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Lia Thomas was not the only transgender swimmer to make the 100 freestyle final at the 2022 NCAA Women’s Division I Championships. Iszac Henig is a transgender swimmer for Yale. His story is very different from Thomas, but also extremely similar in a lot of ways. Henig identifies as a transgender ma...

Ivy League Champs: Harvard Wins 800 Free Relay; Transgender Athletes Lia Thomas, Iszac Henig Post Fastest Splits The Ivy League Women’s Championships opened on Wednesday night with Princeton and Harvard registering relay victories, and Lia Thomas and Iszac Henig turning in quick performances for Pen...

Lia Thomas Sets Records in 100 Freestyle; Completes Ivy League Triple For Swimmer of Meet Honors The final night of the Ivy League Championships featured a battle of transgender athletes for the title in the 100-yard freestyle. Ultimately, it was the University of Pennsylvania’s Lia Thomas who preva...

Iszac Henig was an NCAA qualifier in March at the NCAA Championships, earning All-American honors. It was a historic moment as Henig was in the 100-yard freestyle final, alongside Penn transgender swimmer Lia Thomas. With Henig, the race had two transgender swimmers competing, a first in NCAA histor...

NCAA Women's Championships: Transgender Man Iszac Henig Qualifies for 100 Freestyle Final In an eventful 100 freestyle prelims at the NCAA Women's Championships, the eighth and final qualifier for the championship final was Yale's Iszac Henig, who posted a time of 47.55. Henig is a transgender male,...

Splashbacks 2023 - The Leading Stories From Jan.-Feb.; Transgender Swimmer Iszac Henig Switches Programs Traditionally, Swimming World caps each year by revisiting some of its most-read stories from the previous months. This Splashback package is broken into six parts, with each segment looking at t...