{"id":3572,"date":"2026-07-19T19:09:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:09:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T19:09:15","slug":"olympic-gold-medalists-brother-competes-as-trans-athlete-in-womens-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Gold Medalist\u2019s Brother Competes As Trans Athlete In Women\u2019s Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Joshua Liu, the brother of Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu, has been competing as a woman and racking up wins in several different high school sports in California.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3570\">173-Year-Old NYC Church Receives Reprieve From Destruction<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Liu, who now goes by Jaylin Liu, has competed in women\u2019s basketball, ultimate frisbee, and track, according to reporting from Reduxx. Liu saw some success in 2025 but exploded onto the podium in 2026, taking home several gold and silver medals across sports, most recently winning gold in the women\u2019s 400-meter at the Tri-County Athletic League Finals on May 8. During a women\u2019s ultimate frisbee tournament, Joshua\u2019s performance was described as \u201cextremely dominant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joshua was a surrogate child from the same mother as Alysa and his triplets, Julia and Justin. They were all given to non-biological father Arthur Liu, along with Selina, who was from a different surrogate mother. When the children were young, Arthur married Qing Xin Yan (Mary), who had previously been married to one of the founders of the Zhong Gong cult, according to reporting by Reduxx.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Alysa originally gained notoriety for publicly supporting America despite seemingly holding liberal values during the 2026 Winter Olympics, where she won gold in women\u2019s singles and team figure skating. During the Winter Olympics, Alysa changed her pronouns from she\/they to she\/her.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p>From a young age, Arthur rigorously trained his kids, particularly Alysa, to be elite Olympic athletes. Alysa cited a desire to spend more time with her family as the reason she originally retired from skating. <strong>(RELATED: Megan Rapinoe Pointing Blame At President Trump For US Soccer\u2019s World Cup Exit)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3568\">Republicans Hope Trump\u2019s Unprecedented Convention Can Rewrite Midterm History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy worry was that I\u2019ll have never lived with my family,\u201d Alysa, told <em>The Guardian<\/em>. \u201cI\u2019m growing up so fast, so young. I knew that if I continued skating, I would never have a chance at home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A representative from HeCheated, a platform that tracks trans males in female athletics, spoke to Reduxx about the situation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRules allowing boys into girls\u2019 sports often put female athletes who may have male family members, like Alysa, in an impossible position where their loyalties are torn and they are forced to choose between supporting female athletes and fairness in athletics or a beloved family member whom they love,\u201d the HeCheated spokesperson told Reduxx. \u201cFirm rules protecting the female category put the responsibility of saying no to these boys on athletic officials rather than young women and girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=3566\">Randy Fine Votes No On SAVE America Act Over Mystery GOP \u2018Family\u2019 Feud<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Liu, the brother of Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu, has been competing as a woman in several different high school sports in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3357,3356,2777,1459],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-2026-winter-olympics","tag-alysa-liu","tag-culture-war","tag-transgender-athletes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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