The Durban World Table Tennis Championships is about to start, when everyone is paying attention to the new dynamics of national table tennis and other strong teams, a Brazilian female athlete has made an important decision that has profoundly changed her life, that is, to officially change her sex to a male player after the end of this competition!
Yes, the athlete whose original name was Kumabara Caroline and is now renamed Kumabara Luca was exposed to change her sex last year, but then there was no news, and she did not participate in the men's competition, and now everyone knows that she wants to take this step after the World Table Tennis Championships, and hopes to participate in the Olympic Games for the fourth time: this situation is truly the first case of table tennis, which shocked many people.
As we all know, transgender athletes participating in competitive sports has always been a controversial topic, but usually everyone is more criticized for male players to change their appearance to participate in women's events, because from the physical fitness and other aspects, they usually have a greater advantage than female players, transgender participation is quite "cheating", so it is opposed by many people.
But on the contrary, female players transgender participation in men's events is actually "loss", the reason is the same as just mentioned, their physical fitness is much inferior, change to compete with male players must be comprehensive, not easy to fight!
To sum up, we can be sure that Kumabara did not change his sex for opportunistic purposes, but did not recognize his current gender, so he made this decision.
In fact, the news that Xiong Yuan was going to change sex had already been reported as early as September 2022, because there had never been a similar rumor in the table tennis industry before, and she was also the "elder of the three dynasties" of the Olympic Games, so it quickly caused an uproar. But as mentioned earlier, Kumabara did not participate in the men's competition later, and over time, everyone thought that she had regretted it.
But now it seems that Kumahara is just waiting for the Durban World Table Tennis Championships to finish before receiving hormone therapy, and she has also changed her name to "Luca", a masculine name. But objectively speaking, it is still very difficult for her to participate in next year's Paris Olympics, because the strength of the Brazilian team is not weak, Kumahara is not yet the top in the women's team, and it is too difficult to be selected for the Olympic list of the men's team.
For Kumahara's choice, some fans expressed their lack of understanding, and some netizens believed that this was personal freedom, and it was okay if the law did not prohibit it. So what do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message to write your own opinions!