Date: December 28th, 2021 3:29 PM
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USA Swimming official who resigned in protest of transgender swimmer
Lia Thomas told Fox News on Monday that she can't stand by and watch as
girls are "thrown under the bus" by "biological" male competitors.
Cynthia Millen stepped down last week after officiating USA
Swimming meets for over three decades. Her decision came days before the
U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships in Greensboro, N.C.
"The fact is that swimming is a sport in which bodies compete
against bodies. Identities do not compete against identities," Millen
said in an appearance on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." "Men are different
from women, men swimmers are different from women, and they will always
be faster than women."
Parents who were outraged at the NCAA for allowing University of
Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete and dominate in
women’s competitions wrote a letter to the college athletics’ governing
body demanding a rule change.
Parents who were outraged at the NCAA for allowing University of
Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to compete and dominate in
women’s competitions wrote a letter to the college athletics’ governing
body demanding a rule change. (Penn Athletics)
In her resignation letter, Millen said that she felt University
of Pennsylvania transgender athlete Lia Thomas's record-setting
dominance of collegiate women's swimming was grossly unfair, writing
that she can "no longer participate in a sport that allows biological
men to compete against women."
Thomas previously competed as a man at Penn for two full
seasons, most recently in 2019. NCAA rules dictate that transgender
players must partake in one year of testosterone suppression before they
can compete as women.
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"It’s horrible," Millen said. "The statement for women then is
you do not matter, what you do is not important, and little girls are
going to be thrown under the bus by all of this," Millen said, telling
Fox News guest host Sean Duffy that Thomas is "going to be destroying
women’s swimming."
"USA swimming recognizes that boys swim differently from girls," she explained.
Millen detailed the different biological factors that impact a
swimmer's performance, explaining that "boys will always have larger
lung capacity, larger hearts, greater circulation, a bigger skeleton,
and less fat."
Parents at Penn sent a letter to the NCAA demanding a rule change for transgender athletes
Parents at Penn sent a letter to the NCAA demanding a rule change for transgender athletes ( )
"While Lia Thomas is a child of God, he is a biological male who
is competing against women," Millen said, "And no matter how much
testosterone suppression drugs he takes, he will always be a biological
male and have the advantage."
Thomas recently dominated a women’s competition at the Zippy
Invitational at the University of Akron, including the 500-yard
freestyle preliminaries and finals. She earned a winning time of 4:34.06
in the finals, which is a new Ivy League record.
Millen said it would be a "travesty to throw away" the legacy of
female Olympic swimmers, such as Janet Evans and Jenny Thompson.
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