{"id":1250978,"date":"2022-01-28T13:23:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1250978"},"modified":"2022-01-28T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T18:23:13","slug":"teammates-uncomfortable-changing-in-locker-room-with-trans-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teammates-uncomfortable-changing-in-locker-room-with-trans-swimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Teammates Uncomfortable Changing in Locker Room with 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\">18<\/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%2Fteammates-uncomfortable-changing-in-locker-room-with-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=1250978&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 class=\"subheading\">Members of the University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s swim team are reportedly uncomfortable changing and showering with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the locker room, according to the latest reports on this controversial college athlete.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who has claimed to have \u201ctransitioned\u201d to being a woman, has never gone through any surgical procedures and is still fully endowed with male genitalia. And according to reports, Thomas\u2019s parading around in locker rooms with male genitalia has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10445679\/Lia-Thomas-UPenn-teammate-says-trans-swimmer-doesnt-cover-genitals-locker-room.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upset<\/a> some of the natural-born female team members, the Daily Mail reported.<\/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>\u201cIt\u2019s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,\u201d the unnamed source told the <i>Mail,<\/i> adding that Thomas tells teammates that he is still attracted to women.<\/p>\n<p>The paper added that some of Thomas\u2019 teammates had asked UPenn\u2019s coach to get Thomas to use other facilities to change and shower. But thus far, school officials have ignored the issue.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/24172245\/lia-thomas-a-transgender-woman-gathers-with-her-teammates-before-she-picture-id1237915373\" alt=\"Lia Thomas, a transgender woman , gathers with her teammates before she swims for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Lia Thomas, a transgender woman (C), gathers with her teammates before she swims for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2022. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMultiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,\u201d the source told the <i>Mail<\/i>. \u201cBut we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there\u2019s nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The source, a female swimmer on the UPenn team, added that \u201cLia doesn\u2019t seem to care how it makes anyone else feel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The swimmer also said that the school has told them to knuckle under and accept the situation. \u201cThe 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe school was so focused on making sure Lia was okay and doing everything they possibly could do for her that they didn\u2019t even think about the rest of us,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, Thomas \u201cseems like she enjoys\u201d all the attention and controversy brought to the UPenn swim team.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/27133814\/lia-thomas-a-transgender-woman-finishes-the-200-yard-freestyle-for-picture-id1237915107\" alt=\"Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, finishes the 200 yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, finishes the 200-yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2022. (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s affected all of us way more than it\u2019s affected her,\u201d the source continued, noting that many of the swimmers are afraid of speaking out for fear of being labeled \u201ctransphobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this gets a little bit bigger, I might go on the record, but I\u2019m definitely a little afraid,\u201d the woman said. \u201cWhat I\u2019m afraid of is that potential employers will Google my name and see commentary about things I said and think, oh, this person\u2019s transphobic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who has been obliterating swimming records set by women since joining the UPenn swim team this season, has also faced an avalanche of criticism from other members of the team.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the father of a UPenn swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/01\/27\/parent-says-lia-thomas-teammates-know-they-will-never-ever-be-able-to-beat-this-person\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insisted<\/a> that Thomas has a baleful effect on the team because the natural-born women Thomas competes against know that they can never win.<\/p>\n<p>Then, last week, Rice swimming coach Seth Huston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/01\/25\/rice-swimming-coach-slams-ncaa-for-allowing-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-to-compete-as-a-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> the NCAA and the University of Pennsylvania for allowing transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete as a woman at all, saying that the situation was unfair to the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Several others have also raised the alarm over Thomas. In December, one UPenn swimmer anonymously <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 it\u2019s the wrong thing to do\u201d to allow Thomas to compete as a woman. And a week later, another of Thomas\u2019s teammates <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\">said<\/a> that Thomas had bragged about how easy it was to beat his natural-born female opponents.<\/p>\n<p>One person outside the university has also shined a light on the unfairness of the situation. USA Swimming official Cynthia Millen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/12\/28\/the-statement-women-you-dont-matter-usa-swimming-official-who-quit-trans-swimmer-speaks-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned<\/a> her position in protest over Thomas, saying that allowing Thomas to compete as a woman is \u201cdestroying women\u2019s swimming.\u201d<\/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>Members of the University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s swim team are reportedly uncomfortable changing and showering with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in the locker room, according to the latest reports on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1250978","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\/1250978","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250978\/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=1250978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}