Controversial transgender swimmer Lia Thomas vows to fight trans athlete bans amid national shift on issue

Former UPenn swimmer Ellen Holmquist and attorney Bill Bock weigh in on the fight for fairness in women’s sports on ‘Fox News @ Night.’

Former University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas recently spoke up in support of the trans athlete community as most Americans have become opposed to trans inclusion in women's sports. 

Thomas spoke up about the issue at the HiTOPS trans youth forum on Saturday.

"I am going to keep fighting as much as I am able to," Thomas said over Zoom. 

"In order to fight the battles we need to fight, we have to stick together and support each other."

Thomas' recent comments come three years after the athlete was allowed to swim in the women's category for UPenn at the 2022 Ivy League championships and NCAA championships. Thomas previously competed for the university's men's swimming team under the name Will Thomas.

But the previous NCAA gender eligibility policy allowed trans athletes to compete with and share locker rooms with women, so Thomas took advantage and went on to break multiple women's records. 

Thomas was even the focus of mostly-positive attention from the mainstream legacy media in 2022, doing sit-down interviews with ESPN, NBC News and "Good Morning America." 

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Penn's Lia Thomas and Kentucky's Riley Gaines tied for fifth in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA championships on March 18, 2022, in Atlanta. (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

But three years later, President Donald Trump has ordered a national ban on trans athletes in women's sports, the NCAA has amended its policy to keep biological males from competing on women's teams, and data suggests the vast majority of