Posted on 07/27/2023 5:15:13 PM PDT by Morgana
One of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas' former teammates at the University of Pennsylvania has bashed the school for making female athletes undress beside the 6-foot-4 biological male '18 times a week.'
Paula Scanlan, a former NCAA Division I swimmer, told lawmakers that university officials refused to hear complaints from the women athletes and instead said they should be 'reeducated'.
Whether to let trans women compete in women's sports is a frontline issue in America's culture wars between progressives and conservatives. It played out in the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
'My teammates and I were forced to undress in the presence of Lia, a 6-foot-4 tall, biological male, with fully intact male genitalia, 18 times per week,' Scanlan told the committee.
'Some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls and others used the family bathroom to avoid this.'
When the women swimmers complained to the athletic department, they were told Thomas' presence was 'non-negotiable' and were offered counselling to 'reeducate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male,' she added.
'To sum up the university's response, we, the women, were the problem, not the victims,' Scanlan said.
'We were expected to conform, to move over and shut up. Our feelings didn't matter. The university was gaslighting and fearmongering women to validate the feelings and identity of a male.'
Last year, Lia Thomas became the first trans woman to win an NCAA swimming title at the Ivy League U-Penn. Thomas had previously competed on the male team. She began transitioning in 2019 and joined the female team in 2021.
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pride and temptation
they should jump him, hold him down and cut off his dick, then he could be one of them. All trannies that want to join female sports should have their dick cut off to prove they are really a woman “inside”. within a month, there would be no men wanting to be on the woman’s teams.
She did testify that girls fled to the bathrooms to change, so they were rebelling in some form at the time.
Remember, scholarships were at stake, which meant their education (let alone their athletics) was also at stake. They didn't like it, but were moving cautiously until all the players in this nasty game took sides.
-PJ
“were offered counselling to ‘reeducate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male,’”
Are there no enterprising lawyers out there who would like to take a big chunk out of an easy “hostile environment” lawsuit???
“Schools can also be held responsible for the consequences stemming from a failure to take immediate, appropriate steps to respond to a complaint about harassment or bullying, terminate it, and discipline the offending party, be it an employee or another student. When a school has knowledge that a hostile environment exists but does not act on this knowledge, it can be viewed as giving tacit approval to this activity. In such cases, school districts have been found liable for enabling hostile school environment that prevents students from learning.”
https://education-expert.com/2014/07/harassment-hostile-school-environment-lawsuits/
“The only law Congress needs to pass is the Biology Affirmation Act...”
I’m afraid that’s not enough, since the Obama and Biden administrations expanded the definition of the word “sex” in federal anti-discrimination laws to include first “sexual orientation”, and now “gender identity”. The courts have already allowed the first expansion, and I have no confidence they won’t allow the second.
So really Congress needs to pass another law, let’s call it the “Words Mean Things” law, which says “When we say “sex” in a law, it only means “sex” and not whatever definitions someone wants to expand that word to later”.
This is about conditioning a generation to believe what they are told no matter how much the statements don’t agree with factual science.
Pravda (Russian for “truth”...yeah.) on steroids!
There is no Izvestiya in Pravda, and there is no Pravda in Izvestiya.
The fat man in the women’s sorority got obvious erections and would hold a pillow in his lap. But the actual females who were traumatized by him were the problem....../s
DEMOCRATS ARE EVIL.
They were on a scholarship and would lose it if they did not.
And every girl who ever wore a short skirt and makeup was just asking to be raped, too.
If actually needed ---- /sarc
And you would be wrong. UPenn is uber-leftist and is Joe Biden's fiefdom. After he had China give Penn a lot of money, Penn named him to a prestigious position, and Biden then appointed Penn president Amy Gutman as Ambassador to Germany.
Im for such an act. However since democrats cannot identify what a woman is now in 2023, we’re not going to get it passed.
On a serious note, modern women have pushed all this perversion and derided anyome opposed to it. Now that they feel uncomfortable now they demand exemptions from the perversion they’ve been in favor of the last 50+ years.
No scholarships at Penn.
Financial hardship scholarships only.
“They should form a class action lawsuit against U Penn”
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This! And why the h3ll don’t any of the womens teams up and quit, or protest by not participating at an actual event en masse???
Stand up already, enough is enough!
If you’re willing to put up w that cr@p just to go to Penn, or some other fancy school, well, just eat it then!
If you’re tired of it, sit out games as a whole, or transfer to another school like PSU 9if Pennsylvania), or another state school!
In general they should boycott any event that includes males competing in the same event.
Sue everyone personally.
I agree, but that’s on them.
What percentage of Ivy Leaguer white women are Democrat voters?
None of these women had to do anything.
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