UBC professor advocates exposing “little children” to adult genitalia to prepare them for transsexuals in their locker rooms

Riley Gaines is an American former competitive swimmer from Gallatin, Tennessee, who competed for the University of Kentucky NCAA swim team and was the 2022 Southeastern Conference Women’s Swimming and Diving Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She is also an activist calling for female-only spaces after being forced to change with—and compete against—a biological male named Lia Thomas. This has turned her into the primary target of LGBT activists who have deluged her with mockery, contempt, and vile smears. 

Enter Dr. Katja Thieme, a journalism professor at the University of British Columbia, one of Canada’s most prestigious campuses. Thieme identifies as “she/they” and her Twitter profile is everything you’d expect from someone with those pronouns. Her response to the testimony of Riley Gaines is a textbook case study in the sort of cruel gaslighting we have seen escalating over the past few years, as young girls are told to shut their mouths and check their bigotry when they wonder aloud why they are being forced to change with biological men.

“[Gaines] talks about seeing Thomas naked in the changeroom. And how terrible that was,” Thieme tweeted. “I’m sorry, what?” It is apparently unfathomable to her that many girls are, in fact, uncomfortable with males seeing them naked in what were once female-only spaces. Thieme continues in a Twitter thread:

There’s a case of a 16yo swimmer at a YMCA club that’s currently on Gaines‘ timeline. Let‘s use it to summarize how these encounters are turned into anti-trans activism.

1) Teenage girl on the swim team sees or claims to have seen a trans person in the nude in the women’s changeroom. Her anti-trans parent or parents kick into high gear.

2) They lean on coaches: Tell trans folk to change elsewhere. Coach says, no, we can’t, that’s discriminatory.

3) They lean on the club admin: Send a warning message to all members that trans folk are using these facilities. Admin says, hell no, that’s crazy and would be very wrong.

4) They contact Riley Gaines or other transphobes of their choice, they organize protests, events, meetings, hearings, and whatnot. 

And, here’s the really vile part, at each of these points they talk loudly and incessantly of that one (or maybe several) trans woman’s genitalia. Hard to express how horrid that is. Imagine there is something about your body that, when nude, is noticeably different from your team members’ bodies. Each day you change with them in and out of swim clothes. One day one of the white conservative girls who sees you change decides to make a public career out of having seen you naked. Her parents do all they can to help launch her public profile. They loudly repeat the same dismissive comments about your naked body to any journalists and politicians who will listen.

See what Thieme did there? A young man with a fully functioning penis identifies as a woman, joins the girls’ swim team, and starts cleaning house in competitions while changing with the girls. Some girls—those who dare speak out at all—object. And the response of this journalism professor is to condemn the girls as “transphobes” and insist that the girls are vile for noticing that there is a man with a penis changing with them. The “something about your body” Thieme is talking about is the male sex organ. 

So, let’s do what Thieme just did. Here’s how trans activist gaslighting works:

1. A biological male identifies as a girl and is permitted, for the first time in American history, to change, shower, and use the bathroom with the girls.
2. Some girls feel unsafe or even fearful—including victims of sexual assault who are triggered by the male bodies of strangers for what were once obvious reasons. Some ask for their privacy to be preserved.
3. LGBT activists such as Dr. Thieme call the girls names, claim that even noticing the male genitalia being exposed in their changerooms is “vile” and bigoted, and insist that the girls objecting are part of a “backlash” that is causing harm to the young men stripping off in their changerooms.

And what do you think Thieme’s solution to the female desire for privacy is? I’ll quote her directly and in full—it’s that hard to believe:

Hey, want to know one of my all time excellent parenting ideas? Let. Little. Children. See. Penises. And. Vulvas. Of. Various. Ages. And. Sizes. In. A. Casual. Normalized. Totally. Safe. Way. The world will thank you for it. And so will those children when they grow up.

Just imagine if the Riley Gaines‘ of this society could totally keep their cool at the sight of a trans dick. And just imagine if the Riley Gaines’ parents were like, yeah, that happens, it’s okay, now let’s talk about your upcoming training schedule.

Let me sum that up in case anybody is missing the point: That is an adult professor from a prestigious university advocating that “little children”—her words, not mine—should see “penises and vulvas” of all kinds so that when they become teenagers and a biological male wants to use the female changeroom, these children “could totally keep their cool at the sight of a trans dick.” 

I’m old enough to remember when we were supposed to “believe women.” If you had said, in 2017, that LGBT activists would be gaslighting and smearing teen girls to defend a handful of biological males, even the progressive politicians supporting it would call you crazy. But Democratic Representative Steve Cohen says the best response to the concern of girls coming forward is to put up “some type of barriers” to split the changeroom rather than, you know, just treating the actual wall between the girls’ and boys’ changerooms as a “type of barrier.” One girl responded to his proposal on Twitter:

I’ve been in a bathroom stall when a man walked in. Women’s feet don’t face the toilet, so I knew it was a man. A wall between me and him didn’t make me any less scared, nor did it change the fact that I was sitting there with my pants and underwear around my kneecaps. It didn’t make me any less vulnerable. The stall didn’t change the fact that we were still in the same room, him with his dick out and me d**n near naked from the waist down.

I don’t think men quite understand that kind of vulnerability or fear. When women go to the bathroom, we don’t have the pleasure of whipping it out and putting it back in. Clothes come off. Dresses and skirts get pulled up. We’re exposed. When a woman tells you, “This makes me uncomfortable,” you need to listen and show some respect. Instead women are being asked by men to sacrifice their safety, privacy, and dignity so men can feel comfortable. I wasn’t just scared, I felt unsafe and I knew I wasn’t safe as soon as he walked into the bathroom. It was a gut feeling. That instinct is a woman’s greatest weapon and he’s asking us to lay our weapons down.

Presumably Thieme would say that girl is a transphobe who needed to see more penises when she was a little child to prepare her for that moment. Presumably that’s what she’d say to this girl, too—a sexual assault survivor who was told by the University of Pennsylvania swim team that she needed assistance from psychological services so she could get comfortable undressing in front of the male in her changeroom. Because girls—even vulnerable girls who have experienced abuse—don’t matter to activists like Thieme. They are merely the collateral damage in their transgender revolution, and they are expected to shut up, smile, and get with the program.