Transgender Swimmer Dominating Women's Circuit After Competing on Men's Team for Years

[mystery-ak]

Transgender Swimmer Dominating Women's Circuit After Competing on Men's Team for Years
 By Jack Davis  November 30, 2021 at 5:11pm

One of the most impressive swimmers for the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swimming team is a man.

“Lia” Thomas, who spent November grabbing first-place finishes and setting records, swam for Penn as Will Thomas for three years. After taking the 2020-21 season off, the transgender athlete returned to the pool with a vengeance now that he can compete against women.

On Nov. 5, Thomas won the 200-meter freestyle and 100-meter freestyle in a meet against Columbia, according to SwimSwam.com.

His time in the 200-meter freestyle that day (1:46.92) was ninth-best in the NCAA so far this season.

https://twitter.com/coachblade/status/1465517693386121217

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https://www.westernjournal.com/transgender-swimmer-dominating-womens-circuit-competing-mens-team-years/

[Smokin Joe]

This is making a mockery of "Women's Rights", by letting biological males step in and compete...either that or the whole "anything you can do I can do better" bit is falling apart at the seams as second or third string biologically male athletes grab the prizes.

And I remember when we looked askance at hairy armed Russian woman shotputters in the Olympics...

[mountaineer]

OutKick Exclusive: Penn Trans Swimmer’s Teammate Speaks Out As Lia Thomas Smashes More Records
by Joe Kinsey
 about 6 hours ago   updated about 2 hours ago   

While University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who spent three years at the Ivy League school swimming as a male, has been busy smashing female pool records, friction has been building within the team, according to a Penn female swimmer who said she feared for her ability to find employment after graduating from college for sharing her honest opinion about a transgender teammate. For that reason, OutKick is granting her anonymity to speak out.

Thomas’ latest round of swimming record destruction came at a three-day meet in Akron, Ohio where numerous pool, meet and program records weren’t just destroyed but lowered to a point where they may never be broken. Friday, the Ivy League 500 freestyle record was broken. Saturday, Thomas set the nation’s best time in the 200 freestyle, which also destroyed pool, meet, and Penn program records. ...

“Pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this. Our coach [Mike Schnur] just really likes winning. He’s like most coaches. I think secretly everyone just knows it’s the wrong thing to do,” the female Penn swimmer said during a phone interview.

“When the whole team is together, we have to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, go Lia, that’s great, you’re amazing.’ It’s very fake,” she added. ...

While the sports policymakers are busy figuring out what those future rules look like to protect the space that biological women have fought for, members of the Penn women’s swim team are left trying to make sense of what is becoming of their sport in 2021 and what the future might look like.

“When I have kids, I kinda hope they’re all boys because if I have any girls that want to play sports in college, good luck. [Their opponents] are all going to be biological men saying that they’re women,” Thomas’ teammate told OutKick. “Right now we have one, but what if we had three on the team? There’d be three less girls competing.”

Full story at Outkick. Tomorrow they'll have another interview with a second teammate of "Lia."

[GtHawk]

Used to be when a man could no longer compete at a level to win he retired, now he just claims to suddenly be a woman and Shazam! he can suddenly compete at a level to win again..........against actual biological women aaaaand all the feminists are silent.

[LegalAmerican]

This is NO win,  for that coward.  Just delusional...like him thinking he is a woman.  He can't win unless, he steps into woman's arena.  CRASS.

[mountaineer]

"Female" swimmer is interviewed:

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1469044358271938568

[mountaineer]

A second female swimmer on the Penn team comes forward:

OutKick Exclusive: Second Female Penn Swimmer Steps Forward, Describes Teammates In Tears
by Joe Kinsey
 about 4 hours agoupdated about 3 hours ago      


Even after a Wednesday team meeting where a source says Penn administration “strongly advised” its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a second female Penn swimmer has stepped forward to speak out via an exclusive interview with OutKick.

The second female Penn swimmer to speak out, who was granted anonymity due to what is viewed as threats from the university, activists, and the political climate, wants people to know that Penn swimmers are “angry” over the lack of fairness in the sport as Lia Thomas destroys the record books and brings fellow teammates to tears.

The second Penn swimmer to come forward was at the University of Akron Zippy Invitational where she watched Lia Thomas beat fellow teammate Anna Kalandadze by 38 seconds in the 1650 freestyle. OutKick’s source described Penn swimmers on the Akron pool deck as upset and crying, knowing they were going to be demolished by Thomas.

“They feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they’re going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they’re going to win and give it all they’ve got,” the source said. ...

After just five meets and the Akron Invitational, Thomas has not just destroyed opponents. The Penn freestyle records are being rewritten by a swimmer who was second-team All-Ivy league in 2018-19 — as a male....

Full story at Outkick

[rustynail]

Girls will just have to try harder and take 'roids.

[Kamaji]

All of the actual women swimmers should simply refuse to swim whenever this political farce steps up to the pool.  Let him swim alone, in splendid isolation.

[LegalAmerican]

All of the actual women swimmers should simply refuse to swim whenever this political farce steps up to the pool.  Let him swim alone, in splendid isolation.

 

Mental illness and we have to believe it!  HA!   

[Hoodat]

"They feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they’re going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they’re going to win and give it all they’ve got," the source said.

"Now they’re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it’s really getting to everyone."

After just five meets and the Akron Invitational, Thomas has not just destroyed opponents. The Penn freestyle records are being rewritten by a swimmer who was second-team All-Ivy league in 2018-19 — as a male.

Akron was an absolute beatdown by Thomas, but it wasn’t without disgust from fans who were in the building watching meet, pool, and school records drop one after the other.

"Usually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race. Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there," OutKick’s source said during a phone interview.

"When [Penn swimmer] Anna [Kalandadze] finished second, the crowd erupted in applause."

Friday, Thomas set a new 500 freestyle Ivy League record. Saturday saw Thomas touch the wall in the 200 freestyle, which is now the nation’s fastest time in the event. And then there was the 1650 that left fans in disgust.

OutKick’s source said that after the 200 freestyle, Thomas could be overheard bragging.

"That was so easy, I was cruising," Lia Thomas allegedly said.

Consider another irony here.  If one of the women athletes began taking testosterone supplements to enhance her muscular ability, she would be banned from competition for violating drug rules.  Yet the male athlete has a natural abundance of testosterone in his system.  Perhaps he should be subject to the same drug restrictions as the women.  Or better yet, if you want to compete with the girls, then have your balls removed.

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‘So Easy I was Cruising’: Trans U. Penn Swimmer Bragged About Beating Female Opponents

Warner Todd Huston 13 Dec 2021

Transgender University of Pennsylvania swim team member Lia Thomas taunted natural-born female opponents saying that beating them was “so easy I was cruising,” according to one swimming team member.

The claim came from a second female swimmer who recently spoke out to Outkick. The woman told the site that Thomas, who competed on the male swim team for three years before turning up as a transgender woman, joked about how easy it was to beat all the natural-born women at swim meets.

“That was so easy, I was cruising,” the woman said that Thomas boasted after a recent win. Thomas also reportedly said, “At least I’m still No. 1 in the country,” in front of teammates.

The U Penn swimmer also said that coaches and university flaks told the girls that they are “strongly advised” not to talk about Thomas outside the school.

Outkick initially reported that a swimmer — who needed to stay anonymous to avoid having her life ruined by the woke mob — said that Thomas’ teammates were very unhappy about Thomas smashing female records all over the place. And now, this second swimmer is substantiating the claim that the other swimmers are not pleased with the situation.

https://twitter.com/PennSwimDive/status/1466951187127803912

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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2021/12/13/so-easy-i-was-cruising-trans-upenn-swimmer-bragged-about-beating-female-opponents/

[DB]

Just get rid of male and female segregated sports. Really make the competition equal. Let everyone compete for the same prize. There will be very few female winners that are biologically female but that's what the Woke morons have brought to modern feminism.

Winning one of the four yearly tennis opens is worth about 3 to 4 million dollars... When one of the guys in the top 50 decide to compete as a "female" the payout will be fantastic...

[rangerrebew]

 Teammates Of The Trans College Swimmer Have Spoken Up And They Are NOT Happy!

Amid a record-breaking season, University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas is making waves, both literally and figuratively, as the transgender athlete continues to dominate in the pool. But the natural-born female teammates of Thomas are not happy about it.

Her controversial success in the women’s swimming competitions prompted intense criticism from many outside the sport.

And now, an anonymous teammate expressed a huge unfairness of the whole situation during an interview with OutKick, saying that Thomas is a source of friction among the women’s swim team at Penn.

SwimSwam has not independently verified that the comments in the report or that they belonged to a member of the Penn women’s team.

The Penn swimmer said that the members of the team have been vocal with the coaches regarding the fact that they aren’t entirely comfortable with Thomas being on the women’s team.

https://dailyallegiant.com/teammates-of-the-trans-college-swimmer-have-spoken-up-and-they-are-not-happy/?utm_source=DA-Mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:35298618&utm_campaign=12-15%207AM

[rangerrebew]

These complaining women need to shut up and just accept the fact these men are women, in violation of science.  Democrats and rinos know what is best for you and being winners isn't one of them.

[jmyrlefuller]

These complaining women need to shut up and just accept the fact these men are women, in violation of science.  Democrats and rinos know what is best for you and being winners isn't one of them.

Now hold on a moment. It isn't science unless Anthony Fauci says so.

[mountaineer]

Lia Thomas accused of losing race to ‘prove the point’ of level playing field
by Heather Hamilton, Social Media Reporter
 | January 20, 2022 10:27 AM

A teammate of Lia Thomas, a transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer, suggested Thomas intentionally lost a recent race to prove there is a level playing field.

During a Jan. 8 tri-meet with Yale and Dartmouth, Thomas finished a 100-meter freestyle race with a time of 52.84, while Yale swimmer Iszac Henig, who is transitioning from female to male, touched with a time of 49.57.  ...

“Looking at [Lia’s] time, I don’t think she was trying,” Thomas’s teammate, who was granted anonymity based on threats from university activists, told Outkick. “I know they’re friends, and I know they were talking before the meet. I think she let [Henig] win to prove the point that, ‘Oh see, a female-to-male beat me.'”  ...

Washington Examiner

I'm starting to get the impression that every other college kid is really, really mentally ill.

[Kamaji]

16 Penn swimmers say Lia Thomas should be barred from competition

By Jared Schwartz
February 4, 2022

In response to the NCAA’s recently updated transgender policy, Lia Thomas’ teammates have spoken out against her.

Sixteen members of the University of Pennsylvania’s women’s swimming team, in a letter sent Thursday to school and Ivy League officials, asked that they not take legal action challenging the recent policy change. The updated NCAA policy has the power to remove Thomas, a transgender woman, from competing at next month’s NCAA championships.

Thomas competed for the Penn men’s team for three seasons before undergoing more than two years of hormone replacement therapy as part of her transition. She now competes on the Penn women’s swim team, and has dominated NCAA competition: She has posted the fastest times of any female college swimmer in two separate events this season.

Thomas’ dominance in the women’s field has sparked debate about competitive fairness within the Quakers’ team and throughout the sport.

“We fully support Lia Thomas in her decision to affirm her gender identity and to transition from a man to a woman. Lia has every right to live her life authentically,” the letter from her teammates read, per the Washington Post. “However, we also recognize that when it comes to sports competition, that the biology of sex is a separate issue from someone’s gender identity. Biologically, Lia holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women’s category, as evidenced by her rankings that have bounced from #462 as a male to #1 as a female.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/02/04/16-penn-swimmers-say-lia-thomas-should-be-barred-from-competition/

[mystery-ak]

NCAA Clears the Way for Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas to Compete in Women’s National Championships

Penny Starr 14 Feb 2022

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced it will force transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to comply with new rules extending the time trans athletes had to demonstrate lowered testosterone levels.

The move means University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who competed for the men’s team for three years before “identifying” as a woman, can compete in the women’s national championship.

“The subcommittee decided implementing additional changes at this time could have unfair and potentially detrimental impacts on schools and student-athletes intending to compete in 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships,” the NCAA said in a statement.

According to Bleacher Report:

    The NCAA said transgender athletes will only have to comply with rules set forth under a 2010 policy that requires male-to-female transgender athletes have less than 10 nanomoles per liter of testosterone in their blood.

    A new USA Swimming policy, which was announced last week, allows for a maximum of five nanomoles per liter of testosterone and must be demonstrated for a 36-month period.

Thomas holds the top times in the NCAA in two events and is considered to be a strong contender to win a national championship.

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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/02/14/ncaa-clears-way-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-to-compete-in-womens-national-championships/

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Trans Swimmers Post Fastest Times at Ivy League Championships

Warner Todd Huston 17 Feb 2022

Two transgender swimmers blew away the competition Wednesday at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming Championships by posting the fastest times in the 800-yard freestyle relay.

The two swimmers, Lia Thomas and Iszac Henig swam the fastest split times on Wednesday night, adding more controversy to the topic of transgender athletes.

Lia Thomas has been the focus of controversy for the entire University of Pennsylvania swimming season for being biologically male but competing as a woman and posting times that have shattered women’s swimming records. And on Wednesday, Thomas added to that controversial record by posting the fastest time of the meet with a 1:44:50 in the first leg of the race, according to the Daily Mail.

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https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2022/02/17/trans-swimmers-post-fastest-times-ivy-league-championships/