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The integrity of women's sports is at stake.' Distressed parents of UPenn swimmers pen letter demanding the NCAA change rules that permit trans Lia Thomas to dominate national college competition
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 15 December 2021 | SHAWN COHEN

Posted on 12/16/2021 10:48:47 AM PST by Mount Athos

'At stake here is the integrity of women's sports,' they wrote in the letter obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com. 'The precedent being set – one in which women do not have a protected and equitable space to compete – is a direct threat to female athletes in every sport. What are the boundaries? How is this in line with the NCAA's commitment to providing a fair environment for student-athletes?

The parents of about 10 swimmers banded together in October as Thomas' advantage became clear.

Earlier this month, Thomas broke two national records when she competed in the female races at the Zippy Invitational. She beat her teammate Anna Sofia Kalandadze out of first place by 38 seconds. She will be automatically entered to compete in the national championship meet in Atlanta in March 2022.

One of the swimmers told sports website OutKick that UPenn swimmers were upset and crying as they knew their times were going to be obliterated by her.

'Usually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race,' she said of the Zippy Invitational. 'Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there. When fellow Penn swimmer Anna Kalandadze finished second, the crowd erupted in applause.'

After the race, the teammate said, Thomas could be overheard bragging, 'That was so easy, I was cruising,' before adding, 'At least I'm still No. 1 in the country.'

The first female swimmer to speak out, anonymously, told OutKick that support is 'fake.'

'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 said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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1 posted on 12/16/2021 10:48:47 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

I wish them well, but the powers that be in the NCAA will be hard to shame.


2 posted on 12/16/2021 10:50:12 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: Mount Athos

They will get a visit from their friendly neighborhood FBI soon............


3 posted on 12/16/2021 10:50:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Mount Athos

Apparently the concept of shame doesn’t exist anymore.


4 posted on 12/16/2021 10:50:52 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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To: Mount Athos

Can one be a misogynists’ to a trans person?


5 posted on 12/16/2021 10:52:25 AM PST by SkyDancer ( I make airplanes fly, what's your super power?)
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To: Mount Athos
UPenn swimmers were upset and crying as they knew their times were going to be obliterated by her.

The media is repeating the lies.

6 posted on 12/16/2021 10:52:38 AM PST by PGR88
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To: Mount Athos

There’s an “s” on the front of the word “he” that shouldn’t be there.


7 posted on 12/16/2021 10:53:12 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Mount Athos

“The integrity of women’s sports is at stake”

Nope. Women’s sports is ruined and is over. Why a woman would actually compete in these utterly ridiculous charades is beyond me. Are women collegiate athletes so scared, so cowed that they accede to the fantasy that a man is a woman?

I appreciate how hard it is for them because they trained so hard all their lives to get where they are and win scholarships, but there must come a point where women say “Enough is enough. I cannot live this lie any longer. I quit.”


8 posted on 12/16/2021 10:54:18 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: Mount Athos
I am totally ambivalent about this. "Women's sports" directly contradicts the basic underlying principles of modern feminism.

If women are supposed to be equal to men, then they have no business competing in segregated sporting events in any government-funded institution.

9 posted on 12/16/2021 10:54:37 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("All lies and jest; still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.")
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To: bigbob

You wanted Woke? You got it.


10 posted on 12/16/2021 10:55:01 AM PST by Stevenfo
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To: Mount Athos

Women athletes should band together (or on their own) and refuse to compete with other mentally-challenged men who think they’re women. That would fix that problem.


11 posted on 12/16/2021 10:55:39 AM PST by lakecumberlandvet (Appeasement never works.)
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To: Mount Athos

This insanity could end right quick with a simple ruling that states if you want to compete as a woman you can’t bring a penis and testicles. Cut them off and you’re good to go. I’d bet 95 percent or more of these clowns slither away.


12 posted on 12/16/2021 10:55:43 AM PST by EERinOK
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To: Mount Athos

The feminists don’t care about women’s sports.
The feminists care about the revolution.


13 posted on 12/16/2021 10:57:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: Mount Athos

No female should compete. Leave the homo up on the block by himself. Parents arrange your own meets, just like a shadow government.


14 posted on 12/16/2021 10:59:23 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Mount Athos

Title IX ruined women’s sports.

When women demanded their daughter’s be able to play men’s sports this was going to happen.

I hate it. Do not support it. But actions have consequences.


15 posted on 12/16/2021 11:00:17 AM PST by redgolum (If this is civilization, I will be the barbarian. )
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To: Mount Athos

And as an aside, I would like to know how many of these girls filled their social media pages with LGBT support memes, etc.
Maybe they got what they asked for.


16 posted on 12/16/2021 11:00:53 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: Alberta's Child

You kinda have a point. Feminist ire is highly selective. Even non-feminist women are all about equality except for alimony, child custody, the draft, car insurance rates, etc.


17 posted on 12/16/2021 11:07:07 AM PST by Right Brother
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To: Mount Athos

At the next meet all the girls should suit up, get on the blocks, and when the starter gun goes off, step down, stand together as a team, and silently watch this freak race by himself, back and forth, lap after lap.


18 posted on 12/16/2021 11:09:53 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Mount Athos
If said parents are solid conservatives who simply allowed their daughters to attend said school because said daughters wanted to, and then all this happened, etc, I'm very sorry for their troubles. This demented perversity has permeated every fabric of our society.

I'm reminded of, ..And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Gen 6:5-6 .

But if said parents are liberals who are the prime movers/enablers of everything that is wrong with America? Tuff. Embrace the suck, you creeps.

19 posted on 12/16/2021 11:12:44 AM PST by LouAvul (Farewell America. We barely knew you. )
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To: Mount Athos

Unless the female swimmers refuse to compete against a male swimmer, nothing will change.


20 posted on 12/16/2021 11:13:25 AM PST by robel
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