Three years as a collegiate male swimmer, and now he's breaking records.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

Now, to hear the NCAA tell the story, an average swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania

became a nationally ranked superstar overnight.

But check the receipts, and we learn.

Will Thomas only started breaking records and winning meets by comically huge margins

when he began going by and swimming as

Leah Thomas this past year. This is happening in sports at all levels, but swimming especially

offers a clear picture of what allowing men to compete against women means. Success in swimming is

heavily dependent on physiology, the length of the body, the body's center of gravity, even

the placement of a person's belly button can mean the difference between an average swimmer

and a major competitor.

A man can call himself whatever he wants.

He can even take dangerous hormone supplements, but his belly button is not going anywhere.

And this sort of let's all pretend we don't know what's actually happening here.

Groupthink isn't good for college swimming.

And it isn't good for anyone.

Not Leah Thomas, not his teammates, not his competitors.

I don't care how fast he swims.

No man really breaks a woman's record.

I'm John Stone Street.