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USA Swimming official quits over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas: ‘I can’t support this’
nypost.com ^ | December 24, 2021 | Joshua Rhett Miller

Posted on 12/25/2021 9:55:20 AM PST by lowbridge

A USA Swimming official resigned in protest of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, saying she can’t back a sport that allows “biological men” to compete alongside women.

Cynthia Millen, who had officiated USA Swimming meets for three decades, stepped down ahead of last week’s U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships in Greensboro, N.C.

“I can’t do this,” Millen wrote in her resignation letter, the Washington Examiner reported Thursday. “I can’t support this.”

Millen is now hoping others in the sport will agree that Thomas, 22, has an unfair advantage over female competitors after coming out as transgender in 2019 following three years on the men’s team at the University of Pennsylvania.

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“I told my fellow officials that I can no longer participate in a sport that allows biological men to compete against women,” Millen’s letter continued. “Everything fair about swimming is being destroyed.”

Millen said she would deem Thomas ineligible to compete if she were officiating a meet and called on her now-former colleagues to do the same.

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1 posted on 12/25/2021 9:55:20 AM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

XX = women

XY = men

All else is smoke snd mirrors


2 posted on 12/25/2021 9:58:45 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: Vaquero
XX = women
XY = men
All else is
leftist-perverted smoke snd mirrors
3 posted on 12/25/2021 10:01:07 AM PST by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: lowbridge

and the ones that don’t should, be ashamed of themselves...

but i guess they have none


4 posted on 12/25/2021 10:06:20 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: lowbridge

Thank you,Cynthia. What is wrong with people who don’t realize that no matter what a man does removing sexual organs and injecting chemicals - he cannot be a woman. This such a farce. This such a lie.


5 posted on 12/25/2021 10:06:44 AM PST by elpadre ( ying them.)
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To: Carl Vehse

Men will always be faster. They’ve got 2 ball bearings.


6 posted on 12/25/2021 10:07:15 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: lowbridge

They should just drop women’s sports. Require half the participants in sports to be women. That is what they are doing in the army, board rooms, company hires, etc. Just do it everywhere. The problems are just more obvious in sports. Bring it on.


7 posted on 12/25/2021 10:08:16 AM PST by alternatives?
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I understand scholarships could be at stake but I wish the swimmers themselves would refuse to compete against dude.


8 posted on 12/25/2021 10:08:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: lowbridge

BIGOT !!!


9 posted on 12/25/2021 10:10:55 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: lowbridge

This just proves that the feminist movement is a total scam, just another avenue for the Left to consolidate power and implement their communist fantasy. Just like the environmental movement and how blacks are militarized to stop so-called white supremacy. Otherwise, women everywhere would be screaming in outrage about this. Even Hillary Clinton should be denouncing this.


10 posted on 12/25/2021 10:12:37 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I understand scholarships could be at stake but I wish the swimmers themselves would refuse to compete against dude.

IF very female swimmer would take a stand for just one year, the charade would be over.

11 posted on 12/25/2021 10:13:08 AM PST by BipolarBob (WHY are there no Democrats on Mt. Rushmore?)
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To: lowbridge

So what does this guy do if another bigger faster man competes in the same female swim race ???

Does he cry “Unfair” when the other man wins ???


12 posted on 12/25/2021 10:13:16 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: lowbridge

Women as a majority vote for socialism in the names of equality and diversity. And then they complain when they get it.

Enjoy what you attained. I’ll watch it burn to the ground from the comfort of my recliner.


13 posted on 12/25/2021 10:13:58 AM PST by txeagle
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They ruined my military, and only have sports scholarships because they took mens scholarships. Time to reap it.


14 posted on 12/25/2021 10:20:31 AM PST by EEGator
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To: alternatives?

They should just drop women’s sports. Require half the participants in sports to be women.


But then they’d demand that half of the winners be women too. And then we’d be right back where we are now.


15 posted on 12/25/2021 10:21:40 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: lowbridge

The courts are at fault here and the laws that give preference to these When will the courts change this so people don’t have to quit their jobs over this. To declare this male a winner is doing harm to the young women who have worked their butts off for years. This tranny privilege is wrong. Common sense tells you so.


16 posted on 12/25/2021 10:24:20 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: DIRTYSECRET

And a stick shift.


17 posted on 12/25/2021 10:28:39 AM PST by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: lowbridge

The young ladies can take their complaints to the feminists and the weak men who gave them power. Will they put that together? No.

I’ve outgrown reacting to the whole long clown show that the tranny business is just the latest chapter of. In the words of Philip Marlowe, “There’s nothing there for me.”


18 posted on 12/25/2021 10:29:21 AM PST by Iowa Slim
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To: lowbridge
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.”

  - Ayn Rand

19 posted on 12/25/2021 10:30:36 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: alternatives?

Imagine the money the NFL would invest in “transforming” men into women.


20 posted on 12/25/2021 10:31:32 AM PST by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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