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.
The headshot is bad enough, but don’t you dare post a full-body photo of this thing!
“Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport”
What an uneducated moron.
What is that supposed to mean?
What is the point of women’s sports when you let men compete?
When the WNBA opens to trans men players, even the lesbians will be outplayed.
And while I’m ranting, please get rid of women officials and commentators in men’s sports.
I agree with you regarding liberal women, most of whom have never competed in any athletic competition whatsoever. However, parents of girls in general need to rise up against this insanity.
oh, the fat and pregnant argument..well there you go....
hey how about maybe boys stop wasting their time on ultimately frivolous pursuits like sports and actually learn how to work....
What the hell????
Liar, cheat, thief.
Do you have kids?
If you did you’d know its far better to have your daughter in the pool after school and on weekends then at the mall.
Swim kids are, as a rule, highly motivated. Their enthusiasm and training translates very well into becoming top students. Very common for swim kids to be straight-A and even skipped grades, had quite a few taking college courses while in HS while in bc they already took everything offered by the HS. Also widely shun drugs, drinking bc it interferes with practice and competition.
As a bonus, you get your kids used to and enjoying being strong & fit and seeing their friends strong & fit. Healthy and active lifestyle becomes the norm. Fat, weak, slow and slovenly is repulsive to them.
So which path would you steer your kids through?
Or did you just buy them an X-Box and sit them on a couch with a bag of Cheetos?
I want to see Russia and China feature an all male “female” Olympic squad.
This needs to get crammed down the throats of the “woke”.
A piece of crap by any other name is still a piece of crap.
“However, parents of girls in general need to rise up against this insanity. “
I agree. But the 64K question is, will they do it? There are some women that are real fighters, but sadly the majority tends to not want to ruffle feathers, and be “mean” and “non-inclusive” so they go along to get along.
What do you think, will enough of them rise up?
Probably not (for reasons that you well stated), but I'd love to be proven wrong.
Why bother doing any sports at all if they’re going to let in mentally ill males to beat all the women. It’s pointless.
Yup.
I’ve said this on previous Title IX threads. It’s bad enough when trannies compete in women’s events in swimming, track and field, etc. Watch what happens when biological men compete in women’s lacrosse or women’s hockey. Some girls are going to get badly injured or killed. Competing in contact sports will end many girl’s careers. Competing in collision sports will end their lives.
That’s a man Baby! 😏
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