{"id":1234796,"date":"2022-01-24T09:24:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1234796"},"modified":"2022-01-24T09:25:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T14:25:02","slug":"lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-women-are-now-third-class-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-women-are-now-third-class-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Lia Thomas Teammate Speaks Out: \u2018Women Are Now Third-Class Citizens\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Flia-thomas-teammate-speaks-out-women-are-now-third-class-citizens%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=1234796&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 University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s swimming team member Lia Thomas, formerly known as Will Thomas, won two more events against female swimmers on Saturday, one teammate who preferred to remain anonymous spoke out, saying, \u201cWomen are now third-class citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lia Thomas won the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle races in the meet against Harvard University.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous teammate told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/women-are-now-third-class-citizens-says-penn-swimmer-in-exclusive-interview\">The Washington Examiner<\/a>, \u201cLia was not even close to being competitive as a man in the 50 and the 100. But just because Lia is biologically a man, [Lia] is just naturally better than many females in the 50 and the 100 or anything that [Lia] wasn\u2019t good at as a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The teammate continued, \u201cThe top people at NCAA, who are on the board of directors \u2026 they are not protecting women\u2019s rights. Imagine if there was this kind of inequality in men\u2019s sports. Or someone found out about doping in a men\u2019s sport. It would be fixed in a blink of an eye. Everyone would be all over it. But because it\u2019s women, they don\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople have come up to me and said this is so wrong,\u201d she said. \u201cI am typically liberal, but this is past that. This is so wrong. This doesn\u2019t make any sense. \u2026 I\u2019m trying to do everything I can without harming my future from stopping this from happening. I can\u2019t just sit back and let something like this happen. I\u2019m not just going to sit back and say, \u2018My rights are being taken away, too bad.\u2019 It\u2019s embarrassing that people aren\u2019t speaking out more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t see how anyone could feel good about this,\u201d she concluded..<\/p>\n<p>The Examiner noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>For the 2021-2022 University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s swimming team, the top&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/2019\/11\/14\/womens-swimming-top-times.aspx\">time<\/a>&nbsp;for the 50 free is 22.78 seconds, accomplished by Thomas. Comparatively, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/2019\/11\/14\/mens-swim-top-times.aspx\">men\u2019s<\/a>&nbsp;top time in the same event during this season is 20.32 seconds. Thomas\u2019s record time for women would have been the 17th best time for men this year. Furthermore, Thomas\u2019s performance was the third-fastest time for the university\u2019s women\u2019s team in the last&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pennathletics.com\/sports\/2019\/11\/14\/womens-swimming-top-times.aspx\">13 <\/a>seasons.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On January 8, Thomas swam a race in which Thomas\u2019 time was suspiciously slower than previous times, permitting Iszac Henig, a Yale swimmer who is biologically female but identifies as male, to win.<\/p>\n<p>That prompted a young woman who is on Penn\u2019s swim team with Thomas to surmise in an interview with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/penn-swimmer-alleges-lia-thomas-colluded-with-fellow-transgender-swimmer-before-race\/\">Outkick<\/a>&nbsp;last week that Thomas and Henig colluded before the race in order for Henig to win and thus disprove the assumption that Thomas, as a biological male, could not be beaten by a biological female competitor.<\/p>\n<p>The swimmer, who preferred to remain anonymous out of fear from activists, told Outkick, \u201cLooking at [Lia\u2019s] time, I don\u2019t think she was trying. I know they\u2019re friends and I know they were talking before the meet. I think she let her win to prove the point that, \u2018Oh see, a female-to-male beat me.\u2019\u201d Asked if she thought Thomas and Henig had colluded, she replied, \u201cI do. I can\u2019t say for sure, but I wouldn\u2019t be shocked if I found out that was 100% true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Outkick noted, \u201cIn the 100 freestyle race, Henig finished with a time of 49.57; Thomas touched the wall in 52.84. During a November tri-meet with Princeton and Cornell, Thomas swam the 100 freestyle in 49.42.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 teammate also noted that in the January 8 200 freestyle race, Thomas only won by two seconds. She stated, &nbsp;\u201cI was on deck and said to a friend, \u2018She\u2019s literally not trying.\u2019 You could just tell. It was blatantly obvious. I was watching the 200 free and she was literally keeping pace with the other girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe was No. 1 in the country at one point,\u201d she continued. \u201cThese are definitely talented swimmers, but they\u2019re not the caliber of being at the top in the country or anything like that. \u2026 You can tell when someone is dying and they\u2019re swimming slow. You can also tell when someone is not trying and I could see [in the 200 freestyle] that Lia was not trying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In early December, Thomas 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 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><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>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s swimming team member Lia Thomas, formerly known as Will Thomas, won two more events against female swimmers on Saturday, one teammate who preferred to remain anonymous spoke out, saying, \u201cWomen are now third-class citizens.\u201d Lia Thomas won the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle races in the meet against Harvard University. 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