Tennis star Martina Navratilova led a choir of protests against the University of Pennsylvania after trans swimmer Leah Thomas was nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.
After UPenn announced the candidacy of a former member of the men’s swim team, who later led a controversial season by breaking the tall women’s record after another, tennis player Navratilova blew up school with a tweet: “Ain’t there enough amazing biological athletes, NCAA? ! ? What’s happening to you? !!!!!! “
Aren’t there enough amazing biological athletes, NCAA?!? What’s happening to you? !!!!!! https://t.co/5QAJyt0Qab
– Martina Navratilova (@Martina) 16 July 2022
Pictured next to Thomas is NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines. Used In a tweet about the story, Outkick added: “Being the real woman in this photo and being nominated for the University of Kentucky’s NCAA WOTY is another slap in the face. The first was a women’s national title and is now a candidate for the highest honor in college athletics. @NCAA gave this award for nothing.”
Being the real woman in this photo and being nominated for the University of Kentucky NCAA WOTY is another slap in the face. The first was a women’s national title and is now nominated for the highest honor in collegiate athletics. @NCAA rendered the reward useless. https://t.co/MRCieqbltd
– Riley Gaines (@RileyGaines) 16 July 2022
Former NCAA swimming champion Marsha Smith also objected to Thomas’ nomination, saying, “How many women’s awards are we prepared to give up? The Ivy League is doubling down on its campaign against women by nominating a male.”
How many women’s awards are we prepared to give away? Here’s another NCAA Woman of the Year nominee https://t.co/mn6XzO7IpA.
– Marshi Smith ⁇
(@SmithMarshi) 15 July 2022
It’s no surprise that Thomas was nominated for this award by the UPenn management, as the school spent the entire swimming season ignoring Thomas’ requests to unfairly allow his colleagues to not undergo any surgical procedure to become a woman in order for a swimmer to compete with him. born females.
The NCAA allows each participating college to nominate two nominations for an award, as long as one of the candidates is an awakened candidate belonging to a protected class or a minority.
Playing for three challenging seasons for the school’s men’s team, Thomas topped almost every category at this year’s NCAA Swimming Championships and took first place in the women’s 500-yard freestyle.
Leah Thomas took first place in the 500-meter freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Division 1 Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships. #SaveWomen’s Sports pic.twitter.com/UWvDQMYHRJ
– Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) 17 March 2022
The 577 NCAA Woman of the Year nominees represent female athletes from 23 sports from Division I, Division II, and Division III.
Source: Breitbart
