The 'Lia Thomas' of fencing beats 14 time female champion

"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm." --Abraham Lincoln

The quote above by the 16th President is apt in regard to the transgender sports situation, but another quote, even more famous by Lincoln might be even more relevant: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

When women refuse to stand for something that supports women, and in this case I'm referring to sport competition, then women lose. When some still compete against men who say they are women, the sport itself loses its public interest.

A transgender female fencer, that is, a man who calls himself a woman, picked up an eighth world championship on Sunday at the 2023 FIE Veteran Fencing World Championships.

Mr. Liz Kocab won in the Vet Women’s Epee over 14-time champion Marja-Liisa Someroja of Finland in Florida. Someroja refused to refuse the competition and got her butt touchéd.

It is the second time Kocab has won in the 70+ age category for women, and this is because he is a man competing against women with shorter arms, smaller wingspan, and generally less speed.

"I wanted to support USA Fencing," he said after the bout, via USA Fencing. "I really did. Otherwise, I was actually thinking of stepping away. But the fact that it was in America, I thought that was important to support the USA. This is my way of saying thanks to USA Fencing."

USA Fencing implemented its own transgender and nonbinary LGBTQ+1WAP69~X athlete policy in November 2022 whereby men can compete against women and women can sit back and take it.

The organization allows competitors to "participate in USA Fencing-sanctioned events in a manner consistent with their gender identity/expression, regardless of the gender associated with the sex they were assigned at birth." In other words, if you say you're a woman but have a penis and testicles, or gone to the extreme of having your genitals mutilated and shaped sort of like a woman's genitals, you're good to go at competing against women. 

USA Fencing said in a news release that it was an "important first step toward expanding access to the sport of fencing and creating inclusive and safe spaces that promote equality and fairness for all." 

The next step I suppose is to have middle-age men who identify as female teenagers compete against teenage girls. 

Women need to stand together as Lincoln suggests. If all women swimming competitors, in a show of solidarity had refused to jump in the pool when the gun went off,  Lia Thomas would have looked like a cheater and a fool.

And finally, the way things are going, men who identify as dogs will be allowed to compete in the Westminster Dog Show.

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