What the success of trans swimmer Lia Thomas means for NCAA

Image:  All Lia Thomas wants to do is swim. To her supporters, this is a revolutionary act; the transgender student athlete competing on the women’s swim team at the University of Pennsylvania is a role model, breaking barriers—and NCAA records. To her many detractors, however, Thomas’s success signals the looming death of women’s sports, as transgender athletes supposedly invade and corrupt the purity of such competitions. To the greater sports world, Thomas represents something...