We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.

I'm Emily Dishinsky, culture editor here at the Federalist.

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Today we're joined by Marci Smith, she's a former NCAA champion in swimming.

Marci, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you for having us.

Now, you've started an organization, you're working closely with this organization, Women

Fins, that stands for, it's spelled like it sounds, but it stands for Women for Fairness

in Sports.

You can go to the website, you're working on hosting a formal event, you're working

on becoming a formal nonprofit, you're collecting signatures right now, but Marci, tell us about

the organization and then how you came to be involved in this fight.

Sure, well, as swimmers, we've been aware of the situation this past season from the

start.

Lea Thomas was competing at Penn all season, she competed on the men's team for three years

and from the start of the season in the Ivy Leagues has been competing, starting with

dual meets.

It has been a topic in the news and I would say that me personally and after speaking

to a lot of my teammates, we have this sense of kind of denial of what was going on.

I didn't actively search out media stories, podcasts on the topic, there weren't many

people at all speaking out publicly.

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