Lia Thomas' UPenn teammate breaks silence, says her concerns about locker room were labeled 'transphobic'

Paula Scanlan: If we get a big crowd behind, us they can’t silence us anymore.

One of Lia Thomas' former University of Pennsylvania teammates has broken her silence, saying she is no longer scared to speak out against Thomas competing against females.

Former University of Pennsylvania swimmer Paula Scanlan joined "The Ingraham Angle" to discuss why she is now choosing to speak out, fighting for fairness in women's sports. 

"I think one of the biggest things for me is just seeing how much this has changed in the last year," she told Ingraham Tuesday in her first cable TV interview.

"I thought maybe this won't continue to happen to other sports, maybe swimming is the exception. I've seen this blow up. There are cases of the track people in California. There is cycling, skateboarding, every single women's sport imaginable has been infiltrated by biological males competing on the women's team."

"I decided that… it's okay if I get some hate and I shouldn't be scared anymore because I need to use my voice and encourage other women to speak out against unfair competition," she continued. 

She spoke with the Daily Wire last year anonymously in the documentary "What is a Woman?" where she detailed how she was silenced from speaking out against Lia Thomas. 

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University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines tied for 5th in the 200 Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta Georgia.  (Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

"There was a lot of things we couldn't talk about that were very concerning,