Paula Scanlan has fought to maintain organic males out of women and girls’s sports activities ever since her former teammate, Lia Thomas, received an NCAA title three years in the past.
On Tuesday, Scanlan appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” to debate the shortage of equity in permitting transgender athletes to compete in opposition to organic females.
“It is not honest for them to compete as a result of they’re taking a look at a loopy distinction between being within the males’s class and being within the girls’s class. And the individuals which can be saying this have misplaced their thoughts … as a result of nobody agrees with this. Even Democrats agree that males shouldn’t compete in girls’s sports activities,” Scanlan stated.
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Paula Scanlan shares her story as a swimmer at UPenn with teammate Lia Thomas, the primary transgender Division I athlete to win a title, in Scranton, Pa., Might 29, 2024. (Aimee Dilger/SOPA Pictures/LightRocket through Getty Pictures)
“It is heartbreaking, and that is precisely why we have fought so arduous for this subject. Ladies did not have sports activities again within the day. They fought so arduous for Title IX, and now we’re taking a look at having to battle another time as a result of mediocre male athletes need to placed on a costume and develop their hair out and say that they are magically girls in the future. That is why this subject has misplaced its approach.”
Scanlan famous that “80% of People” imagine that transgender women and girls shouldn’t take part based mostly on their gender identification, and “many” of her family and friends members “who’re lifelong Democrats voted for Donald Trump this previous November strictly due to this subject.”
“And if that exhibits how wildly unpopular it’s, 80% of People agree on this. What number of points do 80% of People agree on? That once more exhibits the place that is, that everybody’s misplaced their thoughts, and customary sense is having males not taking part in in girls’s sports activities,” Scanlan continued.
Penn Quakers swimmer Lia Thomas prepares for the 200 free on the NCAA swimming and diving championships at Georgia Tech in Atlanta March 18, 2022. (Brett Davis/USA Right now Sports activities)
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“I feel what we noticed on this previous election is so many citizens needed to come over to our facet as a result of the left actually misplaced their approach with frequent sense. …  In the event that they need to maintain doubling down on this, I say allow them to, however, for his or her sake, I hope they cease and understand that no voters need this.”
The U.S. Division of Schooling has launched Title IX investigations into California, Minnesota and Maine for allegedly persevering with to permit transgender athletes to compete in opposition to organic females in defiance of Trump’s “Preserving Males Out of Ladies’s Sports activities” govt order signed Feb. 5.
The USDOE can also be investigating San Jose State; Scanlan’s alma mater, Penn; and a Massachusetts highschool. Transgender athletes Blaire Fleming and Thomas starred for SJSU and Penn, respectively.
President Donald Trump indicators the No Males in Ladies’s Sports activities govt order into legislation within the East Room of the White Home in Washington, D.C., Feb. 5, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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Trump even threatened to withhold federal funding from Maine if Gov. Janet Mills continued to disregard his order.
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