So many men who claim to be women are forcing their way into women’s sporting competitions these days, it’s becoming hard to keep track of all the athletic institutions that sacrifice fairness and the dignity of their female athletes to avoid offending sexually deviant men.
Here are 10 of the most prominent individual women’s competitions men have co-opted — not counting team sports like basketball, in which a 50-year-old, 6-foot-8-inch divorced man named Gabrielle Ludwig played on the women’s team at California’s Mission College in 2012, just half a year after undergoing transgender surgery. Nor can this list fit the numerous high school competitions that have been compromised — like the track and field events in Connecticut where male runners like Terry Miller and Andraya Yearwood denied girls like Selina Soule, Alanna Smith, Chelsea Mitchell, and Ashley Nicoletti a shot at 15 state titles.
NCAA Swimming
Perhaps the most infamous of all the men who have invited themselves into women’s competitions and locker rooms is Will/”Lia” Thomas, the male NCAA swimmer who switched to women’s swimming in 2021. Thomas won a Division I national championship the following spring, after beating out female swimmers in the 500-yard freestyle competition.
Thomas’ teammates and competitors have complained about his presence on the team and in girls’ locker rooms, where he allegedly exposed his “male genitalia.”
Riley Gaines, a University of Kentucky swimmer who tied with Thomas for fifth place in the 200-yard event, has called Thomas a “cheat who STOLE a national title
