University of Pennsylvania star Lia Thomas swept aside her competition again as the transitioned 22-year-old won a 100-yard race by almost a second and a 200-yard race by a wider margin in a meet against Harvard University.
Former men’s team competitor Thomas, who went through puberty and has had hormone-suppression therapy, picked up more honors in the same week a female teammate accused her of plotting to lose amid increasing disquiet about her dominance in the pool.
Thomas broke school and national records at the start of 2022 and has triumphed again just days after governing body USA Swimming pledged to publish new guidelines around elite transgender athletes.
Critics of Thomas’s involvement say the current rules threaten the fairness of female sports and should be revised, while their opponents have endorsed the rights of transgender swimmers to compete in the gender category they identify with as long as they have carried out the required period of hormone treatment.
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