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 Title: Link: "Can WNBA Players Take Down a U.S. Senator?"
 Date: 2020-10-31 14:16
 Category: other
-Tags: linkpost, news, sports, Kelly Loeffler
+Tags: linkpost, news, sports, Kelly Loeffler, Sports Illustrated
 
 From Julie Kliegman for _Sports Illustrated_, [a story on the conflict between social-justice-activist WNBA players and Atlanta Dream half-owner Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R–Georgia)](https://www.si.com/wnba/2020/10/30/wnba-vs-loeffler-daily-cover). [(Archived.)](https://archive.is/GIsvw)
 

diff --git a/content/2021/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md b/content/2021/sexual-dimorphism-in-the-sequences-in-relation-to-my-gender-problems.md
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@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ If you're willing to admit to the possibility of psychological sex differences _
 
 I guess if you _didn't_ grow up with a quasi-religious fervor for psychological sex differences denialism, this whole theoretical line of argument about evolutionary psychology doesn't seem world-shatteringly impactful?—maybe it just looks like supplementary Science Details brushed over some basic facts of human existence that everyone knows. But if you _have_ built your identity around [quasi-religious _denial_](/2020/Apr/peering-through-reverent-fingers/) of certain basic facts of human existence that everyone knows (if not everyone [knows that they know](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/CqyJzDZWvGhhFJ7dY/belief-in-belief)), getting forced out of it by sufficient weight of Science Details [can be a pretty rough experience](https://www.greaterwrong.com/posts/XM9SwdBGn8ATf8kq3/c/comment/Zv5mrMThBkkjDAqv9).
 
-My hair-trigger antisexism was sort of lurking in the background of some of my comments while the Sequences were being published (though, again, it wasn't relevant to _most_ posts, which were just about cool math and science stuff that had no avenue whatsoever for being corrupted by gender politics). The term "social justice warrior" wasn't yet popular, but I definitely had a SJW-alike mindset (nurtured from my time lurking the feminist blogosphere) of being preoccupied with the badness and wrongness of people who are wrong and bad (_i.e._, sexist), rather than trying to maximize the accuracy of my probabilistic predictions.
+<a id="hair-trigger-antisexism"></a>My hair-trigger antisexism was sort of lurking in the background of some of my comments while the Sequences were being published (though, again, it wasn't relevant to _most_ posts, which were just about cool math and science stuff that had no avenue whatsoever for being corrupted by gender politics). The term "social justice warrior" wasn't yet popular, but I definitely had a SJW-alike mindset (nurtured from my time lurking the feminist blogosphere) of being preoccupied with the badness and wrongness of people who are wrong and bad (_i.e._, sexist), rather than trying to maximize the accuracy of my probabilistic predictions.
 
 Another one of the little song-fragments I wrote in my head a few years earlier (which I mention for its being representative of my attitude at the time, rather than it being notable in itself), concerned an advice columnist, [Amy Alkon](http://www.advicegoddess.com/), syndicated in the _Contra Costa Times_ of my youth, who would sometimes give dating advice based on a pop-evopsych account of psychological sex differences—the usual fare about women seeking commitment and men seeking youth and beauty. My song went—
 

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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. 
+
+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.
+
+> 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.

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ _ A Hill of Validity in Defense of Meaning
 
 
 Minor—
+_ Link: Sports Illustrated on Lia Thomas
 _ Student Dysphoria, and a Previous Life's War
 _ Happy Meal
 _ Link: "On Transitions, Freedom of Form, [...]"