Even the Swarthmore College student newspaper, The Phoenix, acknowledged that the institution “is overwhelmingly liberal and regarded to be a politically active campus.” In her 2015 article, “Life as a Conservative at a Liberal College“, Gloria Kim wrote:

What I expected, really, was discourse of ideas. Yes, Swarthmore is a liberal school, but I imagined the Quaker tradition would allow a peaceful exchange of ideas and an open environment for opposing opinions to coexist. What I found was a bit different.

From my first semester, I found Swarthmore’s vaunted tradition of civil discourse had become a rigid and inflexible radicalism.

That the college is ‘transgender’ friendly is not in any doubt, but even Swarthmore can’t change President Trump’s executive orders or the NCAA’s policies, and that, of course, gets yet another lawsuit from a man male claiming to be female:

Trans athlete sues Swarthmore College, alleging it violated Title IX by not letting her race with women

Swarthmore removed Evie Parts from the women’s track and field team after the NCAA banned trans athletes in response to an order from President Donald Trump. She was later reinstated to team.

by Maddie Hanna | Friday, August 15, 2025 | 3:51 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, August 18, 2025 | 12:00 OM EDT

A transgender female athlete sued Swarthmore College on Thursday, alleging the college violated Title IX when it banned her from competing on the women’s track and field team earlier this year.

Swarthmore informed the student, Evelyn “Evie” Parts, in February that she could no longer race for the women’s team in light of National Collegiate Athletic Association policy, according to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. The NCAA on Feb. 6 had barred transgender women from competing in varsity sports in response to an executive order from President Donald Trump and threatened sanctions against member schools that didn’t follow the policy.

Parts, who first began racing for Swarthmore in August 2020, was told by school officials that she could either run as part of the men’s team, or run unattached to the college, according to the lawsuit — meaning she would not be able to receive coaching, medical treatment, or transportation, and would have to pay for her own entry to races.

As is our stated policy, The First Street Journal only uses the correct biological names and pronouns for the ‘transgendered,’ but we do not change the direct quotes of others. The Philadelphia Inquirer, the source of the cited story, chooses to use the incorrect names and pronouns that the ‘transgendered’ prefer. We have been unable to find Mr Parts given name at birth.

The lawsuit said the directive barring her from the team caused severe emotional damage for Parts — who started hormone replacement therapy during her junior year of high school and whose “birth certificate, Social Security card and driver’s license confirm” her sex as female. Later in February, Parts “commenced engaging in self-harm” by cutting herself with a razor, the lawsuit says; in April, she told a friend she wanted to kill herself.

Really? My Social Security card, re-issued on August 18, 2017 when I requested a new copy, doesn’t list my sex at all; how shocking that Mr Parts’ does. 🙂

I noticed that it did not say that Mr Parts had any of his parts cut off. 🙂

Yeah, I went there!

This is part of the problem: Mr Parts, and other ‘transgendered’ individuals seem to think that a piece of paper somehow determines their sex, when their actual sex was determined at the moment of conception, when their father’s sperm fertilized their mother’s egg with either an X or a Y chromosome. We can have sympathy for Mr Parts, and all of those others suffering from ‘gender dysphoria,’ but sympathy does not change biological fact.

In her lawsuit, Parts accused Swarthmore of disregarding federal and state law in adopting the NCAA policy. Regulations enacted by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission in 2023 bar discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.

According to the lawsuit, administrators told Parts that their counsel “could not find any way that federal or Pennsylvania state law superseded the NCAA ban on transgender athletes.”

The NCAA is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, which says the organization showed a “reckless indifference to Evie’s rights as a woman” and illegally deprived her of equal opportunity.

Given that Mr Parts is not a woman, that last part fails.

Part of the problem is that if the college insisted that Mr Parts take part in NCAA competitions, the entire team would have been disallowed from participating. “If competition occurs (with a ‘transgender’ athlete’), the team will be considered a mixed team and not eligible to compete against women’s teams.” Mr Parts is saying that his severely hurt feelings outweigh the ability of the real female athletes on Swarthmore’s teams to compete. From Outkick:

The NCAA declined to comment on the lawsuit, while Swarthmore released a statement saying it “deeply values our transgender community members.”

“We recognize that this is an especially difficult and painful time for members of the transgender community, including student-athletes,” the college said. “We worked to support Evie Parts in a time of rapidly evolving guidance, while balancing the ability for other members of the women’s track team to compete in NCAA events.”

So, why is Mr Parts suing Swarthmore College? We can understand why he’d sue the NCAA, because these are NCAA rules, but Swarthmore College would have allowed him to compete against real women if the NCAA would have allowed it. The college has supported him in every way that they legally could. In suing the college, he’s just being an [insert slang term for the anus here].

And that really isn’t much of a surprise. Few people would really care if Steve decided to call himself Eve, as long as he wasn’t trying to use the force of law to compel everyone else to accept him as Eve. But when it comes to people like Mr Parts, he does want to use the force of law to compel other people and institutions to treat him as female, up to and including keeping his other teammates from being unable to compete as well. How can that be described as anything but being an [insert slang term for the anus here]?