{"id":1386795,"date":"2022-03-17T13:44:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T17:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386795"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:29:52","slug":"its-a-mans-world-lia-thomas-sets-another-record-at-ncaa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-a-mans-world-lia-thomas-sets-another-record-at-ncaa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s a Man&#039;s World: Lia Thomas Sets Another Record at NCAA 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\">24<\/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%2Fits-a-mans-world-lia-thomas-sets-another-record-at-ncaa-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=1386795&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\">Controversial transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas is once again looking like a favorite to bury the competition after setting yet another record during the NCAA championship prelims in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/lia-thomas-smashes-biological-females-in-ncaa-championship-prelims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">destroyed<\/a> the competition again in the 500 freestyle prelims Thursday with a 4:33.82 final, a new top time in the nation, Outkick 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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lia Thomas goes 4:33:82 in the 500 prelims at the NCAA Championships which is a new top time in the nation this year. <\/p>\n<p>Pat Forde&#8217;s Olympian daughter has her work cut out for her later tonight in the finals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QLbsHgMDKB\">pic.twitter.com\/QLbsHgMDKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Kinsey (@JoeKinseyexp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeKinseyexp\/status\/1504470273910665219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The controversial swimmer\u2019s inclusion in the event was not without protests. As ESPN noted, a group waving signs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/33526300\/lia-thomas-qualifies-first-500-freestyle-ncaa-championships-small-crowd-protests-swimmer-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">protested<\/a> outside Georgia Tech\u2019s McAuley Aquatic Center. Some of the signs read, \u201cSupport fair sports for women and girls,\u201d and \u201cThat man is a cheat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Denver resident and mother of two daughters Jeanna Hoch told ESPN that she traveled to Atlanta to support women\u2019s sports. \u201cI came to support women and girls. They do not have the same opportunities that I had. There is no single-sex competition anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Thomas is not the only high-profile competitor at this year\u2019s championships. Olympian Brooke Forde, who swam for Stanford, is also competing this year. Forde won the silver at the Tokyo Games with the American 4\u00d7200-meter freestyle relay team.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gettyimages.com\/photos\/university-of-pennsylvania-swimmer-lia-thomas-reacts-after-her-team-picture-id1238632976?k=20&#038;m=1238632976&#038;s=612x612&#038;w=0&#038;h=BpgTl11bNAd-0nxI1qZFCFUZQ_bKC7LTBk9qAR-cgfM=\" alt=\"University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas reacts after her team wins the 400 yard freestyle relay during the 2022 Ivy League Womens Swimming and...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Trans swimmer Lia Thomas. (Kathryn Riley\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Forde\u2019s father, Pat, recently said he is not so sure it is fair that Lia Thomas \u2014 who was born a man and has still not undergone any surgical alterations to his genitalia \u2014 is competing against biological females.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople don\u2019t necessarily have to agree. I\u2019m not sure I agree completely because I\u2019m not sure this is a level playing field,\u201d Pat Forde said in January, Outkick noted. \u201cMy daughter\u2019s thing is, \u2018I\u2019m the one who has to get into the pool with her, and I\u2019m fine with it,\u2019 so I think some people could take a good lesson from that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Forde family recently released a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/brooke-forde-i-will-not-have-a-problem-racing-against-lia-thomas-at-ncaas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> in Brooke\u2019s name addressing the fact that Brooke would be competing against the biologically male Thomas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have great respect for Lia. Social change is always a slow and difficult process and we rarely get it correct right away. Being among the first to lead such a social change requires an enormous amount of courage, and I admire Lia for her leadership that will undoubtedly benefit many trans athletes in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, I along with most swimmers, experienced what it was like to have my chance to achieve my swimming goals taken away after years of hard work. I would not wish this experience on anyone, especially Lia, who has followed the rules required of her. I believe that treating people with respect and dignity is more important than any trophy or record will ever be, which is why I will not have a problem racing against Lia at NCAAs this year.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pat Forde also wondered if there would be a time when transgender athletes only compete against other transgender athletes. But he also felt that the whole discussion is a surrogate for politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is funny. Some of the folks who are really wound up about this and screaming about the fairness about women\u2019s sports really don\u2019t give a damn about women\u2019s sports,\u201d Pat Forde <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/cfb-vs-nfl-playoffs-paying-college-athletes-news-roundup-transgender-swimming-controversy-015123485.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclaimed<\/a>, according to Yahoo Sports. \u201cThey are using this as a political wedge issue, and they are using it as a sign the country has absolutely run amok and has lost its mind to political correctness and blah blah blah. There are a lot of political opinions about this, but some of them are cloaked, I think, in bogus terms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, a \u201cbogus\u201d debate or not, Thomas has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/20\/big-man-campus-lia-thomas-breaks-another-record-dominates-ivy-league-womens-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obliterating records<\/a> set by generations of female swimmers since leaving UPenn\u2019s men\u2019s team and joining the women\u2019s team after claiming to have \u201ctransitioned\u201d to become a woman.<\/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>Controversial transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas is once again looking like a favorite to bury the competition after setting yet another record during the NCAA championship prelims in<\/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-1386795","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\/1386795","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=1386795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386795\/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=1386795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}