Swimming : Lia Thomas banned as FINA votes to restrict transgender women from competitions

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Lia Thomas banned as FINA votes to restrict transgender women from competitions​

By
Associated Press
June 19, 2022 1:52pm
Updated

BUDAPEST, Hungary — World swimming’s governing body has adopted new rules for transgender athletes, only permitting swimmers who transitioned before age 12 to compete in women’s events.

FINA members voted 71.5% in favor of the new “gender inclusion policy” at the organization’s extraordinary general congress on Sunday. It will apply to all its events from Monday.

The ruling would seemingly exclude University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas from elite competition.

The 24-page policy also includes proposals for a new “open competition” category. FINA said it was setting up “a new working group that will spend the next six months looking at the most effective ways to set up this new category.”

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The vote came after members heard presentations from three specialist groups — an athlete group, a science and medicine group and a legal and human rights group — that had been working together to form the policy following recommendations given by the International Olympic Committee last November.

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won an NCAA women’s championship in March.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
The IOC urged shifting the focus from individual testosterone levels and calling for evidence to prove when a performance advantage existed.

In March, Lia Thomas made history in the United States as the first transgender woman to win an NCAA swimming championship. She won the 500-yard freestyle.

Other sports have also been examining their rules.

Lia Thomas poses with her trophy after winning the NCAA women’s 500-meter freestyle title on March 17, 2022.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
On Thursday, cycling’s governing body updated its eligibility rules for transgender athletes with stricter limits that will force riders to wait longer before they can compete.

The International Cycling Union (UCI) increased the transition period on low testosterone to two years, and lowered the maximum accepted level of testosterone.

The previous transition period was 12 months but the UCI said recent scientific studies show that “the awaited adaptations in muscle mass and muscle strength/power” among athletes who have made a transition from male to female takes at least two years.

Source:https://nypost.com/2022/06/19/fina-votes-to-restrict-transgender-women-from-swimming-events/

 

[Leongsam]

Well done.

 

[syed putra]

Sanity in sports at last!
There should be a new catergory for transgenders in sports.

 

[bobby]

Should be all forms of compettive sports.

Transgenders should hold their own sporting events....and theycan choose to invite regular/normal compettitors too.

 

[Rus]

They are not barred from politics

 

[mojito]

Very shocking level of transphobia. Why can't people let them be women? Deprive them of rights as women? Future generations will remember this. Do u want to be on the wrong side of history?

 

[laksaboy]

Should have never allowed this vile creature and medal thief to compete from the beginning.

To hell with the LGBT libtards who pushed for this. Gender is not a social construct, there are only two genders, now fuck off and die.