Lia Thomas, the formerly male swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania continues to rack up wins over biological females.
In fact, Thomas picked up a championship win on Thursday.
FOX News reports:
Lia Thomas picks up victory in 500 free national championshipLia Thomas is a national champion.The transgender Penn swimmer, whose participation in college women’s swimming sparked a national debate, finished the 500-yard freestyle with a 4:33.24 and picked up the victory. According to the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas set a program record with the mark.Thomas was about three seconds off Georgia Tech’s pool record, which was set by Leah Smith of Virginia in 2016 with a mark of 4:30.81. Katie Ledecky holds the NCAA record with a 4:24.06 at the national championships.In this race, Thomas beat out Virginia freshman Emma Weyant by more than one second and Texas freshman Erica Sullivan by at least two. Brooke Forde, who won a silver medal at the Olympics in Tokyo over the summer in the 4×200-meter freestyle, raced for Stanford and finished in fourth with a 4:36.18.
If you ignore the liberal media spin about social change and just pay attention to the crowd, you get a different sense of how people feel about this.
In this video, the crowd doesn’t cheer until the first and second biological females finish:
In this video you can clearly hear a woman yell “He’s a man!” as Thomas is shown on a large screen:
Here, a young female student describes the sadness of a friend who lost a slot:
Many of the women who disagree with what’s happening here are remaining silent out of fear. That’s exactly what the social justice left is counting on.
Madeline Leesman writes at Townhall:
Female UPenn Swimmer: Lia Thomas’ Participation ‘Completely Ruined the Integrity of the Sport’An anonymous female swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania said in an interview this week that she fears the impact of biological male William “Lia” Thomas’ participation in the 2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships has “completely ruined the integrity of the sport.”The anonymous student-athlete told Fox News in an interview published Thursday that the decisions that led to Thomas competing against biological women, and breaking records, is “disappointing” and the NCAA “lacks the courage to do the right thing.”“It’s [Thomas winning against women] not necessarily an achievement in my mind,” the student said. “Women’s records are separate from men’s records. It’s its own distinct category because no woman is going to be as fast as man, and here is just completely – we’re just throwing away the definition of a record to fit into someone else’s agenda of what it should mean to them when in reality it makes no scientific sense to do so.”
There were some protesters at the event Thursday:
Until more women are willing to take a stand and speak out, this will continue.
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