cutting off your breasts gives you a competitive advantage. This athlete in 2022 competed on the female Yale swim team -- where he likely had a student-athlete scholarship, and (can we be honest?) likely was also recruited and accepted to that prestigious Ivy League school because of his prior swimming ability as a female -- because it advantaged him.

He has written previously, that he was spared the protests during high-level meets against his participation on that women's team, because he came in through the back door, avoiding it...

Other non-traditional people studying, competing, and working in America today are not so lucky. One-sided articles like this do not help the cause... accepting masculine females, and feminine men whose biology does not match the gender role assigned them in America. Naturally, with no helpful surgical or hormonal interventions...

This is the second opinion story the NYT has printed from this one athlete (majoring in Earth and planetary science at Yale.) This isn't the diverse representation they think it is, nor will it do anything but inflame those who want biological females to have the right to fair competion in collegiate sport.

I'd rather we be honest: plenty of transpeople ARE competing as themselves out here every day, and we're winning too. It's not either/or. Stop making these privileged people spokespeople for the ~~trans~~ non binary. The backlash we're paying for their confusion and struggle to accept themselves cannot be avoided, it seems...

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