Iszak HenigFreestyle/Butterfly - 2020-21: Season canceled due to pandemic 2019-20: Finished third in the 100 freestyle at the Ivy League Championship with a
I have noticed this though - why do female to male always pick dumb ("unique") names? I'm thinking of 3 people I know of and her, and it's stuff like "Wil", "Iszak", "Jak" and "Jax"
This woman is a talented swimmer and her delusions have caused her to surrender a successful college career among the top female college swimmers - along with, I believe, her breasts. That's horrific. Don't play along with the delusion.
True enough. But it is still violating a fundamental tenet of sport. Men and women are different, and deserve to be treated differently. That includes racing separately.
Will the men’s team cut her? Clearly she will be of no help to them in the pool.
Oh well. This is pretty much the opposite of cheating. More power to them.
True enough. But it is still violating a fundamental tenet of sport. Men and women are different, and deserve to be treated differently. That includes racing separately.
Will the men’s team cut her? Clearly she will be of no help to them in the pool.
Interesting question. She might get cut or not travel because of title 9 compliance- too many males on the team relative to women's numbers. This happened to a runner I coached who was among the weakest on his Ivy league team.
Schuyler Miwon Hong Bailar (born May 2, 1996) is an American swimmer, and the first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer. He is also the first publicly documented NCAA D1 transgender man to compete as a man in any sport...
True enough. But it is still violating a fundamental tenet of sport. Men and women are different, and deserve to be treated differently. That includes racing separately.
Will the men’s team cut her? Clearly she will be of no help to them in the pool.
Interesting question. She might get cut or not travel because of title 9 compliance- too many males on the team relative to women's numbers. This happened to a runner I coached who was among the weakest on his Ivy league team.
In the NYT article, Henig says, "I wasn’t the slowest guy in any of my events, but I’m not as successful in the sport as I was on the women’s team."
It might be technically true that Henig has not been the slowest swimmer in any of the men's events Henig has competed in so far. But Henig has usually been very close to the slowest swimmer in all the men's events Henig has competed in, including the freestyle races which historically have been Henig's strongest suit.
In the 50 freestyle race in November where Henig came in 79th out of 83, the four men who came in behind Henig reportedly were a swimmer born without a left arm and three others who specialize in the breaststroke.
In a meet against Columbia in November, Henig finished 10th out of 11 in the 200-yard freestyle and 11th out of 12 in the 100-yard free. Henig's 400-yard freestyle relay finished in last place out of five teams, and Henig's individual swim time was the slowest of all swimmers in that race.
But... but.. Fox News told us female to male trans never competed in men's sports. Did they lie to us?
I can't speak for Fox News, but AFAIK no one who follows the news regarding trans inclusion in sports has said, or would say, that no females who claim a trans identity and take exogenous T have ever competed in men's (or boys') sports. Some have in the past, and some are now.
People all across the political spectrum have simply observed that whenever female trans-identified athletes do compete in male sports, they never win, place or excel. They don't even come close. On the contrary, they usually come in last or near last compared to the male athletes they're up against.
Or, like wrestler Mack Beggs at Life University, they appear on the men's roster and so officially are recorded as being on the men's team, but they never actually compete in any men's events.
Also, you only see a man transgender to woman competing against women (which is grossly unfair).....you NEVER SEE a woman transgender to man competing against men!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!