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NCAA University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas is “mentally ill,” a teammate of the transgender NCAA champion has claimed.
Speaking to the Washington Examiner on the condition of anonymity, a teammate described Thomas is a few screws short of a hardware store following an appearance by the transgender swimmer on ABC’s “Good Morning America” late last month.
“You can tell he is mentally ill,” the anonymous teammate told reporter Christopher Tremoglie. “I saw the [“GMA” interview] and was so disgusted.”
Asked to elaborate, the teammate claimed Thomas was self-absorbed and unconcerned with the pain he caused his fellow female teammates.
“She also mentioned the damage Thomas caused to female sports and the opportunities he took away from real female swimmers, both on UPenn’s team and the NCAA,” reports Tremoglie. “Lia’s experience was his alone, and many suffered so that he could benefit.”
The swimmer said, “Lia identified as a woman, but she is not a female… That is a fact. It doesn’t matter how you feel.”
The disgruntled female swimmer complained Thomas lacked empathy for real females on his team, and added he was unconcerned teammates felt uncomfortable with him in locker rooms, especially considering he has male genitalia.
“When asked about the question of fairness, Lia said, ‘Well, I’m happy.’ Lia completely ignored the question, dodged the question,” the swimmer told Tremoglie, referring to the “GMA” interview. “If you want to talk about happiness, what about everyone else’s happiness? What about mine? What about my teammates’?”
“What about the swimmers who Lia bumped out of medals at the NCAA championships? What about the girl who finished 9th and finals?” the swimmer continued. “The girl that finished 17th? The girl who finished second to Lia? What about their happiness? What about all their hard work?”
“And to say, ‘Oh, well, I am happy,’ it is just so narcissistic. And to not even acknowledge how other girls might feel, it’s selfish and disgusting,” the anonymous swimmer added.
“It proves that Lia only cared about prioritizing Lia’s happiness above everybody else’s. It’s absurd… You don’t have an argument as to why this should be OK.”
The teammate’s protests come on the heels of complaints from another anonymous female UPenn swimmer, who slammed Thomas in an interview for Daily Wire correspondent Matt Walsh’s documentary, “What is a Woman?”
The swimmer, masked by a silhouette, claimed UPenn silenced and intimidated fellow female swimmers who had a problem with Thomas, and were told they were “transphobic” for raising such concerns.
GMA interviewed Lia Thomas today. Great timing. Our film features one of Thomas's teammates. She told me that women on her team were silenced and referred to psychological counseling if they objected to having Thomas on the team. More in the full film: https://t.co/xibkNa4oHW pic.twitter.com/YRRf2S712a
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) May 31, 2022
“There was a lot of things we couldn’t talk about that was concerning, like the locker room situation, if you even brought up concerns about it you were transphobic,” she told Walsh.
Watch Thomas’ “Good Morning America” interview:
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