The Trans Sporter Room Ep123 -- A TSR Tripleheader: Three Views On New Inclusion Policy

The Ivy League Swimming and Division Championships open Wednesday on the campus of Harvard University, and Penn's Lia Thomas will be there... to compete.
Looming in the background is what happens in regard to her eligibility for the NCAA championship meet in March. The new NCAA policy is a derivative of the International Olympic Committee guidelines that will go into effect in March. Yet question remains in regards to why the NCAA took this step, what it could mean, and will it need to be fixed.
This week, Karleigh Webb sits down with three guests each seeing the issues and questions from different vantage points.

University of Colorado professor Roger Pielke Jr. is an expert in the study of sports governance and look at both the NCAA and IOC frameworks and looks at where they could work and what the sore spots could be.

Ursinus College professor Dr. Johanna Mellis, also cohost of the End of Sports Podcast teaches sports history in relation to sport in society. She also was a competitive swimmer at the NCAA Division I level as an undergrad. She looks at issue through prism of history and from her viewpoint as an athlete.

Erica Smith is an active 2-sport collegiate athlete in lacrosse and field hockey at Division III Sweet Briar College (VA).
She's also the first transgender woman to ever be a student at the all-women's college.
This weekend she takes the field for the first time as a Sweet Briar Vixen (no kidding, that's their school mascot) as they open their lacrosse season. She gets beamed up to talk about how she got here, her chance to play here, and why those who says she shouldn't get play have it wrong.
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