{"id":529224,"date":"2023-06-06T09:58:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=529224"},"modified":"2023-06-06T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:58:24","slug":"paula-scanlan-tells-daily-wire-penn-forced-silence-on-lia-thomas-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/paula-scanlan-tells-daily-wire-penn-forced-silence-on-lia-thomas-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Paula Scanlan Tells Daily Wire Penn Forced Silence on Lia Thomas Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Paula Scanlan Tells Daily Wire Penn Forced Silence on Lia Thomas Situation<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A University of Pennsylvania teammate of transgender swimmer<strong> Lia Thomas<\/strong> has spoken out about what happened behind the scenes during Thomas&#8217; season on the women&#8217;s team.<\/p>\n<p>Penn swimmer <strong>Paula Scanlan<\/strong> told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Wire<\/a> that Penn tried to keep the team quiet about the situation, saying the university staff said they &#8220;would regret&#8221; speaking to the media.<\/p>\n<p>The result was a full season of silence. Lia Thomas did not speak to the media except for a very short conversation with Sports Illustrated, despite numerous interview requests. Thomas even skipped the mandatory press conference for NCAA champions after winning the 500 freestyle in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Scanlan said she has come forward as she said &#8220;fighting for women and girls across the country.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/house-passes-ban-on-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislation has been introduced<\/a> about transgender athletes at several levels of government as the issue continues to be debated.<\/p>\n<p>She claimed the women&#8217;s team was not given the chance to ask questions about Thomas moving from the men&#8217;s team to the women&#8217;s team after undergoing hormone therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a team meeting led by the leader of the men\u2019s team in 2019 about how Will Thomas would be joining the women\u2019s team,\u201d she told the Daily Wire. \u201cI felt shocked and a little uncomfortable, but everyone around me looked excited for someone in the men\u2019s team to be, &#8216;living their true self.&#8217; I can\u2019t speak for everyone. But I think it was a lot of shock, a lot of uncomfortable smiling. But that\u2019s just my interpretation. They also told us Lia swimming with us is non-negotiable and provided us with counselling services to &#8216;help us be OK&#8217; with it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thomas swam for Penn and won the NCAA championship in the 500 free and has not competed since.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full Daily Wire report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fighting-for-women-lia-thomas-teammate-tells-her-story-to-matt-walsh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Scanlan Tells Daily Wire Penn Forced Silence on Lia Thomas Situation A University of Pennsylvania teammate of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has spoken out about what happened behind the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3915,"featured_media":499879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[122077,6],"tags":[61588,129951,132634],"class_list":["post-529224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas","category-college","tag-ivy-league-swimming","tag-lia-thomas","tag-paula-scanlan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Paula Scanlan to Daily Wire Penn Forced Silence on Lia Thomas Situation<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Paula Scanlan Tells Daily Wire Penn Forced Silence on Lia Thomas Situation. 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