[ad_1] MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Olympic gold medalist Caitlyn Jenner on Monday said he supported a local New York official’s order ban women’s sports teams with transgender athletes the use of county-owned facilities. The ban applies to more than 100 sports facilities in the Long Island suburbs of New York City. Speaking alongside Nassau County … Read more
[ad_1] Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer who won an NCAA women’s event in 2022 and who has said she has ambitions to compete in the Olympics, has asked Switzerland’s Court of Arbitration for Sport to overturn World Aquatics rules that prevent transgender women compete in women’s divisions. The CAS, the world’s highest court on sports … Read more
[ad_1] 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 at the sport’s highest levels, a lawyer representing Thomas confirmed. to NBC News on Friday. Carlos Sayao, a partner at leading Canadian law firm Tyr, said Thomas … Read more