Mom of ex-Yale swimmers alleges athletic department 'terrorized' women, 'emasculated' men: 'Like North Korea'

Kim Jones, the mother of three former swimmers at Yale, spoke out against the school's handling of trans athletes on both the men's and women's team in an interview with Fox News Digital.

EXCLUSIVE: The mother of three former Yale swimmers has come forward with alleged details of her children's experience at the school to Fox News Digital, after the Ivy League giant's athletic department saw a pair of unflattering document leaks in recent days. 

Kim Jones, the mother of two former Yale women's swimmers and one former men's swimmer, said she had to witness her daughter and her son be forced to compete with transgender athletes of the opposite birth sex while at Yale. 

Fox News Digital is not naming her children at her request, but has verified they competed at Yale during her provided timeframes. 

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Her older daughter, who went to Yale from 2018-23, competed against infamous UPenn trans swimmer Lia Thomas during Thomas' reign in 2021-22, both in the regular season and in the Ivy League championship. Then she had to watch her son, who went to Yale from 2020-25, share a team and locker room with a biological female trans swimmer, Iszac Henig, who transitioned from the university's women's team to the men's in the 2022-23 season.

"I would say it felt like North Korea," Jones said of her children's experience at the time. 

"I would say that the athletic department as a whole was a terrible place to be." 

The experience of watching her older daughter face Thomas, and Yale's handling of those competitions against Thomas, caused internal strife and trauma for her family.

"They terrorized the girls … they pulled them into mandatory meetings. They intimidated, coerced,