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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
+
+([Previously](/2020/Oct/link-can-wnba-players-take-down-a-us-senator/), [previously](/2017/Jun/questions-such-as-wtf-is-wrong-with-you-people/).)
+
+From Robert Sanchez for _Sports Illustrated_, a story on Lia Thomas, 
+
+[(Archived.)](https://archive.ph/auvDU)
+
+> a living, breathing, real-time Rorschach test for how society views those who challenge conventions
+
+> Conservative opinion sites have called her a man and deadnamed her, purposely using the name she went by before transitioning.
+
+> 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
+
+> 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
+
+> Thomas says she began questioning her identity near the end of her time at Austin’s Westlake High School.