Ex-Roanoke women's swimmer opens up on trans athlete's alleged suicide suggestion and college's handling of it

Former Roanoke women's swim captain Lily Mullens told Fox News Digital about an incident in which a trans athlete allegedly told the team about considering suicide while lobbying for the chance to participate with the female athletes.

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Former Roanoke College women's swim captain Lily Mullens remembers the first weekend in September of her junior season in 2023. 

She had just gotten her wisdom teeth pulled, but something much more painful was to come. 

That weekend, a team meeting was called to discuss a biological male transgender swimmer who wanted to compete with the team. Mullens was in the meeting over Zoom. 

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Captains of the sophomore, junior and senior squads Kate Pearson, Lily Mullens and Bailey Gallagher. (OutKick)

"The purpose of the meeting was to bring us all together with this individual to, in a way, hash out whatever feelings or opinions we had to the individuals with administrators in the room," Mullens said. "At one point, it was discussed that this individual, without the transition, had thought about and gone through with planning a suicide. So that was something that was told to all of us." 

Mullens, who described herself as a religious person, said she and her teammates' first reaction was confusion. 

"All of us felt emotionally confused. We didn't know what to do," she said. 

Mullens alleged that the athlete even went into detail about the specifics of the alleged plan. 

"The plan was actually detailed to us," Mullens said. "There's a building on campus that they said they had