New York Times science reporter ridiculed his claim that transgender swimmers face ‘hormonal checks’

The New York Times Science journalist Azin Ghrishi drew attention this week for her report on swimming between Leah ThomasThe transgender athlete who sparked a national debate about whether transgender women should participate in women’s sports.

Thomas has made headlines in recent months after repeatedly breaking swimming records after just two years competing as a biological male, outperforming his rivals.

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Grishi, in a report published on Wednesday, addressed the question, “What sets a woman apart?”

“These thorny questions about the nature of sport are not new to women’s sport,” Grishi wrote. “It has appeared several times over the last century, when an athlete considered too manly began to win. Sports authorities have relied on medical tests – whether anatomical, chromosomal or hormonal – to determine eligibility in women’s categories, with no similar tests, but in the realm of performance Elite physicality, where unusual biology is the norm, science has never given exact answers.

Articles have addressed controversy in women’s sport for decades with experts considering the topic.

One expert, director of the Adult Sex Determination Clinic in London, Dr James Barrett, suggested that transgender women may be at a disadvantage in some sports, due to their heavy muscles, and told The Times: Advice … Obviously there are necessarily advantages .”

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However, the Times reporter acknowledged, “Nevertheless, due to development during puberty, transgender athletes may have some enduring physical advantage in a sport such as swimming, such as greater height and larger hands and feet.”

Grishi shared his report on Twitter, writing: “Lea Thomas is only the latest elite athlete of the last century to have undergone anatomical, chromosomal or hormonal scrutiny to compete in women’s events. One thing they all have in common? They win.”

Critics mocked Grishi’s comments.

Joe Concha, a Fox News contributor replied:

Political commentator Drew Holden wrote: “It would be too naive to think that scrutiny here is not a result of Thomas being a member of the same university’s men’s swimming team in 2019”. “I just don’t understand how anyone acting in good faith could compare the questionable use and application of testosterone tests to the mathematics of responding when someone who was competing as a man three years ago is now competing.”

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“Please explain what ‘chromosomal sorting’ means,” Stephen Miller, contributing editor of The Spectator, told the Times reporter.

“We have finally found a way to trick feminists into standing up for men,” Substack writer Jim Treacher joked.