Trans Swimmer Lia Thomas Stripped of Swim
Titles in UPenn Trump Deal
Newsweek,
by
Amanda Castro
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
7/1/2025 5:43:36 PM
The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from participating in its women's sports programs, resolving a federal civil rights investigation centered on swimmer Lia Thomas. The U.S. Department of Education announced the agreement Tuesday, saying the university violated Title IX by allowing Thomas to compete in women's events.
The case marks a significant moment in the Trump administration's broader push to restrict transgender athletes from competing in girls' and women's sports. As part of the resolution, Penn will reinstate Division I swimming records and titles to female athletes displaced by Thomas's victories and issue personalized apology letters to each of them.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn 7/1/2025 5:51:07 PM (No. 1971808)
I'm still waiting for the total Castration and adding two 10 lb fake breasts to the Fake Women just to keep it fair!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/1/2025 6:00:18 PM (No. 1971813)
Lia Thomas stripped...ewwwwww.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Encore 7/1/2025 6:07:06 PM (No. 1971816)
FTA: “The university must adopt "biology-based" definitions”…what a disgraceful excuse for academia to use anything but honesty when affecting the lives of students in their
charge. This a win for everyone, especially the real ladies that get their titles correctly awarded (and I hope it’s not too late to capitalize on them).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
crashnburn 7/1/2025 6:08:01 PM (No. 1971818)
Glad to see this madness beginning to end. Allowing fake women to compete with biological women is not only unfair to and dangerous for the real women; it also demeans them.
And, #1, the fake women also need about 10 inches circumference added to their hips.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Californian 7/1/2025 6:22:45 PM (No. 1971824)
Trump lied: I will never get tired of the winning!
I had no idea this was going on but it makes me very happy to see this. Especially the icing of the girls getting personalized apology letters.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/1/2025 6:24:47 PM (No. 1971827)
Great news!!!! The little creep. No more sashaying around the girls' locker rooms trying to show off his junk.Bleah!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/1/2025 6:36:54 PM (No. 1971831)
Newsweak insists on female pronouns. Here is this guy's path. No, dear, it takes more than hormones:
"Born in 1999 in Austin, Texas, Thomas began swimming competitively at a young age and joined Penn's men's swim team in 2017. After meeting NCAA eligibility requirements, she began hormone replacement therapy in 2019 and transitioned to the women's team for the 2021–2022 season."
You a bet your sweet nippy that these loser male wanna athletes won't be having surgeries anytime soon. And his hormones were started very late. A scam.
Visit him in ten years. He won't be pretending to be a she...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 7/1/2025 7:02:27 PM (No. 1971836)
It is a travesty to allow intact males to compete as women. No dude should be allowed to compete as "women," unless they have committed fully and undergone all the reassignment surgeries and be evaluated for undue advantage based on biology. Considering how Thomas enjoyed flashing his junk around the real women on the team, I think he was just acting out to win medals he couldn't win as a man. Like #7, I expect he'll be living as a man in a few years.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
padiva 7/1/2025 7:20:08 PM (No. 1971841)
Whether this person is a he or a she, what type of employer wants to hire a cheater?
Honesty is still a virtue.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 7/1/2025 8:32:18 PM (No. 1971863)
Good. Trans in women's sports is killing women's sports. No one goes to a women's sports event to see men.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
konocti95 7/1/2025 8:53:48 PM (No. 1971867)
#2 wins the internet today!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 7/1/2025 8:55:03 PM (No. 1971868)
Great news. That GUY should never have been permitted to compete with women.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Pitbulls3 7/1/2025 9:00:21 PM (No. 1971869)
His name is William, he's a male. Do not refer to him as Lea, you are giving the left and the mentally ill approval. He still has his stick and stones and does not plan on chopping them off anytime soon.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DaBigGuy 7/1/2025 9:27:50 PM (No. 1971872)
We just needed a new president, who was willing to stand up for women and elevate common sense over mental illness.
38 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
BarryNo 7/1/2025 9:56:48 PM (No. 1971881)
Men who can't hack competing with other men, and Men that want permission to peep at women.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PChristopher 7/1/2025 9:58:01 PM (No. 1971882)
HA! I wonder if he'll revert to his biologically male identity now? Let's see if he files a discrimination suit.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 7/1/2025 10:36:11 PM (No. 1971886)
H E can nip and tuck til the cows come home.
If Mr Palmer and Ducky take his DNA sample, they will confirm “the body” is a male. Chromosomes being what they are and all.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Older Lady 7/1/2025 10:57:41 PM (No. 1971888)
Riley Gaines must be beyond thrilled by this and she should be.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Ozwestie 7/2/2025 12:48:50 AM (No. 1971902)
Even if they fully “transition” #8 they will never be women and should never be able to compete with women. XY will never become XX no matter what bits they have cut off or added on. Women my age fought for our rights years ago and they're not up to be given away to men.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
rfr46 7/2/2025 4:46:02 AM (No. 1971914)
Where is the part about the UPenn employees responsible for this injustice being fired and sued for violation of the women athletes rights? A simple "sorry" is a good start but not enough.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TruthFetish 7/2/2025 6:14:58 AM (No. 1971927)
If he wants medals again, he can compete against other men and win them, if he is any good.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Hazymac 7/2/2025 7:04:50 AM (No. 1971948)
#19 is correct. Will Thomas will never be woman, and if he were clean castrated and overdosed on estrogen, he'd still have a physical advantage that no woman has: he's been through male puberty. It's not even necessary to look below the waistline to determine sex. A simple buccal swab of the inner cheek will reveal the person as either XX (female) or XY (male). That's all that's necessary. XYs should never compete against XXs in any sport where power and speed are advantages. That would be cheating. Every trophy awarded to boys competing as girls should be surrendered to the girls who actally won. Take them away.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bpl40 7/2/2025 7:16:28 AM (No. 1971957)
“Lia Thomas stripped”… Well what you see won’t be a woman!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
NamVet70 7/2/2025 7:20:57 AM (No. 1971959)
I think this issue needs some law firms to take up support for the ladies injured by missing their athletic goals due to participation by trans guys. These should be lawsuits against the individual trans men who are playing in women's sports. The universities are wronging them by allowing those guys to play, but the guys themselves bear the greater fault.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/2/2025 7:31:13 AM (No. 1971964)
Titles taken away by Penn. Wonderful. Now the NCAA needs to make him return his medals and then give them to the women who actually won them. In a nationally broadcast ceremony on ESPN.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Muguy 7/2/2025 8:14:30 AM (No. 1971981)
This INSANITY should never have happened!
Where are all the liberal "women's group" advocates???
They only seem to get involved when the subject is abortion.
Justice at last in this case!
And maybe it will become popular for women to only compete with women in sports instead of getting the h@ll beat out of them in the upcoming Olympic boxing events.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
janjan 7/2/2025 8:15:10 AM (No. 1971982)
This could be the beginning of the end of allowing men pretending to be women to compete in women’s sports. The generations ahead of us, should there be any, will look back on this time with utter bewilderment.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
coldborezero 7/2/2025 8:19:06 AM (No. 1971983)
ENOUGH! Why do otherwise sane people on our side of the political spectrum casually go along with the leftist insanity? THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "TRANSGENDER". There are two (and ONLY two) SEXES; MALE and FEMALE. This is not determined by genitalia, it is determined at the chromosomal level. XX is female. XY is male (not a man, just a male). This is FACT, irrefutable and irreversible. No hormone therapy or surgery can change it. A male who has his penis and testicles removed does not suddenly and miraculously become a female, HE is a MALE with mutilated genitalia and corrupted hormones. Genetically, he will always be a male.
Please, stop playing along with the delusions of the mentally ill. Speak and write the truth. There are males who PRETEND to be females. There are females who PRETEND to be males. There is no such thing as transgender. They don't "transition", they play dress-up and sometimes mutilate their bodies, but they don't "transition" to become the opposite sex. That is simply impossible.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Bassman1911 7/2/2025 9:36:17 AM (No. 1972011)
This would never have happened without DJT.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/2/2025 9:44:19 AM (No. 1972012)
Lia Thomas stripped of titles in women's swimming events....Pardon the pun....what took so long....it was so obvious that I can't imagine what held up this announcement....and men's appendages in the girl's locker room and washrooms is beyond creepy...it's creepy....so then...my next question...why did the democrats sign onto this narrative.....what did they hope to gain...just another attempt at causing friction between Americans.....I suspect....
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
felixcat 7/2/2025 9:46:27 AM (No. 1972014)
Lia is still a man - taking hormones like estrogen does not make you a woman. He still has all his junk and his man size body gives him a definite advantage over the best female college swimmer - the estrogen doesn't take that away.
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I suppose stripped of his titles would be better than stripped of his clothes, in this particular case.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/2/2025 10:31:13 AM (No. 1972040)
Every sentence in this article screams the agony Amanda was experiencing while writing this propaganda. 'He' and 'her' in every sentences as if taking some artificial hormones alters genetics. One could say she is ignoring the science but in reality Amanda is devoted of any common sense. It's no surprise Amanda writes for Newsweak. Propaganda demands propagandist!
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
kono 7/2/2025 11:16:30 AM (No. 1972062)
Move over, #2 -- My mental gag reflex took over at "Lia Thomas stripped", too.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
danu 7/2/2025 11:43:14 AM (No. 1972072)
lia thomas....stripper.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 7/2/2025 3:05:01 PM (No. 1972124)
Will and Disgrace.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Omen55 7/2/2025 6:11:08 PM (No. 1972249)
The girls beat the boy!
LOL!
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 7/2/2025 6:30:09 PM (No. 1972264)
Thank you. Enough of this nonsense.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
snakeoil 7/2/2025 8:19:54 PM (No. 1972286)
Rough. No Medals and you can't glue it back.
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Goood! Will is a "he," not a "she." Let's stop this foolish solicitude toward male athletic cheaters in female competition.