{"id":1388388,"date":"2022-03-18T09:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388388"},"modified":"2022-03-18T13:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:14:50","slug":"amid-national-backlash-female-athletes-hesitant-to-weigh-in-on-trans-competitor-lia-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-national-backlash-female-athletes-hesitant-to-weigh-in-on-trans-competitor-lia-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid National Backlash, Female Athletes Hesitant To Weigh In On Trans Competitor Lia Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Famid-national-backlash-female-athletes-hesitant-to-weigh-in-on-trans-competitor-lia-thomas%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=1388388&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:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-18-at-11.52.47-AM.png?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>ATLANTA, GA. \u2014 Female athletes competing in the women\u2019s swimming championships appear unwilling to share how they feel about a biological man competing in female races and winning female titles.<\/p>\n<p>Swimmers from across the nation gathered in Atlanta, Georgia for the NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming Championship amid backlash over transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, a biological male who has been competing in female races.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Pennsylvania swimmer clocked in at 4:33:24 in the women\u2019s 500 freestyle finals Thursday evening, finishing first ahead of the University of Virginia\u2019s Emma Weyant, a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas will compete in the women\u2019s 200 freestyle Friday and the 100 freestyle on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the transgender swimmer\u2019s female competitors have been reticent to share how they feel about competing with \u2014 and losing to \u2014 a biological man.<\/p>\n<p>Some swimmers who told The Daily Wire that they took issue with Thomas competing in their races said that they would consider chatting only after they had completed their NCAA races.<\/p>\n<p>Others directed The Daily Wire to the media relations team at their universities, such as the University of Tennessee, which declined interview requests until after the NCAA championships.<\/p>\n<p>Their reticence leaves a definitive hole in coverage of the culture-changing phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019s presence is indisputably noticeable on the pool deck \u2014 aside from the fact that Thomas\u2019s roughly 6 foot 1 inch frame stands taller than many of the swimmers, the athlete stands out from competitors due to the fact that Thomas clearly still has male anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>Onlookers cheered as the transgender athlete was announced the winner of the 500 freestyle on Thursday evening, but the stands also resonated with a chorus of boos and yells.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, pro-women organizations \u201cSave Women\u2019s Sports\u201d and \u201cYoung Women for America\u201d called on the swimmer\u2019s attendees and participants to recognize the differences between men and women and to uphold the dignity of biological sex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWatching Thomas blow away the competition was both unsurprising and devastating,\u201d said Chloe Satterfield, a freshman at Georgia Tech on the ground with Young Women for America. \u201cI wasn\u2019t shocked at all, but I feel like it left everyone with a feeling of defeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Satterfield, who told The Daily Wire that she lost to a biological man who identified as a transgender woman when she played tennis in high school, said that \u201cThomas had an inherent advantage over his female competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone knew that we couldn\u2019t change that, so what is anyone supposed to do,\u201d she asked. \u201cSeeing that win and all of the heartbroken athletes and families made me realize how important it is that we fight hard for equality in women\u2019s sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young Women for America\u2019s communications director Annabelle Rutledge told The Daily Wire that it was \u201ca no brainer\u201d for her organization to show up and stand with female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not stand by as women\u2019s rights, opportunities, and very existence are being replaced by men just three months ahead of Title IX\u2019s 50th anniversary,\u201d she promised. \u201cAllowing Lia Thomas to take \u2018first\u2019 place in women\u2019s Div 1 swimming and diving championship is a slap in the face to the women who worked their entire lives to get to this moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Thomas\u2019 teammates, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/penn-swimmer-lia-thomas-integrity-sport-ncaa-championship\">who spoke to Fox News<\/a> on the condition of anonymity, told the publication that the transgender swimmer\u2019s participation in women\u2019s athletics has \u201ccompletely ruined the integrity of the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily an achievement in my mind,\u201d she said. \u201cWomen\u2019s records are separate from men\u2019s records. It\u2019s its own distinct category because no woman is going to be as fast as a man, and here is just completely \u2014 we\u2019re just throwing away the definition of a record to fit into someone else\u2019s agenda of what it should mean to them when in reality it makes no scientific sense to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The student added that she finds it \u201cdisappointing to know that the NCAA lacks the courage to do the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if Lia were to break an Olympian\u2019s record, it would cause a lot of damage to the sport and to women, and I think it would cause more people to come out [against the guidelines], people that were afraid to speak before,\u201d the student said.<\/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 <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA, GA. \u2014 Female athletes competing in the women\u2019s swimming championships appear unwilling to share how they feel about a biological man competing in female races and winning female titles.Swimmers<\/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-1388388","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\/1388388","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=1388388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388388\/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=1388388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}