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The participation of transgenderpeople in competitive sports, a traditionally sex-segregatedinstitution,[1]is a controversial issue, particularly the inclusion of transgender women and girlsin women's sports. Opponents argue that transgender women have an unfair advantage over, and may endanger, cisgenderwomen in competitive sports due to sex ...
Lia Catherine Thomas [2] (born May 1999) is an American swimmer. She was the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women's 500-yard freestyle event in 2022, before being barred from competing in women's events by World Aquatics. Thomas' career has been a part of the public debate about ...
Laurel Hubbard. Laurel Hubbard (born 9 February 1978) is a New Zealand weightlifter. [3] Selected to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she was the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Olympic Games. [4] [5] Prior to making her Olympic debut, Hubbard achieved a ranking of 7th in the IWF's women's +87 kg division.
Story at a glance. Lia Thomas, a transgender woman and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, told ABC News in an interview on Tuesday that she doesn’t need “permission” to live and ...
Over the last few years, there’s been a wave of anti-trans legislation seeking to bar trans youth, and especially trans girls, from K–12 sports in both schools and publicly-funded facilities ...
October 5, 2022 at 2:08 AM. Transgender women do not have as much muscle mass as cisgender men but have higher levels than cisgender women, according to small new study. Researchers said their new ...
The British Journal of Sports Medicine published research by Dr. Timothy Roberts, Joshua Smalley, and Dale Ahrendt, MD. which examined the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the athletic performance of trans men and trans women in the U.S. Air Force. They found prior to hormone therapy transgender women performed 31% more push ups ...
The nearly 20-year-old amateur league is suing a county leader over an executive order meant to prevent women’s and girl’s leagues and teams with transgender players from using county-run ...