copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-13): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas loses CAS case to overturn World Aquatics ban Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who was barred from competing in women's events, has lost her case against World Aquatics at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). [...] "World Aquatics welcomes the recent decision made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) regarding the case of Lia Thomas, which we believe is a major step forward in our efforts to protect women's sport," World Aquatics said in a statement.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-01-26): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has been quietly mounting a legal battle against World Aquatics to overturn the swimming governing body’s effective ban on most trans women competing in the highest levels of the sport, a lawyer representing Thomas confirmed to NBC News on Friday. Carlos Sayao, a partner at top Canadian law firm Tyr, said Thomas is asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Switzerland to overturn the new World Aquatics rules, issued in June 2022, that prohibit trans women from competing in women’s swimming events unless they transitioned before age 12. [...] "Ms Thomas accepts that fair competition is a legitimate sporting objective and that some regulation of transgender women in swimming is appropriate," the statement reads. "However, Ms Thomas submits that the Challenged Provisions are invalid and unlawful as they discriminate against her contrary to the Olympic Charter, the World Aquatics Constitution, and Swiss law including the European Convention on Human Rights and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; and that such discrimination cannot be justified as necessary, reasonable, or proportionate to achieve a legitimate sporting objective."
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-07-03): The claim: Post implies Lia Thomas Olympic ban requires her to compete with men going forward [...] "Lia Thomas Banned from 2024 Olympics, Ordered to Compete with Men," text under the image reads. Social media users took the post to mean Thomas had been ordered to compete exclusively with men in the future.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2023-08-16): In 2019, the University of Pennsylvania's swim team informed its female athletes that Lia Thomas, a man formerly known as William Thomas, would be competing alongside them. But the consequences of the university's decision wouldn't be limited to unfair competition. Although Thomas' teammates were told he would use separate locker-room facilities, he was instead allowed to use the same locker-room as the rest of the team, subjecting the all-female group to changing clothes in front of a man. This incident, and the University of Pennsylvania's intense crackdown on dissent, sparked many of its athletes to come forward and advocate for the future of women's sports.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-01-26): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has begun legal proceedings against World Aquatics, swimming’s governing body, after it voted to restrict transgender athletes from competing in elite women’s aquatics competitions, according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. [...] Thomas’ legal focus aims to overturn the policy that dictates male-to-female transgender athletes would only be eligible to compete in the women’s categories if they transition before the age of 12 or before they reach stage two of the puberty Tanner Stages. "Ms Thomas accepts that fair competition is a legitimate sporting objective and that some regulation of transgender women in swimming is appropriate," the court stated Friday in a news release.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-14): Paula Scanlan tore into sports officials while noting Wednesday’s decision to refuse permission for Thomas, 25, to compete in women’s events at the Olympic Games. [...] Thomas had previously competed on the men’s swimming team before switching to the women’s team in the fall of 2021. The swimmer then began changing in the women’s locker room, which Scanlan previously said was traumatic for her as a sexual-assault survivor. [...] Thomas filed a suit against World Aquatics (WA), the world governing body for water sports including swimming, seeking to overturn their 2022 policy prohibiting athletes who have been through "any part of male puberty" from competing in the female category, according to The Guardian.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-13): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas has spoken out after losing a legal battle that will essentially see her barred from competing in next month's Olympics in Paris. [...] Thomas asked CAS to overturn the ruling last year, arguing that the guidelines were discriminatory and unlawful. The rules were put in place after former University of Pennsylvania student Thomas became the first transgender woman to secure a National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) swimming championship victory in 2022. [...] Since tying with Thomas in the 2022 200-yard NCAA freestyle, Gaines has campaigned against trans inclusion in women's categories in sport, arguing those with biologically male bodies have an unfair advantage over biological women. Gaines has also filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for allowing Thomas to compete in the 2022 championships.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2022-04-07): Lia Thomas competed for men’s team. Here, post transition, she got beaten by four other genetic female swimmers. doesn’t that numb your argument that trans women always been genetic ones? They don’.t. IF we gave you a heap of female hormones, you’d be just as strong and muscley and have as much endurance as before? Seriously? [...] Except Lia Thomas did compete quite well prior to transitioning. Do the research. Here, she was beaten by four other women. did you read story? no? miss that part? [...] Oh, cut it with the "erase" lingo. No one is trying to erase anyone. Athletes are entitled to compete with others of their sex. Lia Thomas had a long career doing so as a man. "She" is still a man.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2022-05-31): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas speaks out about backlash, future plans to compete [...] Lia Thomas, a transgender woman who generated controversy by competing on the women's swim team at University of Pennsylvania, said she plans to keep swimming, with an eye on the Olympics. [...] Assigned male at birth, Thomas said she fell in love with swimming at age 4, but as she grew older she said she felt increasingly disconnected to her body, explaining, "I didn't feel like I was a boy."
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-13): The US swimmer Lia Thomas, who rose to global prominence after becoming the first transgender athlete to win a NCAA college title in March 2022, has lost a legal case against World Aquatics at the court of arbitration for sport – and with it any hopes of making next month’s Paris Olympics. [...] However, in a 24-page decision, the court concluded that Thomas was "simply not entitled to engage with eligibility to compete in WA competitions" as someone who was no longer a member of USA swimming. [...] On Wednesday it ruled that Thomas had no standing to sue World Aquatics’ transgender policy, with a key paragraph stating: "The panel concludes that since the Athlete is not entitled to participate in ‘Elite Event’ within the meaning of USA Swimming Policy, let alone to compete in a WA competition, which occurs upon registration with WA prior to a competition or upon setting a performance which leads to a request for registration as WA world record, she is simply not entitled to engage with eligibility to compete in WA competitions.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-12): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas, who made national headlines in 2022 after winning an NCAA individual title, will not be allowed to compete in elite women’s races, including the 2024 Olympics, after the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled this week that she lacks standing for her challenge to the rules of swimming’s world governing body. [...] Thomas, 25, had in January filed legal paperwork against World Aquatics, swimming’s governing body based in Switzerland, for its policy that restricts transgender athletes from competing in most elite women’s aquatics competitions. [...] The three-member Court of Arbitration for Sport panel found Thomas was not eligible "for the time being" to participate in World Aquatics competitions and only eligible for USA Swimming events that do not qualify as elite events. It also said national federations don’t have the authority to modify the application of a world governing body’s rules.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2022-03-19): Puberty is a performance enhancing drug. When Male-to-Female trans athletes like collegiate swimmer Lia Thomas compete and win against biological females it is cheating and must end On March 17, 2022, Male-to-Female (MTF) trans swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle at the Women’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships. According to ESPN, this makes her the first openly trans athlete to win a Division I national title in any sport. She was greeted with with a smattering of boos and heckles from spectators, and as evidenced in the podium finish photo with her competitors—biological females who finished 2nd, 3rd, and 4th (1, 2, and 3 in a fair competition)—the ethical gap between them is even larger than the anatomical gap. [...] Compare these two photos and recall that for the first two years of her collegiate competitive swimming career Lia Thomas was on the men’s swim team. According to Swimming World Magazine, since she transitioned from male to female, and subsequently transitioned from the men’s division to the women’s division in swim meets, Thomas has been "crushing the school records" and "is even rising in the all-time rankings: her 200 free performance makes her the 17th-fastest performer in history, and she is less than three seconds off Missy Franklin’s American record. In the 500 free, she ranks 21st all time." She’s #1 now among current collegiate swimmers.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-02-02): Lia Thomas’ legal battle to compete in the Olympics: the first trans athlete to win an NCAA title, the former UPenn swimmer faced backlash – but still advocates for the LGBT community - Thomas, formerly part of the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team, is trying to take World Aquatics to court over its rules change preventing her from competing in swimming as a transgender woman - She has courted the criticism of long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, her former teammate Paula Scanlan, and parents of her Ivy League teammates issued a complaint letter picked up by the media [...] Lia Thomas’ fight to compete Per The Guardian, Thomas has not competed since new rules introduced by World Aquatics in 2022 prohibited anyone who has undergone "any part of male puberty" from the female category. Before the new rules, transgender women had been allowed to compete so long as their testosterone levels were lowered. But World Aquatics claims Thomas, and other swimmers like her, have retained significant physical advantages from "undergoing male puberty".
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-22): No, transgender swimmer Lia Thomas wasn’t ‘ordered to compete with men’ If Your Time is short - Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas was unsuccessful in her legal bid to overturn rules barring her from elite women’s swimming races. But she wasn’t ordered to "compete with men." [...] "Breaking: Lia Thomas banned from 2024 Olympics, ordered to compete with men," a June 22 Facebook post said.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-06-13): Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas will not be allowed to compete in the Olympics (AP) - Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas failed in her challenge against rules that stop her from competing in elite women’s races because judges ruled she did not have standing to bring the case. [...] Thomas called the CAS’ decision "deeply disappointing" in a statement provided by her legal team. "Blanket bans preventing trans women from competing are discriminatory and deprive us of valuable athletic opportunities that are central to our identities." Thomas said the decision should be viewed as a call to action for trans women to "fight for our dignity and human rights." [...] The world swim body argued to CAS that Thomas was not a member of its member federation USA Swimming when the legal case was started. She also had not competed in female events "for the purpose of qualification or selection" for World Aquatics competitions, such as the Olympics or world championships.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2022-01-11): University of Pennsylvania swimmer Lia Thomas, who has become central to the debate about transgender inclusion in competitive women’s sports, lost a race Saturday to Iszac Henig, a trans male swimmer at Yale University who swims on the women’s team. [...] Though Thomas managed to win two events Saturday, she came in sixth in the 100-yard freestyle after competing head-to-head against Henig, a junior at Yale. Henig is eligible to compete on the women’s team as a trans man because he’s chosen not to receive gender-affirming hormones, also known as hormone replacement therapy, such as testosterone. [...] The NCAA guidance is similar for trans female athletes like Thomas, though it requires that trans women receive testosterone suppression treatment for at least one year in order to compete on women’s teams.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-07-08): A Facebook post claims that Lia Thomas has been ordered to compete with men, instead of women. We did the fact check to term it as False. According to a Facebook post from 22 June 2024, Lia Thomas, a transgender swimmer, has been banned from the 2024 Olympics. It further claims that she was ordered to compete with men. [...] No, Lia Thomas has not been ordered to compete with men in the 2024 Olympics. The claim that she has been mandated to compete against men is incorrect. Even though she is ineligible to compete in women’s events at the Olympics due to World Aquatics’ rule, there is no directive requiring her to compete in men’s events. She remains eligible to compete in other non-elite USA Swimming events in the women’s category.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2024-02-04): Swimmer Lia Thomas has sued swimming’s governing body for discrimination because it has barred her from competing as a trans woman in elite women’s swimming events. [...] Right now, the sports world (and a lot of the rest of society) has made Thomas’ body the problem for her to compete in women’s swimming. That prevents us from having to ask the more fundamental question about how we’ve created sports as separate domains for women and men and reinforced that division to the point we assume there’s something inherent and unchangeable about gender-segregated sports. [...] These, of course, are long term questions that don’t address the issue of Lia Thomas’ place in competition right now. The courts will decide that.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2022-03-17): Hogshead-Makar says that she is in favor of inclusion where the so-called legacy advantage of testosterone-driven puberty can be overcome—in marathons, perhaps, given that testosterone suppression can substantially reduce aerobic capacity and hemoglobin levels, or in sports like pistol shooting. "Lia’s times are the evidence that she has not mitigated," Hogshead-Makar said, citing Thomas’s N.C.A.A. rankings when she competed against men versus her rankings against women. "If you go from a thousandth place to a thousandth place, that’s fair," she said. "But she’s going from not being able to qualify for the N.C.A.A.s to being ranked first." It should be noted that, when Thomas was competing against men, as a freshman, she once dropped thirteen seconds from her best thousand-yard freestyle time, setting Penn’s pool record, and that, more generally, athletes, particularly young athletes, can get better. But Hogshead-Makar’s argument reflects a broader truth about the situation: Lia Thomas would have attracted little attention if she always lost.
Claim: “Lia Thomas ordered to compete with men.” (Facebook posts, 2024-06-22)
Evidence (2022-03-24): If women can complain and say they can do what men do, they need to compete against men to prove it. I don’t think Lia Thomas should be allowed to compete against real females, but at the same time, you can’t tell Lia to not compete against real females because that’s reverse sexism. Why is it that women are allowed to invade mens spaces but males can’t be allowed to compete against females in what’s generally viewed women’s spaces? I’m not going to argue about people need to accept their place in this world, but I will say that you can’t push an agenda and they try to change the agenda when it doesn’t work for you.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-16): The Republican-led House passed a measure that would automatically register male U.S. citizens between the ages of 18 and 26 to the Selective Service System. The provision for automatic registration was part of the proposed National Defense Authorization Act, which sets the spending and military priorities for the fiscal year. To become law, the automatic registration measure would need to pass several legislative hurdles, including making it into a final version of the broader defense authorization act bill negotiated by the GOP-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-17): But in this proposed version of the bill, one particular item stood out to a lot of people online: The bill would automatically register all males between the ages of 18 and 26 in the Selective Service System — or, in more common terms, the draft. [...] Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System. [...] Under current U.S. law, anyone who was born a man and is currently between the ages of 18 and 26 is eligible and required to register for the draft. Once you turn 26, you are out of the draft.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-14): House passes resolution to automatically enroll men aged 18-26 in military draft [...] The House of Representatives passed a resolution Friday that automatically enrolls young men for selective service, and expands the mandatory draft ages by one years, to men aged 18-26. Young men are already required to register for selective service if they are between the ages of 18 and 25, but the new resolution would enroll them automatically. Although the draft has not been used in half a century, it is considered a felony if an eligible man fails to register, Fox News reported.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-21): The post appears to refer to H.R. 8070, which does not reinstate the draft, but rather, automatically registers males ages 18 to 26 for the Selective Service. A spokesperson for the House Armed Services Committee denied the claim’s validity in an email to Check Your Fact. [...] The claim is false, however. The post appears to refer to H.R. 8070, or the "Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025." The bill does not reinstate the draft but rather automatically registers males ages 18 to 26 for the Selective Service. "Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under [The Military Selective Service Act] by the Director of the Selective Service System," the text of the bill reads.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-16): (Townhall) The House of Representatives passed the $883.7 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would automatically register men ages 18-26 in the draft. This means that all U.S. men aged 18 to 26 would be registered in the Selective Service System–the federal database used for a military draft in case of a national emergency. [...] The program costs the U.S. about $30 million a year. Lawmakers from both parties have proposed several reforms to the service to cut costs, but none have made it through Congress. Some included adding women to the draft and eliminating the agency. The funds also go toward military readiness and mobilization.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-19): One provision in this version of the bill stood out stood out to a lot of people online: automatically registering all males between the ages of 18 and 26 in the Selective Service System — in more common terms, the military draft. [...] Except as otherwise provided in this title, every male citizen of the United States, and every other male person residing in the United States, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six, shall be automatically registered under this Act by the Director of the Selective Service System. [...] Under current U.S. law, anyone who was born a man and is currently between the ages of 18 and 26 is eligible and required to register for the draft. Once you turn 26, you are out of the draft.
Claim: All men aged 18 to 26 “have been automatically registered in the U.S. Army.” (Threads post, 2024-06-16)
Evidence (2024-06-17): On Friday, the House of Representatives approved a bill to automatically enlist men aged 18 to 26 into the Selective Service. This bill is part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which outlines military and national security objectives for the next fiscal year. [...] The draft has not been enforced for over fifty years. However, all male U.S. citizens must register for the Selective Service at 18. Non-compliance is a felony and can lead to legal complications. Supporters of the bill believe it will streamline processes, prevent legal issues, and save taxpayer money by reducing prosecutions. Representative Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, led the amendment. It passed the House Armed Services Committee’s NDAA version in May with a vote of 57 to 1. Houlahan argued that using existing federal databases for Selective Service registration would ensure a fair and equitable draft if needed. She also noted that this approach would allow resources to be reallocated toward readiness and mobilization instead of registration campaigns.