{"id":1216261,"date":"2022-01-14T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1216261"},"modified":"2022-01-14T11:49:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T16:49:42","slug":"penn-transgender-swimmer-mocks-the-situation-compares-herself-to-jackie-robinson-teammate-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/penn-transgender-swimmer-mocks-the-situation-compares-herself-to-jackie-robinson-teammate-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Transgender Swimmer \u2018Mocks\u2019 The Situation, \u2018Compares Herself To Jackie Robinson,\u2019 Teammate Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fpenn-transgender-swimmer-mocks-the-situation-compares-herself-to-jackie-robinson-teammate-says%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=1216261&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>A female swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s swim team said transgender athlete Lia Thomas \u201ccompares herself to Jackie Robinson\u201d and makes arrogant comments about being \u201cNo. 1 in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The female swimmer, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/transgender-penn-swimmer-breaks-team-rules-compares-self-to-jackie-robinson\">spoke<\/a> to the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity, explained in the second part of an exclusive interview that Thomas \u201ccompares herself to Jackie Robinson,\u201d saying, \u201cShe said she is like the Jackie Robinson of trans sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try not to be around her because the whole situation makes me so mad,\u201d the swimmer said. \u201cI don\u2019t think Lia is a bad person. She\u2019s very quiet and kind of introverted \u2026 It\u2019s just really hard for me to respect her at all because of what she\u2019s doing to my team and what she\u2019s doing to women in general and not caring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The female swimmer also told the outlet that Thomas \u201claughs about\u201d and \u201cmocks the situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of caring or showing that she cares about what she\u2019s doing or what she\u2019s doing to her teammates, she\u2019s not sympathetic or empathetic at all. Lia never addressed our team. She never asked if it was OK. She never asked how we felt. She never tried to explain how she feels. She never has said anything to us as a group. She never addressed anything,\u201d the swimmer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll she does is make comments to people like, \u2018At least I\u2019m still No. 1 in the country,\u2019 and those kinds of cocky things,\u201d the swimmer added. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t care how all this is affecting us and how this is affecting our relationship to swimming. She doesn\u2019t care, and it makes it really hard to like her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The swimmer also said Thomas has flagrantly ignored rules that everyone else followed, like on a recent trip to Florida where UPenn told the swimmers not to wear school gear \u2013 like they usually do \u2013 to avoid getting harassed, but Thomas ignored the rule and wore school gear every day while no one else did. She added that the year that Thomas attended both the male and female swim team annual dinners after announcing the gender transition, even though swimmers are only supposed to attend one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she first announced she was transgender and was still on the men\u2019s team, she went to both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming team dinners on our training trip,\u201d Thomas\u2019 teammate told the Examiner. \u201cIt really rubbed me the wrong way because if you\u2019re saying you\u2019re a woman, then why go to the men\u2019s team? And if you want to go to the men\u2019s team because all your friends are there, OK, understandable. But then why are you going to the women\u2019s team dinner? You shouldn\u2019t get to bend the rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/female-penn-swimmer-forced-to-compete-against-biological-male-says-ncaa-just-does-not-care-about-us-at-all\">noted<\/a>, the first part of the swimmer\u2019s interview accused the NCAA of not caring about biological women \u201cat all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, it\u2019s definitely really stressful. There\u2019s a lot going on. And it definitely weighs on my mind a lot because it\u2019s definitely hard to overcome the feeling of feeling completely overlooked, as if the NCAA just does not care about us at all. And nobody cares about how this is affecting us at all,\u201d she told the Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just seems like if you say anything, everyone is just going to attack you and call you transphobic, and it\u2019s not even true,\u201d she added. \u201cWe just want to have what we were promised by joining the swim team, which is fair competition and equal opportunities. It\u2019s been really frustrating because we all agree, and I have yet to meet anyone or talk to anyone who thinks what is going on is OK. But yet somehow, these are the rules and allowed.\u201d<\/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&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s swim team said transgender athlete Lia Thomas \u201ccompares herself to Jackie Robinson\u201d and makes arrogant comments about being \u201cNo. 1 in the country.\u201d The female swimmer, who spoke to the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity, explained in the second part of an exclusive interview that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"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-1216261","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\/1216261","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\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1216261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216261\/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=1216261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1216261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1216261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}