Lia Thomas' Teammate Says UPenn CENSORED Athletes' Concerns About Trans Swimmer

Lia Thomas, the first openly transgender female to win in an NCAA Division One swimming event, has a teammate who is speaking out about UPENN's efforts to censor the athlete's critics.

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[joshuaprets]

On this issue alone, I hope the democratic party is destroyed.
I've never seen such a minute, bizarre issue exploited and elevated to such a level in such a small amount of time in my lifetime.

[darkerknight]

The mental gymnastics people like Brianna do to make this seem remotely fair are astounding

[AldFinGrp]

This whole “assigned at birth” thing is so ridiculous. It’s as though someone with a ink pad and rubber stamp is arbitrarily handing out gender cards. No one is being assigned anything. It is what it is.

[acetate]

"She" was born a man, went through puberty, and still has male genitals. "She" still dates women ffs. I would be very upset if I was a woman and had to compete agaisnt "her" and then wasn't even allowed to speak publicly about my frustration. This is ridiculous.

[jakereese]

Bri, again with the most asinine take. She says that this person doesn’t feel comfortable being forced to use a certain locker room, so they should use the one they want but what about all the women who feel uncomfortable being forced to allow this biologically male person in their locker room?

[JB-lovin]

Watching Briahna tap dance and defer on these issues is cringe. “Born women assigned at birth” is next-level linguistic hyper extension. “I don’t know a lot about this issue” is cowardly self defense. Why so coy about a “nothing burger”? This performance is strictly geared to political position not reasoning. Yuck.

[jasminecrandall]

I completely agree with Kim. There are sacrifices and choices to made in order to be respectful of others. It's not all about you. It's a very selfish thing that she did. It shows no concern for the fact that it's a grossly unfair advantage and serves only to create division and resentment towards the trans community.

[patricksmith]

We still have Men's Athletics. However, Women's Athletics has been relegated to Co-ED Sports.

[davidbuchberger]

Brianna “I don’t know anything about this. But I’m going to talk about it for half this segment”.

[thesuperdingos]

All this to cater to .05% of the population

[Jimulacrum]

5:16: Kim: "This isn't actually affecting everybody's life."

What makes something like this newsworthy isn't the swimming or how many people are affected by the swim meet.

The Lia Thomas story hits so hard because it's the Emperor's New Clothes / Don't Look Up moment of the radical gender movement. Everyone else can see how grossly unfair this is, at the expense of the biological women on the team and entirely for Thomas's benefit. The fact that it's a sport played in a swimsuit provides a striking visual demonstration of the unfairness.

Instead of admitting that perhaps their theory doesn't always hold in the real world, the activists keep defaming those who disagree, suppressing dissent, and chanting "TRANS 👏 WOMEN 👏 ARE 👏 WOMEN!" without missing a beat. Never admit you're wrong. Always be on the attack. It's their way.

That's the really newsworthy tidbit underneath it all: the acceptance of radical gender ideology is about to fall off a cliff with the general public, and the activists brought it on themselves.

[theax]

Briahna: "I haven't really been following this because it's inconvenient for my team. Quick, look. GOP BAD."

🙄

[shinbili]

Scholarship access is literally at stake in highschool, Brie didn't do athletics in highschool obviously.

[stephenherrera]

Briahna, ". . . women assigned at birth." Wow.

[jkee]

We live in a timeline where people are refusing or cant answer the question of what is a woman. Sad depressing timeline

[RobbyMaddox]

Jeez... Briahna's wishy washy who cares attitude and trying to say that it's not really an issue and that locker room issues are just "nothing burgers" is just horrible. She's just minimizing and denigrating other people's actual experiences and concerns. If she thinks that these other students are wrong, then she should just say so and own her position, as she calls it. If she doesn't actually have an opinion, then she should just keep her mouth shut.

[MIOLAZARUS]

It has nothing to do with hate, just the fact that Lia have physical advantages. Hard truth.

[HostileTakeover]

I agree with Kim - it’s a choice to transition. You need to make a decision if it’s more important to you to transition at a certain time or complete in the sport — EVERYONE has to make choices they don’t want to but that’s life.

[angelicamckee]

I am a Transgender Woman and I believe that Lia was wrong for competing. She clearly had an advantage.

[alansteel]

Really disappointed in Briana for pulling the "i don't know why we are even talking about this" ploy. I would not have guessed she was like that. Also, I'm sure to the people affected, it's more than a "nothing burger"