Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas asks CAS to overturn race ban rules as discrimination

Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has asked a Swiss sports court to overturn rules imposed by World Aquatics which stop her competing in elite women’s races.

[Wavybets]

What world are we in ? This is ridiculous. Are there actually people that agree with this thing?

[deedeewinfrey]

He AINT a woman!!!! Stop calling HIM that !!!!

[OmarZ]

Just compete in the men’s swimming events?

[TruthHasSpoken]

I may think I am a frog. I may even hop around like a frog. Yet, everyone knows that I am not a frog. This is no different.

[frankfanning]

Why are we not seeing many trans men winning 1st place, around the world, like we are seeing with trans women? Including breaking records?
We all know why.
And why are we not seeing trans men insisting on a bunch of stuff when it comes to sports? While simultaneously not factoring in the feelings and concerns of other participants etc.?
We all know why.

[ramblin]

It sounds more like Thomas is requesting to be allowed to cheat women out of acknowledgement and awards by pretending to be a SHE, because he wasn't good enough to compete against other men.

[ruthsaunders]

Dude had his 5 min and hurt a lot of girls in the process. If he can't compete with the boys he needs to find something else to do.

[Or_else_it_gets_the_hose_again]

When William Thomas competed as a member of the Penn men’s team, which was 2018-19, he ranked 554th in the 200 freestyle, 65th in the 500 freestyle and 32nd in the 1650 freestyle. Now, as Lia Thomas, towards the end of her enrollment at Penn she moved to fifth, first and eighth in those respective events on the women’s deck.

[viybeartart]

Why would anyone want to make the girls uncomfortable i dont understand

[kimberleetomlinsonpapadaki]

If Mr. Thomas wants to compete it would make perfect sense for him to compete against other biological males just like him.

[DwnRace]

Dude still has his junk….hasn’t even fully committed to snip snip…

[go]

Your title is confusing. It sounded like you said Thomas asked to ban race (not race in sports).

[LaMostraVia]

Also finished 465th when competing as a man.

[Monkeytoucher]

He only swims with the girls cuz he loses to any guys

[davidpar]

Of course it’s discrimination—discriminating between sanity and idiocy

[noksenwangsa]

She should be sent to north Korea to compete her position

[johnm]

'Lia' is missing the letter 'r'.

[sr]

Iv done some digging, men naturally have much much higher testosterone levels than females, if a male was to experience testosterone as low as a female, he will feel incredibly lathargic, weak muscles, and generally perform very poorly. A woman at the same testosterone level will be at peak performance, and will beat the male counterpart every time in anything physical..

Sooo, if a man wants to transition, and compete against women, he needs to at a minimum have the same extremely low testosterone levels as the women hes competing with and has to comply to their stringent blood doping tests.

Ai determines that a male with extremely low testosterone level will not be competitive at all against a fit women of same levels.

William Thomas needs to comply with womens testosterone levels to compete with them, i bet Thomas wont be doing that !!

[FMLCA]

Um I feel like women are being discriminated against, not Lia.

[crypticccowboy]

Couldn’t win anything as a man so he takes advantage of WOMENS opportunities…how pitiful.