The “athlete” at the center of the men in women’s sports debate—the former UPenn swimmer who calls himself Lia but was born William Thomas—spoke out Saturday at a trans youth forum and showed that he has learned nothing about himself, morality or fairness after he dominated women’s swimming during his college career.
Unfortunately for him, perhaps, one of the competitors he went up against was former University of Kentucky swim star Riley Gaines, who, after losing out on medals to the 6’ 1’ biological male, was subjected to seeing him prancing around the women’s locker room in all his glory.
Turns out she's not one you want to mess with. She has since become a vocal opponent of men in women’s sports and has brought the issue to the forefront of American politics—so much so that one of President Donald Trump’s first moves, once he retook the Oval, was to issue an executive order yanking federal funds from schools that allow the ridiculous practice.
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Thomas remains unmoved:
"I am going to keep fighting as much as I am able to," Thomas said over Zoom.
"In order to fight the battles we need to fight, we have to stick together and support each other."
Lia Thomas was a mediocre swimmer before he “transitioned”. pic.twitter.com/khVWoFXvhn
— Rose of Sharon Mayer (@RozeRage) March 25, 2025
Incredibly, the hulking swimmer thinks it should be up to transgender athletes to decide the issue based on what makes them feel “comfortable.” This is drivel of the highest order; first of all, high-level athletics are not about being “comfortable," second, what about the “affirmation” of the females who are subject to unfair competition?
He could give a whit:
"It has to be the athletes deciding for themselves where they feel most affirmed and most comfortable," she said. "Having routes that are safe and non-discriminatory, that allow them access to that."
Thomas' inclusion on the women's swimming team at UPenn in the 2021-22 season has prompted multiple lawsuits and a pause in $175 million in federal funding to the university for Title IX violations.
Riley Gaines currently leads a lawsuit against the NCAA, alongside several other women who competed with Thomas in 2021-22, over its previous gender identity policy.
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The Democrats Just Told Women What They Really Think About Them
lol okay then https://t.co/L3tymrgJVK pic.twitter.com/DTBkm8GmYH
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) March 31, 2025
This issue has always put the fire in my belly. I have three daughters, and they are wonderful and awesome, but I also have a son who was a high school basketball star (they came oh so close to winning the championship here in the Golden State...). I love my young ladies, but my son could beat them 3-on-1 with no shoes and one hand tied behind his back. That is no slight on them and is in no way meant to humiliate them; it’s just a fact of nature. They have many wonderful qualities, but besting fully-grown, finely tuned athletic males in serious competition is not one of them.
The second reason I find the issue so galling is that, as a person of the male persuasion, I just don’t get it. I was a decent athlete, not the best, not the worst, and I tried like hell in football, still my favorite sport. I don’t see how a man could look in the mirror and celebrate defeating women, no matter how many treatments or “therapies” he’d had. I simply cannot put my mind into theirs and “understand”—because I don’t.
Have some freaking pride, dude.
Maine awards the girls’ state pole vault title to a male athlete competing in the girls’ division.
— ICONS (@icons_women) February 18, 2025
Greely High School’s male star vaulter, Katie Spencer, not only won the event but also helped secure his girls’ team the overall state championship by just one point. https://t.co/gORzzNp7Xt pic.twitter.com/kEEUH8k3kc
What these guys in sports are doing is just plain wrong; there’s simply no other way to describe it. Democrats and progressives and the media elite—all the same thing, really—can screech till the cows come home that it’s about “acceptance” and “tolerance,” but it’s not. It’s about people with mental issues taking over the system and ruining people’s lives with their delusions.
I've always wished a "transgender athlete" would enter the world of basketball. While swimming is one thing, NCAA Women's B'Ball is on a whole 'nother level. Imagine a 6' 9" dude dunking viciously on a female player and sending her crashing into the hardwood, possibly with a broken rib.
That's where this is headed if the Democrats have their way.
It would bring the issue to the forefront, and even progressives would probably have to admit, "Oh, I didn't mean I supported that."
WATCH: Payton McNabb got SPIKED in the face by a male competing with the women!!!
— Graham Allen (@GrahamAllen_1) April 20, 2023
WE NEED TO KEEP MEN OUT OF WOMEN SPORTS!!!! pic.twitter.com/j3QVNmIGJ2
Thomas is an utter narcissist, in my view, and appears to have the psychopathic trait of being singularly unable to comprehend the feelings and experiences of others. He simply doesn’t care. All he is concerned with is his own needs and desires.
So keep fighting, William Lia Thomas, if you feel the need. You are now losing, and the mood of America is changing. It’s one thing to carve out your own identity, however strange—and that is your right. But when you start imposing your bizarre vision on others and hurting them, you’ve crossed a line, and it’s time for the insanity to stop.
The good news is that with the departure of gender-obsessed, creepily sex-focused octogenarian Joe Biden, Donald Trump has taken a hard line against this nonsense, and the American voters agree: Almost 80 percent think men in women’s sports is an abomination.
Keep on dying on this hill, Democrats. We’ll be happy to watch you get crushed at the polls every other November.
When he said this, I was sat in the gallery thinking about how Trump 1.0 wouldn't have said this.
— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) April 1, 2025
This is the message every child needs to hear. https://t.co/gBuAcmJEbp
