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Crain & Company

Ep. 80 - Lia Thomas Banned (For Now)

Crain & Company

The Daily Wire

Sports

3.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

FINA, the International Swimming Federation, establishes new policies to restrict some transgender athletes from competition - we break down all the details Weekend Rewind: College World Series favorite, Texas, heads home early; Oklahoma shines. Matt Fitzpatrick wins the US Open at The Country Club The Avalanche look unstoppable as they take 2-0 lead over Tampa Bay in the Stanley Cup Finals Max Verstappen wins the Canadian Grand Prix Contract talks between Kyrie Irving and the Nets have stalled - where will he go? We list our top 5 play callers in college football

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0:00.0

The International Swimming Federation establishes new policies for transgender athletes, Texas

0:05.3

is bounced out of the college world series, and we break down the top five play callers

0:09.5

in all of college football.

0:11.1

I'm Jay Crane, and welcome to Crane & Company.

0:26.6

The International Swimming Federation, which basically includes the Olympics, sent

0:30.5

some shockwaves throughout the sports community after using common sense and science to determine

0:36.0

that male swimmers who went through a male puberty shouldn't compete against female swimmers.

0:41.2

Now this ruling comes as the Lea Thomas story has been swimming around athletics for

0:44.8

some time, calling for any gender to be able to compete against any gender regardless

0:49.9

of biology or advantage.

0:51.7

To put it in layman's terms, these people saw the data and figured out that letting men

0:57.3

swim against women would lead to the ruin of women's water sports.

1:01.9

Something that's pretty evident after we watch Lea Thomas destroy the competition, looking

1:06.6

basically like Aquaman swimming against mere mortals.

1:10.0

Now, if that doesn't scream loud enough that this type of reform is needed everywhere

1:13.7

in sports, the Federation left open the opportunity for women to still compete against men

1:19.8

if they choose to go that route.

1:21.8

So the band is really only one way, and it makes sense because the odds of someone doing

1:26.7

the reverse of what Lea Thomas did is highly unlikely.

1:30.6

But there is one area where I feel like they capitulated a little bit, and that is the

1:34.8

Federation allowing born males to compete against women if they started their transition

1:39.5

or hormonal therapy before the age of 12 or before they go through a male puberty.

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