UPenn has been a very extreme place for a long time. Marc Rowan is only discovering this now? UPenn was already a black legend for putting a man (William Thomas) on the women’s swim team. UPenn declared his presence was ‘non-negotiable’. Quotes from “Swimmer Tells Congress UPenn Told Team Lia Thomas Being in Locker Room was ‘Non Negotiab…
“"My teammates and I were forced to undress in the presence of Lia, a 6-foot-4 tall biological male, fully intact with male genitalia, 18 times per week. Some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls, and others used the family bathroom to avoid this.
“When we tried to voice our concerns to the athletic department, we were told that Lia’s swimming and being in our locker room was a non-negotiable, and we were offered psychological services to attempt to re-educate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male.”
UPenn’s response to these horrors was to dig a deeper hole. In 2022, UPenn nominated Wiliam Thomas for the ‘2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award’. How crazy can you get? Nominating a man for ‘Woman of the Year’? If it wasn’t true, it would be something out of the Onion or the Babylon Bee.
So Marc Rowan is discovering now that UPenn is a bad place? Better late than never.
UPenn has been a very extreme place for a long time. Marc Rowan is only discovering this now? UPenn was already a black legend for putting a man (William Thomas) on the women’s swim team. UPenn declared his presence was ‘non-negotiable’. Quotes from “Swimmer Tells Congress UPenn Told Team Lia Thomas Being in Locker Room was ‘Non Negotiable’” (https://themessenger.com/news/swimmer-tells-congress-upenn-told-team-lia-thomas-being-in-locker-room-was-non-negotiable)
“"My teammates and I were forced to undress in the presence of Lia, a 6-foot-4 tall biological male, fully intact with male genitalia, 18 times per week. Some girls opted to change in bathroom stalls, and others used the family bathroom to avoid this.
“When we tried to voice our concerns to the athletic department, we were told that Lia’s swimming and being in our locker room was a non-negotiable, and we were offered psychological services to attempt to re-educate us to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male.”
UPenn’s response to these horrors was to dig a deeper hole. In 2022, UPenn nominated Wiliam Thomas for the ‘2022 NCAA Woman of the Year award’. How crazy can you get? Nominating a man for ‘Woman of the Year’? If it wasn’t true, it would be something out of the Onion or the Babylon Bee.
So Marc Rowan is discovering now that UPenn is a bad place? Better late than never.