“We keep calling this progress for women, and it is not. It is regressive,” says Inga Thompson, a retired U.S. cyclist, ten-time national champion, and three-time Olympian, on allowing biologically male athletes to use women’s locker rooms.
“Five years ago, if there was a naked male in a women’s space, this would have been considered some form of an assault,” Thompson says. “And now, we go through reeducation camp to change our ways and to be able to accept having a lot of the newer verbiage.”
Many women are quietly quitting competitive athletics because they feel it’s not a fair playing field, she warned….