UPenn swimmers praise USA Swimming for pushing ‘fairness for biological women’ in sports
February 6, 2022 | Pennsylvania
A group of more than a dozen students on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team are urging their school not to challenge USA Swimming’s new policy regulating the participation of trans-identified athletes, which they maintain will “prioritize fairness for biological women” in sports.
Retired Olympic swimmer Nancy Hogshead-Makar wrote a letter to the University of Pennsylvania and the Ivy League Thursday on behalf of 16 athletes on UPenn’s women’s swimming team and their family members. The 16 athletes, who elected to remain anonymous, account for slightly less than half of the team’s membership. The Ivy League school has received extensive attention after Lia Thomas, a male swimmer (formerly named Will Thomas), who self-identifies as female, began dominating women’s swimming competitions.
Thomas’ record-shattering performances have occurred at a time when the U.S. is engaged in a debate over whether allowing men, who self-identify as female, to compete on women-only sports teams gives them an unfair advantage. .. (Excerpt from the Christian Post)
