While some biologically female college athletes and their parents are upset about transgender swimmer Lia Thomas’ perceived competitive advantage — but feel “shamed into silence,”…
In March, Thomas became the first openly-transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship when she came first in the women’s 500-yard freestyle event.Thomas’ supporters vehemently disagree with activists like Hogshead-Makar and Navratilova who they see as anti-trans or transphobic. Purdue University professor Cheryl Cooky compared Thomas to Jackie Robinson breaking the sports color barrier in anand claimed that trans women do not have an unfair advantage over cisgender women.
“You sacrifice so much to get to that elite level,” said Jeri Shanteau, 37, of Austin, Texas, a three-time NCAA team champion and 11-time All American, and one of the few in the movement who will speak publicly. “You never go to parties. You don’t go to Homecoming. You have this internal drive to reach your goals and you’re motivated by having to hit all these milestones along the way.”
Hogshead-Makar said she was “in the room” in 2010 when the NCAA introduced its first rules for transgender athletes that called for a year of hormone suppression therapy in order to compete. She said it made sense to her at the time. Now it doesn’t. Both she and Navratilova say recent scientific studies have shown that hormone therapy alone doesn’t reverse the effects of eight or so years of testosterone in trans female athletes.
“If we recognize the Equality Act, then someone could self-identify as a woman right before Wimbledon, get the $4 million in prize money and then self ID back to a man the next day,” said Hogshead-Makar, 59, who won three golds and a silver at the 1984 Olympics. “It would be illegal to ask for proof of any kind.”
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