Competitive swimming effectively bans transwomen from defeating female swimmers.

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The world swimming body effectively bans transgender women from women's events

The decision was the latest salvo in an ongoing fight over whether trans athletes should compete according to their gender identity or their sex assigned at birth.

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FINA, the world governing body for swimming, has voted to effectively ban transgender women from participating in women's swimming competitions.

The vote — with 71.5% approval at the FINA Extraordinary General Congress 2022 in Budapest — was the latest salvo in an ongoing fight over whether trans athletes should compete according to their gender identity or their sex assigned at birth.

"We have to protect the rights of our athletes to compete, but we also have to protect competitive fairness at our events, especially the women's category at FINA competitions," FINA's president, Husain Al-Musallam, said in a statement.

Under the policy, transgender women must show that "they have not experienced any part of male puberty beyond Tanner Stage 2 or before age 12, whichever is later," a move that effectively eliminates their eligibility to compete in the women's category. Tanner Stages describe the physical changes people undergo during puberty.

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FINA said it was necessary to use sex and sex-linked traits to determine eligibility criteria because of the "performance gap" that appears between males and females during puberty.

A simple sense of fairness and good sportspersonship should have prevented Lia Thomas from competing against women who did not have his advantage in having gone through male puberty and had years to build up muscles aided by male hormones.

 

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Best news of the year! AMAZING!

 

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Wow, this story is really under the radar with the announcement of the Roe V. Wade overturning.

The left really overplayed their hand by rallying behind this obvious scammer who has nothing female about him except the name he adopted and his willingness to change into a girl's swimsuit in front of college-age girls.

His greatest asset as a swimmer is not his male hormones and his having gone through male puberty. It is his absolute lack of shame in suing those advantages to cheat hard-working young women out of the victories that they have earned.

 

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Wow, this story is really under the radar with the announcement of the Roe V. Wade overturning.

The left really overplayed their hand by rallying behind this obvious scammer who has nothing female about him except the name he adopted and his willingness to change into a girl's swimsuit in front of college-age girls.

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His greatest asset as a swimmer is not his male hormones and his having gone through male puberty. It is his absolute lack of shame in suing those advantages to cheat hard-working young women out of the victories that they have earned.

There's always someone with no shame ready to sue because they're spoiled rotten and feel entitled! Years ago some guy had a problem with a leg and didn't think he should have to walk a golf course during a tournament! He got all kinds of sympathy, but that isn't how it works! WHY feel "I deserve consideration even though others are following the established rules?"