Let's look at the time line regarding women speaking out and Riley starting to speak out.
https://nypost.com/2022/01/27/teammates-are-uneasy-changing-in-locker-room-with-trans-upenn-swimmer-lia-thomas/
“It’s definitely awkward because Lia still has male body parts and is still attracted to women,” the swimmer said. Thomas has reportedly told her teammates that she dates women.”
“The swimmer told the outlet that other team members have spoken to the team’s coaches about possibly getting Thomas to change elsewhere from the rest of the team, but those discussions haven’t gone anywhere.”
“Multiple swimmers have raised it, multiple different times,” she said. “But we were basically told that we could not ostracize Lia by not having her in the locker room and that there’s nothing we can do about it, that we basically have to roll over and accept it, or we cannot use our own locker room.”
So, even before Riley spoke out there were already women complaining about being exposed to this male person's penis. ie. sexual abuse. They even reported back in January 2022 that their schools had told them to shut the fuck up and take that exposure. I remember the schools offered them counselling to 'get over the hurt of losing'.
By this stage, Thomas was under no illusions that they were not harming the female swimmers. Thomas could have chosen to act very differently. In fact, we are told (and I believe it) that the majority of male trans people would respect the needs of these women and would have found alternative places to change upon learning that they were harming women.
Thomas chose not to ask to have these alternative provisions made for them. At the meet that was only female swimmers, the male change rooms could have been unlocked and used. It seems obvious with all the information that has come out that that was not even considered.
Moving on.
Riley didn't tie with Lia Thomas until March 18th.
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/18/sport/lia-thomas-ncaa-swimming-championships-spt/index.html
This interview that has been used to discredit Riley in that posted article link to Assignedmedia refers to a transcript of an interview in April 2022.
Given that these young women still had to finish their course work, and that I don't have a date for that April 2022 interview, that would have been less than 6 weeks after the event. I take it that some people think women should process their trauma within 6 weeks of a very busy time for them.
And by the way, she graduated from Kentucky University only AFTER that interview that is referred to in that article. So, while you might think this DrBalenciaga,
"That's an interesting take. She has deferred her dentistry studies to pursue feminist advocacy and Republican public relations, so there's no university studies happening anyway. I have considered this, and no, I don't think so."
It doesn't stand up to scrutiny for the question you posted it in answer to. Which was:
Have you considered she carefully worded her statement because she was still at university and felt she would jeopardise her place there if she deviated from that carefully curated position?
She was still at university when she gave that interview. So, you seem to have missed some pretty significant pieces of information in drawing your 'consideration'. Did you ever consider checking timelines ? No? Just taking that manipulative media at its word? Gosh....