Lia Thomas, the Penn swimmer whose teammates tried to get her banned from competition because she's trans, turned in a dominant swim at the Ivy League Championships. Alex Hammer provided a master class on twisting language to serve an agenda after her performance, as well as that of Yale's Iszac Henig. She will be allowed to race at the NCAA Championships because she has more supporters than detractors. There is a legitimate and ongoing discussion about hormone levels, testing, standards, and fairness for trans athletes and their competitors. It would be ludicrous for Thomas, a woman, to compete in men's swimming, and also where the women she's dominating would have gripes. The Mail uses a sledgehammer to smash any potential nuances. Sorry, Alex, but also not sorry because this is harmful. The implication is that their transness makes them unbeatable. …with one smashing a record and both leaving their biological female competitors in their wake during the second day of events at Harvard University.
The Mail gets a little dicey here. To imply that trans women are not women and that there is inherent unfairness in allowing them to compete is reactionary terminology.
Henig is not a trans woman.
Meanwhile, Henig, who swims for Yale and is in the process of transitioning from female to male but is allowed to compete as a woman because she has yet to take any testosterone, beat the pool record in the 50-yard freestyle by just nearly three-tenths of a second with a time of 22.05.
Isn't Henig a female? What is the big deal if Henig hasn't taken testosterone? Wouldn't the consistent position be that this is where Henig should be competing? The Mail is referring to Henig as "she".
Henig, 21, who uses he/him pronouns, has yet to begin taking hormones and stripped down to briefs after cruising to victory in the race while wearing a women’s bathing suit.
The Mail is using pronouns that the article's subject doesn't like. You can see in the caption where it made their transphobic brains explode.
Henig, 21, who swam topless and uses he/him pronouns, wore a pair of men’s swimming briefs Wednesday but donned a women’s suit Thursday during her race. He took of his top after the race was finished.
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Thomas celebrates with his fellow Penn State [sic] swimmers. Less than three years ago, she was apart [sic] of the school’s men’s team.
The Mail doesn't care about the details of the swimming competition. The purpose of covering this is to paint trans athletes and trans people as a threat. Hammer gives up the game because he didn't provide any evidence that anyone had a word to say about Honig.
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