Transgender Athlete’s Wins ‘Should Not Come at Our Expense’: UPenn Women Swimmers

Tokyo Aquatics Centre, which will host artistic swimming, diving, and swimming events at the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic games, is seen as the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, after the grand opening ceremony in Tokyo, Japan, on Oct. 24, 2020. Issei Kato/REUTERS

A transgender athlete should not be allowed to compete with biological women because the person would hold “an unfair advantage over the competition in the women’s category,” a group said Thursday.

The group, which includes 16 members of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team and their family members, issued a letter to the university and the Ivy League, asking them to refrain from any litigation that’s seeking to allow teammate Lia Thomas, a transgender athlete, to race at National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) events.