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Former UPenn women's swimmers sue Ivy League institutions and NCAA alleging push of pro-trans ideology

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EXCLUSIVE: Former University of Pennsylvania women's swimmers Grace Estabrook, Margot Kaczorowski and Ellen Holmquist have filed a lawsuit against the university, Harvard University, the NCAA and the Ivy League Council of Presidents over their experience sharing a team with transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. The lawsuit does not name Thomas as a defendant. 

According to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, Estabrok, Kaczorowski and Holmquist argue that Thomas' eligibility to compete as a woman for UPenn violated their Title IX rights. It argues the NCAA's 2010, which allows biological males to compete in the women's category based on their preferred gender identity, is "discriminatory."

The women claim that by allowing Thomas to compete, the institutions "injured them and violated federal law."

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The lawsuit, which is being backed and funded by the Independent Council on Women's Sports (ICONS), also detailed the personal experiences each of the women faced having to share a team and locker room with Thomas. Each of the plaintiffs claims the experience left them "repeatedly emotionally traumatized."

The plaintiffs allege that the university administrators pushed pro-trans ideology onto them throughout the process of accepting Thomas on the team and in their locker room. The former swimmers say that they were led to feel their concerns over being teammates with Thomas was rooted in a "psychological problem."

"The UPenn administrators told the women that if anyone was struggling with accepting Thomas’s participation on the UPenn Women’s team, they should seek

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