This is why so many girls and parents who disagree with this situation are afraid to speak out.The College Fix reports:
UPenn student paper ‘news’ article refers to groups protesting Lia Thomas as ‘transphobic’The University of Pennsylvania student paper is at it again, taking sides in the quite legitimate debate over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas’ participation in sporting events.According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, groups such as Concerned Women for America and Save Women’s Sports on Thursday protested Thomas’ appearance at the NCAA Women’s Swimming Championships held at Georgia Tech.D.P. reporters Delaney Parks and Emi Tran state that demonstrators held placards reading “#PennCheats” and “Save Women’s Sports,” and “loudly denounced” the inclusion of trans women in women’s sports.Selected speakers “proceeded to champion transphobic rhetoric,” Parks and Tran continue, and protesters “alleged” that trans women threaten the sanctity of women’s sports. Some had “invalidated” Thomas’ gender identity by “misgendering” and “deadnaming” her.What’s more, protesters made several Georgia Tech students feel “uncomfortable” on the allegedly “traditionally safe and inclusive campus.”“What I see [are] grown adults coming to a college campus and bullying a woman who’s trying to compete in the sport which they have no association with,” said one Georgia Tech student. “Why are these people who are not qualified to talk about this coming to our campus and disturbing our peace?”From the story:
Avery Quick, a Georgia Tech student, said that she was just walking to class when she encountered the protest. Her frustration at the situation motivated her to counter several of the protestors’ arguments — engaging in lengthy debates with them where she defended Thomas’ right to swim.“It’s so f***ing annoying,” Quick told the DP. “We’re proud to have the amazing center that we do — we always have swimmers come here for competitions. It sucks that it is not a safe place for her.” …
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