{"id":89593,"date":"2022-01-30T23:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=89593"},"modified":"2022-01-30T23:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T07:19:19","slug":"phelps-and-trans-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/30\/phelps-and-trans-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Phelps and Trans Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this column, and on <strong><em>Billy Masters LIVE<\/em><\/strong> (season three will start shortly), we\u2019ve discussed the topic of trans athletes \u2013 specifically in which category should they compete.&nbsp; My opinion \u2013 which has been debunked by virtually everyone I\u2019ve spoken with \u2013 is that someone born female and was now a trans male would be at a musculoskeletal&nbsp;disadvantage when competing against cis males.&nbsp; The real world is also proving me wrong.&nbsp; At <em>UPenn<\/em>, a trans female swimmer \u2013 <strong>Lia Thomas <\/strong>\u2013 has been criticized for competing against other females.&nbsp; In a recent swim meet, not only did Lia come in sixth, the winner was <strong>Iszac Henig <\/strong>\u2013 a trans male athlete.&nbsp; The other four swimmers who beat Lia were cis female athletes.&nbsp; Once again, the cheese stands alone.<\/p>\n<p>This topic was tackled by <em>Olympian <\/em><strong>Michael Phelps<\/strong>.&nbsp; And Phelps is ideally qualified to speak on athletes, competition, swimming, and transgender people.&nbsp; At least, that\u2019s what <strong>Taylor Lianne Chandler <\/strong>thinks.&nbsp; She\u2019s an intersex woman who claims to be one of Michael Phelps\u2019 exes.&nbsp; When it came to the trans athlete situation, Phelps said, \u201cI believe we should all feel comfortable with who we are in our own skin, but I think sports should all be played on an even playing field.\u201d&nbsp; Chandler took offense to the term \u201ceven playing field\u201d, but not for the reason you\u2019d think.&nbsp; \u201cHe\u2019s a hypocrite for saying it should be a level playing field.&nbsp; He is genetically superior with his 6\u20197\u201d wingspan, double-jointed ankles and huge feet.&nbsp; His chemical composition allows him to breathe in and fill his lungs and hold his breath longer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this column, and on Billy Masters LIVE (season three will start shortly), we\u2019ve discussed the topic of trans athletes \u2013 specifically in which category should they compete.&nbsp; My opinion \u2013 which has been debunked by virtually everyone I\u2019ve spoken with \u2013 is that someone born female and was now a trans male would be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89594,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89593\/revisions\/89594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}