{"id":612270,"date":"2025-05-23T04:08:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=612270"},"modified":"2025-05-26T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T17:22:21","slug":"guest-editorial-a-lane-for-every-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/guest-editorial-a-lane-for-every-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Editorial: A Lane for Every Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Guest Editorial: A Lane for Every Woman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Jennifer Rines (Guest Editorial)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a transgender woman writing in response to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/fairness-in-sport-is-not-optional-why-usms-needs-to-change-transgender-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angie Griffin\u2019s recent editorial<\/a>. Like Angie, I swam in the women\u2019s 45-49 100 breaststroke in San Antonio. Like Angie, I believe that every swimmer deserves a lane \u2014 and that the race must be fair.<\/p>\n<p>Like Angie, I have a full life outside the pool. I have three children, a wife who teaches, two dogs, and a high-stress engineering job. I swim because I love the early morning work, because it keeps me healthy \u2014 physically and mentally \u2014 and because the pool gives me a sense of community. I\u2019m grateful that USMS continues to include transgender athletes despite the intense political and social pressures. And I\u2019m grateful to <em>Swimming World<\/em> for giving me the chance to respond.<\/p>\n<p>I think creating a separate category for transgender athletes, at least at national-level events, might be an equitable solution worth serious discussion. It wouldn\u2019t be perfect \u2014 it would force trans people to out themselves and face the real-world consequences of that \u2014 but it could help level the playing field. I\u2019ve been asking USMS to consider this option since 2017 and have the emails to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>At what point does the level of competition justify forcing someone to out themselves or barring them from participation altogether? What level of risk or physical contact warrants exclusion? There needs to be a sliding scale based on the level of play. Higher levels get higher scrutiny, lower levels focus on inclusion. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a universal solution. Letting all trans women compete without restrictions isn\u2019t fair. But banning all trans girls from sports is unjust. So where do we draw the line?<\/p>\n<p>Trans people face additional barriers. This morning at practice, five swimmers shared Lane 1, five more crowded into Lane 2, six packed into Lane 4 \u2014 and I was alone in Lane 3. Nobody wanted to swim with me. This doesn\u2019t happen most mornings. Many of my teammates are supportive \u2014 some might even like me. Before I transitioned, that never happened \u2014 not once. Usually, I\u2019m good at brushing it off. But this morning I felt like crying. The message felt loud and clear: we don\u2019t want you here.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t feel safe using public women\u2019s restrooms. I avoid eating or drinking away from home so I won\u2019t have to. I\u2019ve lost friends, neighbors, and colleagues I knew for decades. I\u2019ve lost jobs. I\u2019ve lost the ability to renew my passport. I\u2019ve had longtime coaches refuse to use my name \u2014 one even played a clip from Eddie Murphy\u2019s <em>Delirious<\/em> during a workout to mock me. When I told my current coach I was heading to Nationals in San Antonio to support trans kids, he responded by misgendering them and asking whether I thought it was okay to \u201cforce medical treatments on children.\u201d I didn\u2019t transition until I was 38. I spent most of my life hiding this part of me, afraid of losing my family, my job, my house \u2014 everything.<\/p>\n<p>For a few years, I volunteered as an operator for a transgender support hotline. We discussed the best tools for survival &#8211; self-care and community. Sports can provide both. But too many young trans people are cut off from those lifelines. I\u2019ve taken calls from kids bullied at school, misgendered by teachers, threatened by parents, subjected to conversion therapy. Where are those kids supposed to go? Who stands up for them?<\/p>\n<p>At elite levels, separate results for transgender athletes might work \u2014 whether that\u2019s at Masters Nationals, NCAA Championships, or the Olympics. But that doesn\u2019t answer the more urgent question: What do we do about the everyday swim meets and sports leagues that shape kids&#8217; lives?<\/p>\n<p>Imagine being a college student and working up the courage to come out to your roommate \u2014 also your teammate \u2014 only to have them make your living situation unbearable. They out you to your team, try to remove you. Other teams refuse to compete. Your whole team\u2019s season collapses \u2014 and your identity becomes national news.\u00a0 Imagine being on an NCAA team and getting kicked off midseason. You lose your team, your friends, your structure. You lose your chance to push yourself and feel proud of what your body can do. You\u2019re told, loud and clear: there\u2019s something wrong with you. Maybe Masters Nationals in San Antonio was the meet of the year for kids kicked off their college team this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My lines in the sand<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not ok to kick kids out of sports. It\u2019s not ok to force minors to out themselves. It\u2019s not ok to \u201cdiscreetly remove times from the meet record.\u201d It\u2019s not ok to force trans girls to be on a boys&#8217; team because they aren\u2019t boys.<\/p>\n<p>I believe women \u2014 <em>all<\/em> women \u2014 should decide how to move forward. We need a working group of cisgender and transgender women who can talk openly and respectfully, who can listen to each other\u2019s fears and hopes, and who are empowered to make tough decisions that balance fairness and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>This conversation belongs in the hands of women who swim \u2014 not in the hands of men in Washington.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion and debate are typically welcomed at Swimming World. However, vitriol will not be tolerated. 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