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"It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women," a teammate of transgender identified swimmer Lia Thomas said.

Teammates of the UPenn's women's swim team's top swimmer have been speaking out, sharing their concerns anonymously for fear of retaliation. What continues to emerge is that the women on the team feel "uncomfortable" around their biological male teammate, Lia Thomas, and don't feel that it's fair that Thomas competes on the women's team. The latest report from The Daily Mail is from an anonymous teammate of Thomas' who said of the team "we're uncomfortable in the locker room."
"It's definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women," a teammate told The Daily Mail . Thomas, who continues to dominate the league with race times that are far below that of the league's female competitors, often does not cover up the "her male genitals when changing" and told teammates that "she dates women." It's unclear if that means that Thomas identifies as a lesbian.
"We were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there's nothing we can do about it," the source continued. Apparently teammates have complained to the coach, trying to get Thomas to change somewhere that is not among the women on the team, but the concerns have fallen on deaf ears.
According to the Daily Mail , the teammate went on to state that she feels Thomas "appears to enjoy all the attention" and doesn't give a thought to how it affects the rest of them.
"We basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room," continued the teammate.
"It's really upsetting because Lia doesn't seem to care how it makes anyone else feel. The 35 of us are just supposed to accept being uncomfortable in our own space and locker room for, like, the feelings of one," she said of Thomas.
"The school was so focused on making sure Lia was okay, and doing everything they possibly could do for her, that they didn't even think about the rest of us," the swimmer said of her biological male teammate.
There was a boycott planned by the UPenn swim team, but they later backed out of it over concerns that it would affect their eligibility for future meets.
Thomas, 22, has not spoken publicly on the matter but has apparently come to an agreement with Sports Illustrated to share the story of being a biological male who identifies as transgender and handily beats women in swim competitions in an exclusive interview.
The teammate said that "There are a lot of cowards who don't want to cause any kind of conflict or worry that they might get looked at the wrong way," she said of those who are worried about speaking up for fear of retaliation.
"If this gets a little bigger," she said, "I might go on the record, but I'm definitely a little afraid. What I'm afraid of is that potential employers will Google my name and see commentary about things I said and think 'oh, this person's transphobic,'" she said.

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^ According to the swimming data website Swimcloud , Thomas is ranked 36th among female college swimmers in the United States for the 2021–2022 season, [19] and 46th among women swimmers nationally. [30] By the conclusion of Thomas's swimming career at UPenn in 2022, her rank had moved from 65th on the men's team to 1st on the women's team in the 500-yard freestyle, and 554th on the men's team to 5th on the women's team in the 200-yard freestyle. [29] [17]

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^ Jump up to: a b Webb, Karleigh (February 16, 2022). "Lia Thomas competing at Ivy League championships is a fair deal" . Outsports . Retrieved March 18, 2022 .

^ Jump up to: a b Edwards, Jonathan (March 23, 2022). "A transgender swimmer won an NCAA championship. DeSantis proclaimed a Florida resident the 'rightful winner.' " . The Washington Post . Retrieved March 23, 2022 .

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^ Jump up to: a b c Lohn, John (April 5, 2022). "A Look At the Numbers and Times: No Denying the Advantages of Lia Thomas" . Swimming World . During the last season Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, she ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. As her career at Penn wrapped, she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.

^ Singh, Samarveer (March 22, 2022). "What Rank Did Lia Thomas Stand at While Competing in the Men's Swimming Division?" . Lia Thomas competed in the men’s division, in 2018-19. There, she ranked 554th in the 200-yd freestyle, and she is now fifth in the event this year. Furthermore, in the 500-yd freestyle, Thomas was 65th in the country. Now, she ranked first place in the event this year. Finally, in the 1650 freestyle, she is now eighth in the nation, as opposed to 32nd in the men’s division.

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^ Yurcaba, Joe (January 10, 2022). "Amid trans athlete debate, Penn's Lia Thomas loses to trans Yale swimmer" . NBC News .

^ Barnes, Katie (March 17, 2022). "Thomas first transgender athlete to win D-I title" . ESPN . Retrieved March 18, 2022 .

^ "Thomas wins US collegiate swimming title" . BBC Sport . Retrieved March 18, 2022 .

^ Owens, Jason (March 17, 2022). "Swimmer Lia Thomas becomes NCAA's first transgender D-I champion in any sport" . Yahoo! Sports . Retrieved March 20, 2022 .

^ "Why the data shows trans swimming champion Lia Thomas didn't have an unfair advantage" . Independent.co.uk . April 8, 2022.

^ "Swimmer Lia Thomas becomes NCAA's first transgender D-I champion in any sport" . sports.yahoo.com .

^ Webb, Karleigh (March 17, 2022). "Iszac Henig, Lia Thomas are All-Americans in women's 100-free" . Outsports .

^ "Transgender swimmer finishes last in final college race" . The Japan Times . March 20, 2022 . Retrieved March 25, 2022 .

^ Jump up to: a b c Powell, Michael (May 29, 2022). "What Lia Thomas Could Mean for Women's Elite Sports" . The New York Times . ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved May 30, 2022 .

^ Jump up to: a b "United States Season 2021-2022" . SwimCloud . Retrieved March 30, 2022 .

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Lia Catherine Thomas (born 1998/1999) [2] is an American swimmer. In 2017, she began studying at the University of Pennsylvania , from which she graduated in May 2022. [3] She competed on the university's men's swim team from 2017 to 2020, and on its women's swim team from 2021 to 2022. In March 2022, she became the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport, after winning the women's 500-yard freestyle event. Beginning in 2021, she became part of the public debate about transgender women in sports . [4] [5] [6]

Thomas grew up in Austin, Texas , and has an older brother. [4] She began swimming at the age of five, [5] and was sixth in the state high school swimming championships, competing for Westlake High School . [4] In 2017, she started attending the University of Pennsylvania . [2] She graduated in 2022 and plans to attend law school, pursuing a career as a civil rights attorney. [7]

Towards the end of high school, Thomas began to question her gender identity . [2] [8] After her freshman year at college, during the summer of 2018, she came out as transgender to her family. [2] [5] She began using her new name on New Year's Day in 2020. In an interview with Sports Illustrated she said, "In a way, it was sort of a rebirth, for the first time in my life, feeling fully connected to my name and who I am and living who I am. I am Lia." [2]

Thomas began swimming on the men's team at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017, and during her freshman year, recorded a time of 8 minutes and 57.55 seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle that ranked as the sixth-fastest national men's time, as well as 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle times ranked within the national top 100. [5] On the men's swim team in 2018–2019, Thomas finished second in the men’s 500, 1,000, and 1,650-yard freestyle at the Ivy League championships as a sophomore in 2019. [5] [4] [9] During the 2018–2019 season, Thomas recorded the top university men's team times in the 500 free, 1000 free, and 1650 free. [10]

She began transitioning using hormone replacement therapy in May 2019, and came out as a trans woman during her junior year to her coaches, friends, and the women's and men's swim teams at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] [5] She was required to swim for the men's team in the 2019–2020 academic year as a junior while undergoing hormone therapy and then swam on the women's team in 2021–2022 after taking a year off school to maintain her eligibility to compete while competitive swimming was canceled due to the C
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