{"id":1799099,"date":"2023-01-08T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799099"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:51:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:51:42","slug":"trans-male-swimmer-struggles-against-new-competition-after-earning-all-american-honors-as-female","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trans-male-swimmer-struggles-against-new-competition-after-earning-all-american-honors-as-female\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Male Swimmer Struggles Against New Competition After Earning All-American Honors As Female"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrans-male-swimmer-struggles-against-new-competition-after-earning-all-american-honors-as-female%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1799099&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><br \/>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Iszac Henig, a transgender, male, joined\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/sports\/ncaa\/yale-bulldogs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Yale\u2019s men\u2019s swimming<\/a>\u00a0Team after finishing last year as an All-American Female swimmer.<\/p>\n<p>Henig It has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/united-nations\/human-rights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">taken hormones<\/a>\u00a0for eight months amid his transition, but the senior\u2019s times are \u201cabout the same as they were at the end of last season,\u201d He wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times On Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Henig This was written during a meet in November He finished in 79th out of 83 swimmers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t the slowest guy in any of my events, but I\u2019m not as successful in the sport as I was on the women\u2019s team,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/05\/opinion\/trans-athlete-swimming.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Henig wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Four people to finish behind Henig,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/all-american-yale-transgender-swimmer-iszac-henig-joins-mens-team-struggles-to-stay-out-of-last-place-barely-beats-guy-missing-a-forearm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to OutKick<\/a>, were a swimmer without a left hand and three other specialists in breaststroke.<\/p>\n<p>Several Days before, in a meeting against Columbia, Henig Finished 10th out the 11 in the 200-yard Freestyle and 11th out the 12 in the 100 yard Freestyle. His The 400-yard freestyle relay placed last out of five teams. His swim time was the slowest among all swimmers in that race.<\/p>\n<p>However, Henig\u2019s goal isn\u2019t necessarily to win as a man.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-069.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-069.jpg\" alt=\"Iszac Henig on the starting block with a \" let trains kids play  style=\"display:none\"><\/a><figcaption>Iszac Henig Start with a \u201clet trains kids play\u201d Before you start a race, get a tattoo on your right arm March 19, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cInstead, I\u2019m trying to connect with my teammates in new ways, to cheer loudly, to focus more on the excitement of the sport,\u201d Henig wrote. \u201cCompeting The best part is being challenged. It\u2019s a different kind of fulfillment. And it\u2019s pretty great to feel comfortable in the locker room every day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that when trans athletes win, we deserve to be celebrated just as cis athletes are. We are not cheating by pursuing our true selves \u2014 we have not forsaken our legitimacy. Elite sports are always a combination of natural advantage or talent and commitment to hard work. There is so much more to a great athlete than hormones or height. I swim faster than some cis men ever will.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-070.jpg\" alt=\"Iszac Henig before the prelims race at the NCAA Swimming Championships on March 19, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-25275169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-070.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-070.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/transgender-swimmer-070.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Iszac Henig Before the NCAA Prelims Race Swimming Championships On March 19, 2022. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/sports\/penn-swimmer-lia-thomas-olympics-trans-women-not-threat-womens-sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lia Thomas<\/a>The NCAA female female champion was a transitional male to female athlete, namely. Championship last MarchThis is a way to add more firepower to the debate about transgender women in sport. She The first transgender runner to win a prestigious athletics championship Division I won the national title in any sports.<\/p>\n<p>As High schooler Henig (then Iszac) competed in the 2016 Olympic Trials and was ranked among the top 100 female swimmers in the nation two years later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iszac Henig, a transgender, male, joined\u00a0Yale\u2019s men\u2019s swimming\u00a0Team after finishing last year as an All-American Female swimmer. Henig It has\u00a0taken hormones\u00a0for eight months amid his transition, but the senior\u2019s times are \u201cabout the same as they were at the end of last season,\u201d He wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times On Thursday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1799102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[13923,5458,9503,9099,4925,5380,7593,3819,10810,13922,7037],"class_list":["post-1799099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-all-american","tag-bongino","tag-competition","tag-earning","tag-female","tag-honors","tag-male","tag-report","tag-struggles","tag-swimmer","tag-trans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1799102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}