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Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has sparked outrage aft vowing to 'keep fighting' for inclusion successful women's sports contempt Donald Trump's ban.
Trump signed an enforcement bid banning trans athletes from women's sports backmost successful February, with the president utilizing Title IX to guarantee lone biologic females are allowed to compete.
Thomas, a biologic male, was astatine the halfway of large contention successful 2022 aft winning a nationalist swimming rubric for UPenn successful 2022, with erstwhile hostile Riley Gaines presently starring a suit against the NCAA for a fig of athletes who were forced to vie against them.
Yet contempt Trump's ruling, the arguable swimmer has promised to 'fight' to overturn it and bring trans athletes backmost into women's sports.
'I americium going to support warring arsenic overmuch arsenic I americium capable to,' Thomas said implicit Zoom astatine the HiTOPS trans younker forum, via Outkick.
'In bid to combat the battles we request to fight, we person to instrumentality unneurotic and enactment each other.'
Trans swimmer Lia Thomas has vowed to 'keep fighting' for inclusion successful women's sports
Trump signed an enforcement bid banning trans athletes from women's sports backmost successful February
Instead of Trump of his chap politicians, Thomas believes trans athletes themselves should person the last say.
'It has to beryllium the athletes deciding for themselves wherever they consciousness astir affirmed and astir comfortable,' she continued. 'Having routes that are harmless and non-discriminatory, that let them entree to that.'
Last twelvemonth Thomas was besides dealt a stroke aft the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected her petition to overturn a prohibition connected biologic males competing against women successful hopes of racing astatine the Paris Olympics.
World Aquatics changed its policies truthful that trans women tin lone vie successful women's races if they person completed their modulation by the property of 12.
Thomas argued those rules should beryllium declared 'invalid and unlawful', and broke the Olympic charter and the World Aquatics convention.
But successful a determination handed down astatine the Court of Arbitration for Sport, they concluded that Thomas wasn't 'entitled to prosecute with eligibility to vie successful WA competitions'.
After banning trans athletes from women's sports, Trump besides cut $175million successful backing to UPenn past period for allowing biologic males to instrumentality portion successful women's sports.
The president's determination came precisely 3 years since Thomas controversially won a nationalist swimming rubric for the schoolhouse successful the women's 500-yard freestyle astatine the 2022 NCAA Championships.
Gaines, who has been astatine the forefront of the combat to prohibition trans athletes from women's sports ever since she competed against Thomas successful that race, was left delighted aft UPenn's backing was halted, praising it arsenic 'serendipitous' connected the 3rd day of her high-profile defeat.
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