{"id":1106600,"date":"2021-12-10T15:43:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1106600"},"modified":"2021-12-10T15:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:43:36","slug":"upenn-trans-swimmer-defends-record-smashing-win-streak-praises-ioc-for-inclusivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/upenn-trans-swimmer-defends-record-smashing-win-streak-praises-ioc-for-inclusivity\/","title":{"rendered":"UPenn Trans Swimmer Defends Record Smashing Win Streak, Praises IOC for &#039;Inclusivity&#039;"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fupenn-trans-swimmer-defends-record-smashing-win-streak-praises-ioc-for-inclusivity%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=1106600&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Screenshot-17-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The man on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team is speaking out in the wake of outrage of his breaking records and smashing the aspirations of his female teammates by claiming hormone treatment has affected his abilities.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lia Thomas, who competed on the university\u2019s men\u2019s team for three years before \u201ctransitioning\u201d to be a woman \u2014 told the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> about taking hormones for more than two years before joining the women\u2019s team \u2014 almost six years after he started his college career.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve experienced a lot of muscle loss and strength loss,\u2019 Thomas said, adding that he takes estrogen and testosterone blockers every day.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Daily Mail<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10293487\/UPenn-transgender-swimmer-breaks-silence-praises-controversial-IOC-rules.html\">reported<\/a> on Thomas\u2019 interview with a swimming publication:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"25\">\n<p>In&nbsp;a 26-minute interview to SwimSwam, which&nbsp;covers college and Olympic swimming news, the transgender swimmer praised the fairness of the controversial IOC guidelines on inclusivity that&nbsp;keep \u2018competitional integrity going\u2019 and allow her to compete as a woman after undergoing at least one year of hormone therapy.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous female swimmer at UPenn gave an explosive interview to sports website OutKick on Thursday expressing her fury and frustration, and how she and most of her female teammates are upset because their coach, Mike Schnur, is allowing a transgender athlete to take a woman\u2019s spot because he \u2018just really likes winning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified female swimmer&nbsp;would only speak to OutKick on the condition of anonymity because she\u2019s afraid that making comments about a trans athlete will hurt her chances of getting a job after she graduates.&nbsp;The female UPenn swimmer noted that while Thomas is already breaking records that aren\u2019t achievable for female swimmers, she said if Lia \u2018gets back down to Will Thomas\u2019 best times, those numbers are female world records.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFaster than all the times Katie Ledecky went in college. Faster than any other Olympian you can think of,\u201d she said. \u201cHis times in three events are [female] world records.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.3333333333333\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The women are in second place after day one of the Zippy Invitational.<\/p>\n<p>Lia Thomas set a pool and meet record in the 500 free!<\/p>\n<p>\u1f4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8ECO8Dts6b\">https:\/\/t.co\/8ECO8Dts6b<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FightOnPenn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FightOnPenn<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4V4wjhnkOf\">pic.twitter.com\/4V4wjhnkOf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Penn Swimming &amp; Diving (@PennSwimDive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennSwimDive\/status\/1466951187127803912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 4, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In his interview with SwimSwam, Thomas praised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/sport\/540497-ioc-trans-olympics-athletics\/\">changes<\/a> in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules that allow biological men to compete against biological females even without hormone treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the guidelines they set forward are very good and do a very good job of promoting inclusivity while keeping competitional integrity going,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas claimed teammates supported him, but the woman interviewed by Outkick said that support is \u201cfake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the whole team is together, we have to be like, \u2018Oh my gosh, go, Lia, that\u2019s great, you\u2019re amazing.\u2019 It\u2019s very fake,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.5252525252525\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will \u201cLia\u201d Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eiTTHuQ6IX\">pic.twitter.com\/eiTTHuQ6IX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Large Marge (@largemarge777) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/largemarge777\/status\/1465746197470056450?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this,\u2019 the athlete told Outkick. \u2018Our coach just really likes winning. He\u2019s like most coaches. I think secretly everyone just knows it\u2019s the wrong thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.601246105919\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Honoured to be mentioned!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eaJsXnp66y\">https:\/\/t.co\/eaJsXnp66y<\/a><br \/>Thanks <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarbaraRKay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BarbaraRKay<\/a> !\ud83c\udf39<br \/>Yet another fine article on the topic of male athletes presuming to self-identify into women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sports<\/a>.<br \/>When top leaders (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IOC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IOC<\/a>) become cowards others must step up to ensure fairness.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SexBasedSports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SexBasedSports<\/a> \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Linda Blade (@coachblade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/coachblade\/status\/1468079696071905281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sports performance coach Linda Blade responded to Thomas\u2019 most recent event by saying: \u2018Well, of course, women\u2019s records are being smashed! Lia competed as a male for the first three years in #NCAA. This is not right!<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We need to return to #SexBasedSports! #SexNotGender to preserve fairness for female athletes.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team is speaking out in the wake of outrage of his breaking records and smashing the aspirations of his female teammates &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}