Strongly advised
The administration strongly advises them to keep their filthy slutty bitchy greedy mouths shut or else.
Even after a Wednesday team meeting where a source says Penn administration “strongly advised” its swimmers to avoid talking to the media about the situation surrounding transgender Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a second female Penn swimmer has stepped forward to speak out via an exclusive interview with OutKick.
Now why would the administration lean on them to shut up about it? The administration would doubtless say “Because transphobia!!” but that’s just virtuespeak for “Because we know how this looks.” The administration doesn’t want the cheated swimmers to tell the media how angry and frustrated they are about being cheated.
The second female Penn swimmer to speak out, who was granted anonymity due to what is viewed as threats from the university, activists, and the political climate, wants people to know that Penn swimmers are “angry” over the lack of fairness in the sport as Lia Thomas destroys the record books and brings fellow teammates to tears.
The second Penn swimmer to come forward was at the University of Akron Zippy Invitational where she watched Lia Thomas beat fellow teammate Anna Kalandadze by 38 seconds in the 1650 freestyle. OutKick’s source described Penn swimmers on the Akron pool deck as upset and crying, knowing they were going to be demolished by Thomas.
They weren’t happy for him? They weren’t rejoicing that he gets to live his dream?
After just five meets and the Akron Invitational, Thomas has not just destroyed opponents. The Penn freestyle records are being rewritten by a swimmer who was second-team All-Ivy league in 2018-19 — as a male.
Akron was an absolute beatdown by Thomas, but it wasn’t without disgust from fans who were in the building watching meet, pool, and school records drop one after the other.
“Usually everyone claps, everyone is yelling and cheering when someone wins a race. Lia touched the wall and it was just silent in there,” OutKick’s source said during a phone interview.
Some people still recognize cheating when they see it.
According to OutKick’s source, Thomas was unhappy with her time after the 500 race, but while standing in front of teammates, made sure to mention, “At least I’m still No. 1 in the country.”
“Well, obviously she’s No. 1 in the country because she’s at a clear physical advantage after having gone through male puberty and getting to train with testosterone for years,” OutKick’s source said. “Of course you’re No. 1 in the country when you’re beating a bunch of females. That’s not something to brag about.”
He’s at a clear physical advantage.
A team source who was at Wednesday’s meeting says the administration drew a line in the sand and announced that Thomas wasn’t going anywhere and it was non-negotiable.
Despite the obvious, glaring, shameful unfairness of it. Take a bow, Penn.
After years of battling for Title IX and equal rights with men in college athletics, the biological women are pretty much being told to shut their mouths and move along by the school and the NCAA.
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During an interview published Thursday by swimming outlet SwimSwam.com, Thomas spoke out for the first time since destroying pool records and said, “I’m just thrilled to still be able to swim and I love to compete and I love to see how fast I can go. It’s sorta an ongoing evolution of what I think I can go.”
As for the records Thomas now holds, he doesn’t seem to have any regret in smashing biological female swimming marks.
“I’m proud of my times, my ability to keep swimming and to continue competing. And they’re suited up times. I’m happy with them and my coaches are happy with them,” Thomas added.
And that was that from Thomas. No shame. No mention of not claiming the records so that they can remain the property of biological women. Thomas is moving on — with the records.
No shame; smug bragging instead.
I can’t put it any better than ‘Stanley Knife’ did in the tweet linked by Roj Blake:
Telling the competitors to stay silent also preserves one of their key lies: that most women support trans women entering women’s divisions.
So no one in the Penn administration thinks this is unfair? I find that hard to believe. Allowing an obvious sociopath make a mockery of all these women’s swimming competitions, with all their hard won efforts past and present, is sheer cowardice. So not only do the trans cult bullies have their way with these cowards, they then get them to become bullies themselves? I wonder how people who are unable to simply say NO to these sociopaths live with their own craven depravity. Stifling the young women who have the basic courage to speak up when they have been wronged is not a lesson that should be taught at university.
twiliter, I agree, but that isn’t anything new. Women have been pressured for decades to just shut up about rapes on campus, especially those conducted by respected profs who bring research money into the university. All they had to do was take the script and change a few words.
Thomas’ records are records in the same way that Lance Armstrong’s are. (And I hope, that sooner or later, they will be treated as such.)