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Thomas has rights, but those rights should not trample on the rights of women with smaller hearts, lungs, hands and feet.
“I’m a woman, just like anybody else on the team.”
This is what Lia Thomas told Sports Illustrated in a profile ahead of Thursday’s NCAA Championships, where she placed first in the women’s 500-yard freestyle. A lot of swimming families like ours have been talking about this story for months, but few of us know Lia’s story beyond what we read in news reports.
What we do know is the story of our own three children. The oldest started swimming competitively for a USA Swimming club when she was 7-years-old and is still swimming five years after competing three times in the NCAA Championships for Auburn University. She was joined in the pool by her little brother who now owns several national records and national championships as well. Our youngest followed her older brother and sister into the pool and is now an NAIA All-American on the Savanah College of Art & Design with her older brother.
All three of our swimmers are perplexed with the swimming and collegiate leaders who are enabling Thoams to compete against and dominate women in the swimming pool. The youngest, who still has three years of collegiate eligibility, faces the real prospect of someday having to face a transgender athlete in the pool that she could never, ever have a chance of beating.
Our son is frustrated as well because his college times are very similar to those of Thomas when Thomas swam for the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s team. And like all good brothers, he feels the desire to protect his sisters from what is coming. It makes you wonder: Do the men who run the NCAA and USA Swimming have sisters or daughters?
Our son knows […]
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