She’s A Boy

She’s a Boy

By Bob Small

She’s a Boy is a video by Whistle the Band featuring Cat Cattinson, a detransitioned singer.

It’s one of those pop earworms that stays in your head.  This is about Lisa Thomas and other male to female transexuals who participate in women’s athletics.

How should we consider her and other transexual athletes, especially as Lia is listed as being pre-op.

So is Lia Thomas the Otto Pelzer or, less obscurely the Martina Navatrilova of trans sports.  Possibly it depends on whether you consider pre-op or post-op true transexuality — my vote is post-op — and whether you wonder whether there should be a handicap, like in golf.

My gut feeling is that the NCAA or the University of Pennsylvania should have noticed that Lia Thomas still had the equipment William Thomas was born with.  Of course, there’s no mid-way place for on-going transitioners to compete, no special league but would we feel the same if an actor named Lia Thomas had transitioned to William Thomas to get better roles because Hollyweird is still male-dominated and was rewarded with a Best Male Actor Oscar?

Now I’m looking at this from the outside having never wanted to be another sex but this option should be open to those who truly need to become someone else, as long as they are adults and aware of the travails that may happen.

Cat Cattinson is the detransitioned lead singer for Whistle the Band.  Whether her biology degree, her detransitioned status, her being a singer, her being a songwriter, is the most important of the adjectives to describe her is for her to decide.

Cat has said “I don’t think that people should have to be a man or a woman or non-binary to be able to express themselves or do what they want to do.”

Lastly, we’re talking about a very small part of the population.  How important is this, really?

A tip of the hat to Vermont Scott.

Here’s the video