Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies has hailed the decision by the University of Pennsylvania to remove transgender swimmer Lia Thomas's records, declaring "justice has been served".The University of Pennsylvania has reached an agreement with the Trump administration to ban transgender athletes from women's sports teams and erase records set by swimmer Lia Thomas, the US Department of Education announced.FULL STORY HERE.
00:00The transgender swimmer, Leah Thomas, is to have their titles and records stripped by the University of Pennsylvania,
00:07following pressure from the Donald Trump administration.
00:10Let's get straight into the former Olympic swimmer now, Sharon Davis, NBA.
00:14Sharon, we've got a quick couple of minutes with you here.
00:16You must be delighted. At last, justice has been served for all those poor women who were denied medals by a biological man.
00:25Yes, absolutely. You know, as you say, justice has been served.
00:28However, you know, for nearly 18 months, this university made all their female athletes change next to this biological male who's fully intact,
00:37who made it absolutely obvious that they were still attracted to females.
00:41And when those girls complained and said, you know, we're unhappy about this loss of privacy,
00:46they were told to adjust their thinking and they would be sent to see psychologists blackmarked and have their careers wrecked if they carried on.
00:53So, I mean, there's an awful lot of apologizing to do. It's taken four years for them to do this.
00:58I have to be honest and say, I don't think it's through the goodwill of their heart that they want to protect women's sport.
01:02I think that Donald Trump saying that he will remove their federal funding has made a huge difference, about $175 million, I believe.
01:09But they have done the right thing, you know, at long last.
01:11And let's hope that we can make all the other sports do the same.
01:14There's still 40 sports here in the UK, Martin, that are not doing it, even after the Supreme Court ruling.
01:20And, you know, the LTA, for example, just about to have Wimbledon.
01:23They look after the elite, 1%.
01:25All of their other female tennis players are subjected to having to play men.
