Exclusive: 'They're afraid to be perceived
as transphobic': UPenn swimmers wanted
to boycott final home meet over transgender
teammate Lia Thomas crushing records but
fear backlash and jeopardizing chances
of making elite Ivy League squad
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Shawn Cohen
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/29/2021 11:23:20 AM
A group of swimmers on the University of Pennsylvania women's team were so upset over the advantages of transgender teammate Lia Thomas they considered boycotting their final home meet of the season next week, DailyMail.com has learned.'They've been ignored by both Penn and the NCAA, and there is a feeling among some of the girls that they should make some sort of statement, seize the opportunity while they have a spotlight on them to make their feelings about the issue known,' a source close to the team of 41 women told DailyMail.com.They've been discussing various possibilities for protest at the January 8 meet, wanting to express their opposition
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sanspeur 12/29/2021 11:27:48 AM (No. 1021933)
bright idea ! another league for real genetically proven females ! There , yet another way for more trophies . let the undecideds have their games , men theirs and real girlz get one too. No feelings hurt
18 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
lynngirl122 12/29/2021 11:28:48 AM (No. 1021937)
How about being perceived as Pro-NORMAL! The freaks have you under their thumb!
21 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
clayusmcret 12/29/2021 11:34:25 AM (No. 1021945)
The young women can either boycott it now or live with the knowledge that when they did have a chance to do something about it, they wussed out for personal gain....and their daughters will pay the price.
44 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
mizzmac 12/29/2021 11:41:09 AM (No. 1021954)
How about two starting guns? A women's gun first, then a men-pretending-to-be-women's gun 38 seconds later. Then it's a fair fight.
15 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rich323 12/29/2021 11:41:21 AM (No. 1021956)
If the Ivy League squad is woke, these same females will face the same problem there and lose to their former male teammate at another competition level. Time to stand up and kick ‘‘em in the nuts” right now females!
23 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
varkdriver 12/29/2021 11:42:19 AM (No. 1021957)
If you decide on a course of action based on how you THINK others will react, it shows you have no spine, or no true core beliefs. Not exactly a profile in courage.
"To thine own self be true!!!"
And I have a question: does this "Lia" person use the ladies locker room? Hope to God not.
27 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
billa57 12/29/2021 11:50:06 AM (No. 1021966)
Dems tried and true Fascist style intimidation works every time. Even when they discriminate against Women.
14 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
bldrrepub 12/29/2021 11:57:21 AM (No. 1021982)
I wish they'd stop calling it UPenn. It's Penn.
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Northcross 12/29/2021 12:08:59 PM (No. 1022000)
Sorry, girls. I guess you did not get the memo. The rights of men pretending to be women now trump the rights of actual women.
23 people like this.
What about the women-->men competitors on the men's teams? How are they doing?
8 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
BL1957 12/29/2021 12:14:51 PM (No. 1022010)
The NCAA might be the most woke and corrupt organization ever. What a joke. Whatever happened to Title IX, and where are all the female sports people. IE Billy Jean King, Megan Rapinoe etc...why are they not speaking up? I know, it's because they are all FAKE.
13 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 12/29/2021 12:15:05 PM (No. 1022012)
Girls, girls, girls - - it's never a smart move - - to suck up to the people who hate you.
They're never going to NOT hate you - - no matter what you do. So you may as well keep your self-respect and your dignity - - and fight back at those commies.
14 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird 12/29/2021 12:17:10 PM (No. 1022015)
There is no such thing as “trans”…just a chemically and/or surgically altered person who remains the same sex. They do not trans anywhere.
Thus there is no such thing as “transphobic”. They should have done it.
10 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 12/29/2021 12:17:36 PM (No. 1022016)
STOP pretending that this "transition" is even a possibility. Born a male, die a male. Born a female, die a female. Hard, immutable facts.
This 'let's pretend' game is tiresome, and these 'trans' people are mentally ill. Going along with their deranged fantasies helps no one.
18 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
moebellini3 12/29/2021 12:23:02 PM (No. 1022025)
If their parents had the guts to support their daughters they could have boycotted their final home meet. But being good democratic party members they let everything side. It's embarrassing and appalling, what the democrats have done to this country. Think about it, a male is no longer a male and a female is no longer a female. See, with today's democrats, you could even be a German Shepherd. How's that for progress.
11 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ragman73 12/29/2021 12:25:42 PM (No. 1022028)
# 8 Perhaps when you were at the University of Pennsylvania it was "Penn", but way back when I was there it was common to hear UPenn. The book store also carried Tee/ sweat shirts that said "Not Penn State". Of course that was half a century ago.
6 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 12/29/2021 12:28:56 PM (No. 1022035)
He is a coward.
11 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/29/2021 12:35:51 PM (No. 1022050)
If they won’t push back then they deserve to be defeated.
14 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
TXknitter 12/29/2021 12:36:26 PM (No. 1022053)
Yes indeed #3. Ladies, showing up in big numbers for the long ago ERA, then pay equality, and uniting under the banner of pink ribbons yielded success. The UPenn females and female athletes from all sports best get going and make some decisions. The ball is in YOUR court. Nobody else can do this one for you. Stand up, fight if your scholarships and sport mean anything to you!! I would rather go down knowing I was not so chicken to stand up for myself than keep sitting around waiting for some court or group to save me!
12 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/29/2021 12:38:42 PM (No. 1022058)
Forgot to add -
I don’t think that this Lia creature is mentally ill - I think that he is just a cheater.
10 people like this.
Reply 21 - Posted by:
planetgeo 12/29/2021 12:43:00 PM (No. 1022070)
I suggest there's a simple way to fix this problem. Simply have a qualifying test and allow anyone to participate in female sporting events if they can shove a tampon up their peepee (technical term).
9 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
4Liberty2020 12/29/2021 12:47:36 PM (No. 1022076)
Just look at the width of his shoulders as he stands next to the girls in the beach picture.
He stands taller, too. Bigger lungs, bigger heart, etc.
A big loser, too.
The young women should boycott.
10 people like this.
Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lonestar Jack 12/29/2021 1:00:55 PM (No. 1022095)
This could end in a minute if ---- all the real female swimmers would take their marks and stand up with their backs to the pool when the gun goes off and Lia races against herself.
Please put an * besides the results.
11 people like this.
Yes those girls should protest, and so should their parents who are paying the bills for those girls. So should we taxpayers who are paying for a lot of the garbage that is going on in these schools as well. The most sickening thing about this is how the feminists have abandoned all these young women.
12 people like this.
Reply 25 - Posted by:
franq 12/29/2021 1:23:14 PM (No. 1022136)
phobic: [FOE-bick] adj.
1. Possessing moral or common sense.
2. Not subscribing to leftist ideas.
3. Sane.
4 people like this.
Reply 26 - Posted by:
cheeflo 12/29/2021 1:26:22 PM (No. 1022142)
All their craven careerism will get them is more of the same -- the corruption of everything they've worked for. They are unwittingly ensuring as much.
7 people like this.
Reply 27 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/29/2021 1:41:22 PM (No. 1022167)
All of you failed the test, little girls. Are you children or women? Many, many children have more guts than you do. Shame on your spineless parents as well. Read a history book or two and discover what weak creatures you are. Too afraid to point out the absurdity of this farce. All because you MIGHT be mocked by some fools somewhere? Meanwhile all your work is being stolen from you, right in front of you. Not one of you has the guts to slap this punk who is destroying your lives. You should be in the face of every slob who supports this, on every tv station and calling out every big mouthed 'feminist' who has abandoned you. I would be livid, I would be loud, I would probably be arrested at some point, but I'm a man. I admire women who prove they are just as smart, just as brave, just as patriotic as any man, but none of you fit that category.
10 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Toby Ten Bears 12/29/2021 1:42:46 PM (No. 1022172)
If you're not "transphobic" then there is something wrong with YOU.
4 people like this.
Reply 29 - Posted by:
NYbob 12/29/2021 1:47:05 PM (No. 1022179)
Forgot to add, where does the freak cheater shower? Are the female swimmers so cowered that they shower naked in front of this man? I know they are young, but it wasn't that long ago when a situation like this would have been some class of sex crime. Stand up for yourselves, because none of the 'adults' in this perversion are going to.
8 people like this.
Reply 30 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 12/29/2021 1:48:32 PM (No. 1022180)
So the school sent an email to the athletes with a link to mental health help. The only one who should have received that link was the man pretending to be a woman.
BTW...they're scared of not being able to swim in some BIG meet if they protest? How about being arrested and put in jail for protesting something morally wrong. For the courage they need, they should look up Rosa Parks.
4 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
columba 12/29/2021 1:55:14 PM (No. 1022184)
There is no harm in being trans phobic ... especially if your child is being friended by a trans.
2 people like this.
Reply 32 - Posted by:
Sully 12/29/2021 2:23:16 PM (No. 1022215)
I
DONT
CARE
If they cannot insist that mental illness not overtake their sport in broad daylight I truly don't care of the impact
4 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
jasmine 12/29/2021 2:42:35 PM (No. 1022232)
The notion that men can become women has created a hostile environment, not just for female athletes, but for women in general. Under this nonsense, no female locker room, rest room, or changing room is set aside exclusively for women. Any male, upon claiming to “identify” as female, is free to disrupt everything from female privacy in locker rooms, to “winning” female athletic competitions while pretending to be women. The female athletes in this article fear retaliation for telling the truth. It’s unfair to allow men to compete as women. This needs to stop.
9 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
MDConservative 12/29/2021 3:40:17 PM (No. 1022306)
Teammates don't abandon teammates - ever. Like it or not, "Lia" Thomas is scoring points in their column. (S)He's on the team within the rules. Boycott/quit the team next year...hand over your scholarships out of principle. Transfer to other schools. Whatever your pleasure. Or, go over to the men's team...
Women are the greatest supporters of LGBQ+ athletes, until their own toes are stomped by reality. No one whined about Renee Richards, for example, when a mediocre male tennis player proved less than a match for the best females. So, there's your precedent. Take it up with the NCAA, tranny-phobes. (Don't bother to deny being tranny-phobic, either. I know, you've got tranny friends...)
2 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
BreakRight 12/29/2021 4:15:05 PM (No. 1022328)
"the university sent a terse response, claiming the school is doing what it can to help the student-athletes navigate Lia's success, sharing a link to mental health services."
They're sending the wrong people to mental health services, they need to go there themselves!
5 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 12/29/2021 4:43:50 PM (No. 1022342)
Put ALL transgenders into their own divisions for athletic competitions.
3 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
john56 12/29/2021 6:13:26 PM (No. 1022408)
Here's what I'd do, ladies. Show up for the meet. Any event where the guy competes, everyone line up for the start and when the gun sounds, let the guy swim by himself.
3 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Redwing57 12/29/2021 9:17:20 PM (No. 1022546)
For those too young to remember, this is not the first time this stuff has been an issue!
Quoting from "topendsports.com":
"Aiming to create a fair competition, the International Olympic Committee first introduced gender testing in 1968, primarily to prevent men from competing in the women's events. "
3 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Imright"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)