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What should be the rule for transgender athletes? | Sharron Davies
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4:28Now PlayingLia Thomas is a trans woman and many of her fellow competitors think it was unfair she was allowed to compete a final at the US Collegiate championship, which she won. The counter view is that once people have made the transition, they need to be included in sport.
Speaking to Stig Abell and Aasmah Mir, Olympic swimming medal winner Sharron Davies said "it's just not fair" that she was allowed to compete.
She said: "For the first 21 years of her life, the best that she'd achieved was the top 500 in university male swimming.
"So she went from being number 500 to being number one."
She added: "Of course, Lia should be able to compete, everybody should be able to compete.
"But no one ever talks about trans men and where are trans men going to go and compete, you know that it's just very much a one side conversation.
"And you can be damn sure if men's sport was being affected, this wouldn't be happening.
"So it's very important that women have equal opportunities of success in sport, and that we're not discriminated against because of our actual biological sex, which is what is happening at the moment."
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