By Ben Sullivan
Women’s rights protesters were furious after trans athlete Lia Thomas was dubbed a women’s NCAA swimming champion yesterday in Atlanta.
“There’s a man, called Will Thomas, who’s changed his name to Lia Thomas, who is competing in women’s swimming,” Kellie-Jay Keen, head of the organization Standing for Women, said in an interview with Fox News outside the Georgia Tech athletic center where the competition is being held.
“Women aren’t considered full humans,” she continued. “We can’t be – otherwise there wouldn’t be an opportunity for men to compete in women’s sports.”
Thomas is a 22-year-old Penn student won the 500-yard freestyle at the NCAA women’s swimming and diving championships, becoming the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I championship in any sport.
She is also scheduled to swim in the 200-yard and 100-yard freestyle heats this weekend.
