Posted on 03/21/2022 9:32:10 AM PDT by Morgana
Sharing a locker room with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has become a point of contention for some of her University of Pennsylvania teammates, who feel uncomfortable changing in the private space with someone undergoing gender transition, the DailyMail.com can reveal.
'It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,' one swimmer on the team told DailyMail.com in an exclusive interview.
Lia has told her teammates that she dates women.
While Lia covers herself with a towel sometimes, there’s a decent amount of nudity, the swimmer said. She and others have had a glimpse at her private parts.
She stated that team members have raised their concern with the coach, trying to get Thomas ousted from the female locker room, but got nowhere.
'Multiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,' the UPenn swimmer said. 'But we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there's nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.'
'It's really upsetting because Lia doesn't seem to care how it makes anyone else feel,' the swimmer continued. 'The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.'
She said UPenn's handling of the locker room issue is emblematic of the school's overall approach to the Lia Thomas controversy, with school bending over backwards to make Thomas feel welcome without seeming to care how it affects her teammates.
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But you can’t take some “discomfort”.
No pain, no gain, you phony cry-babies. !
You get no sympathy from me at all with your “discomfort”.
Bravo, Bravo, well put. These girls need to stiffen up their spines and go on the attack. Boycott the swim events, all of them. In unity there is strength. They aren’t going to have trouble if they ALL band together. You are exactly right MinuteGal. You voice my sentiments precisely. They need to stop the whining and DO something about this. Now.
“I’m tired of hearing Thomas referred to as she. HE is male, still has male parts and is biologically male. No amount of woke pronouns will change these facts. Thomas is a guy pulling a sick charade by posing not very convincingly as a female.”
I get really tired when watching Fox News and they have Caitlin Jenner (he/she) on because they like what he says, so they all call him “her”. Stop towing the woke party line Fox, and call him what he is, a MALE. Start sayin he/him, not she/her. Tell the truth, rather than parroting the lie. Get some cajones Fox.
towing = toeing above. Boo boo.
There is something they can do about. Every competition this guy participates in, the females should either refuse to mount the starting block or stand there when the starting gun goes off and not swim, letting the guy swim alone.
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