{"id":1388647,"date":"2022-03-18T11:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388647"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:15:53","slug":"its-unfair-ncaa-father-says-its-soul-crushing-watching-lia-thomas-obliterate-female-swimmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-unfair-ncaa-father-says-its-soul-crushing-watching-lia-thomas-obliterate-female-swimmers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s Unfair\u2019: NCAA Father Says It\u2019s \u2018Soul Crushing\u2019 Watching Lia Thomas Obliterate Female Swimmers"},"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%2Fits-unfair-ncaa-father-says-its-soul-crushing-watching-lia-thomas-obliterate-female-swimmers%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=1388647&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-2.25.03-PM.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 The father of a swimmer competing at the NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming Championship described watching transgender athlete Lia Thomas dominating female swimmers as \u201cunfair\u201d and \u201csoul crushing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amid-national-backlash-female-athletes-hesitant-to-weigh-in-on-trans-competitor-lia-thomas\">clocked in<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-dont-want-women-to-feel-the-way-that-i-did-female-track-athlete-forced-to-compete-against-biological-male-speaks-out\">will compete<\/a> in the women\u2019s 200 freestyle Friday evening and the 100 freestyle on Saturday. The transgender swimmer is slated to finish second in the 200 freestyle and tenth in the 100 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just don\u2019t think it\u2019s fair,\u201d said the\u00a0father of a swimmer from Virginia who asked not to be identified in order to preserve his daughter\u2019s anonymity. \u201cThese young ladies have worked too hard to be treated like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The dad expressed concerns in an interview with The Daily Wire that weighing in publicly on controversy over Thomas would embroil his daughter in criticism that might endanger her future job prospects.<\/p>\n<p>While some onlookers cheered as the transgender athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biologically-male-swimmer-annihilates-female-competitors-in-500-free\">was announced<\/a> the winner on Thursday evening, the stands also resonated with a chorus of boos and yells.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia dad said that it has been \u201cincredibly obvious\u201d from where he has been sitting in the stands that parents \u201cdon\u2019t appear to be supportive of Lia Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt happened several times yesterday when he finished, when he touched the wall and finished,\u201d the father explained. \u201cNobody clapped, really. When the second place person came in, the place exploded.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou saw the same thing on the podium,\u201d he added. \u201cYou know, everybody cheered loudly for the second place finisher, the girl. And not very many people clapped for the champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The transgender swimmer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-slated-to-win-womens-500-free-by-almost-3-seconds\">presence<\/a> is noticeable on the pool deck \u2014 aside from the fact that Thomas stands taller than many of the swimmers, the athlete also clearly has male anatomy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSoul crushing would be not an understatement,\u201d said the father, asked how it felt to watch Thomas win over a pool of biological women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can look at swimmers and tell whether they\u2019re really good,\u201d he said, noting that he doesn\u2019t believe Thomas is exerting as much effort as the female swimmers are. \u00a0\u201cAnd I don\u2019t think that [Thomas] is having to put out as much as the girls are put out to compete as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going out there doing it all and and they\u2019re leaving it all in the pool as it were,\u201d the father continued. \u201cAnd I just don\u2019t see that that he\u2019s having to do the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One consistent criticism of transgender athletes in women\u2019s spaces has been that biological males should not be present or be changing in women\u2019s locker rooms.<\/p>\n<p>The Virginia dad said he doesn\u2019t know anything firsthand about Thomas and locker rooms, but emphasized that he believes \u201cmales should be in a male locker room and biological females should be in a female locker room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not comfortable with my daughter being in a locker room with male,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that\u2019s wrong and disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He described the years of dedication and time that his daughter, who will compete against Thomas during the NCAA championship, has put into becoming a swimmer worthy of such a championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI drove nine hours to clap for my daughter for a little under 22 seconds,\u201d he chuckled.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if he thinks the work was worth it: \u201cAbsolutely. Every bit of it. She\u2019s an amazing young lady, and I\u2019m excited for her future.\u201d<\/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 The father of a swimmer competing at the NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming Championship described watching transgender athlete Lia Thomas dominating female swimmers as \u201cunfair\u201d and \u201csoul crushing.\u201dThe transgender<\/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-1388647","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\/1388647","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=1388647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388647\/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=1388647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}