President Donald Trump’s administration has increased his crash at Trans Athlet -Including in Women’s Sports, and many women who are influenced by the problem speak in support.
After the administration paused a $ 175 million break in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania over its recording of transking athletes in women’s sports, which Fox Business reported exclusively on Wednesday, many of the women who have to compete with the former transgender Upenn Swimmer Lia Thomas have spoken out of the finance break.
Three of Thomas’ former Upenn teammates, Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist, delivered a joint statement to Pakinomist Digital, via Independent Council for Women’s Sports (Icons) who praised Trump administration’s action.
“We are so pleased that universities are starting to see that there is a cost to openly harming female students on their campuses and we hope the pressure will only increase. Penn and other universities within NCAA, under NCAA policy and their own junk leadership, have violated federal law and wounded women,” the statement reads.
“They have deliberately stolen opportunities and prices from women, placed women in physical danger, and relieved the sexual harassment of female students athletes. Every woman on a university campus and under NCAA rules must be sure of title IX protections. Institutions that disregard women’s well-being, must understand that they are not allowed to rewrite or ignore federal protections as women are.”
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Riley Gaines, now a spokeswoman for Independent Women’s Forum, famously bound Lia Thomas, to the left, to the fifth place in the 200 Freestyle final at the NCAA swimming and diving championship. (Brett Davis-usa Today Sports)
In a statement to Pakinomist Digital, a university spokesman said that UPENN has not received any “official review” of the financing break, adding that the university was and is in “full compliance” with NCAA and Ivy League policies.
“We are Aware of Media Reports Suggesting A Suspension of $ 175 Million In Federal Funding to Penn, But Have Not Yet Received Any Official Notification or Any Details. It is IMPORTANT TO Note, However, that penn has always followed ncaa and ivy League policies Regarding Student Participation on ATHLETIC TEAMS. Been in the Past, and Remain Today, In Full Compliance with the Regulations That Apy to Not Only Penn, But All of Our Ncaa and Ivy League Peer Institutions.
Estabrook, Kaczorowski and Holmquist are all currently engaged in a lawsuit against Upenn, Ivy League and NCAA, with reference to their experience with Thomas and the handling of institutions’ handling of the situation. The case also seeks to have all Thomas’ recognition in the women’s category abolished.
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Former Upenn -Swimming Grace Estabrook. (Photo with permission from Grace Estabrook)
The women claim that the institutions “injured them by giving Thomas the opportunity to compete and violated them and violated federal law.”
Thomas, a biological man, previously competed for Upenn men’s swimming team from 2017-20 under the name, Thomas. At the 2022 Ivy League Swimming Championships, Thomas first entered the 500-, 200- and 100-yard freestyle races that set pool and Ivy League records and was ultimately the highest scored swimmer at the entire meeting.
According to the trial, Thomas was introduced by women’s swimming head coach Mike Schnur to the women’s swimmers during a team meeting in the fall of 2019 as their incoming teammate. Schnur allegedly told the women’s swimmers that Thomas would not share a dressing room with them when they asked for the first introduction.
It allegedly changed later.
Thomas officially began to practice and compete with women’s swimmers in the fall of 2021. That’s when the female swimmers said they discovered that Schnur’s alleged claim that Thomas would not share a dressing room was not true.
“When Upenn’s woman’s swimmers returned to school in the fall of 2021, they were shocked to discover that Thomas was allowed to use the woman’s dressing room in Upenn and would be allowed to use the woman’s closet at swimming meetings,” the trial claims.
“Margot [Kaczorowski] only learned that Thomas had been authorized by Upenn to use the women’s dressing room when [Kaczorowski] Went in the woman’s dressing room to find Thomas in front of her and changed her clothes. “
The applicants claim that the university administrators pushed pro-trans ideology on them throughout the process of accepting Thomas on the team and in their dressing room. The former swimmers say they were led to feeling that their concern about being teammates with Thomas was rooted in a “psychological problem.”
The University of Pennsylvania Swimmer Lia Thomas responds after swimming the 100 freestyle prelims on the NCAA swimming and diving championship on March 19, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“The Upenn administrators told the women that if anyone struggled to accept Thomas’ participation in Upenn Women’s team, they should seek advice and support from Caps and LBGTQ Center,” the trial claims.
“The administrators also invited the women to a speech entitled ‘Trans 101.’ Thus, the women were led to understanding that Upenn’s attitude was that if a woman on the team had some problem with a transidentifying man who was on his team that the woman had a psychological problem and needed advice.
The Department of Education launched an official study of potential violations of title IX, which took place in UPENN in February, Pakinomist reported Digital earlier.
Now the consequences of this study are materialized.
