The governing body for competitive swimming in the US issued a new policy regarding transgender athletes wanting to compete in elite events.
Effective immediately, USA Swimming said a three-person panel of independent medical experts will now decide whether"prior physical development of the athlete as a male" will give an unfair advantage over cisgender females.The panel will also check that testosterone levels have been less than five nanomoles per liter for at least 36 months prior.
READ: Running as equals, the elite athletes fighting for acceptanceLia Thomas during a warmup before an NCAA college swimming meet in January 2022. During a June interview with the student publication Penn Today, Thomas said that swimming was"a huge part of my life and who I am.""The process of coming out as being trans and continuing to swim was a lot of uncertainty and unknown around an area that's usually really solid," Thomas said.
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