Male-born transgender athletes retain their physical advantages over biological female opponents, even after taking testosterone suppressants, doctors said.
In an interview with The New York Times, a Mayo Clinic doctor, an international physiologist, and a Harvard University evolutionary biologist offered their take on the performance of transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who competed as a woman and won the 500-yard freestyle national college swimming championship this March.
A senior at the University of Pennsylvania, Thomas finished the race with a time of 4:48.25, beating out the second-place finisher, Tokyo 2020 Olympic 400-meter medley silver medalist and University of Virginia freshman Emma Weyant, by more than one second….