Posted on 12/02/2021 12:06:28 PM PST by Red Badger
A University of Pennsylvania “women’s” swimmer named Lia Thomas, who used to go by Will as a member of the men’s swimming team, is smashing records and has many wondering if Olympic superstar Katie Ledecky will be soon losing races to a transgender competitor.
At a November 20 tri-meet with Cornell and Princeton, Lia Thomas “blasted the No. 1 200 free time and the second-fastest 500 free time in the nation, breaking Penn program records in both events. She swept the 100-200-500 free individual events and contributed to the first-place 400 free relay,” according to SwimSwam.com, a website dedicated to collegiate swimming.
Will Thomas, a native of Austin, Texas, competed for the Penn men’s swimming team for three seasons before taking off the pandemic year. During the 2018-19 season, Will was second-team All-Ivy League in the 500 freestyle, 1,000 free and 1,650 free. In 2019-20, Thomas competed in four of Penn’s eight regular-season events. According to the Penn swimming archives, Will Thomas last competed for the men’s team on November 16, 2019.
Lia Thomas / Penn Swimming
“Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding,” Thomas told the campus student newspaper in June.
Based on the times Thomas has put up so far this fall, Lia’s definitely not lying.
SwimSwam reports that Thomas’ 200 freestyle time of 1:43:47 would have won her a silver medal at the 2021 NCAA Women’s Championships. Her 4:35:06 in the 500 freestyle would’ve been good for bronze at the 2021 Championships.
So how are the biological women supposed to beat Thomas? Is this fair based on the NCAA rules? The NCAA has said, based on its policy, that biological women just need to suck it up and deal with it.
“A trans female treated with testosterone suppression medication may continue to compete on a men’s team but may not compete on a women’s team without changing it to a mixed team status until completing one year of testosterone suppression treatment,” the NCAA’s policy states.
“A trans male who has received a medical exemption for treatment with testosterone is no longer eligible to compete on a women’s team without changing that team status to a mixed team.”
One year of testosterone suppression treatment and you can get right out there with the women and kick their asses. That’s the rule.
Is it fair? We’ll need to hear from the biological women who are losing pool time and races to Will/Lia Thomas, if they’re even allowed to give an honest answer.
War against women.
Only ugly “women” need apply.
He is SO getting laid !
But he’ll always be a homo, a homo with an asterisk by his name.
Anything “she” does should have an asterisk after it.
Most of these trannies are cross-dressing heterosexual men who think lesbians should have sex with them.
“War against women.”
Because of women. It started with the fag hags, then more chicks were fine with faggots.
This is the logical extension of the 19th Amendment.
Turns out absurdity has a price. And it’s pretty high.
His parents must be so proud.
Yep. I’m glad there’s not a swimsuit photo of this “women’s” swim team.
Good gosh.
hahahahahahaha
“War against women.”
Women have been the most accepting of the LGBTQRSTUV insanity.
So I’m having trouble working up a whole lot of sympathy for them.
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