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She previously competed as a member of the school&#8217;s men&#8217;s program. Thomas immediately surged to the top of the times lists in her events, sparking concerns about fairness and inherent advantages from male puberty. She went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/the-2022-ncaa-womens-championships-day-2-finals-500-freestyle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">win the NCAA title<\/a> in the 500 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/resources.fina.org\/fina\/document\/2022\/06\/19\/525de003-51f4-47d3-8d5a-716dac5f77c7\/FINA-INCLUSION-POLICY-AND-APPENDICES-FINAL-.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New FINA Transgender Policy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FINA Vote On Transgender Policy: Trans Females Cannot Compete In Female Category If They&#8217;ve Gone Through Puberty Male to female transgender athletes may only compete in FINA competitions and set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":445737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[130625,1031,26550,296,130978,40241,130,36537],"class_list":["post-506865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-world","tag-2022-fina-world-championships-budapest","tag-budapest","tag-cate-campbell","tag-congress","tag-fina-congress","tag-husain-al-musallam","tag-summer-sanders","tag-thomas-bach"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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