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However, Stanford fifth-year swimmer\u00a0<strong>Brooke Forde<\/strong> chimed in this week as she passed along comments to her father, Sports Illustrated writer <strong>Pat Forde<\/strong>, to share on the Yahoo Sports College Football podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Forde wrote that she has &#8220;great respect&#8221; for Thomas and admiration for Thomas&#8217; courage in becoming one of the first trans female athletes to race at a high level in swimming. She added that &#8220;treating people with respect and dignity is more important than any trophy or record will ever be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Forde&#8217;s opinion carries weight since she was the NCAA Champion in the 500 freestyle in 2019 and placed third in the event at NCAAs last year, and is currently ranked third nationally behind Thomas and Arizona State&#8217;s <strong>Emma Nordin<\/strong>. That means Forde is likely to face off against Thomas with an NCAA title on the line in March, and she is still throwing her support behind Thomas.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I have great respect for Lia,&#8221; Forde said in her prepared statement. &#8220;Social change is always a slow and difficult process and we rarely get it correct right away. Being among the first to lead such a social change requires an enormous amount of courage, and I admire Lia for her leadership that will undoubtedly benefit many trans athletes in the future. In 2020, I along with most swimmers, experienced what it was like to have my chance to achieve my swimming goals taken away after years of hard work. I would not wish this experience on anyone, especially Lia, who has followed the rules required of her. I believe that treating people with respect and dignity is more important than any trophy or record will ever be, which is why I will not have a problem racing against Lia at NCAAs this year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After he read his daughter&#8217;s statement, Pat Forde added: &#8220;People don\u2019t necessarily have to agree. I\u2019m not sure I agree completely because I\u2019m not sure this is a level playing field. My daughter\u2019s thing is, \u2018I\u2019m the one who has to get into the pool with her, and I\u2019m fine with it,\u2019 so I think some people could take a good lesson from that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that, Pat Forde explained to co-host <strong>Dan Wetzel\u00a0<\/strong>about the controversy surrounding Thomas, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/lia-thomas-transgender-swimmer-from-penn-swims-fastest-times-in-nation-controversy-brewing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who swam the nation&#8217;s fastest times in the 200 and 500-yard free in December<\/a>. Forde told Thomas&#8217; story, including how she was cleared to compete under a decade-old NCAA policy that required just one year of hormone therapy for a trans female athlete to be eligible in women&#8217;s events. He explained how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-swimming-flashback-ella-eastin-rebounds-from-crushing-setback-to-annihilate-400-im-american-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">an NCAA rule change last week, which placed the burden of determining transgender eligibility on USA Swimming<\/a>, called into question whether Thomas would be allowed at the NCAA Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the expectation is that this would be very late to change the rules of the game and to put her out of that&#8230;There is major questions of inclusivity, fairness. Is this damaging to women\u2019s sports? Do we ever get to a point where we have a third category at the college level, men\u2019s swimming, women\u2019s swimming and transgender swimming?&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is funny. Some of the folks who are really wound up about this and screaming about the fairness about women\u2019s sports really don\u2019t give a damn about women\u2019s sports. They are using this as a political wedge issue, and they are using it as a sign the country has absolutely run amok and has lost its mind to political correctness and blah blah blah. There are a lot of political opinions about this, but some of them are cloaked, I think, in bogus terms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pat Forde added: &#8220;This topic is only going to get worse, and I have a feeling we\u2019re going to end up with protestors outside the pool at Georgia Tech at the NCAA swimming championships, one way or another. 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