Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022.

Former Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines was among more than a dozen college athletes who filed a lawsuit against the NCAA on Thursday, accusing it of violating their Title IX rights by allowing transgender woman Lia Thomas to compete at the national championships in 2022.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Atlanta, details the shock Gaines and other swimmers felt when they learned they would have to share a locker room with Thomas at the championships in Atlanta. It documents a number of races they swam in with Thomas, including the 200-yard final in which Thomas and Gaines tied for fifth but Thomas, not Gaines, was handed the fifth-place trophy.

Thomas swam for Pennsylvania. She competed for the men’s team at Penn before her gender transition.

Thomas was the first openly transgender athlete to win a Division I title in any sport, finishing in front of three Olympic medalists for the championship. By not making the final, the lawsuit mentions that Florida swimmer Tylor Mathieu, who was not a plaintiff, was denied first-team All-American honors in that event.

Other plaintiffs included athletes from volleyball and track.

  • Cogency@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 months ago

    Learn to put proper antecedents in if you don’t want to be misunderstood.

    “These ones do, the problem could be solved easily enough with separate locker rooms.”

    That could just have been as left vague as you could word it to both insult while maintaining plausible deniability that you didn’t intend to insult.

    • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
      2·
      4 months ago

      You already have two locker rooms, and room and the women’s room have the ones that are uncomfortable use the men’s room there’s not gonna be anyone in there anyway.

      I feel like that is very clear

      • Cogency@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        It wasn’t in the pertinent message when you could be misconstrued. You only clarified your position after you started getting downvotes

        • NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth
          1·
          4 months ago

          Also, I’m on kbin I can’t see Lemmy downvotes so idk what they are at.

          Feel free to sign up on a cabin account and check.

          We don’t do anonymous down votes here, or up votes for that matter