I'm quite grateful to Lia Thomas to be honest. The disgraceful scenes of women getting second and third places behind a man at a women's swim meet has properly peaked the men in my household. My husband has been horrified by what he's seen, we both watched the weightlifter at the Olympics, but he didn't realise that men competing in women's sports was actually an ongoing issue, he thought it was just a virtue-signalling gesture at the Olympics, not that young women were going to actually have to compete against a man at their college sports events.
My son and his girlfriend are full-on woke. They have a ftm friend, who has had top surgery, they're full of praise and admiration for his "bravery" etc, etc. I love my son's girlfriend, but I don't want to speak to her about it, she'd probably just think I was an old terf, who has outdated ideas. But my son and I are close and we've had some interesting discussions on this. He was quite shocked to hear about the weirdo p who managed to wrangle a position of authority in the Guides, until outed on Twitter with photos brandishing a gun and wearing fetish clothing. He hadn't heard about the grape crisis centre in Scotland, currently being run by a man. He wasn't aware of the possible long-term damage inflicted onto children by doctors at the Tavistock and other gender clinics around the world. And he does understand my concerns at having men in changing-rooms and public restrooms, spaces that are supposed to be set aside for women to use.
Lia Thomas is doing women a huge public service. Just not in the way that he thinks.
