The real woman won silver, while the would-be one took the gold. And if there is a silver lining in the debacle of William ‘Lia’ Thomas – the male swimmer who identifies as a woman, and who crushed the real female swimmers against whom he competed – it’s that the absurdity of all this is now being manifest. Even Bruce ‘Caitlin’ Jenner has admitted that we may need a new transgender category for sports. But that would create all sorts of other problems – men transitioning into women is a far different category than women transitioning into men, and what of all the in-betweens and those varying from one side to the other as whim takes them? Lewis Carroll would have marveled.

Thomas, towering and hulking over his competitors, was booed when his first place ‘victory’ was announced, while the second place true winner was loudly and enthusiastically applauded. The truth eventually wins out, even if we must wade through much absurdity, even tragedy – one thinks of all the children hormonally and surgically mutilated – on the way to those limpid waters.

Perhaps Chuck Norris-meme says it best: “I used to be a man trapped in a woman’s body – then I was born”.

 

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