{"id":127881,"date":"2022-07-16T14:15:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127881"},"modified":"2022-07-16T13:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T17:30:31","slug":"transgender-nominated-for-woman-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127881","title":{"rendered":"Transgender nominated for &#8216;Woman of the Year&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trans1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-124403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trans1-300x269.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trans1-300x269.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trans1-371x333.png 371w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/trans1.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The University of Pennsylvania nominated a transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, for NCAA &#8216;Woman of the Year&#8217; award. This award recognizes female athletes who have distinguished themselves in academics, athletics, and community citizenship. Lia Thomas was one of two athletes that the University of Pennsylvania nominated for this award.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thomas, a former swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, won the 500-yard freestyle event at the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Her participation in college women&#8217;s swimming has brought on a national debate, with some saying that she has an unfair advantage over other athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Riley Gaines, a swimmer at the University of Kentucky who tied with Lia Thomas for fifth place at the NCAA swimming championships, said that a majority of females aren&#8217;t okay with the trajectory of female sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The majority of us female athletes, or females in general, really, are not okay with this, and they&#8217;re not okay with the trajectory of this and how this is going and how it could end up in a few years,&#8221; Gaines said on the &#8220;Unmuted with Marsha&#8221; podcast with Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>She was referring to the NCAA&#8217;s refusal to change the rules in order to protect competitiveness in female sports.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Pennsylvania also nominated Iuliia Bryzgalova for the award, who plays tennis at the school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News has more details at this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/lia-thomas-nominated-university-pennsylvania-ncaa-woman-year-award\">link<\/a>. Here is the NCAA Woman of the Year nomination and award <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/sports\/2013\/12\/12\/ncaa-woman-of-the-year-nomination-and-award-process.aspx\">process<\/a>. Thanks to Hack Stone for posting about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Pennsylvania nominated a transgender swimmer, Lia Thomas, for NCAA &#8216;Woman of the Year&#8217; &hellip; <a title=\"Transgender nominated for &#8216;Woman of the Year&#8217;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127881\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Transgender nominated for &#8216;Woman of the Year&#8217;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,13,236,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck","category-society","category-wtf","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}