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One transgender swimming won five women’s race on the US Masters Swimming Spring National Championship last weekend.
The swimmer, 47-year-old Ana Caldas, dominated all five races that the athlete competed in, where he took gold at the women’s age 45-49 in five races, including 50- and 100-yard breast stream, freestyle and 100-yard individual medley.
The controversy asked setbacks on social media.
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The US Masters Swimming Gender Law policy allows trans -fun swimmers to participate in the gender competition category, where they identify, and they can also be recognized for results assigned certain conditions are met.
One of these conditions requires that a “hormone therapy that is appropriate for the female gender has been administered continuously and uninterrupted in a verifiable way for a sufficiently long time, not less than a year to minimize gender -related benefits in sports competitions” and subsequent proof of low enough testosterone levels.
Pakinomist Digital has reached us Masters swimming for comment.
In June 2023, Texas Save Women’s Sports Act, which prohibits trans -athletes, adopted to compete in girls and women’s sports and only allow students to compete in the gender category listed on their birth certificate. The law only allows schools to recognize changes made for birth certificates made to correct a spiritual error.
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And just last week, the Texas Senate voted to adopt Texas Women’s Privacy Act with a vote of 20-11. The bill ensures that women are safe in their bathrooms, changing rooms, showers and shelters in the home.
President Donald Trump has had an executive order in place since February 5, demanding publicly funded institutions to ban trans athletes from women’s and girls sports.
The topic of Trans -competitors in women’s swimming was specifically a national controversy in 2022, when the former University of Pennsylvania Swimmer Lia Thomas, who previously competed for the school’s men’s swimming team, represented the school at the NCAA championships after transitioning to the women’s category.
Upenn and NCAA are facing litigation about Thomas’ participation in women’s swimming, and the Trump administration has frozen funding to UPENN and declared that it has violated title IX.