Over the past few years, Lia Thomas has become famous as a female transgender swimmer who transitioned and made headlines competing collegiately for the University of Pennsylvania at the highest level of women’s college swimming. And now, she has a brutal message for feminists.
This week, Lia Thomas joined the “Dear Schuyler podcast, hosted by transgender swimming pioneer Schuyler Bailar, and she had a harsh message for feminists.
“They’re like, ‘Oh, we respect Lia, as a woman, as a trans woman or whatever, we respect her identity, we just don’t think it’s fair.’ You can’t really have that sort of half-support where you’re like, ‘Oh, I respect her as a woman here, but not here,’” Thomas said in a Monday episode of Bailar’s new podcast “Dear Schuyler” according to the New York Post.
“They’re using the guise of feminism to sort of push transphobic beliefs. I think a lot of people in that camp sort of carry an implicit bias against trans people, but don’t want to, I guess, fully manifest or speak that out. And so they try to just play it off as this sort of half-support.”
Thomas seems to have a problem with the people calling themselves “feminists” for supporting women’s sports but not actually supporting transgendered women.
