The three former University of Pennsylvania female swimmers allegedly suffered emotional trauma from transgender Swimmeria Thomas becoming a teammate and teammate, according to the lawsuit. .
Upenn Alum Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist filed a lawsuit Tuesday the day before President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning women's competition in sports.
The three alumni allege that former schools, Harvard University, the NCAA and Ivy League Council harassed, abused and violated federal law when Thomas allowed him to compete in teams. Fox News.
“The UPENN administrator told women that if women struggle to accept Thomas' participation in UPENN's women's team, they should seek counseling and support from CAPS and the LBGTQ Centre,” the lawsuit alleges. It's doing it.
Kaczorowski and Holmquist, who graduated in 2024, and Estabrook, a 2022 graduate, claim that Thomas was “repeatedly emotionally hurt” because he was allowed to compete because he was a violation of Title IX. did.
They claim that school officials pushed the ideology of their parents onto women while Thomas was on the team.
The administrator is said to have invited swimmers to a lecture entitled “Trans 101.” There, if the team had problems with “trans identifying men,” there was a psychological problem and they had to meet a counselor.
Swimmers either accused school officials of warning them of speaking out at Thomas, or they risk being branded as Transforbe and not finding future jobs.
The lawsuit also accused four defendants of creating a culture of threats that forced young women to deny biology.
Thomas was not listed as the defendant in the filing.
Adding Thomas to a woman as a member puts swimmer opportunities, privacy and safety at risk, the lawsuit alleges.
Thomas, who competed in UPENN's men's swimming and diving team from 2017 to 2020, was introduced to the women's team in 2019 as his next teammate.
Thomas first came in a 500, 200, 100-yard freestyle race.
Thomas broke several women's records at the 2022 Ivy League Championship Tournament at Harvard University.
The lawsuit asks the judge to declare that Thomas competes with women's races and cannot open records; Reported by National News Desk.
The former Quaker swimmer denounced the school's administrator, NCAA, and the Ivy League has ensured that Thomas is eligible to compete in the women's team for the 2021-2022 season.
Initially, the woman was reportedly guaranteed not to share a locker room with her new teammates, but the school changed policies and Thomas changed with them.
“When Upenn female swimmers return to school in the fall of 2021, they are allowed Thomas to use Upenn women's locker rooms and will be using women's locker rooms at swimming competitions. I was shocked to be allowed,” the lawsuit alleges.
“Margot [Kaczorowski] Thomas learned that he was allowed to walk through the women's locker room and find Thomas in front of changing clothes, walking through the women's locker room “The suit added.
Kaczorowski is said to have confronted Director Mike Schnoor after the locker room incident.
“I know it's wrong, but there's nothing I can do,” Chenour reportedly said, according to the outlet.
The coach warned the woman that if he spoke about using Thomas' women's locker room he would be fired.
Trump's executive order, signed on February 5th, pressures schools to comply with the order by threatening to withdraw federal funds.
“From now on, women's sports will be for women only,” Trump said at a signing ceremony in the Eastern Room of the White House.
“If a man takes over a female sports team or breaks into a locker room, he will be investigated for a Title IX violation and risks federal funding,” he added.
