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A female teammate of Lia Thomas at the University of Pennsylvania says they are being forced to “roll over and accept” the fact that the transgender swimmer exposes his male genitalia in the locker room.
Thomas’ nudity is “definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,” the teammate explained to Daily Mail.
Multiple women have raised concerns with the coach, Mike Schnur, but this has fallen on deaf ears, according to the teammate. There are about 35 biological females present in the locker room.
The transgender swimmer at UPenn has male genitalia, changes naked in front of the women (genitalia exposed), and is attracted to women. Just remember that the left who CELEBRATES this… hates women.
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) January 29, 2022
The teammate has asked to remain anonymous due to the fact that liberal activists would likely attack her and destroy her life.
“Multiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,” she began. “But we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there’s nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.”
She continued, “It’s really upsetting because Lia doesn’t seem to care how it makes anyone else feel. The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one.”
“The school was so focused on making sure Lia was okay, and doing everything they possibly could do for her, that they didn’t even think about the rest of us.,” she said. “It just seems like the women who built this program and the people who were here before Lia don’t matter.”
The teammate also noted that Thomas appears to be loving all of the attention.
“And it’s frustrating because Lia doesn’t really seem to be bothered by all the attention, not at all. Actually she seems like she enjoys it,’ she said. “It’s affected all of us way more than it’s affected her.”
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The teammate told The Daily Mail she had discussed with her teammates possibly launching a protest at a swim meet, but the consensus was they would be putting themselves at risk. She stated, “We’ve all tried to think of anything we could do, but I just don’t know what we could do that wouldn’t basically have us not be swimming. We already lost a year due to covid and people don’t want to put their own swim careers on hold.”
Last Saturday, after Lia Thomas won two more events against female swimmers on Saturday, one teammate who preferred to remain anonymous spoke out, saying, “Women are now third-class citizens.” Thomas won the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle races in the meet against Harvard University.
The anonymous teammate told The Washington Examiner, “Lia was not even close to being competitive as a man in the 50 and the 100. But just because Lia is biologically a man, [Lia] is just naturally better than many females in the 50 and the 100 or anything that [Lia] wasn’t good at as a man.”
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On January 8, Thomas swam a race in which Thomas’ time was suspiciously slower than previous times, permitting Iszac Henig, a Yale swimmer who is biologically female but identifies as male, to win.
That prompted a young woman who is on Penn’s swim team with Thomas to surmise in an interview with Outkick that Thomas and Henig had colluded before the race in order for Henig to win and thus disprove the assumption that Thomas, as a biological male, could not be beaten by a biological female competitor.
