The University of Akron’s Zippy Invitational swim meet occurred last week, and it was quite a different scene than it had been a year ago. Seven collegiate swim teams, male and female, competed against each other in the annual NCAA swim meet. But unlike a year ago, there weren’t any men competing as women.

The Zippy Invitational was the swim meet where Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer from the University of Pennsylvania, dominated. Thomas’s presence forced the world to have a conversation about men competing as women in women’s sports.