Doctors have now confirmed that Lia Thomas did have a biological advantage when he won a national title earlier this year. If we hope to preserve women’s’ sports, we must be praying.

From CBN News. Two medical doctors have gone on record confirming that trans swimmer Lia Thomas, who previously competed for three years as a man at the University of Pennsylvania, gained an unfair advantage when allowed to compete against biological females, despite taking testosterone suppressants.

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“There are social aspects to sport, but physiology and biology underpin it,” Dr. Michael J. Joyner, a physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, told The New York Times in a story published Sunday. “Testosterone is the 800-pound gorilla.”

As CBN News reported, NCAA rules require at least one year of testosterone suppression treatment in order to compete in women’s events. Thomas, who came out as transgender in 2019, has undergone two years of testosterone suppression and began swimming on the women’s UPenn team at the start of her senior year.

But peer-reviewed studies have confirmed that even with this treatment, athletes with biologically male DNA and physiology still have an unfair advantage when competing against biological women.

“Lia Thomas is the manifestation of the scientific evidence,” Dr. Ross Tucker, a sports physiologist who consults on world athletics told The Times. “The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage.”

A Harvard University lecturer who’s also the co-director of undergraduate studies in human evolutionary biology at the university also told the newspaper that LGBT advocates mistakenly blend gender identity with biological sex….

Won a Women’s National Title, Never Qualified for Division 1 Championship as a Man

Thomas beat the University of Virginia’s Emma Weyant by over a second to win the 500 freestyle despite never qualifying for the Div. 1 championship during his three years competing on the University of Pennsylvania’s men’s team. Thomas is the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA swimming championship….

Several of Thomas’ teammates spoke out against the transgender swimmer’s participation on the team, but they spoke anonymously for fear of being sidelined by UPenn or labeled as “transphobic.”

In their letter to the school, they said they believe their teammate should be sidelined. They also raised the question of fairness and said Thomas was taking “competitive opportunities” away from them — namely spots in the Ivy League championship meet, where schools can only send about half of their rosters to compete, according to The Washington Post….

The World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) is urging FINA, an international governing board for water sports recognized by the International Olympic Committee, to create a “Trans Division” due to men’s physiological dominance over female athletes.

In a position statement published on the WSCA website, the group told the water sports board that the sport of swimming should be in an environment where everyone can participate and be treated with dignity and respect.

“However, the inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina, and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned male at birth (whether with or without the involvement of testosterone suppression). This is the primary factor to be considered in an endeavor to balance fairness with inclusion,” the statement said….

“Transgender females are, on average, likely to retain physical advantages listed above even if testosterone suppression is utilized;  Categorization by sex is lawful, and hence the requirement to request information relating to birth sex is appropriate,” the statement said….

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(Excerpt from CBN News. Photo Credit: Johanna Steppan on Unsplash)