By Hank Berrien
After former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who claims to be a woman, suggested that women athletes who criticize Thomas for competing in women’s sports are “transphobic” but too scared to say so, Fox News’ Greg Gutfeld ripped Thomas for having the nerve to tell women how to behave.
Thomas made the comments — which included the charge that seeing men as men and women as women was derived from “patriarchal ideas” — while speaking to former NCAA swimmer Schuyler Bailar, who claims to be a man, on Bailar’s podcast. Asked about a letter sent by Thomas’ female teammates to the NCAA, warning against its rules permitting Thomas to participate in women’s sports, Thomas responded, “They’re using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs. I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people, but don’t want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out. And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half-support.”