{"id":1394626,"date":"2022-03-22T16:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1394626"},"modified":"2022-03-22T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:45:28","slug":"desantis-recognizes-female-ncaa-athlete-not-lia-thomas-as-top-womens-swimmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-recognizes-female-ncaa-athlete-not-lia-thomas-as-top-womens-swimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Recognizes Female NCAA Athlete, Not Lia Thomas, as Top Women\u2019s Swimmer"},"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%2Fdesantis-recognizes-female-ncaa-athlete-not-lia-thomas-as-top-womens-swimmer%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=1394626&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><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) in an official state declaration on Tuesday recognized Sarasota native Emma Weyant, not trans swimmer Lia Thomas, as the winner of the NCAA women&#8217;s 500-yard freestyle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By allowing men to compete in women&#8217;s sports, the NCAA is destroying opportunities for women, making a mockery of its championships, and perpetuating a fraud,&#8221; DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1506315576674865153\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on Twitter when he announced Weyant&#8217;s win. &#8220;In Florida, we reject these lies and recognize Sarasota&#8217;s Emma Weyant as the best women&#8217;s swimmer in the 500y freestyle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Weyant placed second in the freestyle event at the NCAA Division I Swimming and Diving Championships. She finished just a hair behind Lia Thomas, the controversial University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/upenn-womens-swimmers-protest-transgender-teammate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">competed<\/a> as a male until this season and placed in multiple men&#8217;s events at the 2019 Ivy League Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA allows any male-to-female transgender athletes to compete in women&#8217;s sports. But studies have shown such transgender athletes retain advantages over their competitors. A 2020 study published in the <em>British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/em> found that transgender women remain both stronger and faster than their peers after one year of hormone therapy. Thomas began therapy in 2019 but still has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10445679\/Lia-Thomas-UPenn-teammate-says-trans-swimmer-doesnt-cover-genitals-locker-room.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">male body parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, DeSantis signed the Fairness in Women&#8217;s Sports Act into law, protecting female athletes from having to compete against transgender peers. In a letter sent out by his office announcing Weyant&#8217;s victory, he wrote &#8220;men should not be competing against women such as Emma Weyant, robbing women and girls of achievements, awards, and scholarships.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Weyant competed in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, winning a silver medal in the women&#8217;s 400-meter individual medley. She is currently a freshman at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.) in an official state declaration on Tuesday recognized Sarasota native Emma Weyant, not trans swimmer Lia Thomas, as the winner of the NCAA women&#8217;s 500-yard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"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-1394626","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\/1394626","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394626\/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=1394626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}