{"id":1124406,"date":"2021-12-16T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1124406"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:44:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:44:24","slug":"at-stake-here-is-the-integrity-of-womens-sports-parents-of-women-on-penn-swim-team-fire-off-letter-to-ncaa-about-trans-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-stake-here-is-the-integrity-of-womens-sports-parents-of-women-on-penn-swim-team-fire-off-letter-to-ncaa-about-trans-swimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018At Stake Here Is The Integrity Of Women\u2019s Sports\u2019: Parents Of Women On Penn Swim Team Fire Off Letter To NCAA About Trans Swimmer"},"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\">48<\/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%2Fat-stake-here-is-the-integrity-of-womens-sports-parents-of-women-on-penn-swim-team-fire-off-letter-to-ncaa-about-trans-swimmer%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=1124406&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>After transgender swimmer Lia Thomas utterly dominated the female swimmers at the University of Akron\u2019s Zippy Invitational in early December, 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 while setting new Penn records along with meet and pool records, parents of roughly ten of the female swimmers on the team fired off a letter to the NCAA on December 5, blasting, \u201cAt stake here is the integrity of women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter, which was forwarded to the Ivy League and University of Pennsylvania officials, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10314225\/UPenn-parents-pen-poignant-letter-demanding-NCAA-change-rules-trans-swimmer-Lia-Thomas.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported, stated:<\/p>\n<p><em>At stake here is the integrity of women\u2019s sports. The precedent being set \u2013 one in which women do not have a protected and equitable space to compete \u2013 is a direct threat to female athletes in every sport. What are the boundaries? How is this in line with the NCAA\u2019s commitment to providing a fair environment for student-athletes? \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It is the responsibility of the NCAA to address the matter with an official statement\u2026.As the governing body, it is unfair and irresponsible to leave the onus on Lia, Lia\u2019s teammates, Lia\u2019s coaches, UPenn athletics and the Ivy League. And it is unfair and irresponsible to Lia to allow the media to dictate the narrative without the participation of the NCAA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The mission and priorities of the NCAA are stated below. Please ensure that your actions and decisions are consistent with your mission for ALL Student-Athletes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One mother of one of the female swimmers on the team told The Daily Mail, \u201cThe swimmers have mixed feelings. Many of them want to speak up, but they don\u2019t because they believe they\u2019ll be ostracized. Everybody is scared. Parents are also scared that the kids will be harmed. We are paying $80,000 for this school. Their life will be impacted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the mothers asserted, \u201cI think that transgender people have a right to compete, but they need to have their own league\u2026.Being fair to one group of people shouldn\u2019t take rights away from another group, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here\u2026.The NCAA obviously didn\u2019t think much about the rules they set. It\u2019s not fair to the women on the team and it\u2019s not fair to Lia as well. She went through transition, and I admire her bravery. But the records she sets now are not valued records, female records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another mother added, \u201cOur swimmers are already impacted by this situation\u2026.My daughter is unable to focus. We are trying to give the swimmers a break, with interims now\u2026.But I\u2019m a fighter by nature and I feel uncomfortable being silent. If everyone is silent, nothing is going to change. We\u2019re giving the girls time for the midterms. Then we need to speak up as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A father of another swimmer on the team said the parent group is \u201cconsulting with people who are very in tune with these issues and plan to issue a statement shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/watch-heres-what-it-looked-like-when-u-penn-trans-swimmer-destroyed-female-competition\/\">Video has surfaced<\/a> of Thomas winning the 1650 free, showing how lopsided the race was with Thomas, who swam competitively for the men\u2019s team during three seasons before switching to the women\u2019s team, leaving female swimmers looking as if they were not even in the same race.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kAi9GgF5sj\">pic.twitter.com\/kAi9GgF5sj<\/a><\/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&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;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>A&nbsp;<a href=\"applewebdata:\/\/b36c18c8-d5c8-4565-8adb-1e386e402077\/v\">member of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s swim team<\/a>&nbsp;told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/outkick-exclusive-second-female-penn-swimmer-steps-forward\/\">Outkick<\/a>&nbsp;that 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>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After transgender swimmer Lia Thomas utterly dominated the female swimmers at the University of Akron\u2019s Zippy Invitational in early December, 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 while setting new Penn records along with meet and pool records, parents of roughly ten of the female swimmers on the team fired off a letter to the NCAA on December 5, blasting, \u201cAt stake here is the integrity of women\u2019s sports.\u201dThe letter, which was forwarded to the Ivy League and University of Pennsylvania officials, as The Daily Mail reported, stated:At stake here is the integrity of women\u2019s sports. The precedent being set \u2013 one in which women do not have a protected and equitable space to compete \u2013 is a direct threat to female athletes in every sport. What are the boundaries? How is this in line with the NCAA\u2019s commitment to providing a fair environment for student-athletes? \u2026It is the responsibility of the NCAA to address the matter with an official statement\u2026.As the governing body, it is unfair and irresponsible to leave the onus on Lia, Lia\u2019s teammates, Lia\u2019s coaches, UPenn athletics and the Ivy League. And it is unfair and irresponsible to Lia to allow the media to dictate the narrative without the participation of the NCAA.The mission and priorities of the NCAA are stated below. Please ensure that your actions and decisions are consistent with your mission for ALL Student-Athletes.One mother of one of the female swimmers on the team told The Daily Mail, \u201cThe swimmers have mixed feelings. Many of them want to speak up, but they don\u2019t because they believe they\u2019ll be ostracized. Everybody is scared. Parents are also scared that the kids will be harmed. We are paying $80,000 for this school. Their life will be impacted.\u201dOne of the mothers asserted, \u201cI think that transgender people have a right to compete, but they need to have their own league\u2026.Being fair to one group of people shouldn\u2019t take rights away from another group, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening here\u2026.The NCAA obviously didn\u2019t think much about the rules they set. It\u2019s not fair to the women on the team and it\u2019s not fair to Lia as well. She went through transition, and I admire her bravery. But the records she sets now are not valued records, female records.\u201dAnother mother added, \u201cOur swimmers are already impacted by this situation\u2026.My daughter is unable to focus. We are trying to give the swimmers a break, with interims now\u2026.But I\u2019m a fighter by nature and I feel uncomfortable being silent. If everyone is silent, nothing is going to change. We\u2019re giving the girls time for the midterms. Then we need to speak up as soon as possible.\u201dA father of another swimmer on the team said the parent group is \u201cconsulting with people who are very in tune with these issues and plan to issue a statement shortly.\u201dVideo has surfaced of Thomas winning the 1650 free, showing how lopsided the race was with Thomas, who swam competitively for the men\u2019s team during three seasons 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\u00a0admitted in an interview\u00a0with 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.\u201dA\u00a0member of the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s swim team\u00a0told\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.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 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 member.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"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-1124406","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\/1124406","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124406\/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=1124406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}