{"id":1945033,"date":"2023-06-06T08:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T12:46:01","slug":"fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lia Thomas&#8217; teammate shares her story with Matt Walsh in support of women&#8217;s rights.&#8217;"},"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\">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%2Ffighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh%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=1945033&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--><h2>Former University of Pennsylvania Swimmer Shares Story About Competing with Transgender Athlete<\/h2>\n<p>A young woman who was on the Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Roster at the University of Pennsylvania has come forward to share her story about competing on the same team as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. Paula Scanlan, who previously appeared anonymously in the hit documentary \u201cWhat Is A Woman?\u201d by The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh, has now publicly shared her experience and wants to join former University of Kentucky swimming star Riley Gaines in fighting for women and girls across the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A teammate of Lia Thomas appeared in What Is A Woman anonymously. A few days ago she came to us and said she is ready to come out publicly and tell her story. I had a longer conversation with Paula where she revealed a number of details that weren&#8217;t covered in the film. Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wlknGmslJC\">pic.twitter.com\/wlknGmslJC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1665860950409244673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Thomas, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-penn-swimmer-lia-thomas-says-i-belong-on-the-womens-team\/\" title=\"Trans Penn Swimmer Lia Thomas Says \u201cI Belong on the Women\u2019s Team\u201d\">began hormone replacement therapy<\/a> in May 2019, switched from the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s men\u2019s team to the women\u2019s squad in 2021 after identifying as a female and won a NCAA Division I national championship in the 500-yard freestyle. However, this has sparked a national conversation about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh\/\" title=\"'Lia Thomas' teammate shares her story with Matt Walsh in support of women's rights.'\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-transgender-athletes-dominated-womens-sports\/\" title=\"5 Times Transgender Athletes Dominated Women\u2019s Sports\">female athletes<\/a> contending<\/a> with the prospect of being at an unfair disadvantage in sports and uncomfortable situations in which females have to share a locker room with someone who is a biological male but identifying as a woman.<\/p>\n<h3>Championing Female Athletes<\/h3>\n<p>Riley Gaines, who raced against Thomas, has emerged as an activist who champions female athletes after watching them lose out on opportunities because they were \u201cdisplaced\u201d by a male competitor. Gaines has spoken out about the issue, saying, \u201cI\u2019m speaking for every female athlete, not just myself. I\u2019m done competing. This isn\u2019t about me. But I know what\u2019s at stake if someone doesn\u2019t use their voice. I have a younger sister. I just got married. I can only hope one day that I have a daughter and I can\u2019t imagine being in this position and not fighting for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is important to have conversations about the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-nfl-player-calls-for-separate-transgender-category-of-sports-after-biden-executive-order\/\" title=\"Retired NFL Player Calls For Separate Transgender Category Of Sports After Biden Executive Order\">transgender athletes<\/a> on women\u2019s sports and to ensure that female athletes are not at a disadvantage. The stories of Paula Scanlan and Riley Gaines highlight the need for continued advocacy and support for women and girls in sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania swimmer, Paula Scanlan, has spoken out about her experience on the same team as transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. Scanlan, who was on the Women&#8217;s Swimming and Diving Roster, shared her story publicly for the first time and expressed her desire to join former teammates in speaking out against the university&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1945034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[18195,3622,5579,4790,4178,3723,17793,10215,4208,4694],"class_list":["post-1945033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-lia","tag-matt","tag-rights","tag-shares","tag-story","tag-support","tag-teammate","tag-thomas","tag-walsh","tag-womens"],"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\/1945033","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}