EXCLUSIVE: The mother of three former Yale swimmers has come forward with alleged details of her children’s experience at the school to Fox News Digital, after the Ivy League giant’s athletic department saw a pair of unflattering document leaks in recent days. Kim Jones, the mother of two former Yale women’s swimmers and one former men’s swimmer, said she had to witness her daughter and her son be forced to compete with transgender athletes of the opposite birth sex while at Yale. Fox News Digital is not naming her children at her request, but has verified they competed at Yale during her provided timeframes. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMHer older daughter, who went to Yale from 2018-23, competed against infamous UPenn trans swimmer Lia Thomas during Thomas’ reign in 2021-22, both in the regular season and in the Ivy League championship. Then she had to watch her son, who went to Yale from 2020-25, share a team and locker room with a biological female trans swimmer, Iszac Henig, who transitioned from the university’s women’s team to the men’s in the 2022-23 season.”I would say it felt like North Korea,” Jones said of her children’s experience at the time. “I would say that the athletic department as a whole was a terrible place to be.” The experience of watching her older daughter face Thomas, and Yale’s handling of those competitions against Thomas, caused internal strife and trauma for her family.”They terrorized the girls … they pulled them into mandatory meetings. They intimidated, coerced, threatened, and emotionally blackmailed them,” Jones alleged. “They were told that they were going to be, that they were to be held accountable for any harm that came to folks in their communities that identified as transgender.” Jones said she doesn’t believe the women impacted have even “realized” what they went through.FORMER UTAH STATE VOLLEYBALL STAR SAYS SJSU TRANS SCANDAL CAUSED INJURED FINGERS, SHATTERED DREAMS”I think it’s going to take even more time than what has passed for many of those young women to look back on this and realize just how coerced and abused they were during this,” she said. Jones said her daughter never had to share a locker room with Thomas. But her son did have to share one with Henig. “It ruins the camaraderie. Of course, you’re going to change the way you speak, you’re going to change the way you act when you’re in a different environment with people of the opposite sex. The boys didn’t feel like they could go to the athletic department and say ’this is uncomfortable, we don’t want a woman in our locker rooms,'” Jones said.Still, Jones said her son maintained all the same friendships with the other men on his team. But the mother said the worst part of her son’s alleged treatment from Yale was that it allegedly prevented him from standing up for the women who had to compete against Thomas. “It is emasculating, it takes away their convictions to stand up for what’s right in f
Mom of ex-Yale swimmers alleges athletic department ‘terrorized’ women, ’emasculated’ men: ‘Like North Korea’
