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In reply to the discussion: 16 Penn swimmers say transgender teammate Lia Thomas shouldn't be allowed to compete [View all]pnwmom
(109,028 posts)other women from using the women's restroom.
But her presence in every race is unfairly denying every other woman a chance for the winning spot, whatever kind of medal or prize is involved. It doesn't matter how hard the other women train, they will never have her masculine body structure.
The whole reason women have women's teams at all is because there was a recognition of the physical advantages that men have. And they're not eliminated simply by taking hormones for a period of time.
She went through puberty as a male and fully developed as a male, even swimming for two years in college as a male. She has the shoulder breadth, height, bone structure, collagen of a very large male -- all of which give her a huge and unfair advantage when competing against women.
I agree with the proposal that there be two teams: an "open" to all team, and a born-female team. Lia Thomas could go back to swimming among men, where she'd been ranked at 462, along with anyone else who wants to compete in an open group.