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In this file photo, University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
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 .
World Aquatics banned transgender women who have been through male puberty from competing in women’s races. Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her ...
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has been quietly mounting a legal battle against World Aquatics to overturn the swimming governing body’s effective ban on most trans women competing in the ...
Lia Thomas made history last Friday when she became the first transgender woman to win the NCAA Division I national title in the 500-yard freestyle. In the days since, a mass debate has formed ...
Lia Thomas has launched legal action against World Aquatics as the American swimmer bids to compete again in elite female sport.. Thomas, who is transgender, has been unable to do so since a ...
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has begun legal proceedings against World Aquatics, swimming’s governing body, after it voted last year to restrict transgender athletes from competing in elite ...
Iszac Henig is an American swimmer specializing in short distance freestyle races, and an undergraduate at Yale University.He gained particular notice as part of the debate about transgender people in sports when he came out as a trans man, while continuing to swim on the Yale women's team and achieving All-America status at the NCAA Division I Championship.