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A transgender swimmer won five women’s races at the National Masters Spring Championship last weekend.
The swimmer, Ana Caldas, 47, dominated the five races in which the athlete contributed, taking gold in the female category of 45 to 49 years in five races, including the breaststroke of 50 and 100 yards, freestyle and 100 yards of 100 yards.
Controversy has caused a counterpoup on social networks.
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The United States Swimming Masters Swimming Swimming Eligibility Policy allows transgender swimmers to participate in the gender competition category in which they identify, and they can also be recognized for achievements, certain conditions are met.
One of these conditions requires that “hormonal therapy appropriate to the female sex has been administered continuously and uninterrupted in a verifiable manner for sufficient duration, no less than a year, to minimize the advantages linked to the gender in sports competitions” and a subsequent proof of tested levels sufficiently low.
PK Press Club Digital contacted the American masters swimming to comment.
In June 2023, Texas adopted the Save Women’s Sports Act, which prohibits trans athletes from participating in sports of girls and women and only enabled students to participate in the gender category indicated in their birth certificate. The law only allows schools to recognize the modifications made to birth certificates that have been made to correct an office error.
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And last week, the Texas Senate voted to adopt Texas Women’s Privacy Act by a 20-11 vote. The bill guarantees that women are safe in their bathrooms, changing rooms, showers and shelters of domestic violence.
President Donald Trump has implemented a decree since February 5 which has been forcing the institutions funded by the public to prohibit the trans athletes of female and girls sports.
The subject of trans competitors in female swimming became a national controversy in 2022 when the former swimmer of the University of Pennsylvania, Lia Thomas, who previously contributed to the school’s male swimming team, represented the school at the NCAA championships after transforming the female category.
UPENN and NCAA face prosecution for Thomas’ participation in swimming of women, and Trump administration has frozen funding for Upenn and said that it had raped title IX.
