{"id":1359737,"date":"2022-03-05T08:14:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359737"},"modified":"2022-03-05T08:22:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T13:22:42","slug":"lia-thomas-wants-to-compete-in-2024-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lia-thomas-wants-to-compete-in-2024-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lia Thomas Wants to Compete in 2024 Olympics"},"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\">16<\/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-wants-to-compete-in-2024-olympics%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=1359737&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\/03\/LiaThomasHeader-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p><em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/2022\/03\/03\/lia-thomas-penn-swimmer-transgender-woman-daily-cover\">interview<\/a> with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was published on Thursday, where the athlete doubled down on her gender identity and hinted at wanting to compete in the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the interview serves as a reaffirmation to &#8220;transgender good, biology bad&#8221; ideologues and doesn&#8217;t explore opposing concerns surrounding the issues that have become hot topics in classrooms and in women&#8217;s sports.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>That is to say the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/women-are-now-third-class-citizens-upen-swimmer\">underlying worries<\/a> about &#8220;women are now third-class citizens&#8221; is not addressed by the glowing <em>Sports Illustrated <\/em>interview at all.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> interview was long anticipated because of how the University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer drummed up so much national attention. The magazine ended up being the outlet that she&#8217;d talk about it all with.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The writer of the interview set Thomas up as someone who&#8217;s apparently shy and yet beset by the politics of her situation. <em>Sports Illustrated <\/em>doesn&#8217;t shy away from admitting the contrast in results Thomas has swimming with the women&#8217;s league, even mentioning: &#8220;Thomas says she has ambitions to compete beyond college, which could set her on a course to be Ledecky&#8217;s teammate at the 2024 Games in Paris\u2014and perhaps challenge Ledecky&#8217;s Olympic records.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The <em>Sports Illustrated <\/em>trumps up the criticisms against Thomas as &#8220;hate&#8221; without exploring the substance of that critique. The article says UPenn&#8217;s social media handlers &#8220;turn off comments&#8221; on social media posts that mention Thomas in order to ignore negative feedback about their transgendered &#8220;star.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m a woman, just like anybody else on the team,&#8221; Thomas insisted.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>But the framing of this backlash is that it&#8217;s set to explain why Thomas is closed off, even choosing her words carefully when speaking to the adoring press.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>What we learn of her background is that Thomas joined UPenn and wanted to follow in her brother&#8217;s footsteps. After what&#8217;s described as feeling &#8220;off&#8221; and some help from Google, UPenn was more than happy to pair Thomas up with a transgender mentor to facilitate those thoughts further.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Through the power of confirmation bias, Thomas decided she was transgender before &#8220;coming out&#8221; to her brother and parents about her identity.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>However, being second place in the 2018 &#8211; 2019 season left Thomas miserable, which she now chalked up to gender dysphoria taking a toll on her. The way that <em>Sports Illustrated <\/em>framed Thomas taking hormone therapy relies more on how it was a detriment to the swimmer competing against biological males.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>&#8220;I felt, mentally, a lot better and healthier pretty quickly. The relief it gave me was quite substantial,&#8221; Thomas said about starting HRT treatments like a miracle cure.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>That&#8217;s not an exaggeration. &#8220;I\u2019ve been reinvigorated. I\u2019ve been swimming for 17 years, but for [only] a short part of that time have I felt fully engaged,&#8221; is what <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em> printed as an exact quote from Thomas.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The toxic politics created as a result of what Thomas injected into weakening the UPenn swim team&#8217;s social cohesion plays second-fiddle to <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>&#8216;s primary focus. Previous reporting on the chemistry between Thomas and the rest UPenn team has shown a tedious dynamic, at best.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>While Thomas displays &#8220;her male genitals when changing,&#8221; an anonymous teammate <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/lia-thomas-teammate-locker-room\">conveyed<\/a> how the transgender swimmer claims to also be attracted to women. This leaves some to wonder if that qualifies as being lesbian. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>UPenn teammates uncomfortable with Thomas being in the women&#8217;s locker room have no one to complain to. When they do, they&#8217;ve been told to just put up with it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>Members of the UPenn women&#8217;s swim team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/03\/lia-thomas-penn-swimming-teammates\/\">anonymously pushed<\/a> for the school to kick out Thomas last month per an NCAA transgender policy change. But the 16 swimmers behind the letter didn&#8217;t want to be identified amid fears of retaliation.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\">\n<p>The main concern surrounding Thomas is how they were able to dominate both against <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/lia-thomas-wins-big\">biologically female<\/a> swimmers as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/yale-trans-swimmer-beats-penn-trans-rival-in-womens-ivy-league-race\">other transgendered<\/a> competitors. It led many to <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-eligible-to-compete-in-ivy-league-championship\">question<\/a> the factor of testosterone in not only qualifying for the Ivy League Championship, but ending up <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biological-male-is-womens-ivy-league-swimming-champion\">obliterating<\/a> the rest of the race.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-123b907a=\"\"><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Illustrated&#8217;s interview with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was published on Thursday, where the athlete doubled down on her gender identity and hinted at wanting to compete in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1894093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359737","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=1359737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}