Few know the struggles transgender women athletes face better than Lia Thomas, who once competed as a male swimmer — claiming several Ivy League Champion records at Penn university as a man — before becoming the first transgender woman to win at the NCAAs.
Few women athletes have dared to openly decry any biological advantage Thomas might have competing with biologically female swimmers.
But Hall of Fame marathon swimmer and women’s rights advocate Sandra Bucha, 67, who paved the way for female athletes everywhere, knows what women athletes are now up against.
Now a civil law attorney for four decades, Bucha, of Sun City, Florida, was a record-breaking swimmer who missed qualifying for the 1972 Munich Olympics by just six tenths of a second. She previously toppled barriers of inequity which once held female athletes back from fulfilling their dreams, and helped establish an equal playing field in sports….