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Former Roanoke College women's swim captain Lily Mullens remembers the first weekend in September of her junior season in 2023. She had just gotten her wisdom teeth pulled, but something much more painful was to come.

That weekend, a team meeting was called to discuss a biological male transgender swimmer who wanted to compete with the team. Mullens was in the meeting over Zoom.

"The purpose of the meeting was to bring us all together with this individual to, in a way, hash out whatever feelings or opinions we had to the individuals with administrators in t

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