Former Penn swimmer Lia Thomas pushed back on critics of transgender women competing in women's sports, saying there is no evidence of any major advantage gained.
"Trans women competing in women's sports does not threaten women's sports as a whole," Thomas told Katie Barnes of ESPN. "Trans women are a very small minority of all athletes. The NCAA rules regarding trans women competing in women's sports have been around for 10-plus years. And we haven't seen any massive wave of trans women dominating."
Thomas became the center of the debate surrounding transgender women competing in cisgender women's sports as she soared to stardom in the pool for Penn.