do you think this is ok?
Hubbard transitioned in 2013, and currently ranks 16th in Olympic qualifying rankings.
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Competitors have trained their whole lives to reach the Olympics.
Only to get slapped in the face by this 'guy'.
Here is an update
Trans swimmer Lia Thomas' Olympic hopes are dashed after a losing legal battle
Thomas made history in 2022, becoming the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship.
Three judges on the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed Thomas’ request for arbitration with the World Aquatics governing body.
“The panel concludes that she lacks standing to challenge the policy and the operational requirements in the framework of the present proceeding,” the court said Wednesday in its ruling.
Thomas, who seldom gives media interviews,
told ABC News’ “Good Morning America” in 2022 that one of her lifelong goals was to compete in the Olympics.
With Wednesday’s ruling in place, she will be unable to participate in this month's qualifying trials to compete in the Olympics.
Under rules established in 2022, World Aquatics banned transgender women who have been through male puberty from competing in women’s races. It also created
an “open” category for which transgender athletes would be eligible.
Thomas had
asked the sports court in Switzerland to overturn the rules last year, arguing they were invalid, unlawful and discriminatory. The rules were established several months after Thomas, then a student at the
University of Pennsylvania, became the first trans woman to win an NCAA swimming championship in 2022.
“The CAS decision is deeply disappointing,” Thomas said in a
statement through her attorney. “Blanket bans preventing trans women from competing are discriminatory and deprive us of valuable athletic opportunities that are central to our identities."
“The CAS decision should be seen as a call to action to all trans women athletes to continue to fight for our dignity and human rights,” Thomas added.
Thomas made history in 2022, becoming the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship.
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