Live Not by Lies: Lia Thomas Is a Man
18 Mar 2022
BUCK: Thereโs that line, the Solzhenitsyn line, that really does stay with me and has for a long time, โLive not by lies,โ and itโs just a very basic mantra. Donโt live your life as a part of a lie, saying lies, allowing others to lie. And hereโs where we are. Itโs very basic. Itโs very straightforward. You now have a situation where the NCAA because of โwokeness,โ which is really just left-wing political correctness weaponized in ways that many of us warned about but certainly exceed even the PC mania of, say, the 1990s.
Left-wing wokeness now demands that biological males can compete against biological females in sports to include all sports. So, yes, speed-based sports โ you know, track, swimming โ but also down the line there will have to be more discussions about combatives, things like boxing, jiujitsu, you name it, because what youโre being told is that thereโs no unfair advantage.
Put aside for a second discussions of how we generally handle the psychological needs or the desire that we should all have to just be good to one another, to be kind to one another. People go through a lot of stuff. People need help at different times. This is about competition in NCAA athletics, right? This is about competition at the Olympics, soon enough, and here we are watching it play out.
And you have people on the left who are lying to you โ theyโre just lying to you โ and this is not a minor thing, because you are expected to comply. Very few people will publicly come out and say to you that there is no physical advantage, that a โbiological maleโ does not in fact have a physical advantage over โbiological females,โ or also just male and female.
I think some of these additional words that we use starts to play into it, and Iโve said before on this show that I do not approve even of using โpreferred pronouns.โ I think this was the beginning. That was the usage of a courtesy issue. Someoneโs name is a question of courtesy. Call someone what their name is. They want to change their name, thatโs fine.
Someoneโs gender is a reflection of a reality that exists independent of feelings. The same way that I refuse to call somebody who believes that they are a plural or that they have a new pronoun, which was a real thing that the left was trying for a while, by the way. In the same way that there are constant new โgender constructsโฆโ In fact, at one point I think Harvard University was putting on its application or maybe it was for admitted students that there were a few dozen gender options.
Itโs very confusing for a lot of people. And this was all new even to those who had spent their lives understanding the left and the program of progressivism. So here we sit, and weโre told that a biological male swimming against women and stealing what would have beenโฆ There is now a womanโฆ I want to be very clear, in fact. I want to name her.
Emma Weyant is actually the fastest female swimmer in America in the NCAA. She is actually the female gold medalist in Reality Land, in the NCAA, and left-wing woke alternative universe welcome back it is Lia Thomas, but it is in fact Emma Weyant who is the fastest female swimmer. All you have to do is look at the photo of the three top finishers and say to yourself, โOne of these individuals is not like the others.โ
Itโs quite clear. Thereโs very obvious physical differences, and people who say, โOh, but thereโs been a testosterone suppression since last year.โ Testosteroneโฆ The individual here, Lia Thomas โ what is it, 20, 21, 22 years old โ has had about a decade of testosterone therapy as a male insofar as he has had far more testosterone in the building of muscle and his skeletal system and everything than any of it women there obviously.
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas booed on podium after winning NCAA women's championship race โ but runner-up receives loud cheers https://t.co/QPo4WWDTze
โ TheBlaze (@theblaze) March 18, 2022
So taking some testosterone suppressant does not change all of that, does not shift the biological reality. But youโll notice there are people and there was a member of Congress that was shouting at people, โTheyโre bigots! Celebrate this,โ and you have to wonder, โWhy do they push so hard on it? Why do they insist?โ Everyone notices. I will answer that question, by the way, why they push so hard on it.
Everyone notices the situation. Here is the father of an Auburn University swimmer, because we have to remember there are women โ actual women โ who have been swimming for over a decade competitively, some of them have probably been in the pool. I donโt even know how young some of these women started swimming a lot and trying to become the best at their sport and what they do probably, what, 5, 6, 7-year-olds?
And this would be a peak moment. Getting a national championship gold medal would be a peak moment for any athlete, or getting a silver or bronze. There were women who had that stolen from them because the woke left โ the Democrat Party, ESPN, and unfortunately most of corporate America โ are cowards who demand that you, too, live by lies. Well, here is a father of one of the Auburn University swimmers whoโs just saying what you and I and everybody else knows is true but only some are willing to say.
FATHER: They asked the question how he felt about winning, when really, how do the rest of the women feel about having the stress of dealing with this, you know, knowing they have to swim against him. So, a girl that got ninth doesnโt get eighth. A girl that got 17th, doesnโt make All-American 16th. A girl that got 39th, potentially โ they took 38 girls in the NCAAs โ she didnโt get to come to NCAAs because a biological male took her spot.
I think everybodyโs gotta be civil about it. I call him Will Thomas. Heโs a human. We should respect that and what he wants to do with his life. But this isnโt the place to do it. Itโs taken opportunity away from females that have worked very, very hard for a long, long time, even before college, to get in this position. And itโs just not right.
BUCK: โItโs just not right.โ This father is absolutely correct. I would love to see some of these woke lefties that pretend to be so brave with their little blue checks on Twitter, on Facebook or wherever โ mostly on Twitter โ explain to that dad how heโs wrong because this is the new civil rights struggle. No, itโs not, actually. Itโs not. Weโve had gender separation in sports for a long time for very obvious reasons.
And what theyโre really flirting with here is the eventual destruction of womenโs sports because how much more of this do you go through before we say, โFine, itโs just open.โ Now we just have age limits. Weโll just all agree on that, I guess, for the time being. There will be 18-and-over swim meets or college swim meets for people 18 to 22 and then there will be high school swim meets, but there will be no gender separation.
After all the fighting that occurred to get women equal access to sports facilities through Title IX, and this was a big program at the left. They abandon it the first moment that itโs politically convenient for them to do so. And they pretend that itโs not what theyโre doing, but it is exactly what theyโre doing. Here is a Virginia Tech swimmer who was competing in this meet, again saying what is obvious but what the whole country needs to hear.
Virginia Tech swimmer competing in this yearโs NCAA championship details how her teammate was brought to tears after her place in the finals was taken by Lia Thomas: pic.twitter.com/mow56mVp1W
โ Sav (@RapidFire_Pod) March 17, 2022
BUCK: Everybody listening knows that everything she just said is true. Will you see any discussion of it on MSNBC, on CNN? You think the New York Times or the Washington Post will write an editorial saying, โAll right. We have gone too far here. We have gone too far.โ Calls for courtesy and decency to one another are always well met and in good faith, right?
Calls for the competition of biological males against biological females, that is quite different. That is something else, and thatโs what weโre seeing. Notice that they lie to you about this, and they have no compunction. Thereโs no hesitation. Itโs not like, โAh, you know, this is reallyโฆโ Itโs โShut up, bigot! No, thatโs not a male. Itโs a woman.โ
Thatโs what they say. They donโt even say itโs a โtransgender woman.โ I want you all to be very clear. The lefties who push this stuff tell you that Lia Thomas is a โwoman,โ full stop. Full stop. What you see with your lying eyes, they want you to forget, and youโre supposed to listen to them. Same people who told you that Hunter Bidenโs laptop, in the media โ same people, Hunter Bidenโs laptop โ was Russian disinformation.
Same people who tell you Fauci is not a lying, evil little tyrant and that masking works. Youโre noticing something here, arenโt you? They donโt care about the lie because itโs always for a good cause. In their minds, it always serves a higher purpose, and therefore no matter how much violence it does against truth, it is worthwhile. Welcome to the modern left in America today.
Maybe itโs in the left the whole time. But now theyโve accrued so much power that they can expect you to live by it, to listen to them, to obey, bend the knee. Bend the knee. Do what they say or else. Deny objective reality or you are a bad person. Isnโt that such a useful tool? If they can get to you deny objective reality once, in this instance, where else can the apparatus decide that you canโt actually see what you see? Where else can they continue the war on observation? What you know and what you experience to be true they say isnโt.
BREAK TRANSCRIPT
BUCK: Also want to give a shout-out here real quick to the actual female NCAA swimming champion in the 500-yard freestyle, Emma Weyant โ or Weyant, perhaps. I think it might be Weyant.
Emma Weyant, 20 years old, the actual female champion and actual gold medalist in the NCAA โ and good for her โ and thatโs the way people should view it and should speak about it.
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