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Penn swimmer Lia Thomas won the women's 500-yard freestyle championship on Thursday to become the first transgender NCAA champion in Division I history. She finished the race in 4:33.24 , beating ...
Lia Catherine Thomas [2] (born May 1999) is an American swimmer. She was the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship, having won the women's 500-yard freestyle event in 2022, before being barred from competing in women's events by World Aquatics .
In this file photo, University of Pennsylvania athlete Lia Thomas prepares for the 500 meter freestyle at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, March 17, 2022, at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.
Lia Thomas, the former University of Pennsylvania swimmer at the center of a heated national debate over whether transgender women should compete against cisgender athletes, has addressed her ...
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has been quietly mounting a legal battle against World Aquatics to overturn the swimming governing body’s effective ban on most trans women competing in the ...
Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who made national headlines in 2022 after winning an NCAA individual title, will not be allowed to compete in elite women’s races, including the 2024 Olympics ...
Lia Thomas has launched legal action against World Aquatics as the American swimmer bids to compete again in elite female sport.. Thomas, who is transgender, has been unable to do so since a ...
Story at a glance Lia Thomas, a transgender woman and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, told ABC News in an interview on Tuesday that she doesn’t need “permission” to live and ...