Female swimmers are suing the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) for allowing men to compete against women in women’s sports.
March 14, former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines, together with 15 other female athletes, filed a lawsuit against the NCAA claiming the organization violated Title IX: “The NCAA’s Transgender Eligibility Policies on their face and in practice deprive women of equal opportunity in comparison to men in college sports governed by the NCAA.”
The lawsuit also targets Georgia Tech, which hosted the “2022 NCAA Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships” at which it “intentionally authorized and enabled [male swimmer Lia Thomas] to compete in the 2022 NCAA Championships and to access the women’s showers, locker rooms, and restrooms” at the competition.
Thomas, born Will Thomas, is a male swimmer who began competing in women’s swimming contests, achieving an “abrupt rise to dominance atop the NCAA women’s swimming world” because of his “retained male advantage,” as the plaintiffs state.
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