Lia Thomas, photo by Hunter Martin

The Train Daddy is back with sports news, life lessons and politically incorrect talk. All aboard!

No filter, so if you get offended easily, you have been warned! Allowing transgender athletes to compete willy-nilly (no pun intended) is an absolute disgrace, specifically regarding female athletics. I genuinely enjoy female sports, but it’s not even up for debate: their male counterparts are bigger, faster and stronger. That fact doesn’t discredit the amazing female athletes playing sports in the United States, from high school to college to the big stage representing America. This country is blessed to have some of the most dominant female athletes in the world. Truly impressive!

But I am done trying to be compassionate about this subject. The integrity of female athletics has been flushed down the toilet. We have example after example over the years of transgender athletics gone wrong, because biology matters. Over the years with the Murfreesboro Pulse, I have written about it all.

Instances range from Laurel Hubbard breaking records as a weightlifter to CeCe Telfer becoming a NCAA National Champion in the 400-meter run. We saw the domination on the high school track field from cross country to the 200-meter dash. Connecticut has done nothing to protect its high school athletes. Remember when transgender MMA fighter Fallon Fox broke the eye socket of the biologically born female Tamikka Brents? Those are just a few examples, and I could go on with more past examples, but why not a current example?

Trans female swimmers have been clobbering the competition in the pool, most recently at the Ivy League Championships where all-time records were easily broken. But that’s what happens when UPenn’s Lia Thomas, who competed as a man named Will for three years for UPenn, decides to compete as a female for his/her senior season.

A father of one of the female swimmers on UPenn’s team said his daughter came to the sobering realization that they “will never make it” to the winner’s podium if trans swimmer Lia Thomas is on the team.

How do we know Lia Thomas’ performance isn’t fair? Well for one there is a ding-a-ling involved. Sorry, it’s true! Listen, the average differential in the men’s and women’s qualification is 11.41 percent—meaning the women’s times are 11 percent slower than the men’s qualification times. That is a significant number, and it is exactly why we separate genders regarding sports: because biology matters. Or at least, it used to.

As a male swimmer named Will, Lia was putting up times that ranked around 500th nationally within the men. Then, boom—as a female we have in Lia the number one swimmer in the country, breaking records held by the all-time greats, such as gold medalists like Katie Ledecky and Missy Franklin. As I said earlier, the integrity of female athletics has been flushed down the toilet, and this debate will only get more heated as the examples of dominance continue.

I was watching the Olympics—evidently, not many people did—the 2022 Beijing Olympics saw the smallest audience of all time for NBC, with the games seeing a 42 percent drop compared to the 2018 Winter Games. The only good they could spin from this disaster was that streaming increased from 2018. So why did nobody watch the Olympics?

Boycotting China and its atrocious human rights violations? Recent censorship and controversy surrounding Chinese ping-pong star Peng Pong Shuai had many across the world getting upset . . . sorry, I mean Chinese tennis champion Peng Shuai. Come on, don’t get mad, you know that’s funny. A real problem with today’s world is the outrage—I bet a good number of you think what I just wrote was in bad taste—racist.

There was a time when comedy brought us all together with laughter. I can’t even imagine being a comedian in today’s Woke nightmare! Some of the best comedians in the world have pointed it out, specifically, the Goat, Dave Chapelle.

The U.S. didn’t send any diplomats to the Olympic games for a reason. China sucks! It’s a corrupt, totalitarian nation. It threatens Taiwan constantly, and with the Russia’s recent attacks on Ukraine, I wouldn’t be surprised if China found it a convenient time to act. They believe Taiwan is part of China, calling it an “indisputable legal and historical fact.” Scary times, thinking about all that nonsense and WW3 on the horizon if all that were to start going down.

Guess what? Fox News won the cable network race, once again averaging nearly 2.5 million viewers, while CNN has been sitting in the dumps over and over, averaging barely 500K viewers, trailing networks like the Food Network and Travel Channel. That’s a tough look, CNN.

The Top 20 cable programs included 14 Fox News political talk shows during a month of Olympic coverage. I am not trying to read between the lines, but it’s obvious America is at a turning point.

At the end of the day regarding sports, I don’t care about the feelings of trans athletes as much as I care about the integrity of sports. How about the feelings of all the natural-born females getting the shaft? How about the feelings of Lia Thomas’ teammates? The university and the media are bending over backwards to appease Lia in this process while they ignore the needs and feelings of the other 20-plus female swimmers on that team.

I don’t care if a human being wants to change gender. If it makes them happy and more comfortable in their own skin, who am I to say no? But don’t for one second equate any of that to the playing field of sports. We have gender separation for a reason, because, once again, biology matters! Science matters.

And if you disagree with that, then you should own it and just advocate for true equality, no gender separation in sports. Men and women will play together and the most talented will prevail. I have a feeling the feminists would hate that. Because we would quickly have a lack of females in sports. Biology matters!

How many people did I just upset with this one? It was never my intention to purposely upset anyone with my words. Call me a transphobe, even though I’m not. I am a passionate lover of male and female sports who feels the need to do what many won’t—speak out against this nonsense. It’s simple: If you were born with a penis, you should not be categorized with and compete against biological females.

Simple as that. That’s my opinion. Feel free to voice yours and email me at titanman1984@gmail.com. Remember, this isn’t China, this isn’t Russia, hell, this isn’t even Canada, this is the United States of America, where we can have different opinions and debate it. Unfortunately, many of you get free speech and hate speech mixed up. That is why I just don’t care anymore regarding this topic. We have gotten to a point where voicing these thoughts in the open is considered hate speech. If that’s the sad truth, then I might as well own it. I have no hate in my heart for anyone. I am just an individual who finds it ludicrous this is allowed to happen in sports.

That’s all I got for you this issue. Thank you to all my loyal readers for over a decade of letting me talk about the Tennessee Titans and rant about progressive nonsense.

The Train is rolling into the station!