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Fox Business: Transgender category for swimmers flops

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Penn Universitys transgender swimmer Lia Thomas celebrates taking first place in the 500 yard freestyle race with a time of 4.37.32 during the championship final race in heat three during the Women's Ivy League Swimming & Diving Championships at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February 17, 2022. (Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Meanwhile, in the world of sports?

Fox Business reports: https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/creating-transgender-categories-sports-isnt-going-solve-anything-ex-ncaa-swimmer-warns

Creating transgender categories in sports ‘isn’t going to solve anything,’ ex-NCAA swimmer warns

Berlin Swimming World Cup scraps transgender category after receiving zero entries

FB says:

“After the apparent failure of a newly-formed transgender athlete category, one former NCAA swimmer explained why the designation won’t satisfy those specific competitors. 

‘They don’t want a third category. That’s not going to satisfy what they’re looking for,’ University of Kentucky alum Kaitlynn Wheeler said on “Varney & Co.,” Thursday. ‘Men want to invade women’s sports. They’re racing women and destroying women’s sports. Having a third category isn’t going to solve anything at all.’

Wheeler’s commentary comes just one day after an “open category” swimming event to accommodate transgender athletes was canceled in Germany due to a lack of interest and entries.

World Aquatics, formerly known as FINA, announced in July that the Berlin Swimming World Cup would be the first competition to have an “open category” for all swimmers. The event announcement followed backlash from LGBTQ+ activists for its “gender inclusion policy” established in 2022 that only permitted trans-women swimmers who began transitioning before age 12 to compete in women’s categories. 

Days before it was set to begin on Oct. 6, the open category event was dropped with the organization citing ‘zero’ entries.”

Well isn’t that interesting.

Trans-athletes apparently don’t want to compete with their peers. The men who “identify” as women want to compete in women’s sports.

And just as that University of Kentucky alum Kaitlynn Wheeler told Fox’s Stuart Varney “They don’t want a third category. That’s not going to satisfy what they’re looking for. Men want to invade women’s sports. They’re racing women and destroying women’s sports. Having a third category isn’t going to solve anything at all.”

One sadly suspects that Wheeler is right.