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The transgender swimmer won five women’s races at the US Masters Swimming Spring National Championship last weekend.
Ana Caldas, a 47-year-old swimmer, dominated all five races that athletes competed with, winning gold in the women’s 45-49 categories in five races, including 50 and 100-yard breaststroke, freestyle and a 100-yard individual medley.
The controversy has sparked backlash on social media.
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US Masters Swimming’s Gender Eligibility Policy allows transgender swimmers to participate in the gender competition categories they identify, with certain conditions being met.
One such condition is that “gender-friendly hormone therapy for women must be administered continuously and uninterrupted in a verifiable manner for more than a year, for a sufficiently long period of time and requires evidence of subsequent testosterone levels in order to minimize gender-related benefits in sports competitions.”
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In June 2023, Texas passed the Save Women’s Sports Act. This prohibits trans athletes from competing in women’s sports and women’s sports, allowing students to compete only in the gender categories listed on their birth certificates. The law allows schools to recognize changes made to birth certificates that have been made to correct administrative errors.
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And last week, Texas Senate Voting 20-11 has made her vote to pass the Texas Women’s Privacy Act. The bill ensures that women are safe in bathrooms, locker rooms, showers and domestic abuse shelters.
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president Donald Trump Since February 5th, an executive order has been in place calling for publicly funded agencies to ban trans-athletes in women and women’s sports.
The topic of trance competitors in women’s swimming became a national controversy in 2022 when Leah Thomas, a former University of Pennsylvania swimmer who previously competed in the school’s boys swimming team, was representing the school. NCAA Championship After moving into the female category.
Upenn and the NCAA are facing lawsuits over Thomas’ participation in women’s swimming, and the Trump administration has frozen in UPenn and declared it violated Title IX.
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