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This letter, directed to the University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League, requested that school and conference do not engage in litigation following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cate-campbell-plans-to-sit-out-commonwealth-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA Swimming&#8217;s release of its new transgender-inclusion policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter was sent to the University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League by three-time Olympic champion Nancy Hogshead-Makar, who is the CEO of Champion Women. Hogshead-Makar has been a longtime advocate of women&#8217;s rights and has fought for equal opportunity for women&#8217;s athletes. During the Lia Thomas debate, Hogshead-Makar has repeatedly noted the unfair advantages of Thomas as a transgender woman when competing against biological females.<\/p>\n<p>Given the fact that team members have released statements both supporting Thomas&#8217; inclusion and USA Swimming&#8217;s decision, there is a fracture among members of the Penn squad concerning how the situation should be handled.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the full letter, shared with Swimming World, which was sent to Penn and the Ivy League.<\/p>\n<p>***************<\/p>\n<p><strong>To:<\/strong> The University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League<br \/>\n<strong>From:<\/strong> Nancy Hogshead-Makar, J.D., CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/championwomen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Champion Women<\/a>, on behalf of 16 Members of the Penn Women\u2019s Swimming Team and Their Families<br \/>\n<strong>Date:<\/strong> February 3, 2022<br \/>\n<strong>Re:<\/strong> We Request that Penn and the Ivy League Do Not Engage in Litigation to Alter the NCAA\u2019s New Eligibility Guidelines for Transgender Athletes<\/p>\n<p>We, 16 members of the Penn Women\u2019s Swimming Team and our family members, thank USA Swimming, for listening to our request to prioritize fairness for biological women in our elite competitions. We ask that Penn and the Ivy League support us as biological women, and not engage in legal action with the NCAA to challenge these new Athlete Inclusion Policies.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, USA Swimming released new \u201cAthlete Inclusion Procedures\u201d shortly after the NCAA acknowledged that each sport should determine how fairness and inclusion were to be accomplished. In particular, we appreciate USAS Guideline\u2019s guiding purpose, to ensure that transgender women competing in the Female competition category \u201cdo not have an unfair advantage over their cisgender Female competitors in Elite Events.\u201d (USAS, page 42, #6 (a))<\/p>\n<p>We fully support Lia Thomas in her decision to affirm her gender identity and to transition from a man to a woman. Lia has every right to live her life authentically.<\/p>\n<p>However, we also recognize that when it comes to sports competition, that the biology of sex is a separate issue from someone\u2019s gender identity. Biologically, Lia holds an unfair advantage over competition in the women\u2019s category, as evidenced by her rankings that have bounced from #462 as a male to #1 as a female. If she were to be eligible to compete against us, she could now break Penn, Ivy, and NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming records; feats she could never have done as a male athlete.<\/p>\n<p>The Penn Women\u2019s Swimming Team has over 40 women, but only 18 of us are chosen to compete in the end-of-year culmination of our work: the Ivy Championships. Most important to us is that Lia\u2019s inclusion with unfair biological advantages means that we have lost competitive opportunities. Some of us have lost records. But even those that swim different events than Lia or were not in contention to make the Ivy Championships, we stand by our teammates who have lost out. It has often felt like Penn, our school, our league, and the NCAA did not support us.<\/p>\n<p>We have dedicated our lives to swimming. Most of us started the same time Lia did, as pre-teens. We have trained up to 20 hours a week, swimming miles, running and lifting weights.\u00a0To be sidelined or beaten by someone competing with the strength, height, and lung capacity advantages that can only come with male puberty has been exceedingly difficult.<\/p>\n<p>We have been told that if we spoke out against her inclusion into women\u2019s competitions, that we would be removed from the team or that we would never get a job offer. When media have tried to reach out to us, these journalists have been told that the coaches and athletes were prohibited from talking to them. We support Lia\u2019s mental health, and we ask Penn and the Ivy League to support ours as well.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that sport will adapt; that swimming will find a place for Lia to compete. Lia is always welcome to train with us; the men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming teams have always trained together with the same head coach.<\/p>\n<p>However, sport is competitive by definition, and Lia\u2019s wins, records, and honors should not come at our expense, the women who have worked their entire lives to earn a spot on the Penn Women\u2019s Swimming Team.<\/p>\n<p>We just celebrated National Girls and Women in Sports Day. In honor of the Title IX pioneers who have worked so hard for women to have opportunities in sports and for educational opportunities for all women, we ask the University of Pennsylvania recognize the importance of providing fair competition and safe spaces for its biological female athletes. Further, we ask that Penn and the Ivy League refrain from suing the NCAA, or try to interfere with or weaken these new Athlete Inclusion Policies, that they be allowed to stand, so that we are able to finish our swimming season with distinction and pride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Penn Swim Team Members Ask School, Ivy League to Refrain From Litigation To Allow Lia Thomas To Race At NCAAs Less than two days after several members of 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