Attendees at the NCAA Division I swimming championship were caught on camera sharing their thoughts on transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who would go on to take the title.
“You’re basically saying that his body [Thomas’s] is the same as the other girls in the pool?” one woman asked a man while watching the event at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta Thursday.
“I’m a woman. That is not a woman,” she said as she pointed at the pool where Thomas was competing. The two were not sitting together and appeared to be rows apart.
PUT AN ‘ASTERISK’ BY THE NAME LIA THOMAS, SAYS TENNIS ICON MARTINA NAVRATILOVA
“Are you a biologist?” the man asked.
“Oh my god, don’t be ridiculous,” the woman said. “I’m not a vet, but I know what a dog is.”
“I’m not a vet but I know what a dog is.”
A clash of views as Lis Thomas races ahead at the NCAA 500 freestyle prelims. pic.twitter.com/X9J5yzmozd
— Madeleine Kearns (@madeleinekearns) March 17, 2022
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This video emerged the same day Thomas won the 500-meter race to the sound of the crowd booing in the aquatic center.
