Stupid fucking assholes expect us to tolerate this bullshit like it aint no big deal!
The controversy surrounding a transgender swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania women’s team has enveloped the school’s head swimming and diving coach, Mike Schnur, but Schnur is “getting a bum rap” as athlete Lia Thomas dominates the competition and re-writes the women’s record books, according to a source familiar with the Penn swim program.
Thomas swam for the university’s men’s team — and ranked in the second-team All-Ivy League in 2018-19 — before taking a year off to transition. Since then, Thomas has smashed record after record, and, in response, a growing number of biological female athletes and their parents have lodged complaints.
Schnur is at the center of many of the protests, according to a former Penn swimmer who spoke to Newsmax and asked to remain anonymous due to fear of retribution in the current cultural climate.
“Pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this,”
. “Our coach just really likes winning. He’s like most coaches. I think secretly everyone just knows it’s the wrong thing to do.”
The source, who called the transgender swim debate “such a hot issue” currently, swam for Penn and graduated from the university a few years ahead of Schnur.
“This story has so many moving parts and villains,” the source said. “As a former Penn swimmer, I feel I can provide additional insight into this circus. First, this is not on the coach, Mike Schnur.”
The former swimmer said that Schnur is “being forced to accept” the transgender swimmer on his squad by the University higher-ups “who believe ‘woke’ [is greater than] women.”
“Mike Schnur is a damn good swim coach, not a social justice warrior,” the source said. “He can’t, and won’t, walk away from a lifetime as Penn’s coach.”
So far, the parents of nearly a dozen female Penn swimmers have sent a letter to the NCAA, the Ivy League, and Penn.
“At stake here is the integrity of women's sports,” the letter says. “The precedent being set — one in which women do not have a protected and equitable space to compete — is a direct threat to female athletes in every sport. What are the boundaries? How is this in line with the NCAA's commitment to providing a fair environment for student-athletes?”
But letters alone won’t change a thing, according to Newsmax’s source.
“Penn will do nothing. The Ivy League will do nothing, and the NCAA will do nothing,” the source said. “Why? Because they don’t have to.”
The former swimmer said the coach is likely to remain the scapegoat while everyone else says it’s out of their hands and they’re only following rules put in place by someone else.
“Penn will say that Lia being on the woman’s team is within the rules of the NCAA,” the source told Newsmax. “The NCAA will claim their rules are within the guidelines of the [International Olympic Committee].”
The IOC follows policies set forth by FINA, the “Fédération Internationale de Natation,” which, ironically, claims “its aquatic disciplines are also a pillar of the Olympic Movement and give a decisive contribution to the success of the Games.”
Not so, according to the Newsmax source, who said that “FINA likes to do … nothing. They will not address this at the present time and, if pressured, will simply move it down on their ‘future business’ agenda.”
In the meantime, “Lia will swim in the Women’s NCAA Swimming Championships.”
The former swimmer added: “Will she win and set records? Yep. Will people protest? Yep. Will the results be overturned? Not within the next three years. Is it wrong? Yep! I signed the petition being distributed by 1984 Olympic Champion, Nancy Hogshead.”
But the source is particularly upset about how the controversy will affect his alma mater’s swim program.
“This will have ruinous effects on both of Penn’s swim teams,” he said. “The only good thing that will come of this is that this will be the hill to die on for this issue. Unfortunately for today’s female swimmers, the remedy is several years away.”
reported earlier this month that current NCAA rules required Thomas to complete “one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment” before being allowed to compete on the women’s team.
But that’s not nearly enough to even the playing field, according to America’s most famous transgender woman: Caitlyn Jenner.
Jenner, an Olympic decathlon gold medalist who competed as Bruce Jenner, believes there’s something fundamentally wrong with biological males competing in women’s sports.
She calls it “a question of fairness.”
“That's why I oppose biological boys who are trans competing in girls' sports in school. It just isn't fair. And we have to protect girls’ sports in our schools,”
The Newsmax source agrees.
This is one of those issues where there’s no “off-ramp,” the former swimmer said. “Sadly, the people who think a groundswell effort will change this are going to be disappointed.”
He predicts that, eventually, “it will change, but not before the ’22 Women’s NCAA Championships. It probably will be altered before the ’24 Summer Olympics. None of these governing bodies move quickly. Actually, ‘moving,’ to them, is a great annoyance and inconvenience.”