Amid trans athlete debate, Penn’s Lia Thomas loses to trans Yale swimmer

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In a rare moment, Lia Thomas and Iszac Henig, two transgender swimmers, swam head-to-head in the 100-yard freestyle at the University of Pennsylvania.

that the margins of her wins were much smaller compared to her performance at the Zippy Invitational in Ohio last month.At that meet, she set at least three records and won the 1,650-yard freestyle by 38 seconds, adding fuel to an ongoing debate about whether the NCAA’s guidelines for transgender athletes are strict enough to ensure fair competition between trans women and cisgender women .

When trans male athletes do receive testosterone as part of their transition, they are no longer eligible to compete on the women’s team and may compete on the men’s.Henig came out as trans to his parents in April but decided to transition socially, a phrase that describes how some trans people change their names, pronouns and outward appearance to align more with their gender identity.

Henig has undergone a double mastectomy, also known as top surgery, but that doesn’t affect his eligibility to compete on the women’s team. Some critics of the NCAA policy, including Nancy Hogshead-Makar, chief executive of women’s sports advocacy organization Champion Women,that there might be enough trans athletes in some sports to allow for a category just for trans people.

 

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The world is upside down

It is a gross injustice to female athletes that biological males are competing with females.This abhorrent political correctness by democrats is truly a shameful moment

You guys have to realize how utterly idiotic this headline is right

Shouldnt the trans male compete with men?

This is such bullshit. America is rolling it's eyes. Your men competing against women. The End.

2 divisions: X(xxx)X or Open. performance enhancers like testosterone are excluded from X(xxx)X division.

Two disgustingly selfish people ruining women's sports. Why is this not being stopped.

So there's were no REAL WOMEN? JUST KIDS PLAYING MAKE BELIEVE? wow. Double wow.. so basically we just saw two BIOLOGICAL MEN TAKE OVER WOMENS SWIMMING?! what? Ya can't compete with men?! Bullshit

So it was a mens competition. Who won the womens division?

Bullies both.

A biological male and female will square off. Cool?

Battle of the mentally ill.

Absolutely ridiculous.

Transgender people should have their own swimming competitions where only they can compete against each other. Neither of these two swimmers should be competing against cis gender women

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Jeez! Now they are bragging two trans competing head-to-head in a so called “female” swimming event

So it was a guys race

History making. Like when Ali took on Frazier.

Wtf!!! We are turning into the Roman version of Caligula

'... is eligible to compete on the women’s team as a trans man because he’s ...' I just want to know how any _honest_ journalist can not be embarrassed by putting that out into the world.

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it's cool how no one in the replies here knows what a trans man is

Eventually, there will be no cis women who can qualify in women's sports. This is an outrage. It is anti-woman.

And the earth didn’t open up?

honk honk

Let them be them.

Congratulations Lia and Iszac for taking part in the transgender race. Who won the biological men's race, and who won the biological women's race?

I think ExposeFauci is more news worthy than this.

Get back to me when they can produce eggs.

I have no issues with males identifying as females if they choose. What they can't 'overcome' is the male genetic advantages when competing with females. This should not be allowed, anywhere.

Were these 2 dudes at the top of a female division? I have no problem with transgender folks in any regard, other than sports, where I’m not sure it’s fair that someone born w a male physical set is now lumped into female competitions just because they are psychologically femine?

By reporting this you hurt trans rights. It gives people the false impression that trans people have the abilities of their former gender. Publish articles of all the other trans people who lose, or don't give a shit about sports.

Looks horrible these two😨

So young girls who worked and trained all their lives have to lose to someone who's hormone therapy is not complete? Still has the muscle mass and strength of a boy? This is so unfair and I will never recognize this as a win. Oh and I am a liberal!

Two guys playing make pretend steal our daughters try. 50 years of woman trying to get equal treatment washed away by men in dresses, swimsuits, weight lifting and track outfits and on game shows. Wake up ladies, before the insanity wipes you clear from the record books..

Men dressed as women beating women at sports

Ok, what's your point?

No need for women in sports any more

This is not fair… especially considering that the mainstream what’s everything to be fair

Which one was cheating by competing in a competition with a gender they don’t feel they belong to?

you mean 2 men

This such blatant propaganda... it is just so in your eyes, you can't even blink it out...

Is there any organization more embarrassing than the NCAA. Lmfao what a joke.

Transgender=Mental illness.

Tuck rule in effect.

just guys being dudes

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Transgendered athletes should compete in their own leagues and divisions. That is the only way to ensure fair competition.

Battle of the queers is always going to be a good show.

Everything is a nightmare right now

To summarize, A male- that wants to become a female, lost to a female- wanting to become a male... Let that sink in for a moment.

So two guys had a race.

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