{"id":1165776,"date":"2021-12-28T15:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1165776"},"modified":"2021-12-28T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T20:34:42","slug":"the-statement-for-women-is-you-dont-matter-usa-swimming-official-who-quit-over-trans-swimmer-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-statement-for-women-is-you-dont-matter-usa-swimming-official-who-quit-over-trans-swimmer-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;The Statement for Women is You Don\u2019t Matter&#039;: USA Swimming Official Who Quit Over Trans Swimmer Speaks Out"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fthe-statement-for-women-is-you-dont-matter-usa-swimming-official-who-quit-over-trans-swimmer-speaks-out%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=1165776&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\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The USA Swimming official who resigned over transgender U Penn swimmer Lia Thomas is speaking out, saying that allowing men to compete as women is \u201cdestroying women\u2019s swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Millen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/24\/i-cant-support-this-usa-swimming-official-resigns-in-protest-of-trans-swimmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> last week, saying she could not support allowing Thomas to compete as a woman. But now, Millen is speaking out, revealing more of her disagreements with college sports for allowing the transgender swimmer to decimate women\u2019s swimming records this season.<\/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>Millen told Fox News host Sean Duffy that puberty is one of the defining factors in classifying swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve gotten a lot of kind comments from fellow officials, former officials, and from parents of swimmers and swimmers,\u201d Millen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/usa-swimming-official-lia-thomas-destroying-womens-swimming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Duffy on Monday evening\u2019s <i>Tucker Carlson Show<\/i>. The fact is that swimming is a sport in which bodies compete against bodies. Identities do not compete against identities. And from the very beginning, when you start out as an age-grouper, swimmers are divided by sex and by age group: eight and under, nine-ten, etc., all the way up, because from the very beginning, this is just accentuated when boys and girls go through puberty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoys will always have larger lung capacity, larger hearts, greater circulation, a bigger skeleton, and less fat,\u201d Millen added. \u201cGirls go through puberty, and they have a double whammy; they not only have breasts and hips, but they have periods, and they often have a totally different center of gravity; they have to learn how to swim over again.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cSo while Lia Thomas is a child of God, he is a biological male who is competing against women. And no matter how much testosterone suppression drugs he takes, he will always be a biological male and have this advantage,\u201d Millen continued. \u201cAnd it\u2019s horrible; the statement for women then is you don\u2019t matter, what you do is not important, and little girls are going to be thrown under the bus by all of this. He\u2019s going to be destroying women\u2019s swimming.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\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>Millen said that she is hearing from many parents and others who agree with her, saying, \u201cI\u2019m getting great letters from dads of daughters and also moms of daughters, but we\u2019re also seeing some past Olympians stepping up and saying, \u2018No, this is wrong.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must remember that Olympic swimming for women was built on great swimmers like Jill Sterkel, Shirley Babashoff, Janet Evans, Jenny Thompson; all of these women who worked so hard before Title IX when they didn\u2019t have the opportunities that men had. And It would be such a shame, it would be such a travesty to throw it all away now,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd this is what will happen. We must face facts: Men are different from women; men swimmers are different from women, and they will always be faster than women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas competed on the university\u2019s men\u2019s team for nearly three seasons before taking a year off to \u201ctransition\u201d as a woman. This season, Thomas joined the women\u2019s team and has been smashing records, and not by mere seconds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Millen is not alone in speaking out. One of Thomas\u2019 teammates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/09\/teammates-of-trans-u-penn-swimmer-unhappy-with-record-smashing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the media that \u201ceveryone knows\u201d it is wrong for Thomas to compete as a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the team this season, Thomas set a new 500 freestyle Ivy League record and the next day crushed the female record in the 200 freestyle, setting an all-time record that will likely be hard for natural-born female swimmers to beat.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" 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>\u2014 End the Mandates (@weRessential) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/weRessential\/status\/1468810186357891079?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another of Thomas\u2019 teammates who has commented anonymously even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/13\/so-easy-i-was-cruising-trans-upenn-swimmer-bragged-about-beating-female-opponents\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> that Thomas has bragged about beating his natural-born female opponents.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USA Swimming official who resigned over transgender U Penn swimmer Lia Thomas is speaking out, saying that allowing men to compete as women is \u201cdestroying women\u2019s swimming.\u201d Cynthia Millen &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"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-1165776","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\/1165776","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\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165776\/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=1165776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}