{"id":500094,"date":"2022-03-18T16:22:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=500094"},"modified":"2022-03-18T17:21:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T00:21:26","slug":"as-lia-thomas-college-career-nears-end-fight-for-fairness-must-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/as-lia-thomas-college-career-nears-end-fight-for-fairness-must-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"As Lia Thomas&#8217; College Career Nears End, Fight For Fairness Must Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As Lia Thomas&#8217; College Career Nears End, Fight For Fairness Must Continue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The debate is over now, right? Wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Some topics must stay in the headlines. Some controversies just can\u2019t be dismissed. Some discussions must stay active. And so, despite <strong>Lia Thomas<\/strong> faltering on Friday night at the NCAA Women\u2019s Swimming Championships, this is no time to let the transgender-participation storyline fade to black. If that approach was adopted, it would mark a disservice to the sport and to biological women.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get the details of the evening settled. On the third night of the <a href=\"https:\/\/swimmeetresults.tech\/NCAA-Division-I-Women-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA Champs<\/a> in Atlanta, Thomas finished in fifth place in the 200-yard freestyle, an event won by Stanford\u2019s <strong>Taylor Ruck<\/strong> in impressive fashion. For Thomas, the top seed entering the meet, the University of Pennsylvania senior clocked 1:43.40 and was more than a second slower than her season-best swim, and the time she delivered in the morning preliminaries.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 most-recent result arrived 24 hours after she captured an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/ncaa-title-for-lia-thomas-is-joke-with-biological-women-as-punchline-hardly-a-laughing-matter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NCAA title in the 500-yard freestyle<\/a>, making her the first transgender woman to win a collegiate crown. And to be honest, her performance in the 200 freestyle \u2013 from the start \u2013 looked like an effort that didn\u2019t invoke full power.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, of course, is a transgender woman who has been at the center of controversy since early December, when she popped a pair of nation-leading times at the Zippy Invitational. A three-year member of the men\u2019s squad at Penn, Thomas transitioned to female during the COVID-19 pandemic and joined the women\u2019s team for the 2021-22 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Because she underwent more than a year of hormone-suppressant therapy, which met NCAA guidelines, Thomas was deemed eligible for competition. What was overlooked by the governing body were the advantages Thomas reaped from male puberty. A 6-3 frame. Greater natural strength. Larger hands and feet. Enhanced lung capacity. Thomas has put those assets together to morph from also-ran status on the male side to championship caliber in female competition.<\/p>\n<p>The debate surrounding Thomas has been divisive, one side arguing that a transgender woman who underwent male puberty has an unfair edge. The other side has argued that Thomas, living as her authentic self, deserves the opportunity to race as she identifies. With just the 100 freestyle left to contest in her college career, Thomas\u2019 tale is nearing its conclusion at this level.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this topic is one that is unlikely to go away. At some point, another transgender woman will seek to compete in NCAA competition. Additionally, Thomas recently indicated her desire to keep swimming and pursue representation of the United States on the international stage. That scenario necessitates keeping this topic in the present.<\/p>\n<p>To emphasize the need for action, let\u2019s conduct a brief class in mathematics. In no way does 3+2 = 6. You will never see 7-4 = 2. And the answer to 4&#215;3 is not 10.\u00a0But in collegiate swimming, the numbers game has been so warped by the NCAA that 554, in fact, has been the equivalent of No. 1. How did we arrive at that determination? Well, this is the result when an athlete who races with the benefits of male puberty squares off with biological women.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2018-19 campaign, when Thomas was still a member of her school\u2019s men\u2019s program, her best time in the 200-yard freestyle was an effort of 1:39.31. That mark was good for only 554th in the nation (all divisions) and didn\u2019t sniff the qualification standard for the NCAA Champs. Yet, the moment she went 1:41.93 during a December 2021 invitational, she was ranked first among women. Such a shift in standing clearly illuminates the physiological differences between a male-born athletes and biological females.<\/p>\n<p>Based on scientific data and statistics measuring the gap between male and female performances, Thomas\u2019 percentage differences between her men\u2019s-team times and women\u2019s-squad performances are far lower than the average differences between males and females in similar events. For example, the percentage difference between Thomas\u2019 200 freestyle times of three years ago and current day is less than 3%. The difference between the male and female American records, however, is 10%. Obviously, Thomas\u2019 advantages have not been mitigated.<\/p>\n<p>Although the NCAA declined to adopt the decision, USA Swimming has instituted guidelines that will require transgender women to prove mitigation of their male-puberty advantage. According to USA Swimming\u2019s new rules, no transgender athlete will be allowed to compete in the women\u2019s category without showing that her concentration of testosterone in serum has been less than 5 nmol\/L for a continuous period of 36 months. Further, transgender athletes hoping to compete in women\u2019s events would also have to provide \u201cevidence that the prior physical development of the athlete as a male, as mitigated by any medical intervention, does not give the athlete a competitive advantage over the athlete\u2019s cisgender female competitors.\u201d Final determination of eligibility would be made by a panel.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, USA Swimming has moved this debate in the right direction by developing stringent requirements for competitions.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest athletes in history, <strong>Martina Navratilova<\/strong> has long fought for equality in women\u2019s sports. The 18-time grand slam singles champion and member of the International Tennis Hall of Fame has also been a leading advocate for the LGBTQ community. During the past three-plus months, she has routinely noted the unfairness of Thomas racing against biological women, although recognizing the Penn athlete has abided by the rules set forth by the NCAA.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/sports\/lia-thomas-upenn-transgender-swimmer-martina-navratilova\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Navratilova was interviewed by Rich McHugh<\/a> of News Nation and provided her view on the Thomas situation. During the discussion, Navratilova offered several options for transgender women, including the possibility of having an open classification (men\/transgender athletes) and a women\u2019s category. She also suggested providing a lane for Thomas in competition but making her ineligible to earn a medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not about excluding transgender women from winning, ever,\u201d Navratilova said during the interview. \u201cBut it is about not allowing them to win when they were not anywhere near winning as men. You try to keep it as close as possible to what it would have been had you been born in the female biological body in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe climate is such that people can\u2019t speak out or even ask questions. And the athletes themselves are not allowed to speak out. They have been warned to be quiet and warned to not say anything. They may lose their scholarship. Who knows how they would be punished? In normal society, in everyday life, 100 percent inclusion. When it comes t sports, we have categories based on biology, and that\u2019s pretty much that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What will the future look like when it comes to transgender participation in women\u2019s swimming? Time will provide that answer. But as the sport waits for a definitive resolution, the battle for fairness for biological female athletes must continue. It can\u2019t be paused, for that move would serve as further betrayal.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s simple: Keep the fight active. Women and the sport deserve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Lia Thomas&#8217; College Career Nears End, Fight For Fairness Must Continue The debate is over now, right? Wrong. Some topics must stay in the headlines. 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