EXCLUSIVE: The former women’s swimmers of the University of Pennsylvania Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist filed a complaint against the University, Harvard University, NCAA and the Council of Presidents of Ivy League about their experience as Sharing a team with the Transgenre Lia Thomas swimmer. The trial does not name Thomas as a defendant.
According to court documents obtained by PK Press Club Digital, Estabrok, Kaczorowski and Holmquist maintain that Thomas’ admissibility to compete as a woman for Upenn has violated their rights IX. He maintains that the 2010 NCAA, which allows biological men to participate in the category of women according to their favorite gender identity, is “discriminatory”.
Women say that by allowing Thomas to compete, institutions “injured them and violated them federal law”.
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The trial also detailed the personal experiences that each of the women was faced with having to share a team and locker room with Thomas. Each of the complainants claims that experience has left them “emotionally traumatized several times”.
The complainants allege that the administrators of the university have pushed pro-trans-trans ideology on them throughout Thomas’ acceptance process in the team and in their locker room. The old swimmers say that they were led to feel their concerns about the fact that the teammates with Thomas were rooted in a “psychological problem”.
“The administrators of Upenn told women that if someone had trouble accepting Thomas’ participation in the Upenn women’s team, they should ask for advice and support from CAPS and the LBGTQ Center”, According to the trial.
“Administrators also invited women to a conference entitled” Trans 101 “. Thus, women were led to understand that Upenn’s position was that if a woman in the team had a problem with a trans-identifying man In her team, this woman had a psychological problem and needed advice.
Lia Thomas des Quakers de Pennsylvanie is swimming in the 500-yarning event in a tri-meeting against Yale’s Bulldogs and the Dartmouth Big Green in Sheerr Pool on the Campus of the University of Pennsylvania on January 8, 2022 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Hunter Martin / Getty Images)
The complainants also allege that the administrators warned them not to publicly denounce the situation.
“The administrators of Upenn continued by telling women that if women spoke publicly about their concerns about Thomas’ participation in the women’s team, the reputation of those who complain of Thomas would have been tainted with transphobia for the rest of Their life and they could probably never find a job, ”said the trial.
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Thomas, a biological man, previously competed for the male swimming team of the Upenn from 2017 to 20 under the name of Will Thomas. According to the trial, Thomas was presented by the female swimming coach Mike Schnur to female swimmers at a team meeting in the fall of 2019 as an incoming teammate.
The trial alleys that UPENN coaches and administrators told female swimmers not to talk about Thomas’ situation. Schnur would have told female swimmers that Thomas would not share a cloakroom with them when they asked for the initial introduction.
But that would have changed later.
Thomas officially started practicing and competing with women’s swimmers in the fall of 2021.
And it is at this point that the swimmers say they discovered that the alleged affirmation of Schnur Thomas would not share a wardrobe was not true.
“When the female swimmers of Upenn returned to school in the fall of 2021, they were shocked to discover that Thomas was authorized to use the Women’s cloakroom in Upenn and would be authorized to use the wardrobes of women in Swim Meets “, Says the trial.
“Margot [Kaczorowski] Only learned that Thomas had been authorized by Upenn to use the wardrobe of women when [Kaczorowski] Entering the wardrobe of women to find Thomas in front of his clothes. “”
According to the costume, Kaczorowski confronted Schnur in tears about his shock to discover that Thomas would now share a cloakroom with her. She alleges that the coach replied by saying “I know it’s bad, but I can’t do anything.”
“Coach Schnur told the complainants that he would be dismissed by Upenn if he had not authorized Thomas to use the female changing rooms and to compete in the female swimming team,” said the trial.
In December 2021, another team meeting took place to discuss the presence of Thomas in the team and the attention of the media he attracted, according to court documents. The swimmers allege that they have been told that Thomas would continue to be part of their team and that “the swimming is non -negotiable”.
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The three swimmers allege that they were made to believe that they would be withdrawn from the team if they were trying to protest against Thomas’ participation before the Ivy League 2022 championships.
“The members of the UPENN swimming team were informed by coach Schnur and the administrators of Upenn that the administrators of Upenn have coordinated in close collaboration with the NCAA and the Ivy League to ensure that Thomas would be eligible for the 2021-2022 female swimming season, “said the costume.
“These statements on the close coordination between Upenn, the Ivy League and the NCAA concerning the eligibility of Thomas led the members of the Upenn women’s team to understand the resistance or the protest of Thomas’ participation in the team Or his presence in the locker room would be futile and could lead to the withdrawal of women from the team or Upenn.
During the Ivy League 2022 swimming championships, Thomas arrived first in the races of 500, 200 and 100 free yards, establishing pool records and the Ivy League, and was finally the most score swimmer Score during the whole competition. This year’s competition was organized at the Harvard Blodgett swimming pool 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 the 400 free yer relay at the Blodget swimming pool of the Ivy 2022 League at the Blodget Pool on February 19 in Cambridge , Massachuset. (Images Kathryn Riley / Getty)
The trial alleys that Harvard has made no accommodation for any of the female athletes who did not want to share a wardrobe or toilets with Thomas.
“Harvard did not provide a unisex bathroom or a separate bathroom in Thomas to use or so that any other woman could use who did not want to use the wardrobes of women while Thomas used it,” said the costume .
After Thomas’ record performance in Cambridge in February, the athlete continued to participate in this year’s NCAA championships. There, a sadly famous link with the former University of Kentucky Riley Gaines led to the trophy for photo sessions on biologically female sheaths.
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Gaines has since brought his own action against NCAA alongside several other female athletes who have been affected by the association’s identity policies of the association.
Other competitors of this event who joined the sheath trial also talked about their experience with Thomas.
The former female swimmer in the Northern Carolina State, Kylee Alons, 31 times American champion and double NCAA champion, spoke of experience in competition and sharing a cloakroom with Thomas, during a committee audience of the Georgia Senate on January 30.
“We were all only guinea pigs for a giant social experience formed by the NCAA concerning the quantity of abuse and the blatant contempt that women would be forced to take silence,” said Alons. “I go to the locker rooms that day only to see Thomas and realize that there is no escape from this nightmare, no matter where I go. I did not know that he was going to be allowed in the locker rooms of women because we did not agree to have a man in our locker room. “”
The former swimmer of the University of Kentucky, Kaitlynn Wheeler, joined Lyon to tell the experience of sharing a wardrobe with Thomas at the audience of January 30.
“Young women, the teenagers were forced to undress alongside a fully intact biological man who exposed himself to us, when we were simultaneously exposed,” said Wheeler. “We were never asked. We have never given us the choice or another option. We were just supposed to agree with that, to push our discomfort, our embarrassment, our fear, because we defend ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant or hateful or sectarian. “
PK Press Club Digital contacted Upenn, Harvard, Ivy League and NCAA to comment, but did not receive an answer at the time of publication.
The president of the NCAA, Charlie Baker, responded to the concerns concerning the question of female athletes who had to share teams and changing rooms with trans athletes during a hearing of the Senate judicial committee in December.
There, Baker insisted that female athletes have the opportunity to find other accommodation if they share uncomfortable with the Transgender.
“Everyone should have the opportunity to use other facilities if they wish,” said Baker.
Baker also says that NCAA policies that allow athletes to compete with women are based on federal standards.
These federal standards can change in the coming days.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive decree to prohibit Trans athletes from participating in female and female sports on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives past him Protection of women and girls in the Sports Act on January 14, which would reduce federal funding for any public education establishment which allows transgender athletes to compete with girls and women in sport.
