Transgender Swimmer

This is a beautiful story! I love how the coaches took the lead in inviting him to whichever team he thought would suit him best. And fantastic for the team to embrace him the first night. Thanks for sharing this.

I just read another article about this on facebook but your link is even better and provides more detail. While he's had to re-adjust his goals, I think it will be exciting and refreshing for him to "come from behind" instead of "expected to achieve" and slowly work his way up the rankings. Makes me even more proud to get to swim at Harvard next weekend.

This is a beautiful story! I love how the coaches took the lead in inviting him to whichever team he thought would suit him best. And fantastic for the team to embrace him the first night. Thanks for sharing this. +1! Good on Harvard for doing the right thing, and I wish the best for him!

And he could be quite successful. Triathlete Chris Mosier, a trans man, has been selected on the US Men's team for Age Group World Championships

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And he could be quite successful. Depends how you define success. If it's swimming performance, I doubt it. Even Chris Mosier got 7th and 37th overall which is a stretch to call successful. I'm assuming it's difficult if not impossible for a genetic woman to compete physically in any sport (unless Ledecky wants to give it a run). Very nice what Harvard did, but I'm thinking other male walk-ons would get tossed with the same times.

I'd think those go from male to female would have an advantage and those who go from female to male would have a disadvantage. And probably those who go from female to male and are taking testosterone as hormone replacement therapy are probably cheating. Wonder if WADA theraputic use exceptions would allow hormone replacement treatments for transgender athletes. www.wada-ama.org/.../therapeutic-use-exemptions www.wada-ama.org/.../medical-information-to-support-the-decisions-of-tuecs-female-to-male www.wada-ama.org/.../medical-information-to-support-the-decisions-of-tuecs-growth

Depends how you define success. If it's swimming performance, I doubt it. Even Chris Mosier got 7th and 37th overall which is a stretch to call successful. I'm assuming it's difficult if not impossible for a genetic woman to compete physically in any sport (unless Ledecky wants to give it a run). Very nice what Harvard did, but I'm thinking other male walk-ons would get tossed with the same times. Agreed.