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Schuyler Miwon Hong Bailar (born May 2, 1996) is an author, educator, American swimmer and advocate for LGBT rights.He is the first openly transgender NCAA Division I swimmer, and also the first publicly documented NCAA D1 transgender man to compete as a man in any sport.
Thomas began swimming on the men's team at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017. During her freshman year, Thomas recorded a time of eight minutes and 57.55 seconds in the 1,000-yard freestyle that ranked as the sixth-fastest national men's time, and also recorded 500-yard freestyle and 1,650-yard freestyle times that ranked within the national top 100. [4]
Iszac Henig is an American swimmer specializing in short distance freestyle races, and an undergraduate at Yale University.He gained particular notice as part of the debate about transgender people in sports when he came out as a trans man, while continuing to swim on the Yale women's team and achieving All-America status at the NCAA Division I Championship.
Story at a glance Lia Thomas, a transgender woman and former University of Pennsylvania swimmer, told ABC News in an interview on Tuesday that she doesn’t need “permission” to live and ...
Meghan Dressel watched her husband, swimmer Caeleb Dressel, and his teammates win gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but she’s been cheering him on since 2013.. Caeleb, 27, is no stranger to ...
The 25-year-old became the first transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship in any sport when she took 500-yard freestyle gold in 2022.
Murphy made his Olympic debut at the Rio 2016 games, winning the men’s 100m and 200m backstroke gold medals, and five years later at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he set a new world record when he ...
In 2017, Trystan Reese case, another story of a transgender man who gave birth to a child, attracted media attention. [190] [191] In 2021, he published a book about it. [192] Also in 2017, The Advocate named "Transgender Americans" as its "Person of the Year", and listed Danica Roem (a transgender woman) as a finalist. [193]