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Just shapes and beats fox8/23/2023 ![]() ![]() She saw her own feelings reflected in their stories, she recently told Sports Illustrated. She read the personal stories of trans women online, and was paired with a trans mentor through a group at Penn. Her body, with its solid pectorals and compact, muscled hips, characteristic traits of a male athlete, didn’t align with her sense of who she was, she later told the podcast SwimSwam, in one of the two interviews she has given this season. ![]() Out of the pool, though, she was struggling. She followed her older brother onto the men’s team at the University of Pennsylvania, and established herself as a strong competitor in distance races in her sophomore season, at the Ivy League championships, she finished second in three events. ![]() As a high schooler, she was one of the top swimmers in Texas, an All-American. Lia Thomas has been swimming since she was five years old. ![]()
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