Tag: swimmer

Lia Thomas has been performing for months in American university pools. But this transgender swimmer finds herself at the center of a lively controversy, accused of being unfairly advantaged because she was born a man. The controversy, which again raises the delicate question of the place of transgender athletes, has already prompted the NCAA, the organization governing university sport, then USA Swimmings, the American swimming federation, to promise new regulations. All this against the background of an offensive by conservative politicians. "We will ban men from participating in women's competitions," Donald Trump said on January 15 during a meeting in Arizona. Without naming her, but calling her masculine, the former president then pointed to Lia Thomas, a...