Women’s college swimming teams are competing in the NCAA national championships this week. But in this crazy era of gender bending, leave it to ESPN to find the odd-angle story of the one swimmer who identifies as neither male nor female.
ESPNW writer Katie Barnes introduces us to G Ryan, a record-setting member of the University of the Michigan women’s swim team who has won Big Ten Conference championships – and who identifies as “genderqueer,” “non-binary.”
Ryan was born a girl, or rather “assigned female sex at birth,” as Barnes puts it in politically correct terms. Other people, with their assumptions, are the actual problems, Barnes writes.
“On one hand, the pool is a respite, an oasis in a society obsessed with gender in ways that create issues for Ryan where there do not need to be,” says Barnes, who seems pretty obsessed with magnifying this issue of gender to the greater world.
Barnes throws good grammar out the window by refusing to refer to Ryan as female. Instead, the writer refers to her as “they” all throughout her fluff piece.
When “they” enrolled at the University of Michigan and visited the school’s LGBTQ office, “they” found language describing the tension she was experiencing.
Being the ever-stalwart PC state university, Michigan whirled into typical liberal over-reaction. As Barnes describes it, “Over the past year, the team has made adjustments to the language it uses because, frankly, Ryan's presence challenges the very binary that governs classification in athletics.” In team communications, the squad is no longer referred to as a “women’s team,” but as “Team 42” because it is the university’s 42nd women’s swim team.
The coach of the non-binary Wolverines’ team wants to teach the world to sing about this charade. "We sing about their growth," said way out-there Coach Mike Bottom. "As they begin to understand themselves, there's been a strength that's moved into the water, and out of the water. That's been the excitement."
Barnes asks what the inclusion of non-binary athletes looks like in an athletic system defined as a binary? And what it means when space is not created for transgender and non-binary athletes? She concludes:
“There is no simple answer to that question, and it is one being grappled with across the United States. At times the lack of understanding of trans identity is used as a cudgel to ostracize trans people, as seen in North Carolina with HB2 and more recently in Texas with Mack Beggs and the consideration of (Texas bathroom bill) SB6.”
Ostracize? Cudgel? Tell that to the folks in North Carolina and other states under assault by the LGBTQ juggernaut and its complicit media.
Ryan, now a hero of that movement, wants to ignite conversations of issue of gender. And it is society at large that needs to bend to her deviation, not her to gender norms. She is working with USA Swimming “to discuss what being affirming of all athletes looks like.
Wouldn’t it be a whole lot easier for sports psychologists to work with the gender confused? Yes, but it’s not politically correct and not likely to happen when the left-stream media and public education establishment merely ask “how high?” when the LGTBQ folks say “jump.”
