“World Aquatics made the right decision, transgender people should fight each other” – State Duma Deputy Svishchev

The International Swimming Federation (World Aquatics) has made the right decision to create a special category for transgender people to compete in the World Cup, they must compete with each other, not with men or women, the president says of the State Duma Committee for Physical Culture. and Sports says Dmitry Svishchev .

World Aquatics previously banned transgender people from participating in women’s competitions and created a special open category for them. The first competition in this category will take place as part of the Swimming World Cup in Berlin from October 6 to 8.

– It’s the right decision. Men should compete with men, women with women, and transgender people should compete with each other. We already know several scandals in swimming, so we would not like to repeat unnecessary stories. We can only praise World Aquatics and salute their decision, well done! The other sports federations must think and go in the same direction as the swimmers. It would be fair for men and women,” Svishchev told .