Caitlyn Jenner decried transgender faculty swimmer Lia Thomas as “one of many worst issues to occur to the trans neighborhood” in an interview Thursday.
“Lia Thomas is without doubt one of the worst issues that occurred to the trans neighborhood as a result of it’s such dangerous publicity,” she instructed host Piers Morgan on his new present “Piers Morgan Uncensored.”
“I’ve met so many great trans individuals, doing so many great issues, residing their life authentically.”
Thomas, 23, who set information swimming on the College of Pennsylvania’s ladies’s swim staff, has been the middle of controversy over the difficulty of organic males competing in opposition to organic females within the NCAA. She is scheduled to graduate later this yr, and is eyeing a run on the Olympics.
“I hope Lia Thomas — it’s over for her now as a result of she’s out of school — and I simply hope she has a beautiful life,” mentioned Jenner, a former Olympic gold medalist who appeared on Morgan’s present after initially canceling over his fiery interview with former President Donald Trump.
“Being trans just isn’t simple, I hope she enjoys the remainder of her life and has an excellent life.”
Jenner, who received gold within the 1976 Olympic decathlon as a person, has been outspoken in criticizing trans-female athletes for taking part in ladies’s faculty sports activities.
“We should shield ladies’s sports activities. In any respect prices. What Lia has executed, beating organic ladies to win a Division I nationwide championship, is anathema to what sports activities represents and the spirit of competitors,” she wrote in an editorial earlier this month.
Thomas’ dominance this yr sparked outrage throughout the ladies’s athletic neighborhood, who claimed she destroyed the fair-play rights of the younger ladies she defeated.
She received the 500-yard NCAA ladies’s championship in March, prompting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to assert second-place finisher Emma Wyant because the rightful winner, which Jenner applauded.
“@GovRonDeSantis agreed! She is the rightful winner!” Jenner tweeted. “It’s not transphobic or anti-trans, it’s COMMON SENSE!”
Final week, Jenner tweeted that she was yanking her look on Morgan’s present over his sit-down with Trump, who stormed out because the journalist grilled him on his claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
“@piersmorgan I’ve simply had my administration cancel my look with you for this Wednesday due to your repulsive misconduct at present,” Jenner tweeted on April 20.
Throughout her look on “Uncensored” Thursday, Jenner mentioned she wished to “clear the air.”
“I used to be requested to do that present like a month in the past and I wound up canceling about two weeks in the past,” Jenner began.
“Why? As a result of I noticed what you probably did to President Donald Trump, our president who I’ve a variety of respect for, like he was strolling out, you sensationalized the promo to construct up rankings and all this, and I assumed to myself I don’t need to be a part of that and so I canceled.
“However since then, and I stand by what I did, however since then we’ve had an opportunity to speak, I’ve talked to your producers, I really feel fairly assured you received’t do this to me.”
Piers claimed the promotion of the Trump interview was impressed by the forty fifth president’s profession internet hosting NBC’s “Movie star Apprentice,” which he received in 2008.
“He did these sort of promos on me each night time to get individuals watching, so all is honest in love and promo conflict,” Morgan responded.
