Kansas City Star Pride Month Screed Stands With Swimmer Lia Thomas

For us . . . The dead-tree punch line is that the deets of the Lia Thomas controversy ACTUALLY help prove SOME critics of transgender competition correct. 

Don't get it twisted . . . TKC thinks drag shows for adults are HILARIOUS and doesn't want to persecute everybody/anybody . . . However, women have expressed LEGIT complaints about trans sport opposition and they're being unfairly tagged as haters instead of people who want women's rights taken seriously. 

Our final reference point that deserve consideration . . . 

"The photo above should end that debate. In a tolerant and reasonable society that values fairness — fairness for women, which understandably has been an animating issue for progressives and was the motivation for the first bill Barack Obama signed as president — the jarring image of Thomas towering over the defeated women at the 500-yard freestyle yesterday is unassailable evidence of how wrong this charade is."

Here's what the newspaper has to say . . .

The culture warriors leading these campaigns display a striking ignorance of how those whose rights they want to revoke lead their lives. A major focus of many of these new laws is keeping trans girls from competing in girls sports. That’s anything but a common occurrence. In fact, lawmakers pushing Kansas’ bill couldn’t come up with a single example in the state, where only two youth athletes would be affected.

Yes, all kids deserve a level playing field, but state athletics associations already have policies in place covering trans kids, just as the pro leagues do. But one of the most obscene fictions must be called out for the lie that it is: Boys do not decide to “become girls” so they can dominate a sport. The widespread condemnation and abuse that trans former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas has endured is evidence of the absurdity of that argument.

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