Thomas: "Trans people don't transition for athletics, we transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves. Transitioning to get an advantage is not something that ever factors into our decisions."

Thomas: "Trans women are not a threat to women's sports."

Thomas: "I just want to show trans kids and younger trans athletes that they’re not alone, they don’t have to choose between who they are and the sport they love.”

Thomas: "I’ve always viewed myself as just a swimmer. It’s what I’ve done for so long; it’s what I love."

Thomas: "I don’t know exactly what the future of my swimming will look like after this year, but I would love to continue doing it. I want to swim and compete as who I am."

Thomas: "I’m a woman, just like anybody else on the team."

Thomas: "It was a goal of mine to be at that meet and do as well as I could. So to be able to fulfill that personal goal and be at that meet as well as the sort of fulfillment of competing as my authentic self was just such an amazing experience, to have these things that I've been working towards for so long all come together."

Thomas: "I don’t look into the negativity and the hate, I am here to swim."

Thomas: "When I was a young kid, my mom always would describe me as a very happy kid, and then sort of in middle school and high school, as I, like, went through puberty, that shifted a little bit, with gender dysphoria from being trans, but I didn't have, I didn't yet know or have the language to describe that."

Thomas: "I get into the water every day and do my best."

Thomas: "You can't go halfway and be, like, 'I support trans women and trans people, but only to a certain point,' where if you support trans women as women they've met all the NCAA requirements, then I don't know if you can really say something like that."