Otherwise known as “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”, the first of Communist chronicler Robert Conquest’s three laws of politics.

Witness, as an example, the transformation of the attitudes of University of Pennsylvania female swimmer, Monika Burzynska, when confronted by meat-and-two-vege, Lia Will Thomas:

Monika Burzynska knew Will Thomas. He was a member of the men’s swimming team at the University of Pennsylvania, although she found that “he wasn’t very social.” Nonetheless, as he was a member of the men’s swimming team, she had every reason to believe that he was a male.

Of course. Because of billions of years of evolution and thousands of years of human civilisation.

Imagine Burzynska’s surprise the following year, when she was a member of the UPenn women’s swim team and discovered the identity of her teammate who had been given the locker next to hers: it was none other than “Lia” Thomas, that is.

And with the full backing of the assholes running the university, including the coach of the female swim team, who saw victories as a stepping stone to advance his career prospects.

But aside from the fights between UPenn and the public, and now with the Trump Administration, it’s Ms Burzynska’s personal reaction that gets me:

“You have these issues that are from afar and you never really quite think they’re going to touch you personally until you’re on a team with Lia Thomas and your locker is directly next to this biological male. And you would have never believed that you’d be facing this issue directly. And then when that happens, your views change where you still feel sorry for this person because they’re clearly so deeply lost. But then it turns into more, ‘OK, this is not fair.’” 

Thus speaks every modern “moderate/centrist/mainstream Leftie” who promotes bullshit policies in areas they think won’t hit them. But as Professor Legasov said in his recordings about Chernobyl:

Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. But sooner or later that debt is paid

In Ms Burzynska’s case it was paid fast:

Once Thomas “became a fixture in the women’s locker room,” a deeply uncomfortable Burzynska “often retreated to the corner of the room to change. Other times, Burzynska timed exactly when she changed to coincide with when Thomas showered. Eventually, Burzynska opted to only change in the stalls or in the family locker across the hall.” Comments Burzynska: “Around Lia, I wasn’t going to risk anything.”

Meh. Fucking transphobes, ammirite?