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IV. Lia called himself a woman, though his chromosomes disagreed, inside he felt he was female, he made that his identity. In the second year of high school, the woke faculty played along, but Lia would not face the knife, even if his body felt wrong. Now Lia was fond of running, and he went out for track and field, some of the girls didn’t like this, but the coaches made them all yield. At the first race he outpaced them, breaking the records as he ran, the teachers all declared him ‘brave,’ but beyond that he won few fans. Parents showed up at school meetings, decrying how this was not fair, a man who’d gone through puberty simply had no real business there. Their daughters who had trained so hard were now cheated, no chance to win, since a man racing meant it all was over, why even begin? What was the point of women’s sports if it now was open to men? soon enough guys would rule it all, like the 1950s again. Lia was shocked by all this talk, how dare they rant and misgender? She went online to call them out, but most just called him ‘pretender.’ Declared he was an asshole who couldn’t compete against the guys, that his ego needed stroking so he flipped to the other side. The female runners hated him, and refused to associate, rhe male runners thought him a joke, their mockery stung more than hate. Lia found out, when all was done, that nobody really was ‘trans,’ a man cannot be a woman, a women cannot be a man.
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