Lia Thomas' former teammate says 'trans rights' have been prioritized over 'concerns of women'

Paula Scanlan was a teammate of transgender woman Lia Thomas on the Penn women's swimming team. She continues to speak out on fairness in women's sports.

In a piece she wrote for The Telegraph Wednesday, she called the movement "absorbed."

"One might wonder what happened to the #MeToo movement — a movement that seemed ideally positioned to advocate for the safeguarding of women’s safety from physical and sexual violence — during these recent gender debates," she wrote. "The obvious answer is that #MeToo was absorbed, as so sadly has been the case with many other women’s organizations in the U.S., into the Democratic Party.