Trans Swimming Champion Lia Thomas Nominated For ‘NCAA Woman Of The Year’

University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas reacts after finishing tied for 5th in the 200 … [+] Freestyle finals at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March 18th, 2022 at the McAul...

Cycling, Swimming And Now Rugby–Here Are The Sports That Imposed Bans Or Restrictions On Transgender Competitors

Topline The International Rugby League Monday became the latest international sports organization to ban transgender athletes from participating—joining the world swimming and cycling governing bodies...

Rugby Is The Latest Sport To Bar Trans Athletes From Competition As Athletics, Soccer Mull Similar Policy

Topline Transgender rugby players will be barred from international women’s competitions while officials develop a formal inclusion policy, the sport’s international governing body announced on Tuesda...

World Swimming Federation Bars Most Transgender Women From Elite Events—But Weighs ‘Open Competition’ Category

Topline The international governing body for swimming voted Sunday to largely restrict transgender athletes from competing in the elite level of women’s swimming, but will consider setting up new “ope...

2 Out Trans NCAA Athletes Compete Head-To-Head

Penn’s Lia Thomas, left, leaves the pool deck as Yale’s Iszac Henig, right, prepares to swim in a … [+] qualifying heat of the 100-yard freestyle at the Ivy League Women’s Swim...

Lia Thomas Just Proved Transgender Athletes Don’t Always Win

Lia Thomas waves to her friend Schuyler Bailar after finishing fifth in the 200 free. Dawn Ennis Lia Thomas, the controversial college swimmer who won the NCAA DI National Champion trophy in the 500-f...

Lia Thomas Is NCAA’s First Transgender DI National Champion

Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas gestures as she holds the trophy after winning the 500-yard freestyle at … [+] the NCAA swimming and diving championships Thursday, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tec...

Is Lia Thomas Finished? New USA Swimming Policy Means Big Changes

Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, swims for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet … [+] against Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. on January 22, 2022. Photo by Joseph Pre...

‘I Hope People Can Finally Leave You Alone’

Oberlin diver Lucas Draper. Lucas Draper Lucas Draper is a junior at Oberlin College and Conservatory in Lorain County, Ohio, outside Cleveland. He is 21, majoring in both computer science and theater...

Goodbye, Lia Thomas? New NCAA Trans Student-Athlete Policy Is ‘Effective Immediately’

Lia Thomas of the Pennsylvania Quakers after competing in a freestyle event during a tri-meet … [+] against the Yale Bulldogs and the Dartmouth Big Green at Sheerr Pool on the campus of the Univ...