A man won an NCAA Division 1 national championship in women’s swimming last week.
Penn swimmer Lia Thomas, a male who identifies as a woman, won the 500-yard freestyle event. That makes Thomas the first transgender athlete to win that title.
But Thomas’s success has sparked controversy. Some people think it’s absurd that a man can compete against women and that this never should have happened. Others think it’s OK for a man to identify as a woman and that society should accommodate it.
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