In 2023, if you are a young, teenage, female athlete and you do not feel comfortable undressing in front of a naked, biological, intact male — you might just qualify for re-education training at your university.

Seriously.

The women on the University of Pennsylvania swim team were subjected to this exact treatment. When they voiced their concerns about undressing in the presence of Lia Thomas — a six-foot-four biological male, fully intact with male genitalia — they were told that Lia’s swimming and usage of the locker room were non-negotiable.

The girls were offered psychological services in an attempt to re-educate them to become comfortable with the idea of undressing in front of a male.

Lauren Chen plays the girls' testimony and is deeply disturbed.

“As a woman myself, a real one, I had chills down my spine the first time I heard that,” Chen says.

While Chen is disgusted that there are men trying to force this on young women, she thinks those who really need to hear just how terrible what they’re doing is are “compassionate liberals.”

“Well, to those people in the audience, the people who think that they are being compassionate siding with the male who is exposing himself to all these scared females, well, there is a concept that I want to talk about today called autogynephilia,” Chen says.

PubMed defines autogynephilia as “a male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female. It is the paraphilia that is theorized to underlie transvestism and some forms of male-to-female (MtF) transsexualism.”

“It’s not just about fetishizing women in the locker room, it’s actually about fetishizing yourself as a woman in the locker room,” Chen says.

Chen notes that Lia’s social media activity shows that this is likely what is going on in this situation.

Lia’s private Instagram account, which is separate from his public one, has repeatedly engaged with posts about autogynephilia.

One of the posts shows a cartoon of an obviously aroused trans man looking at himself in the mirror, and some of the posts have been shared by Lia’s alleged romantic partner, who is also a trans woman.

Lia’s partner’s account features photos in bikinis that feature a bulge, posing in bondage gear, and satanic imagery that Lia has also “liked.”

“It’s okay to be compassionate and to have a bleeding heart, but when it comes to situations like this — my request, my hope is that you turn the compassion from the biological male,” Chen says, continuing, “and you give it to the women who are being forced to change as much as 18 times per week in front of biologically intact males.”

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