Sixteen UPenn women swimmers sent a letter to the university and the Ivy League applauding USA Swimming’s new policy for transgender athletes and arguing against their transgender teammate's participation in the Ivy League Championships this month.
. Under the new NCAA guidance, athletes will look to the trans athlete policies developed by their sports’ national or international governing bodies. For swimming, those bodies are USA Swimming and FINA, the international swimming federation, but FINA is still developing its own policy.
The letter from Thomas’ teammates, which was sent Thursday by Nancy Hogshead-Makar, an Olympic champion in swimming and founder of, a nonprofit group that provides legal advocacy for girls and women in sports, said they “fully support” Thomas in her decision to affirm her gender identity. The athletes conclude by asking Penn and the Ivy League to refrain from suing the NCAA or trying “to interfere with or weaken” the new policies established by USA Swimming, urging that the policies should “be allowed to stand, so that we are able to finish our swimming season with distinction and pride.”
Joanna Harper, a trans runner and a visiting fellow for transgender athletic performance at England’s Loughborough University who published the first performance analysis of transgender athletes in 2015, said no other national or international sport governing body has required more than 24 months of hormone therapy for trans female athletes.
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