TODAY IN ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY.

National Review's Madeleine Kearns chats with Harvard swimmer Schuyler Bailar, a female-to-male crosser who still swims with the real girls and failed to qualify for the national championships.

I think a lot of people think that they’re experts. I think most people do not care at all about women’s sports, for the most part. And we can see that by the fact that nobody watches the WNBA. . . . A lot of these people who are here do not care about the wage gap between professional women athletes, professional men athletes. People are not fighting against this rampant sexual abuse of girl athletes that’s happening all around the country. So, there’s a lot of things that people don’t care about within women’s sports until a trans woman wants to play, and suddenly everybody is a woman sports-fairness advocate. So, I don’t think that there’s much validity to their arguments.

Such a bundle of non-sequiturs.  It's possible that more people would watch the WNBA if that league would offer a value proposition to the general public, rather than the cloying wokery that makes their games high-end date night for lesbians.  Wage gap notwithstanding, a biologically confused mediocre basketball player might not be able to make any kind of a salary playing against the men, and yet turn into an instant dominating post player in the WNBA.  Likewise, Olympic gymnasts have done yeoman service calling attention to the grooming and pedophilia among team doctors.  That's unlikely to be a sport in which crossers will have an advantage, the former men being too clunky and the former women being too weak.

On the other hand, if you're a track mom or a swim dad, and you've given a lot of early mornings over to getting your girl to practice, you're going to be cheesed off if somebody who is not right in the head crashes your kid's sport.  Here's a British feminist, Kellie J. Keen-Minshull, who the alphabet people would likely smear as TERF, making that case.

I think that women have often been in a defensive position, trying to defend the attack on our rights. And I think actually, we need to be far more on the front foot, far more taking the conversation to the trans activists. The reason I had a confrontation in Atlanta today was the woman who calls herself a man sat in front of me and started cheering on Lia, you know, Will Thomas in a women’s race. And so, I felt it was necessary to actually have that conversation. Our rights are totally attacked, so we can never truly be agitators because our situation is presented by others and formed by others; we are merely responding to the attacks.

That "we can never truly be agitators" is woke silliness with a British accent.  By that logic, only people with privilege can be agitators, but to do so on behalf of people lacking privilege is inauthentic??

Ukrainian cities are on fire, and such is the state of intellectual discourse?  Let's see, when the final whistle sounds, whether the Ivy League is relevant in swimming.