Olympic Champion Rips NCAA For Ignoring Biological Women, Fairness in Sports

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In Light Of NCAA Announcement, Olympic Champion Slams Governing Body For Ignoring Biological Women

Following the NCAA’s announcement that it will not adopt USA Swimming’s recently revealed guidelines for participation by transgender athletes, leading women’s sports advocate and attorney Nancy Hogshead-Makar hit out at the organizing body for collegiate sports in the United States. A four-time Olympic medalist, Hogshead-Makar has spent the past two months fighting for fairness for biological female athletes.

Hogshead-Makar’s most-recent battle for a level playing field has been the result of Lia Thomas, a transgender woman at the University of Pennsylvania, posting some of the top times in the country in her events. Thomas was formerly a member of the men’s squad at Penn, but transitioned to female and joined the women’s team. She has been on testosterone suppressants, but her male-puberty advantage, according to science, provides advantages unavailable to biological women.

Last week, USA Swimming revealed its new guidelines for transgender participation, including the need to return a test with a testosterone threshold lower than 5 nmol/L. The NCAA initially indicated it would adopt USA Swimming’s guidelines, but announced on Thursday that it would require transgender athletes to produce a testosterone threshold of 10 nmol/L. If Thomas can get down to that level, she will be eligible to compete at the NCAA Championships next month in Atlanta.

“Once again, biological women’s cry for fair sports competition has gone unheard,” Hogshead-Makar said. “Despite over a dozen studies demonstrating that transgender woman Lia Thomas has unfair physical, biological advantages that biological women cannot match, biological women are not at the table making decisions about our sport category. If you re-read the NCAA’s statement, biological women’s interests were never considered, they aren’t even mentioned.

“Mostly, it has been women that fought for creating ‘women’s’ sports. And yet, their voice and interests have been excluded from the NCAA’s decision-making process. I’m sadly aware that cis women’s exclusion from the table has been purposeful. I assure you, women are determined to rectify their sport’s eligibility criteria, to be consistent with science and fairness.

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Stuart
Stuart
2 years ago

Using trans-washed terminology just emboldens the trans activists. there are women and there are men and they should be referred to as such. And men should never be allowed to compete against women. Using terms like trans-women and cis-women descends into the Seinfeld Bizarro World.

Bud
Bud
2 years ago
Reply to  Stuart

I can’t wait till some transgender guy gets in the fight ring like the new college wrestling and beats some woman’s brains in and let’s see what the ncaa response is to that. We as a society are allfffff up.

Mom
Mom
2 years ago

The term “cis-women” is offensive. I am a woman/female. A transgender man/male like Lia Thomas is not.

I am not surprised that the NCAA is only considering the exclusion of transgender individuals while ignoring the exclusion of biological women/females.

Neither am I surprised that Penn is trying to shut down the voices of female athletes.

tell me a story nory
tell me a story nory
2 years ago
Reply to  Mom

It’s still the same NCAA that spent almost the entire 1970s literally trying to fight Title IX in court.

Peter
Peter
2 years ago

Is it really true, as Nancy Hogshead-Makar claims, that “biological women are not at the table making decisions about our sport category?”
What is the biological sex of the decision makers in this case?
I agree with Hogshead-Makar that Lia Thomas should be excluded from female competitions because she obviously has retained significant advantages from going through male puberty.

Madge
Madge
2 years ago
Reply to  Peter

He.

Roger Grey
Roger Grey
2 years ago

It is a violation of Title IX to allow a male (XY) swimmer to compete against female (XX) swimmers. The law is based upon sex, not perceived gender, and is not subject to “interpretation” by any agency or court. Change the law if you want a different outcome.

OceanSpirit
OceanSpirit
2 years ago

Lia can decide in his mind that he wants to be a woman but he will never be one because he’s a MAN. Let’s be real here. When he competed on the men’s team he was ranked somewhere like 462. He transitions to be “called” a woman, joins the women’s team and is now ranked number 1. LIA THOMAS IS A CHEATER. End of story. All of his wins have a big fat asterisk next to them. They are not legitimate. If he were still racing against men, we wouldn’t even know his name.

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