Lia Thomas

It's unclear if FINA's new policy is going to be adopted by NCAA, which would presumably bar Lia Thomas from competing in any future women's swimming ...

She wrote, "It worked! She made history this year by winning a national title in women's swimming, the 500-meter freestyle. It's ill-defined at this point, but they're tasking a team to investigate it further. The spox adds, "They’re not saying everyone should transition by age 11, that’s ridiculous. It’s what the scientists are saying, that if you transition after the start of puberty, you have an advantage, which is unfair." The reason ... they say there's no question a trans female athlete that has already gone through male puberty has an unfair physical advantage over cisgender females.

British sports governing bodies are under mounting pressure to reform their policies after world swimming banned transgender athletes who reached male puberty ...

The International Cycling Union (UCI) announced a new policy on Thursday, opting to allow transgender women to compete if they have gone through puberty provided their testosterone has been suppressed to below 2.5nmol per litre for at least two years. Biological females deserve the same opportunities of success in sport as their male counterparts.” Also important that trans women are able to compete in own class, this is the solution.” “Equality is also a key principle for us. However, I have an obligation to every single one of our athletes. Al-Musallam said swimming’s new policy was “based on real science” and there is confidence it will prove robust against any legal challenge in being “necessary and proportionate to achieve a legitimate” objective.

FINA announced a ban Sunday on biological men competing in women's events, unless they had “transitioned” before the age of 12.

It was couched in the familiar activist mantra: “It’s better to have a live son than a dead daughter.” In fact, if anything, it demonstrates the opposite.” Chloe decided she was transgender at 12, was placed on puberty blockers and prescribed testosterone at 13 and had a double mastectomy at 15. The unfairness was clear when University of Pennsylvania transgender swimmer Lia Thomas started blitzing the competition. By 16 she realized it was all a mistake. And it is a slap in the face to the Biden administration’s embrace of gender ideology as some sort of moral crusade.

Swimming's world governing body FINA on Sunday voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women's competitions.

Swimming will always welcome everyone no matter how you identify but fairness is the cornerstone of sport.” If we truly want to protect women’s sports, we must include all women,” they said in a post on twitter. Article content Article content Article content Article content

The international swimming federation said transgender women who had experienced male puberty could not compete in women's events.

“At the international level, there is some logic to do this,” she said of the restrictions. Harper, who supports sport-specific restrictions on testosterone levels for transgender women at the international level, said she was concerned that even local organizations would feel justified in barring transgender athletes. She said the regulations would “not be enforceable without seriously violating the privacy and human rights of any athlete looking to compete in the women’s category.” In 2019, the court upheld the world track and field federation’s regulations on athletes born with both male and female genitalia that had prohibited them from competing unless they took medication to suppress their testosterone levels. Thomas, who competed for the University of Pennsylvania, was lauded by supporters as a brave and courageous athlete this year, but her performance also sparked a backlash. But it also said that “until evidence determines otherwise, athletes should not be deemed to have an unfair or disproportionate competitive advantage due to their sex variations, physical appearance and/or transgender status.” Tim Hinchey III, the chief executive of U.S.A. Swimming, did not respond to a message on Sunday. During Thomas’s championship season, U.S.A. Swimming, the sport’s national governing body, passed new rules that allowed transgender women to compete if they had taken medication that had sufficiently suppressed their testosterone levels continuously for 36 months. I’m a woman, so I belong on the women’s team.” She has also said that she hopes to try to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team in 2024. More than 70 percent of FINA’s member federations voted to adopt the policy, which was devised by a working group set up in November that included athletes, scientists and medical and legal experts. The move, however, came just three months after Lia Thomas became the first transgender woman to win an N.C.A.A. Division I swimming championship — she won the 500-yard women’s freestyle — putting a spotlight on the issue. The vote by FINA, which administers international competitions in water sports, prohibits transgender women from competing unless they began medical treatments to suppress production of testosterone before going through one of the early stages of puberty, or by age 12, whichever occurred later.

Fina's policy creates a situation where trans women are allowed to compete in name only – never fairly.

Claims of inclusion are insulting when the policy makes it impossible in practice for trans women to compete at an elite level. This decision will be used to justify anti-trans policies in other sports in the future, and continues to toxify the debate on trans inclusion in sport. Instead, the policy creates a situation where trans women are allowed to compete in name only; never fairly. It can only be justified by arguing that trans women have no right to expect competitive fairness at all. This is the same reason we have weight categories in sports such as rowing: it allows a greater range of people to be able to be competitive. Fina argues that they have found an approach that “emphasis[es] competitive fairness”. But this can only be true if you ignore that trans women like Thomas will now be required to race against men with whom they could never effectively compete.

With the new vote, FINA, which is recognized by the International Olympic Committee, will ban transgender athletes who transitioned after age 12. The ...

Riley Gaines praised the world swimming body for overwhelmingly approving a policy to effectively ban transgender swimmers from competing against women.

"It's a huge time commitment," Gaines said. FINA voted to approve the new "gender inclusion policy" on Sunday, which bars athletes who transitioned after 12 years old from competing against women. "It's definitely a step in the right direction," Gaines told co-host Dana Perino. "I think this is kind of the first large governing body that has prioritized fairness in women's sports, and so while it's not everything, it's definitely a bold first step and a step in the right direction."

University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas and tied her for fifth in the 200 freestyle finals at the NCAA ...

"It's a huge time commitment," Gaines added. "You're practicing over 20 hours every week. "It's definitely a step in the right direction," Gaines toldco-host Dana Perino. "I think this is kind of the first large governing body that has prioritized fairness in women's sports, and so while it's not everything, it's definitely a bold first step and a step in the right direction."