Dr. Oz says we should have compassion for Lia Thomas – He’s the gentleman from Penn State that thinks, wishes, or pretends he’s a girl while crushing all the women’s swim records and metaphorically jabbing his thumb in the eye of biological women and feminists everywhere.
I do have compassion for poor Lia. I have compassion for everyone with a mental health condition that causes them to believe things that are demonstrably untrue. Now, I’m not a doctor, but Merriam Webster defines “delusion” in the psychological sense as “a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary”.
He knows he isn’t a woman, we know he isn’t a woman, he knows we know he isn’t a woman and we know he knows he isn’t a woman, yet here we are, all pretending he’s a woman while he steals the glory belonging to the real women who have worked a lifetime to achieve it.
If ever a common social construct met this definition, it is transgenderism. I’ll just say it. There are two, and only two genders. These genders are defined by the chromosomes a person receives at the moment of conception and cannot be changed. Oh, you can mutilate your body and have it look like you are the other gender, and you might even fool people into believing it’s true, but a simple DNA test, or post mortem examination will reveal the scientific truth, regardless of your delusional beliefs and efforts to obfuscate your birth gender. Even an examination of your fleshless skeleton will reveal whether you were male or female.
That being said, let’s get back to Lia Thomas. I have compassion in the sense that I feel sad for him, and I feel that a society that affirmatively acknowledges his delusions as reality and even encourages his mental fabrication in an effort to be inclusive and kind are actually making it much harder and damaging to him by prolonging and solidifying his mental illness. It is cruel and belittling.
Who I really have compassion for though are the biological females – the women who have spent their lives training to compete against other women who now find their hopes of championships dashed by a man pretending to be a woman. He knows he isn’t a woman, we know he isn’t a woman, he knows we know he isn’t a woman and we know he knows he isn’t a woman, yet here we are, all pretending he’s a woman while he steals the glory belonging to the real women who have worked a lifetime to achieve it.
Count me out . I won’t play along with a mentally ill persons delusion just to make them feel better, especially when their delusion is robbing others of the opportunities and success that is rightfully theirs. I hope the NCAA will eventually disqualify his women’s records return them to the women who earned them. Cutting your dick off or tucking your weiner between your butt cheeks doesn’t make you a woman.