{"id":1120920,"date":"2021-12-15T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1120920"},"modified":"2021-12-15T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T14:43:57","slug":"watch-heres-what-it-looked-like-when-u-penn-trans-swimmer-destroyed-female-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-heres-what-it-looked-like-when-u-penn-trans-swimmer-destroyed-female-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Here\u2019s What It Looked Like When U Penn Trans Swimmer Destroyed Female Competition"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-heres-what-it-looked-like-when-u-penn-trans-swimmer-destroyed-female-competition%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=1120920&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>In early December, Lia Thomas, the biological man swimming on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team, utterly crushed the women competing with Thomas at the University of Akron\u2019s Zippy Invitational, winning the 1650 free by a gargantuan 38 seconds ahead of the young woman finishing second, winning the 500 free by a whopping twelve seconds ahead of the woman finishing second, and winning the 200 free by a still-huge seven seconds, setting new Penn records along with meet and pool records.<\/p>\n<p>Now video has surfaced of Thomas winning the 1650 free, showing how lopsided the race was with Thomas, who swam competitively for the men\u2019s team for three years before switching to the women\u2019s team, leaving female swimmers looking as if they were not even in the same race.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Just to show you how absurd this is. Here\u2019s the trans swimmer \u201cLia\u201d Thomas crushing all of the female competitors by 40 seconds. This is what that looks like in real time. A total farce.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/liaThomas?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#liaThomas<\/a> for saving women\u2019s sports by showing just how preposterous it is for a strapping athletic young biological man to compete with biological women. <\/p>\n<p>Margin of victory, 40 seconds.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/saveWomensSports?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#saveWomensSports<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AFAZlH5QWt\">pic.twitter.com\/AFAZlH5QWt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; A is A (@weRessential) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weRessential\/status\/1468810186357891079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1470978594256130050?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/u-penn-transgender-swimmer-destroying-womens-competition-im-happy-my-coaches-are-happy-thats-what-matters-to-me\/\">admitted in an interview<\/a> with Swim Swam 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>\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 asserted. \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 dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Transgender swimmer who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women&#8217;s records <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Q1XBXUDZ2v\">https:\/\/t.co\/Q1XBXUDZ2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailOnline\/status\/1468124398016208896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/b36c18c8-d5c8-4565-8adb-1e386e402077\/v\">member of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s swim team<\/a> told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/outkick-exclusive-second-female-penn-swimmer-steps-forward\/\">Outkick<\/a>\u00a0that Thomas bragged after winning the 200 freestyle at the University of Akron Zippy Invitational, \u201cThat was so easy, I was cruising,\u201d and after winning the 500 freestyle but disappointed with the time, boasted, \u201cAt least I\u2019m still No. 1 in the country\u201d in front of teammates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, obviously she\u2019s No. 1 in the country because she\u2019s at a clear physical advantage after having gone through male puberty and getting to train with testosterone for years. Of course you\u2019re No. 1 in the country when you\u2019re beating a bunch of females. That\u2019s not something to brag about,\u201d the teammate commented.<\/p>\n<p>The teammate said her fellow women teammates were crying on the Akron pool deck because they knew they had no chance of winning with Thomas competing. She said, \u201cThey feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they\u2019re going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they\u2019re going to win and give it all they\u2019ve got. Now they\u2019re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it\u2019s really getting to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teammate noted that after Thomas won, \u201cUsually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race. Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there. \u2026 When [Penn swimmer] Anna [Kalandadze] finished second, the crowd erupted in applause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is such a cloud over everything. A cloud in the locker room, especially the last few days because we all know of how things have changed in the last week. Now they\u2019re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it\u2019s really getting to everyone,\u201d she concluded.<\/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. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early December, Lia Thomas, the biological man swimming on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s women\u2019s swim team, utterly crushed the women competing with Thomas at the University of Akron\u2019s Zippy Invitational, winning the 1650 free by a gargantuan 38 seconds ahead of the young woman finishing second, winning the 500 free by a whopping twelve seconds ahead of the woman finishing second, and winning the 200 free by a still-huge seven seconds, setting new Penn records along with meet and pool records.Now video has surfaced of Thomas winning the 1650 free, showing how lopsided the race was with Thomas, who swam competitively for the men\u2019s team for three years before switching to the women\u2019s team, leaving female swimmers looking as if they were not even in the same race.Just to show you how absurd this is. Here\u2019s the trans swimmer \u201cLia\u201d Thomas crushing all of the female competitors by 40 seconds. This is what that looks like in real time. A total farce. pic.twitter.com\/kAi9GgF5sj\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) December 15, 2021Thomas admitted in an interview with Swim Swam 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\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 asserted. \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.\u201dTransgender swimmer who used to compete as a man smashes TWO US women&#8217;s records https:\/\/t.co\/Q1XBXUDZ2v\u2014 Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) December 7, 2021A member of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s swim team told\u00a0Outkick\u00a0that Thomas bragged after winning the 200 freestyle at the University of Akron Zippy Invitational, \u201cThat was so easy, I was cruising,\u201d and after winning the 500 freestyle but disappointed with the time, boasted, \u201cAt least I\u2019m still No. 1 in the country\u201d in front of teammates.\u201cWell, obviously she\u2019s No. 1 in the country because she\u2019s at a clear physical advantage after having gone through male puberty and getting to train with testosterone for years. Of course you\u2019re No. 1 in the country when you\u2019re beating a bunch of females. That\u2019s not something to brag about,\u201d the teammate commented.The teammate said her fellow women teammates were crying on the Akron pool deck because they knew they had no chance of winning with Thomas competing. She said, \u201cThey feel so discouraged because no matter how much work they put in it, they\u2019re going to lose. Usually, they can get behind the blocks and know they out-trained all their competitors and they\u2019re going to win and give it all they\u2019ve got. Now they\u2019re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it\u2019s really getting to everyone.\u201dThe teammate noted that after Thomas won, \u201cUsually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race. Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there. \u2026 When [Penn swimmer] Anna [Kalandadze] finished second, the crowd erupted in applause.\u201d\u201cThis is such a cloud over everything. A cloud in the locker room, especially the last few days because we all know of how things have changed in the last week. Now they\u2019re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, they do not have the chance to win. I think that it\u2019s really getting to everyone,\u201d she concluded.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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