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Topic	Trans swimmer breaking NCAA records, destroying the competition in meets
AngelsNAirwav3s 12/08/21 6:20:41 PM #1:	https://people.com/sports/upenn-swimmer-lia-thomas-who-is-transgender-continues-to-break-womens-records/ University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who is transgender, broke multiple records for the school's women's swim team at the Zippy Invitational over the weekend. Thomas, 22, kicked off the three-day event, held at the University of Akron, strong in the preliminaries Friday. She set a new pool and meet record in the 500-yard freestyle, according to UPenn. The Austin, Texas, native kept the same momentum in the finals and swam over 12 seconds faster, coming in first at 4:34.06. Her time currently marks the best in the country for the event and sets a new program record. On Saturday, Thomas won the 200-yard freestyle by less than seven seconds and set a new pool, meet, and program record of 1:41.93, the fastest time in the nation, the school shared on its website. She continued her record-breaking streak Sunday, winning the 1,650-yard freestyle by more than 38 seconds with a time of 15:59.71, according to UPenn. Her teammate Anna Kalandadze finished second. The Quakers came in second overall at the end of the tournament. Before coming out as transgender, Thomas swam for UPenn's men's team for three years. She joined the women's team in her senior year after taking a break during the COVID-19 pandemic. Opening up about the transition, Thomas told Penn Today: "The process of coming out as being trans and continuing to swim was a lot of uncertainty and unknown around an area that's usually really solid. Realizing I was trans threw that into question. Was I going to keep swimming? What did that look like?" She concluded, "Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding." Also worth noting she was a 6 time Ivy League Finalist in for men in the 3 years prior to this. Her swim times are slower than they were before the transition, but still clearly fast enough to be #1 in womens swimming this year. I feel bad for the other women who are competing, this doesn't seem very fair --- Hello world! <cite>AngelsNAirwav3s posted [p:960739149] in Trans swim... [t:79801311]...</cite> <quote>https://people.com/sports/upenn-swimmer-lia-thomas-who-is-transgender-continues-to-break-womens-records/ University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who is transgender, broke multiple records for the school's women's swim team at the Zippy Invitational over the weekend. Thomas, 22, kicked off the three-day event, held at the University of Akron, strong in the preliminaries Friday. She set a new pool and meet record in the 500-yard freestyle, according to UPenn. The Austin, Texas, native kept the same momentum in the finals and swam over 12 seconds faster, coming in first at 4:34.06. Her time currently marks the best in the country for the event and sets a new program record. On Saturday, Thomas won the 200-yard freestyle by less than seven seconds and set a new pool, meet, and program record of 1:41.93, the fastest time in the nation, the school shared on its website. She continued her record-breaking streak Sunday, winning the 1,650-yard freestyle by more than 38 seconds with a time of 15:59.71, according to UPenn. Her teammate Anna Kalandadze finished second. The Quakers came in second overall at the end of the tournament. Before coming out as transgender, Thomas swam for UPenn's men's team for three years. She joined the women's team in her senior year after taking a break during the COVID-19 pandemic. Opening up about the transition, Thomas told Penn Today: "The process of coming out as being trans and continuing to swim was a lot of uncertainty and unknown around an area that's usually really solid. Realizing I was trans threw that into question. Was I going to keep swimming? What did that look like?" She concluded, "Being trans has not affected my ability to do this sport and being able to continue is very rewarding." Also worth noting she was a 6 time Ivy League Finalist in for men in the 3 years prior to this. Her swim times are slower than they were before the transition, but still clearly fast enough to be #1 in womens swimming this year. I feel bad for the other women who are competing, this doesn't seem very fair --- Hello world!</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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