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Paula Scanlan details how Penn ignored her concerns over sharing locker room with Lia Thomas

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Former UPenn women’s college swimmer Paula Scanlan testified on Thursday in front of a House Judiciary subcommittee.

Her testimony, heartbreaking and infuriating in equal measure, revealed what it was like being forced to share a locker room with Lia Thomas, a biological male who competed on the women’s team.

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas enters for the 200 Freestyle final during 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)

After her testimony, Scanlan spoke to OutKick to expand on what her time sharing a team with Thomas was like, how it impacted her and most importantly, the reaction inside UPenn when she raised her concerns.

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Scanlan previously explained that UPenn’s response to concerns from female swimmers was to offer "psychological services" to their athletes. When asked what the reaction was within the team to being offered essentially a form of therapy to deal with the administration’s response, Scanlan said she and others thought it was a "very interesting move." It was something that they viewed as a form of "re-education."

"Therapy is supposed to help you think differently," she explained. "It felt like they wanted thought reform instead of providing resources. There was not a lot of internal discussion afterwards, there were other people who thought it was pretty ridiculous."

Additionally, Scanlan said, "No one took them up on [their offer of psychological services]." She

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