{"id":1105319,"date":"2021-12-10T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105319"},"modified":"2021-12-10T08:14:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T13:14:15","slug":"u-penn-transgender-swimmer-destroying-womens-competition-im-happy-my-coaches-are-happy-thats-what-matters-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-penn-transgender-swimmer-destroying-womens-competition-im-happy-my-coaches-are-happy-thats-what-matters-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"U Penn Transgender Swimmer Destroying Women\u2019s Competition: \u2018I\u2019m Happy \u2026 My Coaches Are Happy \u2026 That\u2019s What Matters To Me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-penn-transgender-swimmer-destroying-womens-competition-im-happy-my-coaches-are-happy-thats-what-matters-to-me%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1105319&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Lia Thomas, the biological man swimming on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team, admitted in an interview that before the process started of \u201ctransitioning\u201d Thomas \u201chad a lot of uncertainty about my future in swimming and whether or not I\u2019d be able to keep swimming at all.\u201d Asked about the feeling after breaking the Penn women\u2019s swimming records, Thomas did not mention the women who wound up lagging far behind, only saying, \u201cI\u2019m very proud of my times and my ability to keep swimming and continue competing and they\u2019re suited-up times and I\u2019m happy with them and my coaches are happy with them. That\u2019s what matters to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November, Thomas smashed the record in the 200 free time and the second-fastest 500 free time, with both times breaking Penn program records.&nbsp;Over the weekend, Thomas won the 1650 free by a whopping 38 seconds, the 500 free by 12 seconds, and the 200 free by seven seconds.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started my transition period in May of 2019. \u2026 I first realized I was trans the summer before, in 2018,\u201d Thomas recalled. \u201cThere was a lot of uncertainty; I didn\u2019t know what I would be able to do, if I would be able to keep swimming. And so, I decided to swim out the 2018-2019 year on the men\u2019s team as a man, without coming out, and that caused a lot of distress to me. I was struggling; my mental health was not very good, there was a lot of unease, about basically just feeling trapped in my body. It didn\u2019t align. And so after a year of that I decided it was just not working out and I wasn\u2019t able to focus on swimming or school or friendships as much as I wanted to, and so I decided it was time to come out and begin my transition and start everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of the 2019-2020 season Thomas said, \u201cBeing in the sort of early stages of transition, it was a very awkward experience of basically being a woman competing in a men\u2019s meet. It was uncomfortable, and so I didn\u2019t compete that much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then in the summer of 2020, after I\u2019d completed my one year of testosterone suppression, under HRT, following the NCAA guidelines, I submitted all of my medical work that I had been collecting for the past year of hormone tests and medical notes from my doctor and sent all that to the NCAA and they approved everything and I was clear to compete on the women\u2019s team,\u201d Thomas continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then with COVID happening, the Ivy League and Penn canceled the swimming season, and so, in that late summer, there was a lot of uncertainty about what the NCAA would do regarding eligibility,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cAnd I decided I didn\u2019t want to take any risks with my last year of eligibility, especially given how important it is to me to be able to compete and swim as my authentic self. So I took the past year, 2020-2021 school year, off; I didn\u2019t do classes or swim. I just took the year off to save the eligibility and then that brings us to this year, where I\u2019m back enrolled in school and swimming on the women\u2019s team and competing after a little over two and a half years of hormone replacement therapy. Feeling good and ready to swim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of goals, it sort of just \u2014pre-coming out and pre-transition I had a lot of uncertainty about my future in swimming and whether or not I\u2019d be able to keep swimming at all,\u201d Thomas admitted. \u201cAnd so I\u2019m just thrilled to be able to continue to swim; I love to compete and I just love to see how fast I can go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Penn&#039;s Lia Thomas Opens Up On Journey, Transition To Women&#039;s Swimming\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8jDPOQ5D8DM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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That\u2019s what matters to me.\u201dIn November, Thomas smashed the record in the 200 free time and the second-fastest 500 free time, with both times breaking Penn program records.\u00a0Over the weekend, Thomas won the 1650 free by a whopping 38 seconds, the 500 free by 12 seconds, and the 200 free by seven seconds.\u00a0\u201cI started my transition period in May of 2019. \u2026 I first realized I was trans the summer before, in 2018,\u201d Thomas recalled. \u201cThere was a lot of uncertainty; I didn\u2019t know what I would be able to do, if I would be able to keep swimming. And so, I decided to swim out the 2018-2019 year on the men\u2019s team as a man, without coming out, and that caused a lot of distress to me. I was struggling; my mental health was not very good, there was a lot of unease, about basically just feeling trapped in my body. It didn\u2019t align. And so after a year of that I decided it was just not working out and I wasn\u2019t able to focus on swimming or school or friendships as much as I wanted to, and so I decided it was time to come out and begin my transition and start everything.\u201dSpeaking of the 2019-2020 season Thomas said, \u201cBeing in the sort of early stages of transition, it was a very awkward experience of basically being a woman competing in a men\u2019s meet. It was uncomfortable, and so I didn\u2019t compete that much.\u201d\u201cAnd then in the summer of 2020, after I\u2019d completed my one year of testosterone suppression, under HRT, following the NCAA guidelines, I submitted all of my medical work that I had been collecting for the past year of hormone tests and medical notes from my doctor and sent all that to the NCAA and they approved everything and I was clear to compete on the women\u2019s team,\u201d Thomas continued.\u201cBut then with COVID happening, the Ivy League and Penn canceled the swimming season, and so, in that late summer, there was a lot of uncertainty about what the NCAA would do regarding eligibility,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cAnd I decided I didn\u2019t want to take any risks with my last year of eligibility, especially given how important it is to me to be able to compete and swim as my authentic self. So I took the past year, 2020-2021 school year, off; I didn\u2019t do classes or swim. I just took the year off to save the eligibility and then that brings us to this year, where I\u2019m back enrolled in school and swimming on the women\u2019s team and competing after a little over two and a half years of hormone replacement therapy. Feeling good and ready to swim.\u201d\u201cIn terms of goals, it sort of just \u2014pre-coming out and pre-transition I had a lot of uncertainty about my future in swimming and whether or not I\u2019d be able to keep swimming at all,\u201d Thomas admitted. \u201cAnd so I\u2019m just thrilled to be able to continue to swim; I love to compete and I just love to see how fast I can go.\u201d[embedded content]The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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