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Allura Lyneflipped into Picked To Share3:016 days agoFINA Bans Transgender Swimmers From CompetingNewsyA new competition policy approved by the International Swimming Federation is making waves.Cate Campbell is an Australian Olympic swimmer. Women, who have fought long and hard to be included and seen as equals in sport, can only do so because of the gender category distinction. To remove that distinction would be to the detriment of female athletes everywhere," said Campbell. Under a new gender policy, transgender athletes assigned male at birth have effectively been banned from competing in womens events. FINA competitions and world records will be open to them only if they did not experience male puberty or had male puberty suppressed before age 12. Speaking before members of FINA Sunday, former Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders of the U.S. and Campbell supported the new policy. Summer Sanders is a former U.S. Olympic swimmer.There must be categories: women, men and, of course, a category for trans women and trans men. A space; I want anyone who loves competing in aquatic sports to have a space and to achieve their goals in that space," said Sanders. It pains me that this part of my role may injure, infuriate and potentially alienate people from an already marginalized trans community. However, I am asking everyone to take a breath, to absorb before reacting. Listen to the people who stand up here and tell you how difficult it has been to reconcile inclusion and fairness," said Campbell. The Human Rights campaign, which calls itself the nations largest LGBTQ Civil Rights organization, says the FINA decision reflects a larger attack on transgendered people. It counts more than 75 bills introduced this year in the U.S. on transgender girls and women in sports. Earlier this year, it produced a video on the topic, narrated by Schuyler Bailar, who is a transgender athlete who competed on the mens team at Harvard. "There are so many things that threaten womens athletes and womens category, but the inclusion of transgender women is not one of them." said Bailar. According to a Washington Post, the University of Maryland poll conducted in May that said 55% of Americans opposed allowing transgender women and girls to compete with other women and girls in high school sports and 58% opposed to it for college and professional sports. In recent months, the sport of swimming has taken center stage in the debate surrounding transgender participation in sports. In March, Lia Thomas won a Division 1 NCAA swimming championship in the 500-yard freestyle, making history as …
Allura Lyneflipped into Picked To ShareJun 20Dame Kelly Holmes breaks down on This Morning after coming out as gayThe Independent - Sophie PeacheyAthlete Dame Kelly Holmes, 52, was in tears during an emotional This Morning interview after coming out as gay. The former Olympian told Phillip Schofield that she “had never been happy” until now, where she is able to live her life “authentically” after years of hiding her sexuality. Dame Holmes reduced Phillip Schofield to tears after detailing that she “had been in a bad way a lot”, and had had a “break down” in 2020 after realising that “if she couldn’t release it, she didn’t know what she would do”. Click here to read our free newsletter
