After transgender athlete Lia Thomas cruised to an easy win in the national 500 yard freestyle, spectators at the National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championship were visibly agitated, claiming it was not a fair competition.
Lia Thomas, widely regarded as the world’s most controversial athlete, has become the first transgender athlete to win a National Collegiate Athletic Association swimming championship – with the crowd reacting angrily to her controversial victory.
On Thursday evening, the 22-year-old UPenn swimmer won the 500 yard freestyle in Atlanta in a time of 4 minutes, 33.24 seconds.
Following that, the crowd became noticeably more animated when shouting for Emma Weyant of the University of Virginia, who had finished second. She was born a woman and swam a time of 4:34.99.
While there were shouts for Thomas, there were also boos from the audience, as she continues to face charges that going through male puberty gave her an unfair advantage over her competitors.
‘I try to ignore it as much as I can,’ Thomas said after the race, when asked about the reaction. ‘I try to focus on my swimming and what I need to do to be ready for my races, and I just try to shut out anything else.’
It means the world to be here, to be with two of my best friend and teammates and be able to compete.’
Most individuals in the audience believe Lia should be competing in the men’s competition, based on the crowd’s reaction.
DailyMail report: Thomas, whose continued wins and record-breaking performances have made her the world’s most controversial athlete, also roundly defeated fellow swimmers at last month’s Ivy League championships.
The Texan, who swam for three years on the university’s men’s team before transitioning in 2019, is now the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA championship – a distinction one of Thomas’ teammates said would be dubious if achieved.
Thomas has undergone the required hormone treatment to meet the current rules for transgender athletes, but critics say her stunning performances prove that she still retains a considerable and unfair advantage.
‘It’s not necessarily an achievement in my mind,’ said one of Thomas’ teammates on UPenn’s Women’s Swim Team.
The teammate, who refused to give her name for fear of repercussions, told Fox News Digital that Thomas’s participation in D1-sanctioned women’s events has ‘completely ruined the integrity of the sport.’
She said Thomas’ achievements while on the women’s team should be taken with a grain of salt, due to the biological advantages of being born a man.
‘It’s its own distinct category because no woman is going to be as fast as a man, and here, is just completely – we’re just throwing away the definition of a record to fit into someone else’s agenda of what it should mean to them,‘ she said.
‘In reality, it makes no scientific sense to do so.‘
Austin Powers, “It’s a man, baby.”
strong enough for a man, but made for a woman…
mens’ freestyle 500 yard tier 1 times, 4 minutes 23.3 seconds,. NO WONDER THE FAKE WOMAN WANTS TO COMPETE AGAINST THE WOMEN, HE’S TEN SECONDS SLOWER THAN REAL MEN!
Fake woman’s time of 4 minutes, 33.24 seconds.
…I’m betting the dude is not swimming up to his potential, as that would be too obvious. Though he “won” by less that two seconds, that is still a lot of time in swimming. I’m betting he has been coached to only swim hard enough to win, so as to make it appear he is “competing”. I think he learned from the race where he “won” by 40 seconds, and now gears back so as to not infuriate the public even more…and it gives him the “talking point” of “close competition”. What a creep. An athletic thief is what he is.
Thomas couldn’t win as a man, and since winning was so important to him, he found the easiest route to achieve his goal: become a “female” in name only (he will never be a woman by chromosomes or genes; his XY will follow him forever!!), and clean up all the awards!! Unfortunately, our athletics rules/laws are not prepared for frauds ike Lia(r) Thomas, and our REAL XX female athletes are being robbed of their athletic opportunities. SAD DAYS in the states formerly known as America.
And Lia Thomas is ugly too.
we should leave looks out of this… but this person should not be allowed to be in woman’s swimming… The day that Lia squeezes out a lifeform the size of a watermelon from between the legs is the day Lia should be allowed to compete as a woman.
How many years will it take for coaches of women’s sports to load their teams with transgenders, preferred over DNA females who do not have the same muscles, bones, tendons, etc? Five years? Ten?
This is the end of women’s competition and Title IX needs to be revoked.
Parents, your daughters were just thrown back to the 19th century before suffrage.
Congratulations, SCOTUS, DC lawmakers. You just made women officially inferior, again.
Pray, people for God’s help to save America. Time is growing short.
This is just nonsense that the left is pushing. God made two genders for a reason. But on the flip side, girls/women have been wanting equality with males for years. In the job market, police, military and on and on. Equal treatment and pay etc. Where do you draw the line?
This cheating perv thinks he’s the victim.
LGBTQ & trans belong in a nut bin.
Or six feet under the ground…
There should be a separate category for trans men. It’s that simple. Let them compete against other men that want to call themselves a woman. Watch how fast they would change their gender. Because then they wouldn’t be breaking records. That in itself should tell you something.
The only way to stop this is for ALL the female contenders to stand back and refuse to participate. Let the well-endowed being who thinks he is a she race by himself/herself. That’ll show the world how we women think. But we women MUST stand together on this.
Women did this to themselves. They supported (vocally or quietly) feminism for a century, and now they’re crying victim.
Hear hear…
If he wants to be a woman why is it he isnt required to wear a bra with fake tits. All the real women have boobs and they probably affect swimming times. Especially the big ones. They would create more drag with the water. Them not making it wear fake tits and a bra is a unfair advantage.
Imagine the women that invested time, money and hard work into women rights only to flush it all down the toilette because of the people they voted for and supported. Is this what equality means to you? LOL!!!!
America = sad joke of a country