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Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' former teammate speaks out
for the first time: 'Frightening'
By Samantha Kamman,
Christian Post Reporter
One of trans-identified swimmer Lia Thomas' former teammates accused her alma mater of silencing opposition to including a biological male on the women's swim team, revealing that female swimmers were forced to hide in bathroom stalls to avoid changing in front of Thomas.
In an interview published Tuesday by the Daily Wire, which purports to be the first public interview featuring one of Thomas' teammates, Paula Scanlan told conservative Matt Walsh that the University of Pennsylvania did not want the student-athletes to speak out on what was happening in the athletic department, calling the situation "scary."
"They continued to tell us that our opinions were wrong and if we had an issue about it, we were the problem," Scanlan said. "[A]nd it's frightening, and your future job is on the line."
Scanlan, who competed on the Penn women's swim team for three seasons, spoke about the experience of sharing a locker room with a biological male. Thomas, born with the first name Will, competed for three seasons on the Penn men's swim team before competing on the women's team during the 2021-2022 season.
Thomas made headlines as the biological male became a national champion and an All-American in the women's division.
Noticing that many girls started changing in the bathroom stalls, Scanlan attested she had never seen such behavior before Thomas became part of the women's team.
"The biggest thing was just when you're changing, and there's all of these people talking in the background, and you hear all of these women's voices, and all of the sudden, you hear a man's voice," Scanlan recalled. "I'd always kind of jump a little."
Scanlan spoke of one teammate who complained about the situation to the athletic department. Scanlan admitted that she did not know what they said to her, but afterward, the girl began acting as if having a biological male on the women's swim team was a "magical, beautiful thing."
Good grief! How sick!
"They said, 'Don't talk to the media; you will regret it. … Lia's swimming is non-negotiable,'" the athlete said. "And then they provided us with counseling services to help us be OK with Lia swimming."
"It's frightening, and your future job is on the line and everything else you want to accomplish, so of course, it worked, and then after that point, no one would talk about it anymore," Scanlan said.
Scanlan claimed that institutions such as the Ivy League and the National Collegiate Athletics Association failed her and fellow athletes.
Despite the discomforts of having a biological male on the team, these institutions did not step in, she said.
"I think the biggest thing is to just fight for those people who don't have a voice: those younger girls, the girls that are aged 12 to 14 who are just starting out on those sports teams," she added.
Scanlan isn't the only NCAA swimmer who had a problem with Thomas being allowed to compete against them.
Riley Gaines, a former collegiate swimmer and University of Kentucky graduate, revealed in an interview last year with Tucker Carlson that she was surprised the NCAA allowed a biological male to compete against women, believing at first that the institution would not permit it.
During the NCAA championships, Gaines said Thomas' best time was "at least a second and a half faster" than hers, which makes a significant difference in the sport.
"The environment is nothing like I've ever seen before," Gaines said about the atmosphere at the championships. She characterized the atmosphere as "edgy" because "people didn't really know what to say, who to say what to, how to feel."
Traitorous move by NCAA
Gaines ultimately tied with Thomas for fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle, a feat she described as "pretty rare in swimming." The former swimmer felt compelled to speak out after an NCAA official told Gaines that Thomas would get to take a picture with the fifth-place trophy while she would receive a separate trophy in the mail.
Even though Gaines tied for fifth place with Thomas, the official asked the female athlete to pose for a picture with a sixth-place trophy.
"I think God kind of put me in that position to where I'm just not someone who's scared to speak out," she concluded.
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SPLC names 12 parent’s rights orgs as
‘anti-government extremist groups’
JUN 10, 2023 8:00 AM
BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS
Jihad Watch
The FBI stated in February that “radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology” is a national threat. They based this assessment on smears from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The SPLC continues its vehement attacks on traditional Christian values. It has now “named 12 parents’ rights organizations, including the incredibly effective Moms For Liberty, as ‘anti-government extremist groups’ in its 2022 ‘hate and extremism’ report.”
Isn't 'radical-traditionalist an oxymoron?
The SPLC, along with other far-Left groups, continues to target Judeo-Christian traditions, beliefs and practices, which leads to intensifying social persecution.
SPLC
After SPLC Quietly Admits Subjectivity, Corporate Media
Amplify Baseless Smears Against Parents
by Jordan Boyd, The Federalist, June 7, 3023:
The Southern Poverty Law Center continued its smear campaign against conservative groups this week when it named 12 parents’ rights organizations, including the incredibly effective Moms For Liberty, as “anti-government extremist groups” in its 2022 “hate and extremism” report.
Over the last two years, the Biden administration, with the help of the National School Boards Association, used manufactured reasoning to target concerned parents as potential “terrorists.” For his participation in the intimidation campaign, Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland was hauled in front of Congress where he not only denied that the Department of Justice was weaponized against Americans for political reasons but also indicated he would keep targeting parents.
The SPLC continued the Biden regime’s mission by sullying the dozen grassroots groups as “reactionary anti-student inclusion” organizations that promote “anti-LGBTQ, racist and nationalist themes.”
“Groups like Moms for Liberty are a new battlefront vs inclusivity in schools, but are rooted in age-old white supremacy,” SPLC’s Intelligence Project Director Susan Corke tweeted on Tuesday.
“Name-calling parents who want to be a part of their child’s education as ‘hate groups’ or ‘bigoted’ just further exposes what this battle is all about: Who fundamentally gets to decide what is taught to our kids in school – parents or government employees? We believe that parental rights do not stop at the classroom door and no amount of hate from groups like this is going to stop that,” Moms for Liberty co-founders Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich told Fox News after the report’s release….
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Spate of homophobic vandalism puts southern Manitoba
LGBTQ community on edge
Sarah Petz · CBC News ·
Posted: Jun 10, 2023 4:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: June 10
United Church groups in the Pembina Valley show their support as they march in Morden's first Pride
parade in 2019. Several recent acts of homophobia have been reported in the southern Manitoba city,
as it prepares for its second Pride parade this weekend. (Ian Froese/CBC)
Pembina United Church welcomes all - Jesus also welcomes all sinners, since we are all sinners it can be said that Jesus welcomes all, but, as He said to several sinners, "Go and sin no more"!
For Jessi Ingalls, this weekend's Pride parade in the southern Manitoba city of Morden was supposed to be a celebration.
But after having a Pride flag ripped from the home she shares with her partner and two children last weekend, she says she's now going to Saturday's parade as an act of defiance.
Ultimately, it could be said that LGBTQs are quintessentially rebellious.
"It's definitely more of a protest. It's not so much a celebration," she said Friday.
"It's more of 'we're here and we're not going away, and you need to either learn to love and accept that or be quiet.'"
The tearing down of Ingalls's flag overnight last Saturday is one of several acts of homophobic vandalism in the Pembina Valley region, as Morden — a city of just over 9,000 — prepares for its second-ever Pride parade, following one in 2019.
A van, two Pride flags, and a church have all been vandalized recently in Morden and the nearby city of Winkler.
The day before her flag was torn down, Ingalls said she was having a yard sale when someone working for a political campaign showed up and tried to start a debate.
"I asked him to leave after explaining that they're hurting people. And then that night, overnight, our flag was ripped off."
The following day, a van that belonged to a friend in Winkler, which had been decorated for Pride, was spray-painted with a homophobic slur, Ingalls said.
There is more on this story on Canada's far-left, national government broadcaster, CBC
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