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Outraged Parents of Female Swimmers Lash Out at NCAA Over Transgender Swimmer's Dominance
PJ Media ^ | 12/16/2021 | Chris Queen

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: education; liathomas; ncaa; parents; sports; swimming; transathlete; transgender; women; womenssports
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To: SeekAndFind

Thomas will be swimming in the next Olympics, unless the rational ideology can boycott Olympics, or female Olympians refuse to swim against a man, or something to convince these science deniers to stop their balderdash.


21 posted on 12/17/2021 1:09:02 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: 5th MEB

That idea sounds better and better. The coach might get it, too.


22 posted on 12/17/2021 1:14:14 AM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: SeekAndFind

If all those folks are so enraged, can’t they cough up a few bucks to make an example of what happens the next time queers invade women sports?


23 posted on 12/17/2021 2:44:49 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Dr. Pritchett

“… the real women swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania…”


Probably a T-shirt opportunity there... somehow I doubt that it would be available through Penn’s Student Bookstore, however.


24 posted on 12/17/2021 3:12:37 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: 5th MEB

Penn is an Ivy League school located in West Philly. Penn State if located in state college, PA in north central Pennsylvania. Two different schools.


25 posted on 12/17/2021 3:14:27 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: SeekAndFind

My ENTIRE LIFE I’ve heard that women are ‘equal’ to men. So it seems to me that the other girls on this team are spending too much time in the ‘books’ and not enough time in the pool.

They need learn to TRY HARDER and make that commitment, rather than trying to exclude women from other backgrounds, just because they’re lazy.


26 posted on 12/17/2021 5:30:40 AM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: SeekAndFind

How many of these parents were turned off by Trump tweets and voted Democrat?

Clinking glasses at the Biden inauguration block party. Smiles and high fives everywhere.

Now your daughters cry themselves to sleep at night.

Stupid humans, they’re everywhere.


27 posted on 12/17/2021 5:31:45 AM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: SeekAndFind

But yet those same parents continue to pay thousands in tuition to that horrible sxhool.


28 posted on 12/17/2021 5:53:32 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Bingo! Useful idiots...all of them.


29 posted on 12/17/2021 5:54:13 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: joma89

RE: thousands in tuition to that horrible sxhool.

I think if you’re an athlete, they give you scholarship. And hey, UPenn is Ivy League, founded by Ben Franklin himself (I can picture him turning over his grave).


30 posted on 12/17/2021 5:56:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: freemama

I use the pronoun “It”.

If the language police don’t like it, tough.


31 posted on 12/17/2021 6:01:32 AM PST by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: SeekAndFind

All it took was a few sane people to speak out. At first it was a trickle, then a stream, and now it looks like the sanity continues to build into a river.


32 posted on 12/17/2021 6:43:22 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

In sense, I agree with you. They voted for it.


33 posted on 12/17/2021 6:46:50 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

“How many of these parents were turned off by Trump tweets and voted Democrat?”

I don’t know. How many!? Do you know? Or simply speculating?


34 posted on 12/17/2021 8:52:15 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

What you do is when the whistle blows, everyone but this guy stays poolside. Let him compete and win against himself.


35 posted on 12/17/2021 8:54:21 AM PST by Rastus
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To: Tallguy

I’m a westerner, don’t know anything about the eastern schools, so my apologies if I got them wrong.

But my opinion on how to fix this IDIOCY still stands.


36 posted on 12/17/2021 4:57:00 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Tallguy

I’m a westerner, don’t know anything about the eastern schools, so my apologies if I got them wrong.

But my opinion on how to fix this IDIOCY still stands.


37 posted on 12/17/2021 4:57:00 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: SeekAndFind
If we didn't have such an effed up judiciary, this would be considered a Title IX violation.

If this guy had any shame he wouldn't be competing against biological women, but I suppose you have to be pretty screwed up to be a biological man thinking he's woman.

38 posted on 12/17/2021 5:03:19 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: SeekAndFind

Trannies embrace evil.


39 posted on 12/17/2021 5:06:05 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Ivies don’t give scholarships, athletic or otherwise. But they give very generous financial aid compared to most other schools. And have lower academic standards for athletes.


40 posted on 12/17/2021 5:12:15 PM PST by sitetest (Professional patient. No longer mostly dead. Again. It's getting to be a habit.)
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