As late as 2019, Will Thomas swam for the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s swim team, winning one 500-meter freestyle event in 2019 and being named to the All-Ivy League second-team a season earlier. COVID-19 canceled the 2020-2021 season. When swimming competitions resumed in late 2021, Thomas—now known as Lia—swam for the university’s women’s team after undergoing at least a year of testosterone-suppression treatments, as required by the NCAA.

Swimming against biological females, Thomas wins races and breaks records with ease, shattering pool, meet, school, and national marks, sometimes by several whole seconds. If Thomas returns to the times he posted while swimming on the men’s team, the swimmer would break both of seven-time gold medalist Katie Ledecky’s NCAA records in the 500-meter and 1600-meter freestyle and fall just fractions of a second behind five-time gold medalist Missy Franklin’s record in the 200-meter. Thomas’ only losses this season have been at the hands of Yale’s Iszac Henig, another transgender swimmer.

Most observers admit that Thomas’ inclusion in women’s events is patently unfair. Despite taking testosterone-suppressing drugs for more than a year, the Penn swimmer still has a man’s body, a man’s strength, a man’s lung capacity, and biological women swimmers have virtually no chance when they compete against Thomas. As contributor Nicole Russell writes in the Daily Signal: “Even if Thomas has taken testosterone-suppression treatment for a year prior, his race times still show a clear physiological advantage.”

Some courageous women athletes—and anonymously, even some of Thomas’ Penn teammates—are speaking out about the obvious inequity of women having to compete against biological males. Idaho State University athlete Madison Kenyon expresses her exasperation with the situation in a January 11, 2022, Fox News article titled, “Women can beat the odds, but we can’t beat biology”:

I know how frustrating this is. I’ve been competing for the last three years as a track-and-field athlete at Idaho State University, where five times I’ve lost competitions to a male who chose to identify as a woman. . . .

As an athlete and a biology major, I find it fascinating that the same sports authorities who would think it crazy to put a heavyweight boxer in the ring with a flyweight—just because the first guy “identifies as a flyweight” this week—think it’s perfectly natural to put a male on the running track or soccer field next to a woman and declare that “fair.” . . .

Putting male athletes in women’s sports isn’t fair. Not physically—because biology and common sense both tell us that men and women are different, whether some want to admit it or not. . . . It’s not something you can fix with testosterone suppression, as even the Olympic Committee now admits. And it poses dangerous risks for women vying against male athletes in contact sports. . . .

[Women] can beat exhaustion, frustration, even a tough team. We can beat the clock. We can beat some pretty tough odds. But in the end, we can’t beat biology—or officials more concerned with pleasing the wokes than “respecting our needs and identities.”

Even the transgender Caitlyn Jenner—formerly Olympic champion decathlete Bruce Jenner—has spoken out against biological males competing against females. Jenner told Fox News, “I’ve said from the beginning, biological boys should not be playing in women’s sports. We need to protect women’s sports.”

The problem is the “wokes” Kenyon mentions. As part of the Sexual Revolution, the progressive Left has redefined “sex” and “gender.” It used to be that “sex” referred to the objective male-female (binary) characteristic of human biology, whereas “gender” was a grammatical term for the sorting of words into masculine, feminine, and neuter categories. However, since the 1950s, gender has increasingly been redefined in terms similar to this 2014 U.S. Food and Drug Administration definition: “a person’s self-representation as male or female, or how that person is responded to by social institutions based on the individual’s gender presentation” (Evaluation of Sex-Specific Data in Medical Device Clinical Studies, p.3, footnote 6).

The distinction is that “sex” refers to the unmistakable biological difference, as it always has, and “gender” is now either a social construct (how society views an individual) or a personal, psychological identification. And such personal identification can be literally anything. People now identify in more than a hundred bizarre ways—from “abimegender” (one that is profound, deep, and infinite) to “astralgender” (one that feels connected to space). The word has come a long way from being a purely grammatical distinction!

Such a change could happen only in a godless society. It took just over a century after Darwin’s godless Theory of Evolution for Western progressive intellectuals to try to erase the created order of human sexuality that had dominated since the Garden of Eden. Beyond the fact that our very genes testify that a person is either male or female, God says unambiguously in Genesis 1:27, “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” Jesus Himself confirms this in Matthew 19:4.

The Creator should know the truth of His own creation. The current transgender movement is another in a long series of rebellions against God and the truth He reveals in His Word. It also demonstrates just how near Christ’s return is, and when He comes, He will put an end to immoral confusion of this sort: “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him” (Jude 14-15).