EXCLUSIVE: The former female swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania, Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist, have filed a lawsuit against the University of Harvard University, the NCAA and the Council of Presidents of the IVY league for their experience by sharing a team with The transgender swim Lia Thomas. Demand does not name Thomas as accused.
According to the judicial documents obtained by Pak Gazette Digital, Estabrok, Kaczorowski and Holmquist argue that Thomas’s eligibility to compete as a woman for UPENN violated his rights of title IX. He argues that the 2010 of the NCAA, which allows biological men to compete in the women’s category based on their favorite gender identity, is “discriminatory.”
The women claim that by allowing Thomas to compete, the institutions “wounded them and violated the federal law.”
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The demand also detailed the personal experiences that each of the women faced having to share a team and costumes with Thomas. Each of the plaintiffs affirms that the experience left them “repeatedly emotionally traumatized.”
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 worries for being teammates with Thomas were rooted in a “psychological problem.”
“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. “
Lia Thomas of the Quakers of Pennsylvania anything at the 500-yard freestyle event during a Tri-Coe against the Yale Bulldogs and the Dartmouth Big Green in Sheer Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Hunter Martin/Getty images)
The plaintiffs also claim that the administrators warned them not to speak against the situation publicly.
“UPENN administrators continued to tell women that if women have publicly talked about their concerns about Thomas’s participation in the women’s team, the reputation of those who complained that Thomas in the team would be contaminated with the transfobia by the rest of their lives and they could probably never get a job ‘”, alleges the demand.
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Thomas, a biological man, previously competed for the 2017-20 UPENN male swimming team under the name of Will Thomas. 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.
The demand alleges that the coaches and administrators of UpenN told the swimmers of the women not to talk about the situation of Thomas. Schnur supposedly told women’s swimmers that Thomas would not share a costume with them when they asked after the initial introduction.
But that supposedly changed later.
Thomas officially began to practice and compete with women’s swimmers in the fall of 2021.
And that was when the swimmers say 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 fall of 2021, they were surprised to discover that Thomas was allowed to wear the women’s costume in UPENN and they would be allowed to wear the wet costumes in swimming meetings “, 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. “
According to the suit, Kaczorowski faced Schnur crying for his shock to discover that Thomas would now share a costume with her. She claims that the coach replied saying “I know it’s wrong but there is nothing I can do.”
“Coach Schnur told the plaintiffs that he would be fired by UPENN if he did not allow Thomas to use the female costumes and compete in the female swimming team,” he alleges the lawsuit.
In December 2021, another team meeting was held to discuss Thomas’s presence in the team and the attention of the media that attracted, according to judicial documents. The swimmers claim that they were told that Thomas would continue on their team and that “Lia’s swimming is not negotiable.”
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The three swimming women claim that they were believed to be removed from the team if they tried to protest Thomas’s participation before the Ivy League 2022 championships.
“The coach Schnur and the UPENN SWIM team administrators told them that UPENN administrators closely coordinated with the NCAA and the Ivy League to ensure that Thomas was eligible for the women’s swimming season 2021-2022,” the demand alleged.
“These statements about a close coordination between UPENN, the Ivy League and the NCAA regarding the eligibility of Thomas led the members of the Upenn women’s team to understand the resistance or protest of Thomas’s participation in the team or its presence In the locker room they would be useless and could result in women withdrawing from the team or Upenn. “
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. The competition of that year was organized in the Harvard Blodgett group in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The swimmer of the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas, poses with her teammates Hannah Kannan, Camryn Carter and Margot Kaczorowski after winning 400 yards freesty Blodgett diving group on February 19, 2022 in Cambridge, Massachuses. (Kathryn Riley/Getty Images)
The demand alleges that Harvard did not accommodate any of the athletes who did not want to share a costume or bathroom with Thomas.
“Harvard did not provide a unisex bath or a separate bath for Thomas to use it or for any other woman to use that he would not use the women’s costume while Thomas used it,” he alleges the demand.
After Thomas’s record performance in Cambridge in February, the athlete competed in the NCAA championship of that year. There, an infamous tie with the former university of Kentucky Riley Gaines resulted in Thomas to raise the trophy for photographs about biologically female gaines.
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Since then, Gaines has filed its own demand against NCAA along with several other female athletes that have been affected by the gender identity policies of the association.
Other female competitors of that event who joined Gaines’ demand have also talked about their experience with Thomas.
The former female swimmer of the State of North Carolina, Kylee Alons, 31 times All-American and twice champion of the NCAA, spoke about the experience of competing and sharing a costume with Thomas, during an audience of the Committee of the Senate of Georgia the Senate January 30.
“We were all only Indian bunny for a giant social experiment formed by the NCAA on how much abuse and shameless contempt of women would be forced to make silence,” Alons said. “I go to the costume that day just to see Thomas and I realize that there is no escape from this nightmare, no matter where to go. I had no idea that it was going to be allowed in the women’s locker room, since we do not consent to have A man in our wardrobe. “
The former swimmer of the University of Kentucky, Kaitlynn Wheeler, joined Lyons to tell the experience of sharing a costume with Thomas at the audience of January 30.
“Young women, teenagers were forced to undress with a completely intact biological man who exposed us, while we were simultaneously completely exposed,” Wheeler said. “They never asked us. They never gave us an option or other option. It was only expected that we would agree with that, to push our discomfort, our shame, our fear, because defending ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or intolerant.”
Pak Gazette Digital has communicated with UPENN, Harvard, the Ivy League and the NCAA to comment, but has not received an answer at the time of publication.
The president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, addressed concerns about the issue of female athletes who have to share teams with trans athletes during a hearing of the Senate Judicial Committee in December.
There, Baker insisted that female athletes have the option of finding other accommodations if they feel uncomfortable sharing with transgenes.
“Everyone should have the opportunity to use other facilities if they wish,” Baker said.
Baker also says that NCAA policies that allow Trans athletes to compete against women are based on federal standards.
Those federal standards can change in the next few days.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to prohibit Trans athletes in sports of girls and women on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives The The women’s protection law in sports on January 14, which would reduce federal funds for any public education institution that allows transgender athletes to compete against girls and women in sports.
