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It doesn’t take a brain scientist to understand that biological male athletes can hold a competitive edge over biologically females in many sports.
As a result of “new research,” the NCAA board will finally reconsider and debate its own transgender policy.
Donna de Varona, who won gold in swimming during the 1964 Olympics, blasted the current transgender policy saying it “really is unfair for the safety and promotion of women sports.”
“It may work everywhere else, maybe before puberty,” De Varona said, suggesting how research indicates that existing transgender policies do not ensure fairness in the sport.
De Varona says the attempts to equate biology with gender identity in sports do not work.
“Lia Thomas has been a lightning rod for this debate,” she continued. Lia Thomas of the Ivy League school UPenn had previously competed as part of the men’s team for three years as Will Thomas before switching to the women’s team. Now Lia is dominating the sport and crushing records.
“It is time that the NCAA, the national governing body which controls sport, especially Olympic sport, and international federations readdress this policy because we want fairness and safety in sports. That’s what it’s all about,” de Varona said.
The current NCAA policy allows biological males to undergo just one year of “testosterone suppression” in order to compete against biological female athletes.
Numerous scientists have conducted studies on this issue. They have found that the NCAA’s requirement of “only one year of testosterone suppression therapy is insufficient in ensuring fairness in women’s sports.”
Lia possesses an obvious unfair advantage over biological female competitors as a result of going through male puberty, critics say. One year of testosterone suppression simply doesn’t reverse the impact of nearly 20 years of presumably normal male testosterone levels.
Many people have spoken out on the issue, including Michael Phelps who is the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Nationally televised cardiothoracic surgeon and university professor Dr. Oz has also criticized the situation.
So far, the NCAA and the Ivy League have failed to address this problem. Lia Thomas is set to compete at next month’s Ivy League championships and has already qualified for the NCAA championships in March.
In the 200-yard freestyle, Lia Thomas has nearly approached the all-time NCAA record for women held by Olympian Missy Franklin. Franklin finished the event in 1:39.10 in 2015 while Lia finished in 1:48.73.
The female teammates of Lia have also spoken out in anger about the unfairness of the situation.
The female swimmer asked to remain anonymous for fear of liberals attacking her and destroying her life. “Pretty much everyone individually has spoken to our coaches about not liking this,” the teammate said.
“Our coach just really likes winning. He’s like most coaches. I think secretly everyone just knows it’s the wrong thing to do,” the teammate told Outkick. The teammate said public support for Thomas is “very fake.”
If anyone voices dissent, they will be bombarded by the left-wing attack machine and those aggressively working to push the transgender agenda.
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The scientific community is conflicted over the issue of fairness in women’s sports as trans athletes like University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas make headlines for dominating on women’s teams. Women’s sports advocates and parents at Penn have recently spoken out against the NCAA and its rules on transgender student-athlete participation, which require trans women athletes to undergo at least a year of testosterone suppression treatment before competing on a women’s team.
Thomas, who competed on the men’s team for three years before switching to the women’s team in 2020, has been receiving the treatment for nearly three years. She will compete at next month’s Ivy League championships and has already qualified for the NCAA championships in March.
Unlike Penn and the Ivy League, which both issued statements defending Thomas and the NCAA policy in recent weeks, the NCAA itself has yet to weigh in on mounting criticism over its transgender athlete policy.
The NCAA’s board of governors is expected to review the policy during a meeting this week and issue a statement at that time, a spokesperson told Fox News Digital.
