Recruited by Harvard for the women’s swim team, he’ll jump into the pool as a man
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/harvard-recruited-her-for-the-womens-swim-team-but-hell-jump-into-the-pool-as-a-man/2015/06/23/eab1cc88-190e-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html?hpid=z5She was the quintessential recruit for the women’s swimming team at Harvard University: a nimble breaststroker with a fierce work ethic and sharp intellect. But when Schuyler Bailar jumps into the school’s Olympic-size pool this fall, he instead will be a member of the men’s team, the first openly transgender collegiate swimmer in U.S. history.
Emerging from a tortuous year of self-reckoning and a lifelong quest to feel comfortable in his own skin, Bailar, 19, will be navigating far more than the usual freshman challenges; he also will be a pioneer and role model as society openly grapples with shifting mores about traditional male/female gender lines.
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