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  Lia Thomas moves transgender rules to top of swimming’s agenda Martyn Ziegler , Chief Sports Reporter Friday December 17 2021, 5.00pm, The Times Share Save S wimming’s international federation Fina is to appoint a panel of experts to come up with a new policy on transgender women competing in female events after being put on the spot by the emergence of the American college swimmer Lia Thomas. Thomas, 22, swam for the men’s team at the University of Pennsylvania before transitioning and now competes as a woman after undergoing a year’s testosterone treatment. It has caused considerable controversy as, although her times have dropped from when she swam as a man, she is winning races by a distance and is threatening to beat records set by Katie Ledecky, the seven-times Olympic champion. The transgender issue is the first big challenge for Fina’s new president, Husain Al Musallam, and the federation is  to put together a panel of medical, legal and ethical experts to advise on a new pol

 Last-ditch effort to stop gender self-ID in census fails Feminist activists had argued at the Court of Session that a decision to allow self-identification without a gender recognition certificate was unlawful JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES Dan Barker Thursday February 24 2022, 3.15pm, The Times Share Save Feminist activists had argued at the Court of Session that a decision to allow self-identification without a gender recognition certificate was unlawful JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES Dan Barker Thursday February 24 2022, 3.15pm, The Times A last-ditch effort to prevent Scots from being able to self-identify their gender on this year’s census, regardless of their legal status, has failed. The campaign group Fair Play for Women lost its appeal against a decision made by Lord Sandison, who ruled that transgender people could give a different answer from the sex on their birth certificate without the need for a gender recognition certificate (GRC). The group had  taken its case  to three c