The International Swimming Federation restricts transgender players to participate in women's competitions, and will be committed to setting up the "Open" group

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] "If the transgender athletes have passed the adolescence of men, then they will be banned from participating in the women's group elite competition, and the International Swimming Federation (FINA) will be committed to setting up the 'Open' group separately for transsexual athletes." Fa Xin According to the agency, the decision made by the FIA ​​at the Budapest World Championships on the 19th, which means that the American transsexual college student swimmer Lia Thomas will be banned from participating in the Olympic women's group.

The BBC said that the new regulations from the FIBA ​​received 71%of the 152 members of the FIBA. The players are still eligible to participate in the women's group competition, "as long as they have not experienced a male adolescence after physical development, or before the age of 12 (completion of degeneration)."

Hussein Musalam, chairman of the International Swimming Federation, said that the creation of the "open" group means that everyone has the opportunity to compete at the level of elite. Former British swimmers Sharon Davis once opposed transgender players to participate in the women's elite swimming competition. Four years ago, she and 60 other Olympic award -winning signs to the International Olympic Committee requested a scientific evaluation. Do, "but the International Swimming Federation has done it."

Incorporating transsexual athletes into the women's group has always been one of the biggest debate in the sports industry. Many people think that transsexual players should not enter the women's group because these players may retain their advantages, and some people think that sports should be more tolerant. More than 300 swimming players from university and U.S. national teams signed an open letter to support college student swimmers Lia Thomas and other transsexual swimmers to participate in women's competitions. In February this year, the American Swimming Association began to allow mutant athletes to participate in the elite project. (Tang Mu Mao)

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