Lies, Damn Lies and Lia Thomas

Dawn Ennis
6 min readFeb 5, 2022
Lia Thomas swims in an Ivy League meet for the Penn Quakers.
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If you’ve read anything about out transgender college swimmer Lia Thomas published by Swimming World, The Federalist, The New York Post, NewsMax, Breitbart, The Daily Caller or Fox News, especially if it’s quoting an anonymous source, fuggedaboudit. Almost all of it is bullshit.

Oh, they got her name right, and sometimes, they even use her pronouns, which are she/her/hers, by the way. They name her school, the…

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Dawn Ennis

Host “RiseUP With Dawn Ennis,” Blogger at http://lifeafterdawn.com, award-winning broadcast & online journalist, widow and single mom whose kids call me “Dad.”