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A pro-female athletes organization announced that women in Britain are dropping out of recreational sports because of transgender competitors.

“We think everyone should play sports fairly,” a women’s sports group that is working to preserve biology-based eligibility told the New York Post on Saturday, and stressed the movement is not specifically aimed at Lia Thomas, the transgender male collegiate swimmer currently competing as a woman, but is actually “pro-women.”

Lia Thomas, a biological man living and competing in collegiate athletics as a woman, was ignored by his female competitors after a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle final on Friday. 

University of Virginia swimmer Emma Weyant won second place in the women’s 500-yard freestyle championships, losing to a man, Lia Thomas. Many viewers took to social media to congratulate Weyant for actually winning first place.

Two transgender swimmers blew away the competition Wednesday at the Ivy League Women’s Swimming Championships.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has announced it allow transgender swimmer Lia Thomas to use new rules extending the time trans athletes had to demonstrate lowered testosterone levels. 

Several of the women on the UPenn women’s swim team reportedly mulled a boycott of the season’s final meet

A University of Pennsylvania swimmer who competed as a man for three years is now dominating the women’s categories.

A Super Bowl commercial featured swimmer Jessica Long, a 13-time paralympic gold medalist, and her incredible life story Sunday. Long was adopted from a Siberian orphanage, and was born without fibulas, ankles and heels.

A family in Humble, Texas, saved a dog earlier this month after they saw it swimming aimlessly in Lake Houston.

A Dutch Olympic swimmer has given new meaning to the idea of adapting and overcoming.

Chinese multiple Olympic and world swimming champion Sun Yang has been banned from the sport for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules after a vial of his blood was smashed with a hammer.

A coach of a Wisconsin swimming school has been accused of hiding a video camera in the employee locker rooms.