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Test. does this put a shadow over the whole sport of skating? how would you have felt if you were there competing against her? >> absolutely. you know, i do think it is just a huge dark cloud over the event, which again is so unfair to the clean athletes that have also worked their entire lives to be at this olympics and have their special moment. its a huge deal. and regardless of everything going on i think the real problem here is judging, not age. the judging system in the last four to five ...

>> don, you know polina is such an important voice here because she lived it and she did it right. i think the idea of age limits, in other words so you couldnt be maybe 18 years old asthma rya mariah bell said, my concern is just at the younger levels theyll be cheating and gearing up so when they turn 18, trying to, say, delay puberty so that the girls stay little and they can do the quadruple jumps. polina knows the whole situation there. i think the bottom line is if the adults know theyre c...

I want to have a little fun with it. at least t i had the to stand p for women and girls in sports and of course that wentnt viral and but we need to do that . we need to stand all of them. u yes, of course we need to stand up for womens sports .p yeah. do you we got to keep it fair. all right. ive known you before. you became transgender before all this happened. i knew you as as bruce jenner. we were friends back in and out and do you believe now elthat your physically stronger than most women...

Swim team. this week she won the womens ncaa championship race in the 500-yard free style event. emma weyht would have won, shes. >> the best. but she was forced to compete with a dude so she came in second. finally, actual women are speaking out about this spectacle that degrades and eliminates them as a category. >> youre a virginia tech swimmer, what did you think about lia thomas swimming today? >> were frustrated with someone who has capabilities more than we have to compete and take opport...

Out everything o else. thomas competed three years at university of pennsylvania as a man named will. he never qualified for the nationals two years into hormone therapy and after coming out as a transgenders woman, thomas was allowedal to compete this year as a woman. last month the male ncaa issued new guidelines for transgender athletes but did not enforce them for thomas in this weeks nationals, some teammates and opponents have said its simply not fair. >> i have a teammate who did not make...

At least i had the balls to stand up for women and girls in sports. of course, that went viral. but, we need to do that. we need to stand up -- >> let me ask you a question. >> we need to stand up for womens sports. >> yeah, do you -- >> weve got to keep it fair. >> all right, i have known you before you became transgender. before all of this happened. i knew you as bruce jenner. we were friends. and do you believe now that youre physically stronger than most women because you had that testoster...

This week thomashe won the womens ncaa national championship race in the five hundred yard freestyle event university of virginia swimmer emma wyant would have won. shes the best but she was forced to compete with a dude so she lost . she came in second. finally, actual women are speaking out against this humiliating spectacle that degrades and eliminates them as a category. >> heres one virginia tech swimmer, for example, cat virgia tech swimmer. what did you think about lee thomas competing to...

Virginia techs teammate went public with this statement. watch. >> i have a teammate that did not make finals today because she was bumped out of finals. its heart breaking to see someone who went through puberty as a male, has the body as a male, be able to absolutely blow away the competition. you go in it with a mindset that you dont have a chance. >> you know, this is so disillusioning, before you get to the race, you know whats going to happen. but, it is crazy to say we should have men and...

The president of world athletics, lord coe has issued a warning over the future of womens sport if sporting organisations get regulations for transgender athletes wrong. last weekend, american swimmer lia thomas became the first known transgender athlete to win the highest us national college title with victory in the womens 500—yard freestyle. she swam for the pennsylvania mens team for three seasons before starting hormone replacement therapy in spring 2019. ive been speaking to our correspo...

Through puberty as a boy, bigger arms, legs and now competing against women who dont have that physically, they viewed second place winner, ememma weyant as the winner. the rules of the game are changeing and were figuring out what they should be. should transgender athletes have an asterisk next to their name if they win? lia thomas was 467 as a male and now number one as a female. i mean, it just is a tough issue. i think it is going to be an election issue, as well. >> martina navratalova sai...