Ex-Swimmers Unite Against NCAA’s Unacceptable Trans Policy

For three long seasons, Pennsylvania University student William Thomas toiled at the back of the pack in men’s collegiate swimming. He was an even-ran, which would seem insulting to other-runs. After ranking a woeful 462nd in men’s swimming, he re-invented himself as “Lia” Thomas, a transgender “woman.” 

A season in which Thomas reduced women’s swimming competition to rubble is over, but nearly 40 former women’s college swimmers are collectively demanding the NCAA stop the charade of male transgender migrants ruining the integrity of women’s sports. 

In their letter to the NCAA, retired University of Arizona swimmers – former Olympians among them – wrote to express their deep concerns about the state of women’s swimming following Thomas’s dominating season. In part, the letter states, “It’s hard to express the anguish the women’s swim community has experienced this past week watching the 2022 NCAA Swim & Dive Championships.”  

Thomas deprived a female competitor in the 500-yard Freestyle of the National Championship. 

Fox News interviewed Marshi Smith about her 2005 national title in 100-yard backstroke. 

Since the adoption of Title nine, young mothers like myself … and most of the women from the University of Arizona on our list have small children, for the first time ever we feel like our daughters may not have the same opportunities for success that we did. This has driven us to publicly speak up about it. 

Smith stated that she, along with the others former swimmers, are speaking up because they feel like “individually” don’t have a voice. Our opinions and possible solutions were not being sought. “Do we have any voice in the NCAA?” 

However, the NCAA has yet to respond to this group of ex-swimmers. Its president Mark Emmert did reply to Smith’s private letter. 

Emmert replied to Smith and wrote that “the Board of Governors supports the ability for transgender student athletes to participate in college athletics.”   

Emmert also said “the NCAA’s current policy is anchored in the evolving science on this issue and in the sport-specific policies of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee’s national governing bodies.”  

Although there is an evolving level of political correctness among organizations that fear LGBT pressure, male and female DNA do not alter. It was clear that the letter did not understand biological science or the existence of two immutable genders. 

Smith dismissed Emmert’s weak response. She stated that Emmert’s weak response to a policy built on evolving science was not sufficient to explain to female athletes why biological men are allowed to compete in women’s sports. She said that her fellow swimmers were “very skeptical of the NCAA’s science used to establish the criteria that allows a biological male compete directly against females.” No wonder, there is no biological science to support the NCAA’s position. 

Smith also stated that Smith is impressed with the wisdom and experience these women possess. We have determined that the best course of action right now would be to err on the side of fairness across the board and that means that women are not asked to forfeit our titles, records, scholarships at this point.” 

The 40 letter signees are courageous in standing against the NCAA’s prevailing tide. However, the group that oversees collegiate sports has never had the guts to oppose LGBT priorities, and that isn’t likely that will change. The anacronyms NCAA, LGBT and NCAALBGT could be combined.

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