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Transgender Tag

The success of the transgender swimmer Lia Thomas at UPenn has spurred the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to adopt a new policy on transgender athletes. The new plan involves allowing individual sports to determine eligibility on their own. It sounds a bit like they're passing the buck.

Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer at Penn, was recently beaten in women's 100 meter race by a transgender swimmer from Yale. Is this the future of women's sports? What happens when more schools have transgender athletes on women's teams? In the case reported below, Thomas, who "transitioned" from male to female lost a race to a swimmer "transitioning" from female to male.

The State Department is rolling out a new "X" gender designation for passports and it's being hailed as a "milestone" for passport applicants who don't identify as male or female. There are still Americans stranded in Afghanistan, but the Biden administration has its own set of priorities.