Transgender

Lia Thomas is a transgender swimmer on the University of Pennsylvania swim team. She was born a male but changed to a female. She recently set school records in the 200-meter freestyle and 500-meter freestyle in November. This past weekend, the record-breaking stretch continued, as Thomas set a school record in the 1650-meter freestyle. Her teammate Anna Kalandadze finished in second place — over 38 seconds behind Thomas. The swimmer continued smashing records on Saturday with a nearly 7-second victory in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:41.93 — representing the fastest finish in the country, the school said. The previous record was 1:52:98. Normally when new records are it is by a very small margin like less than one second. All of those young women across the country who have worked hard will now realize that they can no longer compete.