Vicky Darling stood tall on top of the podium holding her trophy and scholorship.
You go girl! We love you!
Posted on 07/16/2022 4:30:12 PM PDT by Morgana
The University of Pennsylvania has been blasted for nominating controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas for a top student sports' award.
UPenn has named Thomas, 22, as one of two students it has nominated for the National College Athletics' Association's Woman (NCAA) of the Year Award.
The college's other nominee is Russian tennis player Luliia Bryzgalova.
Each school is allowed two nominations as long as one of the athletes is an international student or a person of color and both must be graduating. The winner will be announced at an NCAA event in San Antonio, Texas, in January 2023.
Thomas, 22, made headlines at the beginning of swim season after parents and college swimming enthusiasts blanched at a transgender woman competing in women's sports.
They say she has considerable biological advantages over rival swimmers born female.
And competitive swimming body FINA issuing staunch new guidelines that effectively ban trans female swimmers as a result of the controversy that Thomas triggered.
But UPenn has plowed on with its nomination of Thomas regardless, despite frequent condemnation from fellow athletes and their families over her success.
'Shame on them for nominating Lia Thomas,' a conservative college organization Young America's Foundation wrote on Twitter. 'UPenn must have forgotten that in order to qualify for the NCAA Woman of the Year award, one must actually be a woman.
The award was established in 1991 and 'recognizes female student-athletes who have exhausted their eligibility and distinguished themselves in their community.'
Although Thomas placed high on the leaderboard throughout the swim season, she only won the 500-yard freestyle at the championships.
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I think the person who nominated it should be removed from any position of authority at the college
How much did that absurdity cost in a donation?
Vicky Darling stood tall on top of the podium holding her trophy and scholorship.
You go girl! We love you!
I abhor unfairness.
I abhor a cheat.
This is both unfair and a cheat....
I am not saying anything here regarding anyone’s personal difficulties or pain, I’m merely saying that such a dilemma is no excuse to harm another.... and cheating harms another.
Why aren’t women outraged? Men are better at everything, including being a woman - that’s the message.
Transgender pretenders are trying to do the impossible: being a man and a woman at the same time. Silly. It is no wonder 35% of transgender pretenders try to commit suicide and blame us for being happy people. Personally, I am pretending to be a car and I want people to call me “a car,” such as, the car went to CVS to get toothpaste.
“The Woman of the year cannot accept this trophy as ‘she’ is off getting her prostate examined”.
A bit of irony here. It takes a REAL man to be a woman.
Apparently, the Left is immune to irony.
Woman? of the year
More like ‘Whoa Man’
Awards become meaningless when they tack on quotas like this.
The Emperor’s New Clothes.
At least the international student is a girl...
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Imagine the outcry if they insisted that at least one of the nominees must be an American born white person.
;-)
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