Trans swimmer Lia Thomas.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
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🗓️ 8 February 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The University of Penn swimmer is a trans woman who is competing on the women's swim team. During her first three years at Penn, she swam on the men's team. Thomas was a successful swimmer in the men's division, finishing second in the men’s 500, 1,000 and 1,650 freestyle at the Ivy League championships as a sophomore in 2019. She took two years off of swimming to undergo hormone replacement therapy as part of her gender transition, and returned to swimming this year on the women's team.
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| 1:06.3 | I am your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we are going to be talking about Leah Thomas, the |
| 1:12.4 | transgender swimmer, who is competing at the University of Penn and breaking some records and causing |
| 1:19.2 | quite a bit of controversy. Before we jump into Leah's story, we are going to start with some |
| 1:25.4 | quick hits from the day. |
| 1:39.5 | First up, after mounting criticism, the IRS announced it was ending its plan to require facial ID in order to file taxes. Number two, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama Republicans |
| 1:46.9 | do not need to redraw a congressional map before the 2022 midterm elections. The map had been struck |
| 1:53.5 | down by a lower court for diluting the influence of black voters. Number three, President Biden |
| 2:00.0 | warned Russia that if it invades Ukraine, the U.S. would, quote, end Russia's plans for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that sends natural gas to Germany. |
| 2:09.9 | Number four, Eric Lander, President Biden's science advisor, resigned yesterday. He became the first cabinet-level official to resign or be let go after a report |
| 2:19.2 | that he bullied colleagues. Number five, Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, and Oregon have all |
| 2:25.5 | announced plans to lift statewide in-school mask mandates. New York is reportedly considering a similar |
| 2:31.9 | move. |
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