UPenn swimmer comes out as trans / switches to women's team after competing on men's team for 3 years and is dominating NCAA

Ivy League Championships
500 Free - 1st place in a new pool and meet record of 4:37.32
200 Free Relay - Swam a leg of the relay which placed 4th
200 Free - 1st place in a new meet record of 1:43.12

400 Medley Relay - Swam a leg of the relay that placed 4th

100 Free - 1st place in a new meet record of 47.63

Did not swim best event, the 1650 Free

Won an award as the High Point Scorer of the meet. Penn finished 3rd as a team, it highest finish ever, and scored nearly 200 more points than it had ever scored in the Ivy Championships.

This article has a lot of technical detail about the methods Thomas is using to make sure Thomas wins, but not by so much as to make the male performance advantage look as obvious and huge as in December when Thomas won the 1650 free by 38 seconds.  It also has videos of several races worth watching. Even holding back, Thomas is often nearly a pool length or lap ahead of the female swimmers. 

dailymail.co.uk

UPenn's Lia Thomas dominates yet another race

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By comparing lap times for the medalists at Thursday's 500-meter free, a sports analyst posited that trans UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas 'produced a controlled effort below max.'

Link:www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10531...

The NCAA should create a new category: "men who identify as women" division. They can race each other.

Problem solved.

I bet u not wuld call Lia a man to her face. Lia has extremely strong legs and could easily pin your neck between her legs and crush every bone in your neck. Lia wuld own you.

Have Thomas swim anchor on a relay that is behind by a bunch instead of the opening leg and see what happens.

Thomas’ eligibility ends after the NCAA meet.

Problem solved.

And she would break your neck between her powerful thighs. 

"she"

No, they cannot do that. Their teammates depend on them to score as many points as possible. If your team loses the team title because you refused to race against Thomas, how do you explain that to your teammates?

Well, that's pretty evident from the video. Can't imagine being a female swimmer and watching that video. It's bad enough he's there. It's worse that he wins. But to watch that video and see him cruise so easily...man, that's gotta' be demoralizing.

Resorting to male violence against this woman would land his rear in jail, so, if he has two brain cells, I could call him a man to his face and he should walk away.

So, let's not get on with the violent language.

Or does it?  Lia has only been competing in women's swimming at the NCAA D1 level for a year.

Courage.

Editor of Swimming World, John Lohn, takes a deeper dive, so to speak, into the record-breaking performances that have now made Lia Thomas the  #1 ranking American college swimmer in several women's events:

swimmingworldmagazine.com

A Look At the Numbers and Times: No Denying the Advantages of Lia Thomas

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The times and rankings of Penn's Lia Thomas are clear and undeniable. The transgender swimmer has an obvious edge over biological women.

Link:www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/a-l...

Some excerpts:

Just how much of an advantage does Lia Thomas possesses over biological females? The numbers paint a clear picture. The fact that the University of Pennsylvania swimmer has soared from a mid-500s ranking (554th in the 200 freestyle) in men’s competition to the top-ranked swimmer in women’s competition tells the story of the unfairness which is unfolding at the NCAA level.

The closing split of Thomas [in the 200 free over the weekend] is faster than the finishing laps of Missy Franklin in her American-record performance, and the best closing efforts of the likes of Katie Ledecky, Mallory Comerford and Siobhan Haughey, among others.

On the way to [another women's]  Ivy League title in the 500 freestyle, Thomas produced a time of 4:37.32 at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. Not only did that swim hand Thomas a seven-second victory, it broke the 2007 pool record of Olympian Kate Ziegler.

In Thomas’ final individual [women's] event of the Ivy League Championships, [Thomas] posted a meet, pool and school record of 47.63 in the 100 freestyle. That time was less than a half-second off [the athlete's] collegiate best of 47.15 from 2017 [when Thomas swam on the Penn men's swim team]. 

Your NCAA eligibility doesn't reset when you change your gender. I believe Thomas is a 4th year senior so this is the end of eligibility.

Next up is total domination of the women in the summer Olympics.

As a former women's D1 swimmer, this whole situation makes me so sad for women's sports.

If this were happening while I was competing, I'd feel completely shafted and betrayed by the NCAA.

Women's sports already get so little funding and attention compared to men's. Women have had to fight so damn hard to even have their own sports. This feels like a huge step in the wrong direction for women, and it breaks my heart.

My heart goes out to the other ladies in the pool competing against Lia.

Transphobes, please exit to the right. Thank you.

Misogynists who don't care about women's rights, please exit to the left. Thank you.