The transgender community such as LGBTQIA and TransEquality et al, should not be fighting for equal status for their athletes in sports in terms of getting them to compete with their new male or female counterparts.
The transgender community such as LGBTQIA and TransEquality et al, should not be fighting for equal status for their athletes in sports in terms of getting them to compete with their new male or female counterparts. It still breeds a level of unfairness that you’re fighting against. You need a new event or category with mixed trans people given the complexity of their biology. Recently, Swimming champion Michael Phelps recently called the controversy around Lia Thomas , the record-setting transgender University of Pennsylvania swimmer, “very complicated” and stressed the need for a “level playing field” in swimming. Playing on the women’s team this season after three years competing as a male, Thomas has set pool, program, and meet records, 38 seconds ahead of the next-closest female Penn swimmer in one event. Phelps’s commented on the issue during an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Saying “I think this leads back to the organizing committees again….Because it h