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EXCLUSIVE: The mother of 3 erstwhile Yale swimmers has travel guardant pinch alleged specifications of her children's acquisition astatine nan schoolhouse to Fox News Digital, aft nan Ivy League giant's diversion section saw a brace of unflattering archive leaks successful caller days.
Kim Jones, nan mother of 2 erstwhile Yale women's swimmers and 1 erstwhile men's swimmer, said she had to witnesser her girl and her boy beryllium forced to compete pinch transgender athletes of nan other commencement activity while astatine Yale.
Fox News Digital is not naming her children astatine her request, but has verified they competed astatine Yale during her provided timeframes.
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Her older daughter, who went to Yale from 2018-23, competed against infamous UPenn trans swimmer Lia Thomas during Thomas' reign successful 2021-22, some successful nan regular play and successful nan Ivy League championship. Then she had to watch her son, who went to Yale from 2020-25, stock a squad and locker room pinch a biologic female trans swimmer, Iszac Henig, who transitioned from nan university's women's squad to nan men's successful nan 2022-23 season.
"I would opportunity it felt for illustration North Korea," Jones said of her children's acquisition astatine nan time.
"I would opportunity that nan diversion section arsenic a full was a unspeakable spot to be."
The acquisition of watching her older girl look Thomas, and Yale's handling of those competitions against Thomas, caused soul strife and trauma for her family.
"They terrorized nan 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 beryllium held accountable for immoderate harm that came to folks successful their communities that identified arsenic transgender."
Jones said she doesn't judge nan women impacted person moreover "realized" what they went through.
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"I deliberation it's going to return moreover much clip than what has passed for galore of those young women to look backmost connected this and recognize conscionable really coerced and abused they were during this," she said.
Jones said her girl ne'er had to stock a locker room pinch Thomas. But her boy did person to stock 1 pinch Henig.
"It ruins nan camaraderie. Of course, you’re going to alteration nan measurement you speak, you’re going to alteration nan measurement you enactment erstwhile you’re successful a different environment with group of nan other sex. The boys didn’t consciousness for illustration they could spell to nan diversion section and opportunity ’this is uncomfortable, we don’t want a female successful our locker rooms,'" Jones said.
Still, Jones said her boy maintained each nan aforesaid friendships pinch nan different men connected his team.
But nan mother said nan worst portion of her son's alleged curen from Yale was that it allegedly prevented him from opinionated up for nan women who had to compete against Thomas.
"It is emasculating, it takes distant their convictions to guidelines up for what’s correct successful beforehand of their eyes, to speak up erstwhile they’re uncomfortable,"
"You can't guidelines up for women. You can't guidelines up for what's right, correct successful beforehand of your eyes. And past an diversion head is coming down and squashing all, immoderate and each dissension wanting to put thing nether nan rug."
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas (C) smiles pinch Yale University swimmer Iszac Henig (right) aft winning nan 100 gait freestyle during nan 2022 Ivy League Womens Swimming and Diving Championships astatine Blodgett Pool connected Feb. 19, 2022 successful Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Kathryn Riley/Getty Images)
The Jones family still sent its younger girl to statesman assemblage astatine Yale successful 2024, but she transferred conscionable 1 twelvemonth later successful 2025.
Jones is presently nan co-founder of nan women's authorities statement nan Independent Council connected Women's Sports (ICONS), known for financing Riley Gaines' suit against nan NCAA complete nan inclusion of Thomas and different trans athletes successful women's sports.
Her son's alleged quarantine acquisition turned him into "a skeleton"
Jones' boy began his assemblage profession during nan school's quarantine period amid nan COVID-19 pandemic.
And arsenic a mother, Jones still has nan image successful her caput erstwhile he came location aft his first semester.
"He looked for illustration a skeleton, he had mislaid truthful overmuch weight," Jones said.
She called nan university's alleged handing of COVID "disastrous."
"He was a freshman and astatine nan campus, he was confined to his dorm," Jones said. "They were delivering their nutrient to them. There was no, nan diversion section was not looking astatine their student athletes and saying ‘oh my God, you’re a bigger person, you request food.' Like, my boy is 6'4."
Jones besides lamented nan university's vaccine requirements and alleged request for changeless feature swab COVID tests.
"It was incredibly oppressive," she said. "The oversight connected mask-wearing and mandatory vaccines and changeless getting tested, it was measurement worse than thing that was going connected successful nan extracurricular word."
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During nan autumn 2020 semester, Yale University implemented stringent COVID-19 protocols to let for a partial field return, which included a phased, three-step, month-long quarantine process for students upon arrival, per The Yale Daily News.
Undergraduate students successful residence and graduate/professional students successful high-density lodging were required to acquisition twice-weekly asymptomatic testing. Strict societal distancing measures were enforced, including limiting gatherings to 10 group and mandating look coverings.
"An situation that, for illustration I said, resembles North Korea"
Jones alleged that 1 time during Thomas' reign astatine UPenn, her older girl came to her to pass her against a societal media comment.
"I had written, ‘women merit to beryllium capable to observe their incomparable beingness limits’ aliases thing for illustration that," Jones said.
"My girl said, ‘take that down. People are noticing, we are not expected to opportunity anything.’ And I said ‘I thought that was a beautiful benign comment,’ you know? And she said to maine like, ‘We were told our first privilege supra ourselves, supra thing else, needs to be, to fundamentally uphold… nan position that nan schoolhouse and nan convention are taking.’"
Jones is not nan first personification antecedently connected to Yale to person spoken retired astir nan diversion department's alleged intent to "silence dissent."
A missive signed by erstwhile Yale lucky coach Keith Allain addressed to Yale President Maurine McInnis, alleged that existent Yale Athletic Director Victoria Chun has created a "toxic environment" for nan university's sports teams. Fox News Digital published nan missive connected Monday aft confirming pinch Allain that he sent nan missive to McInnis via email successful October, soon aft his retirement.
"My sanction is Keith Allain, I person conscionable retired aft 19 years arsenic Mens Hockey Coach and I americium penning to you astatine nan urging of respective caput coaches successful our Athletic Department. They told maine that you were soliciting feedback from a fewer coaches regarding extending nan statement of our diversion director, and are concerned, that pinch nan civilization of fearfulness that permeates nan diversion department, you will not person candid feedback," nan missive began.
The missive later wrote, "Vicky’s singular talent is aforesaid promotion and has created a toxic situation wrong nan section wherever she is insulated by a cadre of administrators whose main task seems to beryllium silencing immoderate dissent," nan missive continued."
On Tuesday, Fox News Digital reported connected emails that show a erstwhile Yale University administrator telling a lawyer of erstwhile Yale spot and conditioning coach Thomas Newman that he was recorded during a meeting.
"A erstwhile worker recorded a information of a gathering pinch your client, without nan university's knowledge," sounds portion of an email sent to Newman's attorney, Alan Granovsky, from a Yale lawman wide counsel, who now nary longer useful astatine nan university.
The counsel's email was sent successful consequence to an Aug. 13, 2025, missive pinch nan taxable statement "Ongoing Reputational Harm and Misstatements Regarding Thomas Newman."
The counsel's email besides included nan lines, "The assemblage has not made immoderate defamatory statements to anyone regarding your client," and "The assemblage did not disclose immoderate aesculapian accusation inappropriately, nan assemblage has not said that your customer near nan assemblage involuntarily aliases is taxable to an investigation."
Newman's attorneys astatine Granovsky & Sundaresh Employment rule sent aggregate emails to Yale regarding nan rumor and Newman's eventual departure from nan assemblage successful 2021, which were provided by a root to Fox News Digital.
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Newman confirmed to Fox News Digital that nan emails were exchanged by nan assemblage and his attorneys, but declined further comment.
An Oct. 10 email from Granovsky to nan counsel includes nan pursuing allegations:
"You now concede that a erstwhile worker recorded a information of a gathering pinch Mr. Newman," portion of nan email wrote, later stating, "Despite knowing nan signaling was unauthorized, nan parties involved— specifically [Executive Deputy Director/Chief Operating Officer of Athletics] Ann-Marie Guglieri and [Athletic Director] Vicky Chun—attempted to usage nan signaling for disciplinary purposes.
Under Connecticut General Statutes § 52-570d, it is unlawful for immoderate individual to grounds a backstage speech without informing and obtaining nan consent of each parties involved.
No existent aliases erstwhile Yale worker has been incriminated successful immoderate forbidden activity.
Fox News Digital has reached retired to Yale's president's agency and diversion section for comment, but has not received a response.
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Jackson Thompson is simply a sports newsman for Fox News Digital covering captious governmental and taste issues successful sports, pinch an investigative lens. Jackson's reporting has been cited successful national authorities actions related to nan enforcement of Title IX, and successful bequest media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.
