Ex-teammate of Lia Thomas breaks silence and calls out UPenn

An ex-teammate of controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas known as out the College of Pennsylvania on Monday, alleging the varsity silenced her and her teammates relating to issues over Thomas's presence on the staff.

"Our college, really, simply did not actually have any conversations with us, in any respect, about our issues with the state of affairs taking place," former UPenn swimmer Paula Scanlan instructed Fox Enterprise on Varney & Co.

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"Then, as soon as it was already a media storm and Thomas was already breaking all these data, that is once they got here in and instructed us, 'Please do not discuss to the media. This can be a nonnegotiable,'" she added.

Counseling was additionally supplied for any biologically feminine athlete who was not snug with the state of affairs or objected, in keeping with Scanlan.

"They introduced in an entire panel of people," she stated. "Somebody from the LGBT middle, somebody from the psychological companies, and a bunch of individuals from the athletic division."

"This was already midway by way of the season," she continued, "was the primary time we had a proper assembly about it, and, so, yeah, Lia continued to swim on the staff, and there was no modifications that had been made to the complete season. ... It simply continued as if every little thing was regular."