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Lia Thomas Loses Bid to Compete in the Summer Olympics – HotAir

No Olympics competition for you, Lia Thomas. This is how it should be.

The sense of entitlement has been strong with Thomas since he began competing with women swimmers in college. In early interviews, he said he expected to be allowed to compete with the young women. And, his goal was to compete in the Olympics as a woman athlete. 

He is 25 now and filed a lawsuit to overturn a ban on biological males competing against women so that he could compete at the Paris Olympics. 

He rose to fame as the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in 2022. Though he was allowed to compete in NCAA competitions, he was banned from competing in international events in 2022. Not just him but all transgender athletes. That was a ruling made by the sport’s governing body in its regulations.

World Aquatics changed its policies so that transgender women can only compete in women’s races…

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