Did you ever in your life think you’d see a transgender “athlete” compared to absolute legends like Jackie Robinson? Well that’s exactly what NBC did in their latest puff piece after photoshopped Thomas’ face to “soften in”.
Jackie Robinson not only was a hall of fame baseball player, he also broke the color barrier in the sport. Lia Thomas was born a male, and uses the body it was born with to beat girls at swimming. Do you really want to compare Jackie Robinson to Lia Thomas?
THis is an actual quote from the NBC piece comparing Lia Thomas to Jackie Robinson:
Change in sports doesn’t happen overnight, nor is it linear. Major professional sports leagues like MLB and the NFL resisted racially integrating their player rosters. It was not until 1962 that the last NFL team, the Washington Commanders, would racially integrate. Moreover, athletes of color played in the NFL in the early years of the league, only to be excluded as the league developed. Today, athletes like Jackie Robinson are celebrated as “breaking the color barrier” in sports, although that narrative often requires sanitizing, simplifying or rewriting a more complex, nuanced and contradictory history.
I seriously need a barf bag.