Harvard swimmer switches to male team.
I really want to see this guy doing well and getting noticed:
http://www.boston.com/news/sports-news/2016/04/11/harvard-swimmer?s_campaign=bcom
With positive role models like this maybe places like North Carolina will start to have second thoughts about their silly bathroom/changing room laws.
I hope so, as the US is going backwards in it's human rights/LGBT issues.
I'm curious to see if he attracts the same negativity as a transsexual woman does; ie.e accused of having an unfair advantage.
As far as the Olympic commitee are concerned, a transsexual woman can enter any event as long as she has been on hormone therapy for a minimum of two years and is post op. I don't know what the stance is for transsexual men though.
I regularly compete in triathlons and I choose to make my past known to the organisors. The only issue I have had to date is to be denied a top three medal. That could be contested but I can understand their point of view and I am content to go along with that. If I was a lot younger and competing semi-professionally, then I would contest it but as an amateur athlete, I can live with it.