FINA Bans Transgender Swimmers From Competing Watch Video A new competition policy approved by the International Swimming Federation is making waves. Cate Campbell is an Australian Olympic swimmer. “Women, who have fought long and hard to be included and seen as equals in sport, can only do so because of the gender category distinction. To remove that distinction would be to the detriment of female athletes everywhere," said Campbell. Under a new gender policy, transgender athletes assigned male at birth have effectively been banned from competing in women’s events. FINA competitions and world records will be open to them only if they did not experience male puberty or had male puberty suppressed before age 12. Speaking before members of FINA Sunday, former Olympic swimmer Summer Sanders of the U.S. and Campbell supported the new policy. Summer Sanders is a former U.S. Olympic swimmer. “There must be categories: women, men and, of course, a category for trans women and trans men. A space