Wow. Just fucking wow.
His real name is Will Thomas.
One of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas’ opponents revealed the disgraceful way college swimming tournament judges treated her this year after she tied Thomas in the NCAA championships.
Appearing remotely on the “Louder with Crowder” podcast on Thursday, former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines spoke out about the unfairness of allowing more powerful men who identify as female to compete against women.
But the four-time Southeastern Conference champ also revealed that college officials have gone all-in on the transgender issue and are completely unconcerned when women are slighted in favor of men who claim to be women.
Gaines tied for fifth place with Thomas — with identical times of 1:43.40 — in the 200-yard freestyle at the NCAA championships in March, but the experience wasn’t all smiles for the senior swimmer.
She told host Steven Crowder that she was not given the proper trophy for her fifth-place finish because the judges gave it to Thomas.
Gaines said that when she went up to the judges’ table, a judge handed her the sixth-place trophy and told her to just stand next to Thomas holding that for the publicity photos. She would be sent the trophy she earned in the mail.
“I questioned him. I said, ‘OK, can I ask you, you know, why you’re adamant on Thomas having the trophy rather than me,’” Gaines said. “And he said, ‘Well, we’re just basing it off chronological order.’
“So at this point, I’m like, ‘OK, well, what are we being chronological about, because maybe I’m missing something, but we tied.’ And he just looked at me and said, ‘Good swim. Carry on.’
“And so that’s when I kind of realized that not only are we forced to compete against men, but we are put on the back burner for men.”
……Me and Lia just recently tied at the NCAA championships,” Gaines said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “And honestly, I think the NCAA handled everything extremely poorly, starting from when we finished, and I went behind the podium to collect my fifth-place trophy, and you know, they kind of blatantly told me that Lia would hold the fifth-place trophy and that I could pose with the sixth-place trophy for photos and would be mailed a fifth-place trophy in the mail.”
She went on to say, “And when I kind of questioned it, you know, I asked them, ‘Is there a reason why you’re giving Lia the trophy?’ He just explained to me that, ‘We’re giving it in chronological order.’ And I questioned him again, you know, what does that mean? We tied. What are we being chronological about?
“He kind of blatantly said, ‘We’re just going to give the trophy to Lia. We respect and admire your swim, but Lia needs to hold the trophy.’ I was baffled really.”
Title IX was never meant to be a gift to tranny athletes. We live in a fucking clown world.