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Swimmer Lia Thomas has been nominated for the NCAA “Woman of the Year” Award. University of PennsylvaniaEncourage repulsion on social media.
Transgender athletes have been nominated NCAA AwardAccording to the announcement of the award, female student athletes will be commended.
Some on social media immediately called for a nomination for the University of Pennsylvania.
“It is not” inclusion “that the Ivy League pulls such stunts. It’s misogyny and completely despise the truth, “said Abigail Schlier, author of irreversible damage.
Lia Thomas nominated for NCAA’s “WOMAN OF THE YEAR” award from the University of Pennsylvania
Lia Thomas (L), a transgender woman at the University of Pennsylvania, is another medalist (LR) Emma Wyant, Erica Sullivan, Brookford, NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Amp; Amp; Atlanta, Georgia, March 17, 2022. Diving Championship held in.
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Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, called the nomination a “direct attack” on female athletes at the University of Pennsylvania.
Former professional tennis player Martina Navratilova asked the NCAA, “What’s wrong with you?”
After being criticized by Twitter users for not supporting Lia Thomas, Navratilova rebelled, saying, “When it comes to sports, I’m glad that biological women have been pushed aside.”
According to the announcement, NCAA member schools are “encouraged to celebrate graduated female student athletes by being nominated for the NCAA Woman of the Year Award.”
FINA approves “Gender Inclusion Policy” for transgender swimmers
University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas and Kentucky swimmer Lia Thomas tie fifth in the 200 Freestyle Finals of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships at the McCorley Aquatic Center in Atlanta, Georgia on March 18, 2022. It will react after it is finished.
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Thomas, a former swimmer at the University of Pennsylvania, won the 500-yard freestyle event at the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships in March.
Thomas’ participation in college women’s swimming has sparked intense national debate.
Riley Gaines, University of Kentucky He tied fifth with Leah Thomas at the NCAA Swimming Championships in March, saying that the majority of female athletes are not happy with the trajectory of women’s sports.
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“The majority of us female athletes, or women in general, actually have problems with this, the trajectory of this, how this is going, and how it could end in a few years. “I have a problem with that,” he said in an “Unmuted with Marsha” podcast with Senator Marsha Blackburn of Gaines R-Tenn.
The nomination will take place after FINA, the governing body of FINA, has voted to approve new police for transgender swimmers.
The newly approved Gender Inclusion Policy allows only swimmers who have transitioned before the age of 12 to participate in women’s events.
