“The statement for women then is ‘You don’t matter, what you do is not important, and little girls are going to be thrown under the bus by all of this. He’s going to be destroying women’s swimming.”
Former USA swimming official Cynthia Millen joined Fox News on Monday and explained why she chose to resign from her post in response to the US Olympics allowing biological men to compete against biological women.
Since announcing her resignation, Millen said that she has received "a lot kind comments" from fellow officials, former officials, and parents of swimmers.
"Swimming is a sport in which bodies compete against bodies. Identities do not compete against identities. From the very beginning when you start out as an age grouper, swimmers are divided by sex and by age group. Because, from the very beginning, USA Swimming recognizes that boys swim differently from girls," Millen explained.
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View on Rumble"This is excentuated when boys and girls go through puberty," Millen continued.
Cynthia Millen, who has more than 30 years officiating swim meets at the US level, went on to explain that men have a biological advantage over women when it comes to the sport of swimming, making it impossible for the different sexes to compete against each other fairly.
"Boys will always have larger lung capacities, larger hearts, greater circulation, a bigger skeleton, and less fat. Girls go through puberty and they have a double-whammy. They not only grow breasts and hips but they have periods and they often have a totally different center of gravity. They have to learn how to swim over again," Millen said.
"So while Lia Thomas is a child of God, he is a biological male who is competing against women and no matter how much testosterone suppression drugs he takes, he will always be a biological male and have this advantage," Millen added.
Lia Thomas, a biological male that identifies as a transgendered woman, is on the University of Pennsylvania women's swim team and made headlines after shattering multiple records during a recent competition.
"It's horrible," Millen said of Thomas' advantage.
"The statement for women then is 'You don't matter, what you do is not important, and little girls are going to be thrown under the bus by all of this. He's going to be destroying women's swimming."
Millen said that allowing men to continue to compete against women would erase all of the hard work from past and current female competitors and it would be such a "shame and travesty" to throw it all away now.
"We must face facts," Millen said. "Men are different from women. Men swimmers are different from women and they will always be faster than women."
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