Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has made it his mission to stop the transgender hysteria that’s trying to take our culture by storm. He’s preventing it with his support of his state’s “Don’t Say Gay Bill” which blocks indoctrinating seven-year-olds with LGBTQ propaganda in school; and by proclaiming that the man who “won” the NCAA Women’s 500-yard freestyle championship didn’t actually win.
DeSantis may be the only sane politician left in America.
After trans woman (biological man) Lia Thomas beat the hell out of the nation’s fastest collegiate female swimmers in the championship race, normal Americans all agreed that Thomas was a cheat and that second place winner, Florida native Emma Weyant, was the real champion.
Apparently Governor DeSantis felt that the truth needed a bit of a boost, considering most of the media and the entirety of the left have bought into the lie that Thomas is a woman who beat the other women fair and square. So he put out an official declaration from the Florida Governor’s office declaring Weyant as the actual winner of the NCAA Women’s 500-yard freestyle championship.
In the lengthy letter, DeSantis hailed Weyant’s life of athletic accomplishments, which include achievements in a number of NCAA competitions and her winning a silver medal in the “400-meter individual relay” at the 2021 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.
The governor then declared flat out that Weyant won the race that the trans woman is credited as winning. He wrote, “on Thursday, March 17, 2022, Emma Weyant competed in the 500-yard freestyle race at the Division 1 Women’s Swimming and Diving championships, logging the fastest time among all women swimmers.”
Yep, sorry Mr. Thomas.
DeSantis’ letter then skewered the idea that the NCAA credited the biological man with the win. “A man identifying as a woman was allowed to compete in and was declared the winner of the race by the National Collegiate Athletic Association,” it read.
DeSantis claimed that the NCAA’s decision to award Thomas in such a way serves to “erode opportunities for women athletes and perpetuate a fraud against women athletes as well as the public at large.” Damn right, Mr. Governor. Thanks for calling it exactly what it is.
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He then referenced legislation he signed in 2021 – the “Fairness In Women’s Sports Act” – which makes it illegal in Florida for any “athletic team or sport that is designated for females, women, or girls” to be open to “students of the male sex.” It also stipulated that such designated sex is the student’s “biological sex listed on the student’s official birth certificate.”
So at least in Florida, you can’t identify as a woman to get on the swim team. Sorry guys.
DeSantis closed out his letter by saying, “I, Ron DeSantis, Governor of the State of Florida, do hereby declare in Florida that Emma Weyant is the rightful winner of the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women’s 500-yard Freestyle.”
Thank you, Governor DeSantis for standing up for the truth.