Trans-identified Female Olympian Keeps Exposing the Lie of Gender Identity in Sports

Media pretends no one will notice

Female mogul skier Elis Lundholm has provided a really world class disproval of the trans activist shibboleth that transgender people can ONLY get the benefits of sports by participating according to their gender identity. And that being “forced” to participate in sports in their sex category will result in exacerbating already prevalent depression, isolation, and suicidal thoughts and behavior.

Ballyhooed by nearly every news and sports outlet in the world, including Outsports, as the only out transgender athlete in the winter Olympics, every one of those headlines unwittingly exposes the giant lies they’ve all been propagating—that participating in one’s sex category will cause trans-identified athletes existential suffering (cease to exist, genocide, spontaneous combustion); that they will be harassed and bullied by other athletes because of their identity; and that they are banned from sports. They’ve all just announced in 48 point font that none of that is true. Oops.

Lundholm, representing Sweden in the Milan Olympics, identifies as a man but has always competed on the women’s team. The Sweden Herald reported that Lundholm has never had a problem competing as a woman and said, “I’ve always been treated well.” Problematically for trans activists, these do not sound like the words of a suicidal victim of bullying and oppression.

Not only does she exist, identity intact, she’s thrived. Only 23 years old, Lundholm has competed at the pointy peak of a physically and mentally demanding sport for the last three years.

Her short hair has not thrown any of her fellow female skiers for a loop, nor has her identity, because they know she is a female competing in her sex category. No problem. All the athletes at the elite level are tested for performance enhancing drugs, including testosterone, so they know everyone’s competing fairly. Clearly, Lundholm’s identity is irrelevant to the other female athletes. They know, Lundholm knows, everyone knows, sex matters, not gender identity. NO ONE HATES TRANS-IDENTIFIED ATHLETES BECAUSE OF THEIR IDENTITY. That is a lie invented to create “marginalized,” “vulnerable,” victim status, in need of special protections and special rights. For males who claim to be women. As a female, Lundholm is enjoying fair and safe female-only competition which, stupidly, trans activists and ideologically captured media are fighting tooth and nail to destroy.

Lundholm has been asked repeatedly by reporters about “online hate,” assuming that of course she would be receiving “hate” because she is transgender. Because that is the narrative trans activists and captured media have flogged endlessly. After reading loads of comments and online discussion, the only “hate” I saw was misunderstanding of her sex—media’s ideological description of Lundholm as a “trans man” and use of he/him pronouns led some to think she is a male competing in women’s skiing. They reacted negatively to what they thought was a man in women’s skiing. This is not transgender hate but a failure of media to report accurately. Ironically, the media is directly responsible for any “hate” Lundholm receives by substituting her gender identity for the fact of her sex. Once people understand that she is a female competing in women’s skiing, no one has a problem with it. “Hate” disappears.

In exactly the same way, the only “hate” Olympic track star Nikki Hiltz and Olympic soccer player Quinn receive is from people who are confused by those athletes’ insistence that they are trans nonbinary, whatever that means, and in the case of Hiltz, her loud assertion that she is not a woman. The gaslit public thinks these athletes are male competing in female sports. They don’t “hate” trans athletes—they’ve been lied to. They don’t understand the facts. And they wonder, very reasonably, why trans-identified athletes like Hiltz, like Quinn, like Lundholm don’t compete according to their gender identity. Lundholm wants to be seen and treated like a man. The obvious question is why isn’t she competing in men’s skiing?

To be clear, Lundholm has always had that choice. From her first entry in a ski race, the male category was open to her. She can even use testosterone and still compete in the male category according to IOC policy. Although she told reporters she “hasn’t thought much about it,” meaning claiming to be a trans man but competing in women’s skiing, over and over, she has chosen to compete according to her sex. She has chosen not to take testosterone in order to maintain her eligibility for the women’s category. These are conscious choices she’s made at multiple junctures in her career. Men’s average speed on a mogul course is 26..4 mph; women’s is 23 mph. Lundholm finished 25th in women’s moguls qualifying rounds and did not move on to the final. Given that she’s not a top women’s elite skier, even doped, she would not have even qualified for the men’s Olympic team. Though she professes not to have thought about it much, it has certainly not eluded her that she would not have a career in men’s skiing, and that her Olympic berth in women’s skiing is predicated on female-only competition. If males who identified as women “just were themselves and did what they wanted,” as Lundholm advised trans-identified kids to do, there is every chance she would have been bumped off of team Sweden.

The subtext to Lundholm’s story is that men with feminine identities can participate in their sex category too. They will not spontaneously combust. They will not cease to exist as a person with a special identity. The very few examples of males with trans identities competing in their sex category—I’m thinking of UK cyclist Emily Bridges who continued to compete very successfully on the men’s team while swapping his hormones, and Virginia high schooler Eliza Munshi who competed in boys’ track—demonstrate they were welcomed with no hostility. No bullying or harassment. Their identities were not dented or damaged by competing with men.

Lundholm’s belief system requires that she do some complicated mental flips to support her reveries about herself, but her story as the media reports it, does not come off as that of a woman with a masculine identity who bravely overcame nonexistent barriers to compete with other women while rocking short hair.

Rather, with every virtue signaling he/him pronoun, the media unwittingly exposes the central giant lie that gender identity trumps sex, that to participate in sports in one’s sex category is tantamount to genocide, to denial of one’s existence, and that trans-identified athletes are banned from sports. She demonstrates that none of that is true. As desperately as captured media want to make Lundholm’s story a triumph of marginalized transgenderism, they can’t help revealing that that’s a lie. No matter what pronouns they use, Elis Lundholm is a gold-plated, flag waving demonstration of the supremacy of sex in sports.