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Lia Thomas’ teammate says it’s ‘bittersweet’ to need to ban men from women’s sports
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2:54Now PlayingPaula Scanlan is a former University of Pennsylvania Collegiate swimmer who competed alongside transgender athlete Lia Thomas. She attended President Trump’s signing of an executive order barring transgender athletes from women’s sports at the White House on Wednesday.
Here she tells The Post’s Rikki Schlott why she’s encouraged by middle and high school kids getting behind the order and the absurdity of it being necessary in the first place:
I’m grateful to President Trump for signing his executive order banning male athletes from women’s sports, because it will protect future generations of female athletes from having to experience what I did.
I was there at the White House when Trump signed his order, which helps keep biological men out of women’s sports by pressuring schools via funding through Title IX.
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