UPenn women swimmers may boycott final meet to protest swimming against a dude

Lia Thomas 

Teammates of male swimmer who changed his name to Lia Thomas and let his hair grow, on the University of Pennsylvania swim team have finally come to their senses and are considering a boycott of their final home meet. They have come to see for themselves the uselessness of trying to compete against a male swimmer who calls himself a woman and has shattered every female swimming record due to his biological advantages.

As it turns out, the Daily Mail reported, that the women ultimately decided to forgo the boycott rather than being called a name; specifically transphobic. So much for "sticks and stones."

But perhaps I'm not being fair. The women fear being banned from the Ivy League championship and are unwilling to overcome that fear, unlike Rosa Parks, who overcame her fear of refusing to sit in the back of the bus. 

They did say, however, that they may have a false start at the gun. That's akin to Rosa Parks going up to the front of the bus and then returning to her seat in the back.

“They’ve been ignored by both Penn and the NCAA, and there is a feeling among some of the girls that they should make some sort of statement, seize the opportunity while they have a spotlight on them to make their feelings about the issue known,” an anonymous source close to the team told the outlet. 

The source also said that the teammates are looking to show their opposition to the NCAA rules that allowed Mr. Thomas to compete on the men’s team for three years and then compete on the women’s team after a year of hormone therapy. Taking hormones doesn't change decades of male biology.

When Thomas swam on the men's team for 3 years at UPenn, he "would break seven-time gold medal Olympic champion Katie Ledecky's college times," The Daily Wire had previously reported, 

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Wouldn't it be great if, at the final event, the women stood on the starting platform, got into their "start" positions, waited for the gun to go off, stood up and crossed their arms while Thomas took off and set new women's records? 

They could even cheer him on to show their support for the school.

The term "transgender" is misleading. It purports that men can become women and vice-versa through the use of hormones and genital mutilation and disfigurement. It used to be properly classified as "gender dysphoria" and "gender confusion," but we allowed the political correctness [an oxymoron of a term if there ever was one] of the Left, to try convincing us that it can be done. So rather than calling it a mental illness, it's now a fashion choice.

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