It's been said often enough that you don't see many trans men competing in men's sports, for obvious reasons. Well, here's one – which nicely reinforces the point about sex difference in sporting performance:
Transgender male swimmer Iszac Henig has admitted that his transition has made him a statistically worse swimmer after he finished 79th out of 83 at men's meet - but says he ultimately 'lives more' as a man.
Henig, 21, has begun swimming for the Yale men's team after placing as an All-American on the women's team the previous year.
In an op-ed published Thursday, Henig notes that his times are 'about the same' as last season when he swam with women but that as a result, in a November meet, he finished 79th out of 83.
The sports site Outkick noted that a swimmer without a left arm and three others who specialize in different strokes were the only four who finished behind Henig.
It's a far fall in terms of competing, given that Henig was such a heralded women's swimmer she competed in the 2016 Olympic trials and was named one of the top 100 female swimmers in the country.
Fair enough: a strange decision we may think, but he's not cheating anyone out of a place, so he's not hurting anyone but himself.
Well, apart maybe from the guy without a left arm.
Mick Hartley 
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