{"id":498603,"date":"2022-03-01T16:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T23:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=498603"},"modified":"2022-03-01T16:20:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T23:20:04","slug":"ncaa-appears-to-give-lia-thomas-green-light-to-compete-at-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-appears-to-give-lia-thomas-green-light-to-compete-at-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Appears to Give Lia Thomas Green Light to Compete at Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NCAA Appears to Give Lia Thomas Green Light to Compete at Championships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the NCAA declined to confirm on Tuesday whether <strong>Lia Thomas<\/strong> has officially been given the green light to compete at the NCAA Women\u2019s Championships, it appears the University of Pennsylvania swimmer will race at the meet in Atlanta. A transgender woman, Thomas has been the center of controversy for the past two-plus months, with debate raging over whether she should have the chance to compete against biological females.<\/p>\n<p>The NCAA released its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/womens-ncaa-championships-pre-cut-psych-sheet-regan-smith-top-seed-in-three-events-lia-thomas-tops-in-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pre-meet psych sheets<\/a> on Tuesday, and Thomas was listed as an entrant in the 100-yard freestyle, 200 freestyle and 500 freestyle. She is the top seed in the longer events, based on her performances from early December at the Zippy Invitational in Ohio. She won all three of her NCAA entries at the recent Ivy League Championships.<\/p>\n<p>When the season started, Thomas was in compliance with an NCAA rule that required transgender women to have undergone hormone-suppressant therapy for at least a year prior to competition. The NCAA rule, though, was based on early 2010s science and controversy erupted, primarily concerning the advantages held by Thomas due to undergoing male puberty. In response to arguments over Thomas\u2019 participation in a women\u2019s sport, the NCAA indicated it would follow USA Swimming\u2019s guidelines to determine transgender eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>USA Swimming eventually announced the adoption of new guidelines that required transgender women to have a testosterone threshold of 5 nmols\/L for 36 consecutive months. The <a href=\"http:\/\/ncaa.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA<\/a>, in response, indicated it would not follow USA Swimming\u2019s guidelines and stated that it would require athletes to produce a testosterone threshold of 10 nmols\/L prior to the NCAA Championships. The average testosterone threshold for a female is .5 to 2.4 nmols\/L.<\/p>\n<p>Whether Thomas produced that requirement is unknown, as the NCAA declined to comment, even to the simple question of whether Thomas will be allowed to compete. Yet, with her name on the psych sheets, it appears Thomas will be eligible to race in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ncaaorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/inclusion\/lgbtq\/SSI_TransgenderSADeadlinesAndThresholds.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCAA Appears to Give Lia Thomas Green Light to Compete at Championships Although the NCAA declined to confirm on Tuesday whether Lia Thomas has officially been given the green 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