A Georgia Senate committee is starting a new push by Republicans in the state to ban transgender women from participating in women’s sports. Senators heard testimony on Tuesday from five former college swimmers who are suing the NCAA and Georgia Tech over a transgender woman’s participation in the 2022 NCAA women’s swimming championships.
Former collegiate swimmers Kaitlynn Wheeler, from third left, Riley Gaines, and Grace Countie, who competed in Georgia but aren’t from the state, prepare to testify in opposition to transgender athletes in women’s sports in front of the state senate’s Special Committee on Protecting Women’s Sports at the Capitol in Atlanta, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones attends the state senate’s Special Committee on Protecting Women’s Sports meeting at the Capitol in Atlanta, Tuesday, Aug.
“Many here today are focused on one student who won one title at one championship two years ago,” said Kate Smith, the director of LGBTQI+ policy at the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.
“You allowed college women to be traumatized and violated on your campus in this way. Why didn’t you protect us?” Gaines asked. The NCAA has since revised its policy on transgender women’s participation, saying it will follow the rules of respective athletics federations. World Aquatics, the swimming governing body,who have been through male puberty from competing in women’s races. That means Thomas wouldn’t be allowed to swim in NCAA events today.
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