College Swimmer Reveals the Awful Truth of What Was Actually Worse Than Being Forced to Race Against Lia Thomas
A former college women’s swim team star is revealing more of the “extreme discomfort” that she and her fellow female swimmers felt when the University of Pennsylvania and the NCAA forced transgender athlete Lia Thomas…
A former college women’s swim team star is revealing more of the “extreme discomfort” that she and her fellow female swimmers felt when the University of Pennsylvania and the NCAA forced Transgender athlete Lia Thomas on them this season.
University of Kentucky alumna Riley Gaines, a member of the school’s women’s swim team, appeared on Fox News with Tucker Carlson last week and revealed that female athletes were never told that Thomas, who still retains his male genitalia, would be showering and dressing in the same locker room as they.
Thomas, who competed as Will Thomas for three years on the men’s team before taking a break and returning to compete against women, shattered long-held women’s records all year at the University of Pennsylvania during the 2022 swimming season.
As for Gaines, she tied with Thomas for fifth place in the 200-meter freestyle NCAA championships and has been a vocal critic of the National Collegiate Athletic Association ever since.
But Gaines, who graduated this year, noted that she and other athletes during the NCAA championships were “extremely uncomfortable” being forced to disrobe with Thomas in the room. And they were never notified by either UPenn or the NCAA that Thomas would be in there with them.
“That’s not something we were forewarned about, which I don’t think is right in any means, changing in a locker room with someone who has different parts,” Gaines told Carlson. “So not only were we forced to race against a male, we were forced to change in the locker room with one… And so then we’re sitting there not even knowing who to talk to, who to complain to, because this kind of all happened behind the scenes and very discreetly.”