NY Times · Jun 19, 2022
FINA Restricts Transgender Women From Competing at Elite Level
Lia Thomas, a transgender woman, swimming at the Ivy League women’s swimming and diving championships in February. The new FINA policy will bar swimmers like her from elite women’s competitions.Credit...Joseph Prezioso/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesFINA, the international swimming federation, has barred transgender women from competing if they have gone through male puberty.
The new policy, announced Sunday by the federation, requires that transgender athletes wanting to compete in women’s competitions have either never gone through male puberty, or that they had it suppressed at the stage when physical changes begin to appear, or before the age of 12, whichever occurred later.