{"id":1305793,"date":"2022-02-17T04:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1305793"},"modified":"2022-02-17T09:37:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T14:37:45","slug":"two-transgender-swimmers-post-fastest-split-times-at-ivy-league-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-transgender-swimmers-post-fastest-split-times-at-ivy-league-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Transgender Swimmers Post Fastest Split Times At Ivy League Championships"},"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\">22<\/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%2Ftwo-transgender-swimmers-post-fastest-split-times-at-ivy-league-championships%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=1305793&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\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238547213-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday night, at the Ivy League Women\u2019s Championship, the two fastest times posted in the 800-yard freestyle relay were swam by a biological male identifying as a woman and a biological female identifying as a male.<\/p>\n<p>Lia Thomas, formerly known as Will Thomas, who swims for the University of Pennsylvania women\u2019s team, swam the first leg of the race in 1:44:50, while Iszac Henig, the biological female who identifies as a male and swims for Yale University, swam the leg in 1:44:65, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10522139\/Transgender-swimmers-post-fastest-split-times-relay-race-Ivy-League-womens-championship.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Although they had the two fastest times, Harvard University won the race, with Yale finishing second and Penn third.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-January, a young woman who is on Penn\u2019s swim team with Thomas surmised 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;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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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 she added.<\/p>\n<p>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>Henig protested that the first time meeting Thomas in person was at the meet itself, adding, \u201cIn the fall semester, when some of the media stuff first started to come out, I saw it and I reached out over Instagram DMs just to introduce myself and offer a word of support\u2026That was really the only connection we had,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courant.com\/sports\/college\/hc-sp-yale-transgender-swimmer-speaks-out-20220124-j4fhdbunibdork7ciftk3nb7cq-story.html\">The Hartford Courant<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>In early February, 16 members of the Penn Women\u2019s Swimming Team <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/her-rankings-have-bounced-from-462-as-a-male-to-1-as-a-female-16-lia-thomas-teammates-sign-letter-asking-penn-not-to-sue-ncaa-bar-thomas-from-competing\/\">sent a letter<\/a> to the University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League asking them to refrain from suing the NCAA over its new Athlete Inclusion Policies that would bar Thomas from participating in the NCAA championships in March. They stated, \u201cWe have been told that if we spoke out against her inclusion into women\u2019s competitions, that we would be removed from the team or that we would never get a job offer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe group, organized by three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar, sent the letter early Thursday morning asking UPenn and the Ivy League to support us as biological women\u2019 and not engage the NCAA in legal action in an effort to challenge the new protocols,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/swimswam.com\/group-of-penn-swimmers-ask-upenn-ivy-league-to-abide-by-new-transgender-policy\/\">Swim Swam<\/a>&nbsp;reported, adding, \u201cHogshead-Makar says that the swimmers wrote the letter themselves, though both Hogshead-Makar, an organized group of parents, and other athletes, made edits before arriving at the final draft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the letter, the swimmers noted, \u201cBiologically, Lia holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women\u2019s category, as evidenced by her rankings that have bounced from #462 as a male to #1 as a female. If she [Thomas] were to be eligible to compete against us, she could now break Penn, Ivy, and NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming records; feats she could never have done as a male athlete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Most important to us is that Lia\u2019s inclusion with unfair biological advantages means that we have lost competitive opportunities. Some of us have lost records. But even those that swim different events than Lia or were not in contention to make the Ivy Championships, we stand by our teammates who have lost out. It has often felt like Penn, our school, our league, and the NCAA did not support us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We have dedicated our lives to swimming. Most of us started the same time Lia did, as pre-teens. We have trained up to 20 hours a week, swimming miles, running and lifting weights.&nbsp;To be sidelined or beaten by someone competing with the strength, height, and lung capacity advantages that can only come with male puberty has been exceedingly difficult.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire\u2019s first original film, Shut In, has made its cinematic debut, being met with rave reviews. The Daily Wire is building an alternative to the leftist entertainment industry, one gripping movie at a time. 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