The left is just not going to let this issue go, even if it hurts them politically. Which it already is.
The College Fix reports:
Male athlete sues Swarthmore College for not letting him run on women’s track teamA biological male sued the Philadelphia-adjacent Swarthmore College this past week for not allowing him to run on the women’s track team.Evelyn “Evie” Parts, who began hormone replacement therapy as a high school junior and is listed as “female” on his birth certificate, social security card and driver’s license, had run on Swarthmore’s women’s team since 2020, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.He even was named captain of the (women’s) track team in the fall of 2024.But after the NCAA “barred transgender women from competing in varsity sports” based on President Trump’s executive order, Parts was informed he must run on the men’s team … or “unattached to the college.”According to the lawsuit, Swarthmore eventually “fully reinstated” Parts (pictured, below) on the women’s team after he retained an attorney. Swarthmore Associate Director of Athletics Valerie Gomez allegedly had “acknowledged the stress” Parts endured by not being allowed to run with women.Parts allegedly had “commenced engaging in self-harm” by cutting himself, and informed a friend he contemplated suicide.The suit also notes part of an email Gomez sent to the NCAA stating “many of us vehemently disagree with this transgender ban.”“The damage — emotional and otherwise that this causes some of our student-athletes is immeasurable and unfair,” Gomez wrote.Parts’ lawsuit further alleges Swarthmore “disregard[ed] federal and state law” and “regulations enacted by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission [that] bar discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.”The NCAA is named as a defendant for showing a “reckless indifference to Evie’s rights as a woman” and “illegally depriv[ing] h[im] of equal opportunity.”
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