Tue Mar 22, 2022 – 4:48 pm EDTTue Mar 22, 2022 – 5:13 pm EDT
TALLAHASSEE (LifeSiteNews) — Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a proclamation Tuesday claiming victory for the female swimmer who lost to “transgender” opponent William “Lia” Thomas during a competition last week.
The news comes after the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) declared University of Pennsylvania fifth-year student “Lia” Thomas the winner of the Division 1 Women’s 500 Yard Freestyle held March 17. Thomas, a man who identifies as a woman, has shattered records and generated national controversy since he began competing on the women’s team after swimming for three seasons on the men’s team.
University of Virginia student Emma Weyant took second place in Thursday’s NCAA competition, finishing 1.75 seconds behind her “transgender” competitor. Weyant is a 20-year-old Olympic silver medalist and native of Florida who swam for the Sarasota Sharks before joining the University of Virginia’s women’s swim team.
In his Tuesday proclamation, DeSantis declared that Weyant, not Thomas, was the true winner of the Women’s Freestyle competition, stating that “Florida rejects the NCAA’s efforts to destroy women’s athletics, disapproves of the NCAA elevating ideology over biology, and takes offense
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