Martina Navratilova says Lia Thomas shouldn’t swim against women | NewsNation Prime

The day before University of Pennsylvania’s transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, 22, is set to compete in the NCAA women’s swimming and diving championships, tennis star Martina Navratilova said the rules allowing her to compete need to change. “Its not about excluding transgender women from winning, ever,” Navratilova told NewsNation’s Rich McHugh in an exclusive interview. “But it is about not allowing them to win when they were not anywhere near winning as men. You try to keep it as close as possible to what it would have been had you been born in the female biological body in the first place.” Read more: #liathomas #swimming #MartinaNavratilova NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all America. Find us online: Get our app: Watch us on TV or via streaming: