Iszac Henig
American transgender male swimmer
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. In 2022, he moved from the women's to the men's swim team at Yale, even though it would cost him wins in his final season.
Early life
Henig was born in 1999 or 2000, and was assigned female at birth. He grew up in Menlo Park, California.
Henig joined his first summer swimming team at the Ladera, California, recreation district at the age of four, initially to get a suit with a dolphin on it. He was inspired to compete further by Michael Phelps's record number of gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and began training seriously, starting with year-round swimming at the age of eight. By 2016, he was up to three hours of daily training. He was the only competitive swimmer in his family.
Henig knew he identified as a boy at the age of 14, but was not ready to make the commitment to gender transition.
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