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SWIMMING-USA-IVY-LEAGUE Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas of Penn University competes in the 100-yard freestyle swimming race at the 2022 Ivy League Women's Swimming & Diving Championships at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 19, 2022. - Thomas took first place with a time of 47.63 and while transgender swimmer Iszac Henig took second place with a time of 47.82. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Berlin’s Swimming World Cup To Debut ‘Open Category’ Races For Transgender Swimmers

The Swimming World Cup in Berlin, Germany, will be the first event to create an “open category,” allowing transgender swimmers to compete.

Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines swims the 200 Butterfly prelims on the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on March nineteenth, 2022 on the McAuley Aquatic Heart in Atlanta, Georgia. (Wealthy von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)

Growing Calls for More Female Athletes to Speak Out Against Men in Women’s Sports

With the rise of transgenderism in women’s sports, NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines and Olympian Inga Thompson are calling on more professional women athletes to promote fairness and reject men in women’s sports.

Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, finishes the 200 yard Freestyle for the University of Pennsylvania at an Ivy League swim meet against Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 22, 2022. - Thomas placed first in the event. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Swimmer Riley Gaines rebuttals ESPN for Lia Thomas’ Women’s History Month segment

The inclusion of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in ESPN’s Women’s History Month program has been criticized by a former national champion college swimmer, who called the network “spineless.”