You might need a chart and notes to keep up with this.
Lia Thomas, the man swimming on the women's team at the University of Pennsylvania, got beaten in a race by a woman swimmer at Yale, Iszac Henig, who is seeking to live life as a man, but postponed her male hormone treatments so that she could swim as a woman in the competition.
The unusual race happened Saturday.
Thomas, a biological male, has been dominating women's college swimming competitions, breaking numerous women's records. He won two races Saturday: the 500 meter and 200 meter.
But Henig beat Thomas in the women's 100-yard freestyle race and 400-freestyle relay Saturday.
After winning one of the races, Henig pulled down her swimsuit top showing scars from her double mastectomy, part of her transition to a male lifestyle.
At this point, we need to have an "other" category. If you were born a male and identify as a male, you swim against biological males. If you were born a female and identify as a female, you swim against biological females. If you don't identify as the gender that you were born as, you swim against others like you.
This, folks, is what it has finally come to.