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Second female Penn swimmer steps forward, describes teammates in tears
Fox News ^ | Joe Kinsey

Posted on 12/11/2021 8:24:09 AM PST by george76

Penn administration 'strongly advise' its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding Thomas..

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Even after a Wednesday team meeting where a source says Penn administration "strongly advised" its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a second female Penn swimmer has stepped forward to speak out

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The second female Penn swimmer to speak out, who was granted anonymity due to what is viewed as threats from the university, activists, and the political climate, wants people to know that Penn swimmers are "angry" over the lack of fairness in the sport as Lia Thomas destroys the record books and brings fellow teammates to tears.

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The second Penn swimmer to come forward was at the University of Akron Zippy Invitational where she watched Lia Thomas beat fellow teammate Anna Kalandadze by 38 seconds in the 1650 freestyle. OutKick’s source described Penn swimmers on the Akron pool deck as upset and crying, knowing they were going to be demolished by Thomas.

They feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they’re going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they’re going to win and give it all they’ve got

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Now they’re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it’s really getting to everyone

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after the 200 freestyle, Thomas could be overheard bragging.

"That was so easy, I was cruising..

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the biological women are pretty much being told to shut their mouths and move along by the school and the NCAA.

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biological women will never be on an equal playing field with transgender females.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: college; collegeswimming; homosexualagenda; letsgopenn; liathomas; ncaa; pennadministration; pennlswimming; pennsylvania; swimming; transathlete; transgender; transmafia; transnazis; universityofpenn; women; womenssports; xyxx
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To: george76

Here’s the problem.

Just because a man says he is not a man doesn’t make him a woman. Isn’t that the binary thinking these people want us to move away from.

He should compete in the Trans category if he can’t compete as a man. Leave the women alone.


61 posted on 12/11/2021 8:53:22 AM PST by Tai_Chung
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To: george76
OutKick Exclusive: Second Female Penn Swimmer Steps ...
The faces of Lia Thomas
62 posted on 12/11/2021 8:53:32 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: EEGator

“Women shouldn’t be allowed to hold public office or vote.”

I’ve said the same and people here responded rather quietly. Any HONEST conservative woman knows that you are correct and would gladly give up their little vote, knowing that the country would, VERY QUICKLY, move back to the Constitution if we went back to the rules in place when it was written (only land-owning men being allowed to vote).

“An aside, no one gives a shit about women’s college swimming.”

Well, I did care about women’s volleyball, because the lezbos kept kicking me off of the basketball courts when they showed up.


63 posted on 12/11/2021 8:53:38 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: alternatives?

Their choices have destroyed the greatest country ever.
I give zero shits about chick swimmers.


64 posted on 12/11/2021 8:54:17 AM PST by EEGator
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To: george76

I will not be forced to play a part in someone else’s fetish or mental delusions. Non negotiable.


65 posted on 12/11/2021 8:54:24 AM PST by enduserindy (Brian Schnepf)
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To: george76

re: “Penn administration ‘strongly advise’ its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding Thomas.”

Cover up.

Change my mind.


66 posted on 12/11/2021 8:54:46 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: george76

I have a solution: there should be new leagues for transgender people ONLY. Three leagues: men, women, transgenders. Let the transgenders compete against each other, not women, then let’s see how many ‘records’ they’re breaking.


67 posted on 12/11/2021 8:55:02 AM PST by InGodsTruth
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To: traderrob6; SheepWhisperer
Many if not most are likely on partial or full athletic scholarships. They refuse to train, they give up their money.

Do it all - but when the competition comes, start from the blocks, and tread water.

68 posted on 12/11/2021 8:55:02 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: traderrob6

The women could tread water during the events.


69 posted on 12/11/2021 8:55:52 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: brownsfan
I have no sympathy for them. I have no sympathy for them.

Who says that the women pushing the lies are the ones getting clobbered in women's sports? The feminists pushing the lie get jobs in HR departments, law firms and governments don't feel the fallout. They are the ones in UPenn telling the girls to shut up and take it. Those types won't give up the con that "transwomen" are women. They cannot be shamed, and they gave up on fixed moral principles long ago. The Betty Friedan type feminists who don't like men masquerading as women to take over women's sports etc. are in a tiny minority, but the swimmers who are not necessarily feminists at all get victimized by the monster those types created.
70 posted on 12/11/2021 8:57:05 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
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To: Blurb2350
They should refuse to train (officially) and compete until this known cheater is booted from the team.

Any woman that quits in protests would be hounded endlessly by tranny social justice warriors. But, yes, they should. What's the point to train and compete if you have no chance to win?

71 posted on 12/11/2021 8:57:35 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: george76

The real women need to tell the administration where they can stick it. There is no such thing as a “transgender” woman or man. There may be men with their peckers cut off. But their DNA and bone structure is still male. They will play the “transgender” game as long as you want to play. And the biological women will lose every time. You[the Biological women] need to nip it in the bud before it goes any further. The College will not help you. You are on your own. Are you up to the task? Or do you even want to fight would be a better question and I believe I know the answer. It is a two letter word “N” and “O”.


72 posted on 12/11/2021 8:57:41 AM PST by sport
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To: EEGator

How? What money does Ivy League female swimming make?


Nothing. Virtually all women’s collegiate sports are funded by men’s football and basketball teams’ revenue. Title IX requires that women’s sports must get 50% of a college’s athletic funding. It is the reason that most men’s minor college sports have disappeared to be replaced by women’s teams.

That said, these young women have likely spent years training to be college (and hopefully Olympic) level swimmers. And now they are starting to lose their chances for whatever fame and glory comes from that because a guy, who was an indifferent-level male swimmer has joined their team and is now setting ‘women’s records’. And to make it worse, today TG rights trump women’s rights. If they speak publicly they’ll be kicked off of their team.


73 posted on 12/11/2021 8:57:51 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: traderrob6

Actually not really.

As Mark Levin says, go to school where you can afford to go to school.

If UPenn is not in the budget there are other schools. In any case life goes on, and those young ladies really don’t have to put up with this.


74 posted on 12/11/2021 8:57:54 AM PST by OKSooner ("AFTER THE FAIR TRIAL!" Always say "After the Fair Trial.". )
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To: hanamizu

I have zero sympathy.


75 posted on 12/11/2021 8:58:48 AM PST by EEGator
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To: george76
But they gots their feminizmz…

What a quandary…the feminists either have to acknowledge that there is a difference in capabilities between men and women, or never have a real woman ever win at sports again. Wait until it kicks in full at the Olympics.

Best part for the left here, is that it is mostly impacting their own and it is the most batshyte crazy factions amongst them, feminists and f@ckard insane pedo-trannies.

Have fun, bitches!

76 posted on 12/11/2021 8:59:26 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: george76

UPENN athletes, classmates and alumni must be so proud of the records “Lia” is crushing. They should consider renaming the Palestra or Franklin Field after “her.”

Disgusting!!!


77 posted on 12/11/2021 9:00:27 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: XRdsRev

re: “Anything a man can do, a woman can do but apparently not as fast.”

Except plumbing, as I understand it. (or any other really dirty job?)


78 posted on 12/11/2021 9:00:35 AM PST by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: hanamizu

“If they speak publicly they’ll be kicked off of their team.”

If they speak publicly they will have started their new life of character and integrity.


79 posted on 12/11/2021 9:01:00 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: irishjuggler

I do have sympathy for them because the girls in NCAA swimming are 18-22 year-old young women who’ve spent their nearly every day of their entire lives at the pool training to get where they are. It’s ridiculous to blame *them* for the LGBTQ/feminist/liberal/woke idiocy that’s been in the works for 50 years to get us to this point of absurdity where men pretending to be women get to compete in absurdity. These swimmers didn’t create this world, yet they’re being punished.


Agree. This is why we elect leaders. There are 29 GOP governors. Trey should be shutting down this nonsense in half the country and telling the NCAA to pound sand.

Unfortunately, there is currently no opposition party to the Marxist agenda. The GOP couldn’t care less about “social issues” because their big donors don’t care.


80 posted on 12/11/2021 9:01:00 AM PST by lodi90
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