Recently, a transgender athlete has aroused heated discussion in foreign media and netizens. At the NCAA Swimming Championships, 23-year-old Leah Thomas won the women's 500-yard freestyle. However, after the game, the runners-up and third runners-up isolated Leah Thomas during the award receiving session and walked to the other side for a group photo. Originally, Leah Thomas was a man herself, but now he competed in the women's competition and won the championship, which naturally caused dissatisfaction.
As we all know, swimming is the traditional advantage of the United States, and the American swimming team has always selected talents from the campus first. Like the NCAA Swimming Championships, it is to provide athletes with the opportunity to enter the national team. And this competition, there are indeed many talented players who are eye-catching. Of course, this also includes a transgender athlete.
Leah Thomas has won frequent championships in U.S. campus competitions in the past year. At first, he didn't attract much attention, but as the championships became more and more won, and even the projects were more widely reported, this also caused a lot of dissatisfaction. This time, after winning the NCAA Swimming Championships, Lia Thomas was ostracized by other athletes, and even the spectators in the stands put up banners that read "Save Women's Sports" as a call to deny transgender athletes to compete in women's competitions.
The 23-year-old Leah Thomas, whether in appearance or stature, is no different from a man. However, he competed in women's competitions. Leah Thomas was only ranked 462nd when he competed in the men's race, but since competing in the women's race, he has always been ranked first.
In fact, this is also very understandable, although Leah Thomas had sex reassignment surgery, his physical function is still the same as that of men, let him go to compete with women, this is not a sadistic dish. Even if Ledecky played against him, he couldn't win! After all, the difference in physical function between men and women themselves is enormous, not to mention the swimming project, the physical fitness requirements are too high.
After Leah Thomas won the women's 500-yard freestyle in this competition, the runners-up and third-place (2 people) invariably chose to isolate Leah Thomas in the awards ceremony, and the three of them walked to the side to take a happy group photo, while Leah Thomas stood awkwardly on the highest podium. Apparently, this is how the girls protested the Leah-Thomas transgender game.
In fact, at last year's Tokyo Olympics, transgender athletes were already competing. At that time, in the women's weightlifting competition above 87 kg, The transgender athlete from New Zealand competed, and he was also the first transgender player in Olympic history. However, although Hubbard was originally a man, his strength was very average, and he eventually lost to the powerful Chinese player Li Wenwen.
It seems that Hubbard's appearance at the Olympics also gave Leah Thomas more confidence. It is reported that Lya Thomas aims to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Do you think he can do it?