Women's group CEO dissects Lia Thomas controversy: Not possible for 'trans woman to roll back male puberty'

Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the fight for fairness in women's sports.

Champion Women has become one of the first major women's advocacy groups to speak out on transgender athletes following the controversy after Lia Thomas' recent sweep of the NCAA women's swimming championships.

CEO of Champion Women, Nancy Hogshead-Makar, spoke to Fox News Digital on the continued inclusion of transgender athletes in women's sports. Most prominently in recent weeks, biological male Lia Thomas has dominated various swimming competitions at NCAA tournaments – a case that Hogshead-Makar finds inexcusable.

"Trans women don’t need to win every time to be able to make the ‘unfairness’ case," Hogshead-Makar told Fox News Digital in an exclusive statement. "If there were hormone suppression regimens that effectively eliminated the male-puberty advantage, I would think that trans women’s inclusion was fair. If a trans woman was ranked similarly as a man to their rankings post-transition as a woman, if they lost the percentage that men generally have over women in that sport and event, I’d think that was fair."

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"But what Lia Thomas has shown us is that … the research is correct … it is not possible for a trans woman to roll back male puberty. She may lose VO2-Max as her hemoglobin drops, but she retains most of her strength, all of her height, bigger lungs, hands, and body proportions that favor male physiology in most sports," Hogshead-Makar added.

As controversy continues to build around biological male collegiate athlete Lia Thomas' domination at the NCAA women's swimming competition last week,