a basis in the financial circumstances of one's birth. I myself think this is because many opinion leaders in the woke movement are themselves very wealthy.

I think it could be, maybe just could be, that this entire thing is an attempt to unconsciously steer the conversation away from that conversation which means the woke movement will have to face the fact that they themselves, to a very large degree, enjoy the most fundamental privilege it's possible to enjoy in capitalist society... and what's more it's something they could give up tomorrow, should they decide to.

And that's a bridge too far.

So, did she sandbag the shorter events to keep from exposing the farce, was she tired, or does her balls do less for her at the shorter distances.

And to preempt the correction for using she while I think this whole transitioning thing is a bit odd I'll call people the pronouns they want and think they should be able to live their life as whichever gender they want. I just don't think a person born male belongs in female sports.

Lenny, your ideas are religious, not fact-based.

People ignore that no matter how many hormones dudes take or surgeries they undergo, every cell in their bodies still have XY chromosomes. They will ALWAYS, quite literally, be built different.

I wish they would have an alternate race for people like her / him. More trans athletes would probably have the courage to come out, and this would be not only a solution for this particular situation, but also a real benefit to their community in general.

Nearly every cell. All cells in the human body start out with our own individual DNA including our sex chromosomes in the nucleus, but some cells lose their nucleus over time. Mature red blood cells are non-nucleated and thus don't have sex chromosomes.

In males there is one important exception to the general rule about all our cells starting out with our sex chromosomes. Human sperm cells normally have only sex chromosome. Half of boys' and men's sperm has only a Y chromosome, the other half has only an X.

The other exception to the general rule about every cell in human beings containing our individual DNA and sex chromosomes can be found in females who have been pregnant with male offspring.

Over the course of pregnancy, some fetal cells cross the placenta and end up in pregnant women's bloodstreams and migrate to various parts of the body. As a result, those of us who have been pregnant with male offspring have cells with their DNA and XY chromosomes scattered here and there in different organs/systems and types of tissues in our bodies. Since the immature cells previously pregnant get from the fetuses we gestated are pluripotent - capable of developing into different types of tissue and regenerating - the cells of our offspring remain with us for decades, impacting our health in ways that are only beginning to be understood.

Women who've had multiple pregnancies also apparently sometimes pass cells containing the DNA including sex chromosomes of previous fetuses to fetuses we gestate later on. So chances are that persons with older siblings have some cells with their older siblings' DNA. This means boys/men with older sisters might have some of their XX cells, and girls/men with older brothers might have some of their XY cells.

smithsonianmag.com

Baby’s Cells Can Manipulate Mom’s Body for Decades

Smithsonian Magazine

An evolutionary approach may help scientists understand why mothers become genetic chimeras and how that affects their health

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scientificamerican.com

Beyond Birth: A Child's Cells May Help or Harm the Mother Long after Delivery

Nancy Shute

In addition to all of the nutrients flowing from mother to fetus, some of the developing child's cells pass back into the mother's body. New research shows how this fetal microchimerism may affect long-term health

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I don’t follow swimming much but 100/500 yards seems like a tough double to pull off. Especially since Thomas is good at 1650 yards.

For the NCAA, 5 years would require starting hormone treatments in 8th grade or going on multiple Mormon missions.