The Telegraph reported that transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has challenged the World Aquatics ban keeping him from competing in elite competitions, including the Olympics.
Thomas hired the Canadian law firm Tyr. Thomas asked the Court of Arbitration for Sporty (CAS) in Switzerland to overturn the World Aquatics ban.
World Aquatics requested CAS throw out the case because “only members of domestic federations that are subject to its rules are eligible to challenge them, thereby ruling out Thomas.”
World Aquatics implemented a ban on males “who have gone through male puberty from women’s races under its jurisdiction.”
The ban has prevented Thomas from competing since he won the NCAA Division I title in 2022 in the female category.
The change happened almost a month after Thomas said, “It’s been a goal of mine to swim at Olympic trials for a very long time, and I would love to see that through.”
Thomas also claimed, “The biggest misconception, I think, is the reason I transitioned. People will say, ‘Oh, she just transitioned so she would have an advantage, so she could win’. I transitioned to be happy, to be true to myself.”
Even if that is true (I do not believe it one bit) it does not change the fact that Thomas is still a biological male.
World Aquatics established “a new ‘open’ category.” But I guess that’s not good enough for Thomas.
Thomas stunk as a male swimmer, ranked 65 in college, and did not even make the top 1,000 400m freestyle swimmers.
As a female? Thomas set records and achieved a ranking in the top 20 in the world.
World Aquatics Executive Director Brent Nowicki stated: “The World Aquatics policy on gender inclusion, adopted by World Aquatics in June of 2022, was rigorously developed on the basis of advice from leading medical and legal experts, and in careful consultation with athletes. World Aquatics remains confident that its gender inclusion policy represents a fair approach and remains absolutely determined to protect women’s sport.”
The case cannot be resolved in time for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. The qualification deadline is in June, with the trials starting June 15.
🚨Lia (Will) Thomas has reportedly taken legal action against World Aquatics for implementing guidelines that prevent him from competing in women's category.
A successful suit would bid a potential spot on the women's Olympic team pic.twitter.com/UeRbIniIzH
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) January 26, 2024
Stop it.
He needs to just stop.
And yes, the women need to stand up. And so do the "adults in the room" – hello IOC. Governing bodies in ALL sports need to just be honest about this, about the #science, and put a stop to this. Let Lia & others compete in an "open" category… https://t.co/kkTJfjUsoQ— Sage Steele (@sagesteele) January 26, 2024
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He can enter whatever competition he wants, he just has to enter as male because that’s what he is.
The IOC should allow him to compete . . .
. . . against male swimmers.
If that’s not acceptable to him, he can go to Hell.
I should note that I really DO want to see him getting his hair sniffed by Brandon . . .
He can’t be happy and true to himself lining up with men in the men’s division.
Stop forcing the rest of us to partake in these delusions.
He wouldn’t qualify in Men’s division, stupid as it is , Trans division would be appropriate
The men’s category has always been the open category. Women have been allowed to try and compete with the men in just about every sport … but they just cannot.
Thomas is a guy and he can swim with the guys. Otherwise, he can swim with the girls in his backyard pool and call it a day.
I’d like to hear Thomas try to explain – other than beating the crap out of women in the pool – what he thinks “being a girl” actually means. He can never actually be a girl so what part of pretend girl-play makes any determination that he could be thought of as “a girl”? In the end, all these trannies really want is for other people to call them “girls”. That’s it. There’s really nothing else to it. That, to them, is what “being a girl” is all about. They are sick puppies, to put it mildly.
“In the end, all these trannies really want is for other people to call them ‘girls’ ”
Sorry. Can’t agree. They’re not going to be happy until we give them precisely in exact detail what they want, exactly the way Mommy and Daddy did.
Pretty sure that when nobody’s around to see, he’s a practicing lesbian. At least according to the girls in his old locker room, who were all able to read a thermometer.
World Aquatics should go a step further: ban anyone with a Y-chromosome from women’s sports.
Exactly!
This is so basic. It’s like gravity. Male/female are. They’re different. This fool/tool wants to be happy!?! Be happy as the deviant you are!
Maybe he just needs the right hobby, like stealing women’s luggage.
He and the rest of the troublemakers need a blanket party.
This dude needs a good ass kicking.
Transitioning to be happy in a backyard pool is fine. But, at the expense of others who have worked their whole lives in an activity, it is not.
Make all sports coed. You shouldn’t have to be trans to compete.
Then there would be no women in 80 or 90% of sports. Women do as well as men, perhaps even better, in gymnastics, figure skating, and synchronized swimming, but start out with a huge disadvantage in any sport where strength and speed are critical.
I do not for a moment advocate violence, but I will point out that there was a perhaps more enlightened age where a few of the men on the men’s swim team, and a few men from the football team, would have escorted Mr. Thomas around to the back to the natatorium to “set him straight.”
It very likely would have worked; at the very least William would have dropped his bid to be on the women’s team.
A man who switched teams is not a woman.
Democrats to women: REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO RIPPING BABIES FROM YOUR WOMB.
Also Democrats: What’s a fucking woman (as they allow men to fuck over women in sports and dangle their cocks in front of girls in the changing room.
Democrats are a lot like the media, when you think you can’t hate the c8nts enough the open their mouths and give you another reason to hate them.
” methinks he doth protest too much “–with apologies to the bard
Male T̶r̶a̶n̶s̶ Swimmer Lia Thomas Challenging Ban From Elite Female Competitions, Including Olympics
Fixed it.
Yes! We need to further stop indulging these trans-identified MEN by using the word “transgender” as if it’s a real thing. Gender is a social concept; these people have purposely conflated gender with sex to confuse people, and the public thinks transgender is a valid identity. William Thomas can think he’s a Pokemon; at the end of the day, he’s a man.
Dude, give it up.
I hope everyone has watched “LadyBallers” by now.
The balls on this fella….
It’s frightening that we have yet to hit peak idiocy.
“The balls on this fella….”
Not any more, but that doesn’t change anything.
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I’m pretty sure he hasn’t “made the commitment.” He’s still wearing that tuckable spandex.
, “It’s been a goal of mine to swim at Olympic trials for a very long time, and I would love to see that through.”
And since I sucked as a male swimmer I decided to pretend to be a woman to get there.
This story is so yesterday and no one cares about that mentally ill nut.
Except the girls who will have their Olympic dreams dashed by this freak.
Send this head case off to a mental hospital where he belongs.
Saddest thing is this pathetic creep will probably find a judge to agree with him.