President Donald Trump’s administration has increased his repression against the inclusion of transminine sports athletes, and many women affected by the issue are expressed in support.
After the administration took a break of $ 175 million in federal funding at the University of Pennsylvania for its inclusion of transgender athletes in female sports, which Fox Business exclusively reported on Wednesday, many women who had to compete alongside the former transgender swimmer Upenn Lia Thomas spoke to celebrate the funding break.
Three of the former teammates of Thomas Upenn, Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist, provided a joint statement to PK Press Club Digital, via the independent council for female sports (icons) renting the action of the Trump administration.
“We are so happy that universities are starting to see that there is a cost to harm students openly to their campuses and that we hope that pressure will increase. Penn and other universities within the NCAA, by virtue of the NCAA policy and their own leadership Voyou, violated the federal law and wounded women,” said the press release.
“They knowingly stolen from opportunities and rewards of women, placed women in physical danger and facilitated sexual harassment of athlete women. All women on a university campus and under NCAA regulations should be assured of title IX protections. Institutions that ignore women’s well-being must understand that they cannot rewrite or ignore federal protections that were women.”
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Riley Gaines, now spokesperson for the independent Women’s Forum, linked Lia Thomas, on the left, for fifth place during the 200 free style championships at the NCAA swimming and diving championships. (Brett Davis-USA TODAY SPORTS)
In a statement to PK Press Club Digital, a university spokesman said UPENN had received no “official notification” from the financing break, and added that the university was and is “in full compliance” with NCAA and League Ivy.
“We are aware of the media reports suggesting a suspension of $ 175 million in federal funding in Penn, but have not yet received official notification or details. It is important to note, however, that Penn has always followed the NCAA and the Ivy League concerning the participation of students in sports teams.
Estabrook, Kaczorowski and Holmquist are all currently engaged in a trial against Upenn, the Ivy League and the NCAA, citing their experience with Thomas and the treatment of the situation of institutions. The costume also seeks to cancel all Thomas’ distinctions in the women’s category.
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Former swimmer of Upenn Grace Estabrook. (Photo graceful of Grace Estabrook)
Women say that by allowing Thomas to compete, institutions “injured them and violated them federal law”.
Thomas, a biological man, previously competed for the male swimming team of the Upenn from 2017 to 20 under the name of Will Thomas. 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 during the whole competition.
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. Schnur would have told female swimmers that Thomas would not share a cloakroom with them when they asked for the initial introduction.
It would have changed later.
Thomas officially started to train and compete with women’s swimmers in the fall of 2021. It was at this point that the swimmers said they had discovered that Schnur’s alleged statement that 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 wardrobe of women in Upenn and would be authorized to use the wardrobes of women in Swim Meets,” said 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. “”
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 Thomas’ teammates were rooted in a “psychological problem”.
The swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas, reacts after swaming the 100 free prelimes at the NCAA swimming and diving championships on March 19, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
“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,” said 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.”
The Ministry of Education launched an official investigation into potential title IX violations that occurred in Upenn in February, PK Press Club Digital previously reported.
Now the consequences of this survey are materialized.
