EXCLUSIVE: Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Competitors in Sports

Lia Thomas at the 2022 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships standing next to Riley Gaines, who is one of sixteen plaintiffs in the class-action suit. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
‘I was racing Olympic gold medalists and I was changing in a storage closet. My privacy and safety were being violated in the locker room.’
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Over a dozen female athletes are suing the National Collegiate Athletics Association for letting transgender athletes compete against them and use female locker rooms in college sports.
At the center of the class-action lawsuit is Lia Thomas, the trans athlete who dominated the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships while a student at the University of Pennsyl…
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