Lia Thomas and Women’s Sports
Last week, University of Pennsylvania student Lia Thomas won the swimming women’s division National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division One national championship for 500-yard freestyle. Two years back, Thomas, who had gone by the first name of Will, was finishing up competing with the university’s men’s division swimming team. What changed in between? Thomas’s opinion about wanting to compete as a man or a woman changed. Thomas, also took off a season of competition and received hormone suppression medical intervention.