EXCLUSIVE — Cynthia Millen took a stand last December against the gender ideology mob when nobody else had the courage to do so. She was a lone voice defending women and women’s sports. Now, she has company, and she’s glad the right decision was finally made.
Cynthia Millen resigned while preparing to officiate the U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships.
“I told my fellow officials that I can no longer participate in a sport which allows biological men to compete against women,” she said.https://t.co/yvX23abwBU
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) December 24, 2021
Millen decided it was essential to defend women’s athletics and the right to fair competition. She resigned from her position of 30 years as a USA Swimming official in protest over Lia Thomas, a man, competing in women’s swimming. But recently, FINA, the international swimming federation that administers competition in water sports, ruled that males cannot compete in the women’s division unless they transitioned prior to age 12.
FINA members voted in favor of a new policy that necessitates transgender swimmers complete a medical transition by age 12 to qualify to compete, the Associated Press reported.
In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, Millen told me she applauded FINA’s decision. She felt it was an important decision that protected the female swimmer.
“I think it’s excellent,” Millen said.
Millen was one of the first prominent people to speak against Lia Thomas. In her resignation letter, Millen emphasized that it was unfair for a biological man to compete against women, and she could not support Thomas’s participation in amateur female swimming.
She resigned shortly before she was to officiate the U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina.
“I can’t do this, I can’t support this,” Millen said in her resignation letter. “I told my fellow officials that I can no longer participate in a sport which allows biological men to compete against women. Everything fair about swimming is being destroyed.”
Millen was right to object to Lia Thomas. The adults in charge of protecting female swimmers failed them miserably by permitting a biological male to compete with them. They genuflected to the mob instead of upholding their responsibility. Now that FINA has corrected this massive error, Millen is happy with the state of female swimming again. She explained why FINA’s ruling was the right call.
“Competitive swimmers of that level would already be competing by age 12,” Millen said. “They would not actively transition as children because they would not want to negatively affect their current training, and any surgical or medical intervention would be destructive at that point. By allowing that caveat, they are avoiding the whole ‘transphobic’ issue.”
She also applauded the idea of the open category so that transgender athletes could compete. And, unlike in the instance of Lia Thomas, any transgender athlete would be on a level playing field that would uphold the standards of fair and equal competition for everyone involved. This way, women would not be forced to compete against men just because the adults in charge are either too timid or too brainwashed to do right by female athletes.
“By having an Open category, they are allowing transgender athletes to compete,” Millen said. “It is totally inclusive, protects the female swimmer, and preempts any claims of transphobia.”
