La nadadora transgénero Lia Thomas es derrotada por otra en proceso de transición de mujer a hombre

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Lia Thomas, la nadadora transgénero que ha levantado polémica por la enorme cantidad de récords que ha batido desde que empezó a competir en la categoría femenina, fue vencida en dos eventos por Iszac Henig, una nadadora en proceso de transición de mujer a hombre.

Ambas deportistas se enfrentaron el pasado sábado en la conferencia deportiva Ivy League de la Asociación Nacional Deportiva Universitaria (NCAA, por sus siglas inglés) de EE.UU. en Filadelfia. Thomas, de la Universidad de Pensilvania, e Iszac Hening, representando a la Universidad de Yale, se midieron en los 100 y 400 yardas libres femeninos, donde esta última salió victoriosa. Además, estableció un récord en los 50 yardas de la misma categoría. No obstante, Lia logró victorias en los 200 y 500 yardas libres.

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Hening, de 20 años, se declaró públicamente un hombre transgénero a mediados del año pasado y se sometió a una cirugía superior para la afirmación de género con la que modificó su pecho para lograr un aspecto masculino. No obstante, retrasó el inicio de su tratamiento con testosterona con el propósito de continuar haciendo parte del equipo femenino de Yale, lo que le permitió competir el pasado fin de semana. Según las regulaciones de la NCAA, la terapia de reemplazo hormonal se lo habría impedido.

“Como atleta estudiantil, salir del armario como un chico trans me puso en una posición extraña. Podría comenzar con las hormonas para alinearme más conmigo mismo, o esperar, hacer la transición social y seguir compitiendo en un equipo de natación femenino. Me decidí por lo último”, dijo Iszac en una entrevista.

El caso de Hening ha vuelto a poner sobre la mesa el debate de la ventaja competitiva de los deportistas transexuales, que ya había sido noticia el mes pasado por las varias plusmarcas de Thomas, quien había competido antes de transicionar durante tres años.

Con los resultados de esta última competencia, los padres de algunas nadadoras reiteraron su descontento por la participación de deportistas transgénero e hicieron un nuevo llamado a la NCAA para tomar medidas. “Un hombre acaba de aplastar al equipo femenino”, se quejó uno de ellos. La polémica generada hace semanas por Thomas incluso llevó a que un grupo de padres de algunas integrantes del equipo femenino de natación de la Universidad de Pensilvania redactaran una petición para cambiar las reglas que permiten a mujeres trans competir en certámenes femeninos.

De acuerdo con el diario británico, la semana pasada varias compañeras de equipo de Thomas habían considerado boicotear el evento del sábado por su participación, pero estaban preocupadas por ser etiquetadas como transfóbicas y terminar expulsados del campeonato de la Ivy League en febrero. Entre tanto, el jueves pasado la Universidad de Pensilvania y la Ivy League reafirmaron públicamente su apoyo a Thomas, señalando que ha respetado los lineamientos de la NCAA y, por ende, “continuará representando al equipo femenino de natación en competición esta temporada”.

 


PrisioneroEnArgentina.com

Enero 18, 2022


 

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3 years ago

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RRghost
3 years ago

Personally, I think it is unfair, due to the higher or lower levels of testosterone. A possibility for equality in sports is to categorize based on testosterone levels or any hormone that is shown to spike an advantage on the specific sport. If they all have a similar testosterone level, would the sex and gender matter?

Brad Netti
Brad Netti
3 years ago

if I were a female athlete I would most definitely feel somewhat cheated if someone who used to be a male wanted to compete against me.

Lulu Fields
Lulu Fields
3 years ago

Until we can say for sure that there is no significant advantage maybe we should just have seperate categories for trans men and women

tippy johanssen
3 years ago
Reply to  Lulu Fields

Except, there aren’t really enough of us to make that work or be worth it. Trans people trying to “usurp” elite competitive sports is not the epidemic the media wants you to think.
Plus trans people just want to live fully as their identified gender. A trans man wants to live the same way a cis man would, and vice versa.

B.J. Seegar
B.J. Seegar
3 years ago

thats transphobic

鱼粮寮
3 years ago

这不公平。 这是我的意见

发明_一
3 years ago
Reply to  鱼粮寮

允许跨性别者与异性竞争只会在一个方向上给他们带来可能的优势! 跨性别女性可能比顺女性更有优势。 然而,跨性别男人与顺式男人相比肯定没有优势。 因此,顺式男性没有真正的变化,而女性可能会有很大的变化。

ashley-cooper-brown
3 years ago

It’s not complicated. It is unfair. And no, it’s not transphobic.

Katrin Helgadóttir.
3 years ago

„Það er algjörlega brýnt að frelsi og mannréttindi hverrar manneskju séu virt, um allan heim.“
– Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir

Will on the streets
3 years ago

transgender athletic research is among the most important research areas of the next 20 years. I think that data permitting, we should eventually have sport-specific rules for transgender athletes

breaker.malone
3 years ago

The strength definitely is the difference

Pamela Anne James
3 years ago

I think it’s unfair to the girls who work really hard to do well

Captain Facade
Captain Facade
3 years ago

transgender athletes are people just like us: normal human beings with feelings, passions, and dreams. They have every right to do what a normal person does and be treated justly. If a trans boy or girl is good at sports, then they deserve a chance to prove their self to the world. A transgender athlete might be worthy of a college sports scholarship or play professionally later on in their lives, but it can all be jeopardized by one erroneous decision taken by the board of directors. Wrong placement of a transgender (in gender teams) can endanger their performance; therefore, the deciders must assign teams justly by examining the Testosterone level.

LADy Blazette
LADy Blazette
3 years ago

Trying to cater to everyone’s feelings isn’t the magical utopia people think it is.

chat and yell
3 years ago

This isnt a point anyone can argue. They do have an advantage. Even if having not gone through puberty, they still have a male bone structure.

noondayfilms
3 years ago

I support trans rights but the advantage is clear and it’s delusional to think otherwise.

Danzart
3 years ago

Making all sports gender neutral will mean that a woman will never won Wimbledon, never win a heavy weight title , never qualify for final 100m sprint . It would be devastating

Renata
Renata
3 years ago
Reply to  Danzart

Rendere gli sport neutrali rispetto al genere renderebbe le donne cis essenzialmente incapaci di praticare qualsiasi sport fisico a qualsiasi livello competitivo

Luana Pickard
3 years ago

I actually agree that trans people (especially male to female) do have a physical advantage over cis women

Ranch Girl
3 years ago

Alternative title for the article: people trying not to say something that would get them cancelled for 20 minutes straight.

Shay Caprice
3 years ago

The problem is not F2M trans athletes. It is M2F trans athletes.
Hormones and surgery can only go so far. Male and female bodies are different (especially after puberty) & hormones/surgery can’t change it.

Mar Schopplenhenger
3 years ago
Reply to  Shay Caprice

Yup. They face a huge disadvantage

Alan Omelka
3 years ago

mos def: NOT FAIR TO WOMEN

The Masked Mask
3 years ago

I feel so sorry for the cis athletes. I feel they had to hold back heavily on their words, or else they’d be canceled.

amanda rae
3 years ago

My male partner and I, a female, started going to gym at the same time. We did the same workouts for the same amount of time and ate all the same things (we live together). Starting from both of us not going to the gym for over a year and both being naturally thin people with a three-inch height difference and a weight difference of 10lbs, he quickly surpassed my lifting abilities. Males are just naturally stronger 9/10 times when put up against a female of the same/similar height and weight. It’s not transphobic, it’s just the way our bodies differ

Genius in Montana
Genius in Montana
3 years ago

The cis athletes were trying to be as reasonable as possible by giving arguments that generally applies to all athletes while the transgender athletes were just being anecdotal most of the time

Scent of a ...
3 years ago

Say it with me: not agreeing with the trans people participating against females in sports doesn’t mean you’re transphobic (unless it’s something actually transphobic)

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