The 'panic' around Lia Thomas was about creating a target people could point at while demanding exclusion. So much of what people “know” about Lia comes from manufactured outrage and years of misinformation repeated without context.

Her swimming career was far from exceptional; she did not come close to dominating the sport and is famous for a race in which she tied for 5th and was beaten by 4 other women.

We (The Trans Advocacy and Complaints Collective (TACC)) commissioned this comic to break down the actual story.

I tried to create a form of social commentary. Are we applying different standards of acceptable behavior to men and women? It raises the important point of inappropriate behavior. But if its shared between to friends to which point is it inappropriate? To be, or not to be, that is the question…