Most of it's boring

Swimmin' with the wimmin

Lia Thomas, a trans-woman swimmer, has been dominating US women's college swimming. I simply cannot imagine why. (rolleyes)

That is, until she was pitted against Iszac Henig, a trans-male swimmer who still swims in the women's competition. Because reasons.

So an ex-male and a soon-to-be-male meet in a women's competition. You couldn't make this shit up. If you did, and you submitted it to a publishing house as a novel, any reasonable commissioning editor would laugh at you, before showing you the door, heels over head. You'd be thrown out of the building.


Spike Milligan had a better turn of phrase; but I'm not going to steal it, simply pay hommage. In the first of his five-part war trilogy, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (1971), he describes his father being ejected from the War Office: He left with his head held high, and his feet held higher. He was thrown out. It also appeared earlier, in The Goon Show s6e27 (1956), The Man Who Never Was. Still, Milligan couldn't plagiarise himself, he just reworked his earlier material.

Of course, this is not the first time that a man's taken part in women's competition. Just ask Gretel Bergmann.