Transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas caused quite the uproar this past weekend in winning the 500-yard freestyle NCAA female swimming championship. Lia is the first openly transgender athlete ever to win an individual NCAA championship in a sport. Silent through all of this controversy have been members of the U.S. Olympic swimming team, particularly the female swimmers. Their refusal to speak up has left many angered and frustrated, including one of Lia’s teammates at the University of Pennsylvania.

In an interview conducted earlier in the year, before the NCAA and the Ivy League swimming championships, a female Penn swimmer spoke on the condition of anonymity, saying she was disappointed that no female Olympian cared enough to defend women’s sports.