Monika Burzynska knew Will Thomas. He was a member of the men’s swimming team at the University of Pennsylvania, although she found that “he wasn’t very social.” Nonetheless, as he was a member of the men’s swimming team, she had every reason to believe that he was a male. Her certainties, however, would soon face a strong challenge from university officials, and, indeed, from the entire leftist political and cultural establishment.
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Imagine Burzynska’s surprise the following year, when she was a member of the UPenn women’s swim team and discovered the identity of her teammate who had been given the locker next to hers: it was none other than “Lia” Thomas, that is, Will Thomas pretending to be a woman. And he
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