Quote:A female swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team said that her teammate, Lia Thomas, who is a biological male, “compares herself to Jackie Robinson” and that “all she does is makes comments” about being No. 1 in the country.

The swimmer, who spoke to the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity, shared insight about the “toxic environment” surrounding the women’s swim team this year.

“Accusations of entitlement, selfishness, and a general disregard for overall performance have plagued the team since Lia Thomas, a biological male, started swimming on their team,” the report stated. “The crux of the swimmers’ complaints is the biological advantage that Lia has over female teammates. The swimmers were promised competition between females, not men who want to be female. Yet, there’s also the matter of an apparently inflated ego.”

In the interview, the unnamed swimmer claimed that Thomas “compares herself to Jackie Robinson.”

“She said she is like the Jackie Robinson of trans sports,” the swimmer told the Examiner. She added that she tries “not to be around her because the whole situation makes me so mad.”

"I don’t think Lia is a bad person. She’s very quiet and kind of introverted ... It’s just really hard for me to respect her at all because of what she’s doing to my team and what she’s doing to women in general and not caring,” the swimmer continued.

Last week, as I covered, Thomas made headlines after she lost two races to a Yale University athlete, who is a biological female, competing on the men’s swim team. Previously, Thomas broke records at a race in Ohio where the runner-up in the 1,650-yard freestyle finished 38 seconds behind Thomas.

“She laughs about it and mocks the situation," the female swimmer told the Examiner. "Instead of caring or showing that she cares about what she’s doing or what she’s doing to her teammates, she’s not sympathetic or empathetic at all. Lia never addressed our team. She never asked if it was OK. She never asked how we felt. She never tried to explain how she feels. She never has said anything to us as a group. She never addressed anything.”

The swimmer told the Examiner that on a recent training trip to Florida, Thomas did not abide by school rules. Reportedly, the athletes were told not to wear school gear. The swimmer said that Lia wore ‘Penn Swim and Dive’ tops every day, including the airport and gym. Additionally, Thomas makes “cocky” comments about being the top swimmer on the team.

“All she does is make comments to people like, ‘At least I’m still No. 1 in the country,’ and those kinds of cocky things,” the swimmer said. “She doesn’t care how all this is affecting us and how this is affecting our relationship to swimming. She doesn't care, and it makes it really hard to like her.”

Overall, the swimmer said that Thomas “doesn’t respect her teammates at all.”

“It’s been super draining and frustrating,” she added, "because no one seems to care about the actual women.”

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This is destroying women's sports and is setting REAL female athletes back.

I hate these people

In a morbidly funny note, I guess all that equality stuff is bullshite.

Men seem to be better at being women than women.

Bwahahahaha

I reserve judgment until I see a sammich making contest

First off, lets get one thing straight...

It... is a HE, not a "she". And if Will Thomas wants to play with dolls, good for him. HE still needs to compete against men.

I'm fairly certain that Jackie Robinson never tucked his junk between his legs and strutted around like a showgirl, so there IS NO comparison.

(01-16-2022 12:28 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  First off, lets get one thing straight...

It... is a HE, not a "she". And if Will Thomas wants to play with dolls, good for him. HE still needs to compete against men.

I'm fairly certain that Jackie Robinson never tucked his junk between his legs and strutted around like a showgirl, so there IS NO comparison.

I bet he can't make a decent sammich

A winner in his own demented brain.



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Surprising to me is that many on Penn's swim team are still on the team. This is the kind of garbage that tears apart teams, and you can sense it loud and clear from the interviewed swimmer in this article.

so, a bunch of elitist Liberals are all loving the LGBTQNFLCBSA&T gravy train unless and until it starts to affect their own lives.

Sorry but I don't feel sorry for 'em. You support this crap, don't be surprised when the load gets dumped on your own front porch.

(01-16-2022 12:28 PM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  First off, lets get one thing straight...

It... is a HE, not a "she". And if Will Thomas wants to play with dolls, good for him. HE still needs to compete against men.

I'm fairly certain that Jackie Robinson never tucked his junk between his legs and strutted around like a showgirl, so there IS NO comparison.

Jackie Robinson didn't choose the color of his skin like Will Thomas chose to want to be a woman with a d***. Transgenderism is a psychologically manifested trait based on choice and feelings. Race is a physical characteristic that doesn't change no matter what you choose or what you feel. It is insulting when the LGBTQ try to equate their chosen lifestyles to people of color and minorities, who do not choose their race or ethnicity.

F these people

How did he get on the team? Is he bumping uglies with the coach?

Jackie Robinson? Please ...more like a white guy in blackface claiming to be the first black ball player.

Prog filth having prog filth problems

Frick every damn one of them.

“It’s been super draining and frustrating,” she added, "because no one seems to care about the actual women.”


I guess I’m trying to figure out when the women that have been active in the women’s rights movement” will realize they are being duped by this horsecrap trans stuff and how detrimental this all is to real women………it really is strange.

I guess the majority of the MSM has decided these sick people trying to be a gender they are not are bigger victims than actual women……. Because it’s all about victimhood.

(01-16-2022 07:55 PM)Crebman Wrote:  “It’s been super draining and frustrating,” she added, "because no one seems to care about the actual women.”


I guess I’m trying to figure out when the women that have been active in the women’s rights movement” will realize they are being duped by this horsecrap trans stuff and how detrimental this all is to real women………it really is strange.

I guess the majority of the MSM has decided these sick people trying to be a gender they are not are bigger victims than actual women……. Because it’s all about victimhood.

They are woke and scared to oppose anything woke.

Quite the conundrum liberals have created for themselves. In the game of identity politics, which card gets thrown in the garbage? Transphobia? Or misogyny?

In the hierarchy of identity politics the transphobia card is the most powerful card in the deck.

I'll change my views on this the day I see a female-born person dominate a men's high school sport. Until then the people that think sex-based advantages disappear with surgery and hormone-replacement therapy should be considered. FoS.

(01-16-2022 11:32 PM)EigenEagle Wrote:  I'll change my views on this the day I see a female-born person dominate a men's high school sport. Until then the people that think sex-based advantages disappear with surgery and hormone-replacement therapy should be considered. FoS.

Hang around for about 250,000 years. It could happen.

(01-16-2022 01:56 PM)All4One Wrote:  Surprising to me is that many on Penn's swim team are still on the team. This is the kind of garbage that tears apart teams, and you can sense it loud and clear from the interviewed swimmer in this article.

That may be the solution. If a biological male joins a women's team the entire team should stage walkouts every day for that expressly stated reason, not quit, but just hold organized walk outs. Force the schools to kick them off the team and then sue the pants off the school.

Uhhhhhh, who DIDN’T see this coming?

Congrats kiddies, you got exactly what you were wishing for. And did this anonymous swimmer/source really just use the phrase “actual women”?

Ruh Roh, that’ll get you tossed off the team and run outta town on the double quick.

Best take that one back, Toots.

Shouldn't that be, "Compares itself to Jackie Robinson"? It is obviously neither male nor female, and that leaves neuter.

As an aside, it has always struck me as weird that the German word for young girl, madchen, is neuter. Are the Germans trying to tell us something?