This week, a man won a women’s swimming championship title. The media immediately hailed this victory as a record-breaking, history-making triumph, celebrating Lia Thomas as the first openly transgender person to compete in and win a Division I national championship.

But everyone — and I do mean everyone — knows this was a farce. Many are just too afraid to say it.

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