Lia Thomas competes in Division I swimming national championship amid protests

The transgender swimmer made history, but some say her success should come with "an asterisk."

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[bobs]

This is an insult to the young women who have trained for years to compete at this level.
How did we get to this level of craziness?

[tomb]

Congratulations Sir on winning in a women’s division. You must be so proud.

[sharonsolana]

This is crazy! Lia Thomas _clearly_ has an unfair advantage in the pool.

[IgonDrakeWarrior]

Inspirational! I can’t wait for my son to dominate in the WNBA 😤

[saraxdouglas]

This guy single handedly put women back 100 years. ❤️☮️🙏

[djqueen]

It’s sick how the women in the media are reporting on this and calling him a her. Women need to stand together.

[factsoverfear]

Trans rights to stomp on womens rights. Hmmm 🤔

[MM-colf]

This is insane. The fact we are arguing that there could be some legitimacy in this shows how crazy we've become.

[noree]

This is not fair, the women swimming in the competition don’t have a chance. This is not a rant against transgender people it’s just facts. Fact over feelings!!!

[gareth]

It makes me extremely sad that we now live in a world that if we speak up against clearly unfair and unsporting situations we are shut down and told we are “transphobic” which is absurd. We couldn’t care less if you want to jump ship from one gender to another but do it responsibly and respectfully knowing that you have a naturally stronger DNA. This man (because I don’t believe he has fully transitioned) was terrible as a swimmer in the male meets, suddenly decides I’ll try womens because the rules are so pro trans that I can exploit this and win every race. Shame on HIM. This makes a mockery of the men and women who have struggled for years to love themselves in the wrong body and fought for years to successfully transition.

[progeda]

You can literally see the advantage in the first few seconds.

[thaitopfitness]

Lia's voice is deeper than mine haha

[ananse]

Lia's wingspan compared to the other swimmers is ridiculous.

[royandescartes]

Ranked 462 as a man and now dominating as a “woman”. Men and women’s bodies are different no matter how much “transitioning” you do. I don’t think Lia is naive and unaware of that. You will never see a “former woman” breaking all the mens records.

[Julie-qrow]

This is incredibly unfair! Women shouldn’t have to forfeit equal opportunity for ourselves just to appease the feelings of a biological man.

[annieg]

This video has 88, 000 views and only 295 likes. I wonder how many dislikes were hidden. Congratulations to Emma Weyant on a well-deserved win.

[scottsmith]

He is going to ruin WOMENS sports.He’s got some balls.

[AnAmericanPatriot]

Congratulations to
Emma Weyant on her gold medal 🥇
Erica Sullivan on her silver medal 🥈
And
Brooke Forde on her bronze medal 🥉

[mikegorgonzola]

“Respect my pronouns”

Respect fuckin sport rules god damnit.

[iamkesha.]

The fact this is allowed to happen and the silence of MANY prominent, very senior political leaders, athletes, famous people and women organizations are RIDICULOUS. This country currently have the FIRST FEMALE VP (although useless most times) and she is not voicing her concerns for the future of women/girls sports and spaces.