{"id":1030859,"date":"2022-03-22T16:55:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/outrage-as-male-swimmer-who-altered-his-gender-wins-womens-competition\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T16:55:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:55:59","slug":"outrage-as-male-swimmer-who-altered-his-gender-wins-womens-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/outrage-as-male-swimmer-who-altered-his-gender-wins-womens-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Outrage as male swimmer who altered his Gender wins women\u2019s competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"391\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-03-22-at-10.04.15-AM-696x391.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"male swimmer who altered his Gender wins women\u2019s competition\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">male swimmer who altered his Gender wins women\u2019s competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>A US transgender athlete who recently altered his gender from male to female has sparked controversy and outrage after winning a women\u2019s swimming competition.<\/p>\n<p>Lia Thomas from the University of Pennsylvania ignited outrage after winning 500-yard freestyle race at the NCAA swimming championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old, born Will Thomas, became the first transgender athlete to be crowned an NCAA champion after transitioning from male to female. During the final, Thomas defeated Olympic silver medalist Emma Weyant.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who used to swim for the men\u2019s team as recently as 2020, came out as transgender in late 2019 and started transitioning using hormone replacement therapy. Following the gender alteration, Thomas joined the women\u2019s swimming team in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas\u2019 win at the NCAA championship has sparked controversy as some accuse her of having an unfair advantage over biological females.<\/p>\n<p>Before the transition, Will Thomas was reportedly ranked number 462 as a male swimmer. After the gender alteration, Lia Thomas now ranks number 1 as a female swimmer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_242475\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/William-Lia-Thomas-Rankings.jpg\" alt=\"Outrage After Male Swimmer Who Altered His Gender Wins Women\u2019s Competition, Defeats Olympic Medalist\" class=\"wp-image-242475\"\/><figcaption>Outrage After Male Swimmer Who Altered His Gender Wins Women\u2019s Competition, Defeats Olympic Medalist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the recent events at the NCAA championships, women\u2019s groups and individuals have been protesting against the decision to allow Thomas to compete against women.<\/p>\n<p>Online tens of thousands of people have also expressed their displeasure. They argue that it is unfair for Thomas to compete against women and point to the alleged discrepancy between his performance as a man and a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Some called for the authorities to have a separate competition for transgender athletes so that they do not have an unfair advantage over biological females.<\/p>\n<p>However, some have come out in full support of Thomas, arguing that she is not breaking any rules and has a right to compete as whoever she wants to be.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"63lTyoNxqko\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fighting Corruption: My office will make corruption a costly venture - Special Prosecutor  (22-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/63lTyoNxqko?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>male swimmer who altered his Gender wins women\u2019s competition A US transgender athlete who recently altered his gender from male to female has sparked controversy and outrage after winning a women\u2019s swimming competition. Lia Thomas from the University of Pennsylvania ignited outrage after winning 500-yard freestyle race at the NCAA swimming championship. The 22-year-old, born [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[6470,6471,5953,1178,4020,6472,1000,3947],"class_list":["post-1030859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-altered","tag-competition","tag-gender","tag-male","tag-outrage","tag-swimmer","tag-wins","tag-womens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}