Originally Posted by
choddo
Slaughtering left and right? I think Lia Thomas (who has since performed much worse) won a 500m swimming event and Veronica Ivy winning a gold at the Masters track cycling (but no records)
I think it’s a topic that is really challenging and I know sports authoroties are grappling with it but not many trans women have won much that I can find. You have a longer list?
and you know there are trans men athletes too right? If this was just a convenient way to “pretend” and cheat, why would that happen?
Of course there is a longer list than just Lia Thomas and Veronica Ivy. The names aren't important. The dozens of big city 5K's, Swimming and Triathlon events, etc. that are being infiltrated with formerly male athletes is growing. It is all but stopped at the International level by contested bans on athletes that transitioned after puberty and/or less than 3 years prior to competing as women. That there is any controversy about this is troubling. There is over the top vilification for a doped male athlete competing against other doped male athlete that wins an event by scant fractions of a second but there is praise for a formerly male athlete that wins a cycling event by 15 minutes. If using inherent biology against competitors that lack those same secondary sex characteristics is not also seen as using PED ... I don't know ...