Three former members of the Swimming Team of the University of Pennsylvania have taken measures to expel the women's swimming records established by Lia Thomas, a former transgender university swimmer.
The former athletes, Grace Estabrook, Ellen Holmquist and Margot Kaczorowski, sued the University, Harvard University, the NCAA and the Ivy League president's council for their 'traumatizing' experience sharing a team with Thomas.
They accuse the institutions of violating federal law by allowing Thomas to swim against women and share their costume facilities during the 2021-22 season, according to the lawsuit.
Thomas does not appear as accused in the lawsuit, which was presented on Tuesday, one day before President Donald Trump officially signs an executive order that sought to keep biological men out of women's sports.
The complaint also seeks to create a claim for collective action on behalf of 206 female athletes that competed in the Swimming and Diving Championship of the Ivy 2022 League, which was organized by Harvard.
The lawsuit seeks to scrub Thomas's records of the IVY League, NCAA and IVY institutions, including Harvard and UpenN, and receive a statement that the transgender athlete was not eligible to compete.
Three former teammates from Lia Thomas have filed a lawsuit to expel their records
The plaintiffs argue that allowing the biologically male athlete to compete against women and share a costume violated title IX. They claim that the experience of competing with Thomas left them “repeatedly emotionally traumatized.”
The demand alleges that the swimming women became captives and collateral damage to the illegal social sciences experiment of the Ivy League.
In addition, it accuses university administrators to push the pro-transexes to the plaintiffs throughout the process of accepting Thomas in the team and the locker room.
“I never expected my Ivy League education to teach me that women should silence lose their opportunities and privacy,” said Estabrook in a press release on Wednesday of the Independent Women's Sports Councilthat is supporting the demand.
“The sports of women and leaders who will supervise them should not prioritize men's feelings about equity and integrity.”
The plaintiffs claim that they were taken to feel that their concern was a “psychological problem” with the athletes invited to a talk entitled “Trans 101.”.
“UPENN administrators told women that if someone was struggling to accept Thomas's participation in the UpenN Women's team, they must seek advice and support from CAPS and the LBGTQ center,” he alleges the demand.
He also alleges that university administrators warned them not to publicly talk about the situation.
Thomas poses with his teammates from Upenn Hannah Kannan, Camryn Carter and Margot Kaczorowski during the Women's Swimming and Diving Championships Ivy League 2022222222222
The transgender swimmer in the title of Division 1 of the NCAA as a member of the UpenN women's team
Thomas, who became the first transgender athlete to win a title of Division 1 of the NCAA in 2022, had competed for the 2017-20 UPENN male swimming team under the name of Will Thomas.
According to the lawsuit, Thomas was introduced by female chief coach Mike Schnur to female swimmers during a team meeting in the fall of 2019 as his incoming teammate.
The athletes claim that they had initially told them that Thomas would not share a costume with them, but they were shocked, with Kaczorowski claiming that he even crying, to discover that Thomas in fact would be allowed to wear the costumes.
Coach Schnur supposedly told swimmers that they would be fired if he did not allow Thomas to wear the costumes.
They made the three athletes who would be eliminated from the team be believed if they protested Thomas's participation before the Ivy 2022 League Championship, alleges the demand.
Thomas ended first in the freestyle races of 500, 200 and 100 yards in the championships. He established Pool and Ivy League records, which finally became the biggest swimmer throughout the match.
On Wednesday, President Trump declared that the war against women's sports was over.
The 78 -year -old man surrounded himself with athletes and activists in the White House to sign an executive order that prohibits trans participation in women's sports.
President Donald Trump said he would make movements to ensure that no transgender athlete participated in women's sports in the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, which were held in Los Angeles
Trump surrounded himself with athletes and activists for an executive order signed in the East room on Wednesday, except for the trans participation in women's sports
The order uses the title IX, a law against sexual discrimination in the education programs financed by taxpayers, to prohibit transgender girls and women from participating in women's school sports activities.
Trump said his new Secretary of State Marco Rubio “will make clear the International Olympic Committee” that “the United States categorically rejects transgender madness.”
“We want them to change that everything has to do with the Olympic Games and that they have to do with this absolutely ridiculous theme,” Trump continued.
The promise was one of Trump's most popular recovery screams during the 2024 electoral campaign.
Many university students and their parents expressed concern about the opportunities that women were losing due to the biological men who compete in their sports.
Last week, Thomas's old opponents detailed the “fear” and “abuse” they found while competing against the transgender swimmer.
“There was no) escape from this nightmare,” a woman said a audience in Congress about facing Thomas, who became the first transgender athlete to win a title of Division 1 of the NCAA in 2022.
There has been a growing controversy and debate about the future of women's sport in recent years and last Thursday, a Senate Committee of the State of Georgia approved the “Law of Fair and Safe Athletic Opportunities.”
Kylee Alons (L) and Kaitlynn Wheeler (R) talked about their experiences at an audience last week
The bill 'would require athletes to participate in teams that align with their biological sex at birth'. If it is transmitted to the law, Georgia would become the 26th State to introduce restrictions around the students Transgender athletes.
Thomas won the National Championship in Georgia three years ago and two former competitors testified at an audience last Thursday.
“We were all only Indian bugs for a giant social experiment formed by the NCAA about how much abuse and the shameless contempt of women would be forced to remain silent,” said former women's swimmer from the state of North Carolina, Kylee Alons , according to Fox.
According to Fox, Alons said he wanted to cry and leave the event after seeing Thomas win the 500m freestyle.
“Everything felt so bad and bad,” he said. 'I go to the costumes that day just to see Thomas and I realize that there is no escape from this nightmare, no matter where.
'I had no idea that it was going to be allowed in the Women About me changing.
According to the reports, Alons turned to change in a store of the store behind the stands, instead of going to the locker room.
The former swimmer of the University of Kentucky, Kaitlynn Wheeler, meanwhile, talked about his 'discomfort' and 'fear'.
“Young women, teenagers were forced to undress with a completely intact biological man who exposed us, while we were simultaneously completely exposed,” Wheeler said.
'They never asked us. They never gave us an option or other option. We were only expected to agree with that, to push our discomfort, our shame, our fear. Because defending for ourselves would mean being labeled as intolerant, hateful or intolerant.
Both Wheeler and Lyons joined a lawsuit against the NCAA, led by former swimmer Riley Gaines. Recently he praised Donald Trump as a “champion” for women's sport after he declared that the federal government will only recognize two sexes: men and women.