Thomas (pictured in 2016 and 2017, respectively) was a star swimmer in high school. His Name was WILL THOMAS.
Posted on 12/16/2021 9:21:40 PM PST by SeekAndFind
After biological male transgender swimmer Lia Thomas dominated women’s events at the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron earlier this month, athletes have expressed their frustrations at the fact that a man pretending to be a woman is setting records and overshadowing actual women in NCAA competitions.
Last week here at PJ Media, my esteemed colleague Robert Spencer noted that Thomas’ fellow swimmers — the real women swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania — are secretly unhappy with their teammate.
Behind the façade of joy and pride in Thomas’ accomplishments is growing discontent with the devaluation of women’s athletics that the participation of men who are pretending to be women has brought about. One UPenn swimmer, who is remaining anonymous for obvious reasons, revealed Thursday that “pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this. Our coach [Mike Schnur] just really likes winning. He’s like most coaches. I think secretly everyone just knows it’s the wrong thing to do. 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.”
Thomas’ fellow swimmer points out that his command of the swimming lanes is even more unnatural because Penn isn’t exactly an NCAA swimming powerhouse.
Thomas’ outspoken teammate put all this in context: “The Ivy League is not a fast league for swimming, so that’s why it’s particularly ridiculous that we could potentially have an NCAA champion. That’s unheard of coming from the Ivy League. On paper, if Lia Thomas gets back down to Will Thomas’ best times, those numbers are female world records. Faster than all the times Katie Ledecky went in college. Faster than any other Olympian you can think of.
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“At stake here is the integrity of women’s sports,” the group of 10 parents wrote. “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 Daily Mail reports why the parents are so concerned for their daughters on the swim team.
One parent, who asked not to be identified for fear of repercussions for herself and her daughter, told DailyMail.com, ‘The swimmers have mixed feelings. Many of them want to speak up, but they don’t because they believe they’ll be ostracized.
‘Everybody is scared,’ the mom added. ‘Parents are also scared that the kids will be harmed. We are paying $80,000 for this school. Their life will be impacted.’
The letter went to both the NCAA and the university on Dec. 5. The NCAA has yet to respond, but the University of Pennsylvania weighed in. The school’s brief reply centered on the acceptance of all athletes — especially Thomas — and invoked that magical liberal totem of inclusivity.
We need to be trans-exclusive as a civilization.
Outlawing homosexual acts again would also be a good idea.
Excluding … darn autocorrect.
When a culture embraces hedonistic decadence, the wholesome and rational gets destroyed. They cannot co-exist.
Never let crazy dictate normal.
We must take back the language and stop using “trans…” and stop calling people by pronouns that are incorrect. If an obvious man is going by a female first name, he should be called Mr. and whatever his last name is. Do not enable this societal mental illness!
So now he’s a guy with longer hair?
If they’re really so unhappy about it, then quit or BOYCOTT the team, until he’s the only one left on it.
I see one solution which is. Let transgender compete against transgender and males as well as females against their own God given sex. Just because some ignorant mixed-up male thinks he is a woman doesn’t make it so. Mother Nature isn’t easy to defeat.
I see one solution which is. Let transgender compete against transgender and males as well as females against their own God given sex. Just because some ignorant mixed-up male thinks he is a woman doesn’t make it so. Mother Nature isn’t easy to defeat.
That’s a man Baby!
“… the real women swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania…”
How dare they!
/sarc
I can only wonder whether any of this will affect the future voter trends of its teammates. Enjoy, ladies! Thank your moms!
That's how he had to compete. Bulging out in some places, fabric hanging loosely from other places.
I'm sure the "drag" from the bathing suit would take a few seconds off his/her score.
"...we have to be like, ‘Oh my gosh, go Lia, that’s great, you’re amazing.’ It’s very fake."
"The swimmers have mixed feelings. Many of them want to speak up, but they don’t because they believe they’ll be ostracized."
The insane leftists have everybody so scared in the country that few will speak up about the reality of the situation, that MEN pretending to be women are beating REAL women in physical contests.
Until people get over their fear of the "cancel culture," nothing will change. When the NORMALS begin speak up in unison against the FREAKS then things will change. Or when the NORMALS being to seriously protest and not show up for meets with pretend women.
That’s EXACTLY the only solution there will be for women’s sports, leave the Penn State WOMENS SWIM TEAM with one MALE versus all the FEMALES in the other schools.
PECKERWOOD couldn’t honestly compete at the college level with other normal males so he decides to become a woman, PUULEASE!
Penn State can really show the world how great their sports teams are run!
At least Sleepy Joe is not writing any mean tweets so we are better off as a country today.
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