US University female swim team unanimously reject transgender swimmer

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In the most dramatic uprising yet against biological males competing in women’s sport, a female swimming team in Virginia have condemned their own university for allegedly making them accept a transgender athlete into their events.

The entire women’s swim team at Roanoke College staged a press conference in which they said they felt cheated and abandoned after a former member of the men’s team joined their ranks last month. The trans swimmer, who has not been named, was a top-10 performer in the equivalent male conference

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Well done those women. I saw the press conference video, she was glorious in her defiance.

Wonderful! All power and support to them.

Brave women. So proud of them.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/swimming/2023/10/06/roanoke-college-fury-trans-swimmer-squad-lia-thomas/

Brave women.

Fantastic and courageous young women. It shows how women can take back the power on this when we act together against the injustice.

👏👏👏👏👏👏

Our defeat was written in biology.

Exactly. Perfectly pot.

Perfectly put, even.

Brava!
I hope other women's teams will follow this display of solidarity in the defence of sport for women and girls.

Good!

I have just watched the press conference. What an amazing group of strong young women!

https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/roanoke-college-female-swimmers-helpless-over-trans-situation/

The mother speaking on behalf of parents made me cry 😢 (from 34 min)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRe5y9IXmic

As they should!

I hope this is the watershed moment for women's sports, especially in the USA.

Well done, Roanoke - you will inspire other athletes, I'm sure of it.

And Riley Gaines and the girls in Connecticut must feel relieved that others are starting to take a stand on this.

Good for them! Let's hope this is just the start of things to come.

My goodness. An outbreak of sanity, finally.

This is excellent news!

It is a really powerful sight seeing the whole team standing together with the captains speaking so eloquently. I love the sense of solidarity that says not one of us is going to lose a place. Too many teams want to take the advantage and throw a team mate under the bus.

I really think this is a game changer. It is such a powerful image.

Good for them.

Well done! 👏👏

Good for these women, I hope they go far wit their swimming and future careers.

I hope it’s a game changer too.

Men competing in sport against women - FFS. At some stage in the hopefully not too distant future, our children and grandchildren will be aghast that this was the case, for a delusional period in the early 21st century. 🤞

Solidarity with these women. They are all winners.