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Daily Mail
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Woke writer says she'd 'feel great' if her 'blond white' swimmer daughter, 14, was beaten by trans athlete
A woke author claimed she would 'feel great' if her 14-year-old daughter lost a swimming competition to a transgender athlete. Lyz Lenz, 43, is a mother of two from Iowa who writes a newsletter titled 'Men Yell a Me.' She describes her newsletter as '[sitting] at the intersection of patriarchy and politics in red state America.' Lenz has written three books, including one in 2024 titled 'This American Ex Wife' that 'outlines the problems inherent in heterosexual marriage.' On Sunday, she published an essay titled 'What if it was your daughter?' to address how she feels about her teen competing against transgender athletes. To promote the newsletter, Lenz wrote on Bluesky: 'My 14yo is an athlete and a girl, and lately, people have been asking me how I would feel if she got beaten by a trans girl. 'And so I wrote about it. And about how I hate that question. But the tl;dr [too long; didn't read] is I'd feel fine, great actually.' In the newsletter, Lenz wrote that she had been asked by 'well-meaning liberal people' what she would do if her daughter lost a competition to a transgender athlete. She claimed the question infuriates her because it uses her 'child's body as a way to justify their transphobia and hate.' 'The question invokes the specter of my daughter, a blond white girl, as somehow under threat from her trans peers,' Lenz said. She insisted that her daughter loses a lot anyway, and cisgender girls often beat her, so it doesn't make a difference to her. 'I want my daughter to be happy. I love to see her do her best. But I simply don't care if she wins,' Lenz said. The mother claimed her daughter has never competed against a trans person, and the number of trans athletes is so small that people who ask her how she feels about the topic are trying to create false outrage. Lenz insisted that transgender people are not threatening her daughter, but gun violence, climate change, misogyny and Republicans who restrict reproductive rights are. She said she has a duty to protect the trans athlete and claimed headlines about transgender athletes are sensationalized. Lenz mentioned Lia Thomas, who became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division 1 title in 2022. The mother argued Thomas is not a threat because she was beating records held by Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky. In January, former opponents of Thomas detailed the 'fear' and 'abuse' they encountered while competing against the transgender swimmer. 'There (was) no escape from this nightmare,' Former North Carolina State women's swimmer Kylee Alons told a Georgia congressional hearing about facing Thomas. 'We all were just guinea pigs for a giant social experiment formed by the NCAA regarding how much abuse and blatant disregard women would be forced to take in silence.' Former University of Kentucky swimmer Kaitlynn Wheeler, meanwhile, spoke about her 'discomfort' and 'fear'. 'Young women, teenage girls were forced to undress next to a fully intact biological male who exposed himself to us, while we were simultaneously fully exposed,' Wheeler said. 'We were never asked. We were never given a choice or another option. We were just expected to be OK with it, to shove down our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear. Because standing up for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or bigoted.'
Washington Post
15-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
If the marriage plot is an ailment, is the divorce plot the cure?
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a newly divorced woman in possession of literary talents must be in want of a book contract. The past year has yielded a barrage of autobiographical meditations on divorce. February 2024 brought two best-selling memoirs, the journalist Lyz Lenz's crudely polemical 'This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life' and the essayist Leslie Jamison's soggily uplifting 'Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story.' Next came 'All Fours,' a gorgeous riot of a novel by the artist and writer Miranda July, and 'Liars,' a sleek and irradiatingly angry fiction in fragments by the poet and novelist Sarah Manguso. As a rule, these books had similar structures. They all began with a strained marriage, hurtled toward a rupture or a reconfiguration, and ended when their female narrators gained a new sense of serenity.
