More Penn Pushback
This story at Breitbart expands on another story at the Washington Post that fleshes out the circumstances of the letter that 16 members of the Penn women's swim team ( also mentioned here ) sent to university authorities requesting that they not sue USA Swimming over its new trans criteria. According to the Post, Thomas’s teammates did not identify themselves in the letter. It was sent by Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a 1984 Olympic swimming gold medalist, lawyer and chief executive of Champion Women, a women’s sports advocacy organization. She said in a telephone interview that she sent the letter on the swimmers’ behalf so they could avoid retaliation; in the letter, the swimmers claim they were told “we would be removed from the team or that we would never get a job offer” if they spoke out against Thomas’s inclusion in women’s competition. The Breitbart story interviewed a second expert, Natasha Chart, whom they characterize as "a feminist who argues that women’s partic...