I'd say they have standing here!
Three former University of Pennsylvania women's swimmers alleged they suffered emotional trauma by having transgender swimmer Lia Thomas as a teammate as they called for the Ivy League to expunge Thomas' records, according to a lawsuit.
UPenn alum Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist filed the suit on Tuesday, a day before President Donald Trump signed an executive order banning biological men from competing in women's sports.
In the suit the plaintiffs allege Harvard University, the NCAA and the Ivy League Council of Presidents "harassed, abused and violated federal laws" when they allowed Thomas, a male, to compete on the women's team.
The suit claims that officials at UPenn "told the women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas' participation on the UPenn Women's team, they should seek counseling and support from CAPS and the LBGTQ center."
Yeah, um, if a woman is feeling distraught over having to share a locker room with a mentally unwell man, and you tell her to "seek counseling" in response, you're practically begging for a lawsuit.
The swimmers have also "accused school officials of warning them against speaking out on Thomas or they'd be branded as a transphobe and risk not finding jobs in the future."
I think it's safe to speculate that the current era of insanity — in which young women have been bullied and intimidated into allowing mentally ill men to invade their private spaces and dominate their sports — is coming to an end.
It's certainly happening at the federal level:
And now we're seeing it in court, too. Let the lawsuits be filed!
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