Her place has divided the world of sport. Martina Navratilova says Lia has an unfair advantage I’ve always viewed myself as just a swimmer.
Lia, 22, has rarely spoken about the row but in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, she defended her position saying: 'I am a woman, just like anybody else on the team. They are too frightened to speak publicly about the issue for fear of being kicked off he team or lampooned by LGBTQ activism. The swimmer's teammates at Princeton have anonymously fought to have her excluded from the category. She has since soared to the top of the women's league tables, whereas she was unheard of as a male athlete. Their comments confirm the fears of Lia's competitors, who were literally blown out of the water after she started transitioning from male to female when she was 19. Ross Tucker, a sports physiologist added.
The reduction in testosterone did not remove her biological advantage,' Dr. 'Lia Thomas is the manifestation of the scientific evidence. Lia rose through the ranks immediately after starting her transition from male to female in 2020 aged 19
