Last month, the NCAA committee said: 'The subcommittee decided implementing additional changes at this time could have unfair and potentially detrimental impacts on schools and student-athletes intending to compete in 2022 NCAA women's swimming championships.'

It is unclear what they will do next year, however.

She said Thomas' achievements while on the women's team should be taken with a grain of salt, due to the biological advantages of being born a man.

'It's its own distinct category because no woman is going to be as fast as a man, and here, is just completely - we're just throwing away the definition of a record to fit into someone else's agenda of what it should mean to them,' she said.

'In reality, it makes no scientific sense to do so.'

Thomas is one of more than 300 swimmers who qualified for the NCAA championships this week, after securing a trio of records at the Ivy League Championships last month in the 100, 200, and 500-yard freestyle events.

laiperi:
I can understand how young women feel.

Create a separate but equal transgender category and transgender bathroom if affordable.