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The participation of transgender people in competitive sports, a traditionally sex-segregated institution, [1] is a controversial issue, particularly the inclusion of transgender women and girls in women's sports . Opponents argue that transgender women have an unfair advantage over, and may endanger, cisgender women in competitive sports due ...
Lia Catherine Thomas [2] (born May 1999) is an American swimmer. She was the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women's 500-yard freestyle event in 2022, before being barred from competing in women's events by World Aquatics. Thomas' career has been a part of the public debate about ...
Over the last few years, there’s been a wave of anti-trans legislation seeking to bar trans youth, and especially trans girls, from K–12 sports in both schools and publicly-funded facilities ...
In arguing for the bill, Sawyer pointed to 17 examples of “how women didn’t win in their respective sports” including Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who won the NCAA 500-yard freestyle ...
Story at a glance. Lia Thomas, a transgender woman and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, told ABC News in an interview on Tuesday that she doesn’t need “permission” to live and ...
Sport. Track and field. Andraya Yearwood (born 2002) is an American transgender student athlete from Connecticut. Yearwood began competing on a high school girls' team in early April 2017 and won first place in the girls 100- and 200-meter dashes. [1] Yearwood's second-place finish at the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC ...
April 8, 2024 at 4:02 PM. The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics announced a policy Monday that all but bans transgender athletes from competing in women's sports at its 241 mostly ...
Veronica Ivy (born 1982), formerly Rachel McKinnon, is a Canadian competitive cyclist and transgender rights activist. In 2018, she became the first transgender world track cycling champion by placing first at the UCI Women's Masters Track World Championship for the women's 35–44 age bracket.