#transgender-athletes

#transgender-athletes

That's a tricky question. I have nothing to do against [trans people], but I feel like they still got a huge advantage over the woman, and I think it's just not fair to the woman to basically face biologically a man. It's not fair, the woman been working her whole life to reach her limit, and then she has to face a man, which is biologically much stronger, so for me I don't agree with this kind of stuff in sport.

According to independent journalist Marisa Kabas, who first reported the news in her newsletter The Handbasket this week, the policy change was made to comply with a February 5 executive order rescinding federal funding for educational programs that allow trans women and girls to participate in women's and girls' athletics programs. Kabas reports that the change came in response to a directive from the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

I have been swimming in sanctioned events for over 30 years, and I am prepared to let it all go,

if the suspension is the price she has to pay to "protect my most intimate medical information" then she is "happy to pay".

Trump's return to the presidency has sparked an aggressive agenda aimed at reversing progress on civil rights, exacerbating economic inequality, and entwining power within a plutocracy.

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to bar transgender athletes from women's sports and erase records set by trans swimmer Lia Thomas as a resolution to a federal civil rights investigation.

The University of Pennsylvania has agreed to ban transgender women from its women's sports teams to resolve a federal civil rights case that found the school violated the rights of female athletes.