University of Pennsylvania to block male athletes from female sports teams and erase records set by swimmer Lia Thomas

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Jul 1 2025, 8:50 PM

CNN, July 1 2025.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/us/upenn-transgender-women-sports-lia-thomas

Quote:The University of Pennsylvania will block transgender athletes from female sports teams and erase the records set by swimmer Lia Thomas as part of an agreement with the federal government, the Department of Education said.

The agreement comes as part of the Trump administration’s broader restrictions on transgender people, as it steps up its efforts to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports nationwide and serving in the military.

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Jul 1 2025, 8:50 PM #1

CNN, July 1 2025.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/us/upenn-transgender-women-sports-lia-thomas

Quote:The University of Pennsylvania will block transgender athletes from female sports teams and erase the records set by swimmer Lia Thomas as part of an agreement with the federal government, the Department of Education said.

The agreement comes as part of the Trump administration’s broader restrictions on transgender people, as it steps up its efforts to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports nationwide and serving in the military.

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Jul 3 2025, 4:39 PM

It creeps me out that the basic human rights issue of keeping men out of women's sports is now forever going to be soiled by the association with conservaturds, just because men want to make sure their property doesn't get leered at by "beta p*ssy feminine men", as opposed to real virile men who deserve it.

Edited Jul 3 2025, 4:43 PM by YesYourNigel.

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Jul 3 2025, 4:39 PM #2

Impress Polly

Jul 4 2025, 8:21 PM

That's the moid who a few years ago broke the ass ceiling by becoming the first man to win the women's NCAA swimming championship, right? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

Also, a female athlete's right to privacy, safety, and fair play is not "soiled" by the opportunistic support of the current administration of "alpha" moids. Liberals are what's tarnished here for actively providing them the opportunity. The defense of women's sex-based rights shouldn't fall to a fascist crusade against "freaks" of all kinds. It does so only for lack of liberal uptake (at least in this country).

Edited Jul 4 2025, 10:13 PM by Impress Polly.

Impress Polly

Jul 4 2025, 8:21 PM #3

OffMyTit

Yesterday, 3:30 AM

(Jul 4 2025, 8:21 PM)Impress Polly That's the moid who a few years ago broke the ass ceiling by becoming the first man to win the women's NCAA swimming championship, right? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

Also, a female athlete's right to privacy, safety, and fair play is not "soiled" by the opportunistic support of the current administration of "alpha" moids. Liberals are what's tarnished here for actively providing them the opportunity. The defense of women's sex-based rights shouldn't fall to a fascist crusade against "freaks" of all kinds. It does so only for lack of liberal uptake (at least in this country).

Thank you! I get so sick of “progressives” angry at republicans for doing the right thing as if the option was denied to them. It’s what makes me worry that they will reinstate all this nonsense the second democrats get back in office.

OffMyTit

Yesterday, 3:30 AM #4

(Jul 4 2025, 8:21 PM)Impress Polly That's the moid who a few years ago broke the ass ceiling by becoming the first man to win the women's NCAA swimming championship, right? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

Also, a female athlete's right to privacy, safety, and fair play is not "soiled" by the opportunistic support of the current administration of "alpha" moids. Liberals are what's tarnished here for actively providing them the opportunity. The defense of women's sex-based rights shouldn't fall to a fascist crusade against "freaks" of all kinds. It does so only for lack of liberal uptake (at least in this country).

YesYourNigel

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Yesterday, 5:50 AM

Quote:The defense of women's sex-based rights shouldn't fall to a fascist crusade against "freaks" of all kinds. It does so only for lack of liberal uptake (at least in this country).

I like how you put that: "fascist crusade against freaks". It really encompasses the whole approach in just a few words.

I wonder if you're assuming that I'm coming from a place of criticising liberals for not doing enough for women while poor poor conservaturds get treated as a random force of nature that can't be judged for what is doing. No, rather I am against acting as if these policies are anything other than an extension of the conservatives' erosion of women's rights that objectively place women in a worse position than we were at before. Falling to recognise that is how you get dumb women getting convinced that conservatives care about them because trans is the litmus test of women's rights issues (because eww men in dresses, we hate how humiliating that is compared to real virile male abusers) instead of, ya know, the entirety of women's rights themselves.

This is also the same trickery that gets used to (re)sell religion to women who take issue with some of the godawful "sexualised is empowerment" parts of liberalism, because see, they want you to cover up your sinful body and they don't like porn for making us stray from our reproductive duties! It's feminism!

You can't view these policies in a vacuum because they are informed by the rest of misogynistic attitudes that WILL extend to the rest of their policies. You can't cherrypick it and pretend we're on the same side as long as you ignore the other 90% of what they're doing against women.

Quote:I get so sick of “progressives” angry at republicans for doing the right thing as if the option was denied to them

Republicans are trying to drag us back to theocratic women-as-property times and we're supposed to act as if like, two things they did that accidentally align with feminist policy solely out of desire to limit damage to their property counts as feminism? That's not "doing the right thing", because "the right thing" is women deserving rights beyond that.

Quote:It’s what makes me worry that they will reinstate all this nonsense the second democrats get back in office.

They will and then they'll point at Republican support of anti-trans policies to prove guilt by association.

Edited Yesterday, 6:08 AM by YesYourNigel.

YesYourNigel

Yesterday, 5:50 AM #5

Quote:The defense of women's sex-based rights shouldn't fall to a fascist crusade against "freaks" of all kinds. It does so only for lack of liberal uptake (at least in this country).

Quote:I get so sick of “progressives” angry at republicans for doing the right thing as if the option was denied to them

Quote:It’s what makes me worry that they will reinstate all this nonsense the second democrats get back in office.

They will and then they'll point at Republican support of anti-trans policies to prove guilt by association.

Impress Polly

11 hours ago

(Yesterday, 3:30 AM)OffMyTit Thank you! I get so sick of “progressives” angry at republicans for doing the right thing as if the option was denied to them. It’s what makes me worry that they will reinstate all this nonsense the second democrats get back in office.

Of course they will! It'll be among the first things the next Democratic president does, made especially easy by the fact that the Republicans aren't codifying any of this stuff into law properly with actual legislation. Presidential decrees are easily and frequently reversed by the next president from the other party.

(Yesterday, 5:50 AM)YesYourNigel I like how you put that: "fascist crusade against freaks". It really encompasses the whole approach in just a few words.

Thanks.

I try to be good at words anyway, ha ha!

Quote:I wonder if you're assuming that I'm coming from a place of criticising liberals for not doing enough for women while poor poor conservaturds get treated as a random force of nature that can't be judged for what is doing.

Not at all!

Quote:No, rather I am against acting as if these policies are anything other than an extension of the conservatives' erosion of women's rights that objectively place women in a worse position than we were at before. Falling to recognise that is how you get dumb women getting convinced that conservatives care about them because trans is the litmus test of women's rights issues (because eww men in dresses, we hate how humiliating that is compared to real virile male abusers) instead of, ya know, the entirety of women's rights themselves.

This is also the same trickery that gets used to (re)sell religion to women who take issue with some of the godawful "sexualised is empowerment" parts of liberalism, because see, they want you to cover up your sinful body and they don't like porn for making us stray from our reproductive duties! It's feminism!

You can't view these policies in a vacuum because they are informed by the rest of misogynistic attitudes that WILL extend to the rest of their policies. You can't cherrypick it and pretend we're on the same side as long as you ignore the other 90% of what they're doing against women.

No one here is "pretend[ing] we're on the same side" as Trump or thinks he's anything other than a disgusting, lifelong sexual predator and a fascist, we are lauding a singular positive development for women. That is all.

Edited 1 hour ago by Impress Polly.