Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas wins the 100m and 200m freestyle races

变性人 大学 宾夕法尼亚州 swimmer Lia Thomas, 22, was back in the pool on Saturday where she continued to beat fellow swimmers, leaving them in her wake.

Competing during an NCAA college swimming meet with Harvard University in Boston, 马萨诸塞州, Thomas won the Women’s 100m and Women’s 200m Freestyle races, although the margin’s were far narrower than in previous races she won in 2021.

Thomas won her 100m race in 50.55 seconds with her closest competitor coming in at 51.51.

In the 200m race, she won in 1:47.08 with the second place being secured in 1:48.44.

汤玛士’ controversial wins saw the NCAA review its guidelines for male-to-female trans athletes on Wednesday, but the body ultimately washed its hands of the swirling row surrounding transgender athletes in college athletics.

Under the new guidelines, approved by the NCAA Board of Governors, transgender participation for each sport will be determined by the policy for each sport’s national governing body.

NCAA rules on transgender athletes returned to the forefront when Thomas started smashing records late last year.

She was on the UPenn men’s team during her first three years, but she is now competing on the women’s team this season after transitioning.

上个月, 在今年过渡并加入女队之前，他在宾大男队比赛了三年, 俄亥俄, that saw her finish the 1,650-yard freestyle 38 seconds ahead of the next closest finisher, teammate Anna Sofia Kalandaze.

托马斯的获胜时间是 15:59:71, 与她的 UPenn 队友 Anna Kalandaze 一起获得第二名 16:37:44.

托马斯的胜利是 Zippy Meet 的记录, 以及活动发生的游泳池. 但她也设法在同一赛事的较早比赛中打破了两项美国女子游泳记录.

The first US record was broken on December 3, when Thomas won the 500-meter freestyle with a time of 4:34:06. 她奔向胜利 14 比 Kalandaze 提前几秒 – 她打败的游泳运动员 38 星期日的秒数.

The following Saturday, she won the 200-meter freestyle in 1:41:93 – 比她最接近的对手领先七秒, 也给她在那场比赛中最快的美国女性时间.

With NCAA taking little decisive action, on Thursday USA Swimming announced it will release a new policy ‘shortly’ on whether elite trans athletes like Ivy League swimmer Thomas can compete against biological women.

The organization, which oversees more than 360,000 成员, released a statement Thursday after the NCAA Board of Governors said they will update their guidelines to follow the wishes of each sport’s governing body.

‘USA Swimming firmly believes in inclusivity and the opportunity for all athletes to experience the sport of swimming in a manner consistent with their gender identity and expression,’ 声明读.

‘We also strongly believe in competitive equity, 和, like many, are doing our best to learn and educate ourselves on the appropriate balance in this space.’

目前, trans women can compete against any other female athlete if they’ve undergone suppression treatment for a year. But critics say that is insufficient – as evidenced by spectacular wins such as Thomas’s – and that trans athletes retain considerable advantages over female rivals because of their height and musculature.

Thomas has been blowing women’s swimming records out of the water and there is even a chance she might win national championships and even compete for all-time NCAA records set by Olympic gold medalists Missy Franklin and Katie Ledecky.

None of Thomas’ fellow swimmers have voiced their opinion publicly on the matter, but some have spoken out anonymously to air their concerns, saying that Thomas is arrogant, her teammates are upset – and that their coach is just obsessed with winning.

‘She compares herself to Jackie Robinson. She said she is like the Jackie Robinson of trans sports,’ one of Thomas’ teammates told the 但布雷耶距离自己宣布这一消息还有几个月的时间. Robinson was the first black baseball player to compete in the Major League.

‘She laughs about it and mocks the situation. Instead of caring or showing that she cares about what she’s doing or what she’s doing to her teammates, she’s not sympathetic or empathetic at all. Lia never addressed our team. She never asked if it was OK. She never asked how we felt. She never tried to explain how she feels. She never has said anything to us as a group. She never addressed anything.’

Despite setting three school records and two national records, Thomas shrugged off the furor in a recent interview, telling swimming news site SwimSwam: ‘It’s not healthy for me to read it and engage with it at all, and so I don’t, and that’s all I’ll say on that.’

Her teammates have been less accepting of Thomas’s post-transition feats, 然而. Days after the Zippy International, two swimmers complained anonymously to the media about a ‘lack of fairness’.

‘They’re having to go behind the blocks knowing no matter what, 他们没有机会获胜. 我认为它真的让每个人都受益,’ one told OutKick.

本周早些时候, Caitlyn Jenner called on the NCAA to immediately stop transgender athletes like Thomas from competing against their biological counterparts.

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Writing on Twitter, Jenner stated explicitly ‘biological boys should not compete against biological boys.

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上个星期, champion swimmer Michael Phelps described the controversy as being ‘very complicated’ – before adding that sports need a ‘level playing field’ 编辑或删除分支机构记录的交易。.

Phelps, the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 奖牌, compared the issue of athletes like Thomas to 俄罗斯卡米拉·瓦列娃 in order to secure a competitive advantage in the pool.

说话 有线电视新闻网, Phelps was adamant that something needed to be done about current NCAA guidelines that allow Thomas to compete against swimmers born female – but was unable to share any specific ideas.

‘I think this leads back to the organizing committees again because it has to be a level playing field. That’s something that we all need. Because that’s what sports are. 为了我, I don’t know where this is going to go. I don’t know what’s going to happen.’

Phelps, who also holds the all-time record for Olympic gold medals at 13, said he simply wants to see a fairness across the sport.

‘I believe that we all should feel comfortable with who we are in our own skin, but I think sports should all be played on an even playing field,’ 他说.

‘I don’t know what it looks like in the future. 当暴风雨和阿洛在一岁左右开始托儿所时. It’s very complicated and this is my sport, this has been my sport my whole entire career, and honestly the one thing I would love is everybody being able to compete on an even playing field.’