The administration of President Donald Trump has increased his offensive against the inclusion of trans athletes in women’s sports, and many women affected by the problem are talking in support.
After the Administration arrested $ 175 million in federal funds for the University of Pennsylvania about its inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports, which Fox Business reported exclusively on Wednesday, many of the women who had to compete together with the former transgender swimmer Upenn Lia Thomas have spoken in the celebration of funds.
Three of the former Upenn teammates in Thomas, Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist, provided a joint statement to Pak Gazette Digital, through the Independent Council for Women’s Sports (icons) by praising the action of the Trump administration.
“We are very happy that universities are beginning to see that there is a cost of openly damaging students on their campus and we hope that the pressure only increases. Penn and other universities within the NCAA, under the policy of the NCAA and their own dishonest leadership, have violated federal law and hurt women,” said the statement.
“They have stolen women’s opportunities and prizes, placed women in physical danger and facilitated the sexual harassment of student athletes. All women in a university campus and under the NCAA regulations must be assured of the protections of the title IX. The institutions that ignore the welfare of women have to understand that they do not write again or ignore federal protections in which women face.” “
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Riley Gaines, now a spokesman for the Independent Women’s Forum, tied Lia Thomas, left, for the fifth place in the 200 free style in the NCAA swimming and diving championships. (Brett Davis-USA Today Sports)
In a statement to Pak Gazette Digital, a University spokesman said that UPENN has not received any “official notification” of the financing pause, adding that the University had and is in “full fulfillment” with the policies of the NCAA and Ivy League.
“We are aware of the media reports that suggest a suspension of $ 175 million in federal funds to Penn, but we have not yet received any official notification or detail. However, it is important regulations that apply to just Penn, but of all IVY teams. “
Estabrook, Kaczorowski and Holmquist are currently involved in a lawsuit against UPENN, Ivy League and NCAA, citing their experience with Thomas and the management of the management of the situation by the institutions. The demand also seeks that all the praise of Thomas in the category of women terminated.
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Upenn Grace Estabrook swimmer. (Photo courtesy of Grace Estabrook)
The women claim that by allowing Thomas to compete, the institutions “wounded them and violated the federal law.”
Thomas, a biological man, previously competed for the 2017-20 UPENN male swimming team under the name of Will Thomas. In the Ivy League 2022 Swimming Championship, Thomas first arrived in the 500, 200 and 100 yards freestyle, establishing billiard and Ivy League records, and was finally the highest swimmer throughout the match.
According to the lawsuit, Thomas was introduced by female chief coach Mike Schnur to female swimmers during a team meeting in the fall of 2019 as his incoming teammate. Schnur supposedly told women’s swimmers that Thomas would not share a costume with them when they asked after the initial introduction.
That supposedly changed later.
Thomas officially began to practice and compete with the swimmers of women in the fall of 2021. That was when the swimmers said they discovered that Schnur’s alleged statement that Thomas would not share a costume was not true.
“When Upenn’s swimmers returned to school in the autumn of 2021, they were surprised to discover that Thomas was allowed to use women’s costumes in UpenN and they would be allowed to wear the women’s costume at swimming meetings,” he alleges the demand.
“Margot [Kaczorowski] He only learned that Thomas had been authorized by UPENN to use the women’s costume when [Kaczorowski] He entered the women’s locker room to find Thomas in front of her by changing her clothes. “
The plaintiffs claim that university administrators promoted Pro-Trans ideology on them during the process of accepting Thomas in the team and their locker room. The former swimmers say they were taken to feel that their concerns for being teammates with Thomas were rooted in a “psychological problem.”
The swimmer of the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas, reacts after swimming the 100 free style preliminaries in the NCAA swimming and diving championship on March 19, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire through Getty Images)
“UPENN administrators told women that if someone was struggling to accept Thomas’s participation in the UpenN Women’s team, they must seek advice and support from CAPS and the LBGTQ center,” he alleges the demand.
“The administrators also invited women to a talk entitled, ‘Trans 101.’ Therefore, women were led to understand that Upenn’s position was that if a woman in the team had a problem with a transdidifier man in her team, that woman had a psychological problem and needed advice. “
The Department of Education launched an official investigation into possible violations of Title IX that occurred in UPENN in February, Pak Gazette Digital previously reported.
Now, the consequences of that research are materializing.
