Lia Thomas Is ‘Happy’ To Force Everyone Else To Deal With Narcissism – The Federalist

Transgender-identifying swimmer Lia Thomas a man who claims to be a woman and recently dominated his NCAA female competitors finally broke his silence with an interview on ABCs Good Morning America, and heres what he wants you to know: Im happy.

Thomas was thrust into the limelight after the lackluster male swimmer took wrong-sex hormones for a year and subsequently the womens Division I swimming title, causing quite a stir. When ABC interviewer Juju Chang asked about his competitive advantage the question Thomass teammates, opponents, and critics cant get past Thomas shrugged it off.

Theres a lot of factors that go into a race and how well you do, and the biggest change for me is that Im happy, Thomas said in an undeniably male pitch. This happy theme permeated the whole interview, interspersed with an air of entitlement from the swimmer.

I also dont need anybodys permission to be myself and to do the sport that I love, Thomas declared, adding later, Trans people dont transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves.

The kicker for Thomas, which is obvious to the watching world, is that actually, yes, you do need permission to be yourself and play the sport you love when that self defies the laws of biology and that sport is a collegiate program designed for the very real, immutable category of women. Any other student-athlete knows that if her authentic self is obese or jacked up on steroids, for instance, she will not get permission to play a collegiate sport, her sincere love for it notwithstanding. Where does the gender-bending left get the idea that theyre entitled to inclusion without permission?

The sorry state of the NCAA and the countrys cultural mores at large are actually in many ways a result of the Lia Thomas mindset, more commonly known as narcissism. When science and empirical data have said, like Chang, that males have a competitive advantage over females, the transgender-allied left, like Thomas, have dismissed it with a Theyre happy! and a Let them be their authentic selves!

The rejoinder is obvious and unavoidable: What about the very real women whom Thomas dominated by virtue of him being a man? What about their happiness and their authentic selves as the best female swimmers? What about his troubled peers who have been flashed by Thomass penis in the womens locker room and been forced to expose themselves in front of him? Although a happy Thomas insists, Trans women are not a threat to womens sports, what are the runners-up supposed to do with the mountain of evidence to the contrary?

The rules of the game have been set not by logic nor reason nor basic and once-widely accepted facts, but by the narcissism of the minority. Perhaps if their entitlement and lack of empathy rise to the level of diagnosable narcissism the correlation of that narcissism with the trans-allied left should be no surprise.

After all, research shows a leftist ideology, mental health issues, and LGBT identity go hand in hand in whats known as the mental health-sexuality-liberalism nexus. If Thomas actually has gender dysphoria, perhaps that mental health issue corresponds with other mental health problems, narcissistic personality disorder being no exception.

The predictability of the narcissism, however, is no excuse for it. Nor is empathy for those with mental health problems a license to indulge them, especially when it comes at the expense of others. Thomas and the swimmers gender-bending allies have declared that their delusional and norm-shattering behavior is fine because theyre happy, but thats textbook narcissism, and weve enabled it far too long.

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