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-Title: Link: "'I Am Lia': The Trans Swimmer Dividing America Tells Her Story"
-Date: 2022-03-04 22:00
-Category: other
-Tags: linkpost, news, sports, Sports Illustrated
-Status: draft
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-([Previously](/2020/Oct/link-can-wnba-players-take-down-a-us-senator/), [previously](/2017/Jun/questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people/).)
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-From Robert Sanchez for _Sports Illustrated_, a story on Lia Thomas,
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-[(Archived.)](https://archive.ph/auvDU)
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-> a living, breathing, real-time Rorschach test for how society views those who challenge conventions
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-> Conservative opinion sites have called her a man and deadnamed her, purposely using the name she went by before transitioning.
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-> Her moves have been minutely tracked by the U.K.’s Daily Mail, including once with cruel detail about her habits in the women’s locker room provided by an anonymous teammate.
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-https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10445679/Lia-Thomas-UPenn-teammate-says-trans-swimmer-doesnt-cover-genitals-locker-room.html
-https://archive.ph/fPq42
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-> Every day this season felt like a challenge to her humanity.
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-> a mutual love of niche anime and video games and through the closeness that can be achieved only through taxing swim practices
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-> Thomas says she began questioning her identity near the end of her time at Austin’s Westlake High School.
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