“The school was so focused on making sure Lia was okay, and doing everything they possibly could do for her, that they didn’t even think about the rest of us,” the swimmer said of her biological male teammate.

“There are a lot of cowards who don’t want to cause any kind of conflict or worry that they might get looked at the wrong way,” the teammate said.

She revealed that many of her teammates are fearful of being labeled as transphobic:

“If this gets a little bigger, I might go on the record, but I’m definitely a little afraid. What I’m afraid of is that potential employers will Google my name and see commentary about things I said and think ‘oh, this person’s transphobic,'” she added.

The Daily Mail also revealed that teammates discussed the possibility of protesting at an upcoming competition, but eventually decided that it was too risky of a proposition.

Another teammate told Outkick recently that she suspects that Thomas lost on purpose to a Yale swimmer to “prove that a woman can beat her.”

“Looking at (Lia’s) time, I don’t think she was trying,” she said. “I know they’re friends and I know they were talking before the meet. I think she (Thomas) let her win to prove the point that, ‘Oh see? A female-to-male beat me.'”