A transgender swimmer at New Jersey's Ramapo College broke a women's school record last weekend after competing three years for the men's team.
Meghan Cortez-Fields won first place and broke a school record in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 57.22 seconds at the Cougar Splash Invitational, a two-day meet between six schools in Dallas, Pennsylvania, the Daily Voice reported.
Fields also won the 200-yard individual medley, and earned second place in the 200-yard butterfly.
Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines commented about Fields on social media.
"Ramapo College swimmer in NJ goes from less than mediocre male swimmer to a record smasher competing against the women," Gaines posted Sunday on X, formerly known as Twitter.
"Hm, where have we seen this before? #SaveWomensSports"
Gaines was referring to the University of Pennsylvania swimmer Liz Thomas, who was born a male before transitioning to become a woman. Thomas last year became the first transgender swimmer to win an NCAA Division I women's national championship.
Fields told Ramapo's student newspaper that Thomas has been an inspiration to her.
Gaines also posted a photo of a large tattoo, which is on the inside of Cortez-Fields' left arm. The tattoo shows a naked woman with breasts and male genitalia.
"How can you see this tattoo on his arm and not think this is a hyper-fetishized & sexualized movement? As a Christian, I believe we are all made in the image of God, and this is a mockery of that," Gaines wrote on X.
Gaines also said the Ramapo swim team's congratulatory Instagram post for Cortez-Fields on Instagram had been removed after the critic of trans athletes posted about the swimmer's accomplishment.
Last month, nine Republican governors, in an attempt to protect fairness in women's sports, urged the NCAA to rewrite its transgender student-athletes policy.
NCAA policy currently states that trans student-athlete participation for each sport is "determined by the policy for the national governing body of that sport."
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