Hello Fellow Swimmers,
I got into swimming late in 2004 and swam on and off since then. in 2012 i was swimming like 20 - 25 hours a week and competed for my team on the mens side. My last race was in july of 2012, the same time that I started with Hormone Replacement Therapy to begin my physical transformation. Im just getting back into swimming and can tell I'm very out of shape and have a long way to go before I start considering competing now as a woman which brings me to my main question.
I would like to know what peoples thoughts are on it, because the last thing I want is for people to yell at me at a meet, or to call me a cheater, or to make a scene. The men can weigh in their thoughts, but mainly looking for the responses from the women as I will be swimming with them, and not the guys.
Also, please be respectful.
Thank you,
Cassie
If you're just doing Masters swimming I don't think anyone is going to really care and I doubt it will matter at all. I can't imagine anyone at a Masters meet saying or doing anything. I can't remember any thing going on at a meet besides people having fun and racing.
There was a story a few months ago, I think it might have been the Sunday Morning program on CBS, about a female to male swimmer for one of the college teams. She originally swam with the women's team, then came back the next year and he swam with the male team. The coach thought there would be problems with some of the men, but I don't think anyone had any problems with it at all.
If you're just doing Masters swimming I don't think anyone is going to really care and I doubt it will matter at all. I can't imagine anyone at a Masters meet saying or doing anything. I can't remember any thing going on at a meet besides people having fun and racing.
There was a story a few months ago, I think it might have been the Sunday Morning program on CBS, about a female to male swimmer for one of the college teams. She originally swam with the women's team, then came back the next year and he swam with the male team. The coach thought there would be problems with some of the men, but I don't think anyone had any problems with it at all.
