World swimming’s governing body has effectively banned transgender women from competing in women’s events, starting Monday.
FILE - University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. World swimmings governing body has adopted new rules for transgender athletes, only permitting swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in womens events. FINA members voted 71.5% in favor of the new gender inclusion policy at the organizations extraordinary general congress on Sunday, June 19, 2022.
“They’re not saying everyone should transition by age 11, that’s ridiculous. You can’t transition by that age in most countries and hopefully you wouldn’t be encouraged to. Basically, what they’re saying is that it is not feasible for people who have transitioned to compete without having an advantage.”The World Professional Association for Transgender Healthfor starting gender transition hormone treatment to 14 and some surgeries to 15 or 17.
“No one quite knows how this is going to work. And we need to include a lot of different people, including transgender athletes, to work out how it would work," he said."So there are no details of how that would work. The open category is something that will start being discussed tomorrow.”The members voted 71.
In March, Lia Thomas made history in the United States as the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship, the 500-yard freestyle.on ABC’s “Good Morning America" that she was aiming to become an Olympic swimmer. She also disputed those who say she has an unfair biological edge that ruins the integrity of women’s athletics, saying “trans women are not a threat to women’s sports.
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