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Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, details the shock Gaines and other swimmers felt when they learned they would have to share a locker room with Thomas at the championships in Atlanta. It documents a number of races they swam in with Thomas, including the 200-yard final in which Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth but Thomas, not Gaines, was handed the fifth-place trophy.

Thomas swam for Pennsylvania. She competed for the men’s team at Penn before her gender transition.

Thomas was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title in any sport, finishing in front of three Olympic medalists for the championship. By not making the final, the lawsuit mentions that Florida swimmer Tylor Mathieu, who was not a plaintiff, was denied first-team All-American honors in that event.

Other plaintiffs included athletes from volleyball and track.

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[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 8 months ago

I agree the vast majority don’t.

These ones do, the problem could be solved easily enough with separate locker rooms.

And I’m not trying to speak for anyone, so watch your fucking self it’s right there in the article.

[-] Cogency@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

But why seperate, why differentiate just to alienate a kid trying to live out their lives?

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 8 months ago

First of all, the person in question was in their 20’s at the time. She is 25 now and it happened 2 years ago.

Secondly, I never said to alienate anyone. Give the women that are uncomfortable their own locker room.

I do not see the issue here.

The only place would not be allowed is that locker room and that does not affect her in any meaningful way.

Yes, she has to deal with the fact that those people are uncomfortable around her, but that is just part of life.

Let’s try this another way, if the way to make the problem go away is just to allow someone else to have another locker room and not share it, why shouldn’t we do that with how easy it is?

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I buy that if it's not a "trans locker" but a "TERF locker". Women that don't have a problem can go to the "normal" women locker.

[-] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 2 points 8 months ago

That’s what I keep saying, everyone wants to take it the wrong way.

I even said the people with a problem could just use the men’s locker room.

If that is a problem then they can just go in shifts. There are so many easy ways to let these people isolate themselves if they are uncomfortable or bigoted.

Either way everyone wins.

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