Why this former Olympian is fighting on behalf of women being forced to compete against biological males

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There are indisputable facts in life and we start to learn them as children. It is a fact that there are fundamental differences between boys and girls, men and women, and they are determined by biology in the form of chromosomes and hormones. 

As a society we are currently grappling with how these biological truths marry with an individual's belief that they are not meant to live a life as the gender assigned to them at birth. 

NCAA, LEADERS ARE DELIBERATELY TURNING A BLIND EYE TO INJUSTICES IN WOMEN'S SPORTS

The meeting of truth and belief is particularly evident in youth, adolescent, NCAA, and Olympic sporting events, especially women’s swimming where the two are clashing. 

I am proud to have represented Team USA in the 2008 Olympics. I’ve lettered in two NCAA Division I sporting events, qualified for twelve World Teams, and won a Pan American Games Gold Medal.  Needless to say, I have spent a better part of my life swimming competitively.

Eli Bremen competes in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

I started swimming competitively at age 7.  At age 7 the girls my age were bigger than me and my teammates, they were stronger, and their qualifying times for state championships were faster than mine.  

This changed drastically when I was in high school. The female’s qualifying times would not have even qualified them for the male's JV swim team. 

There was something else I learned at seven. There was a girl’s locker room and a boy’s locker room.  Separated for a reason.  For privacy, for safety, and based on gender assigned at birth.  There was no option to identify as a female and therefore join the girls in their sacred locker room. 

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