Has any transgender athlete won NCAA championships in Florida?

1. What the record in the sources says about transgender NCAA champions

Reporting and reference material in the provided set identify CeCé Telfer as the first openly transgender person to win an NCAA title (track & field, Division II, 2019) and Lia Thomas as the first openly transgender athlete to win an NCAA Division I national championship (women’s 500-yard freestyle, 2022) ^{[1] [2] [4]}. Sports outlets and encyclopedic entries present those as established factual milestones in NCAA competition ^{[1] [2] [4]}.

2. Why Florida became part of the Lia Thomas story

Florida became a focal point because Emma Weyant, who placed second to Lia Thomas in the 2022 NCAA women’s 500-yard freestyle, is a Florida resident; Governor Ron DeSantis publicly declared Weyant the “rightful winner” by proclamation, a move widely reported and criticized as symbolic because the governor lacks authority to change NCAA results ^{[3] [5]}. That public dispute amplified attention in Florida although the on-deck championship record in Atlanta stands as reported by NCAA and sports press ^{[2] [4]}.

3. How different outlets framed the wins and the Florida angle

Mainstream sports wire reporting focused on the athletic facts — times, placings and the historic nature of the wins — noting Thomas’s winning mark (4:33.24) and Weyant’s margin (1.75 seconds) ^[2]. The Guardian and other outlets highlighted the political reaction in Florida, stressing DeSantis’s proclamation and the ensuing controversy about state policy and symbolism rather than any formal change to the NCAA result ^{[3] [6]}. Wikipedia and other summaries compile both the sporting achievement and the political fallout in Florida ^[5].

4. NCAA and state policy context mentioned in these sources

The NCAA had an inclusion policy that required testosterone suppression for transgender women to compete in women’s events; when governing bodies such as USA Swimming changed their rules, the NCAA’s decisions and timing created case-by-case outcomes that affected eligibility debates — a context repeated in reporting about Thomas ^{[2] [5]}. Separately, Florida passed state-level bans and political leaders in the state have sought to prohibit transgender girls from girls’ sports; the NCAA warned it could relocate championships from states with exclusionary laws, a conflict chronicled in reporting about Florida ^{[7] [8] [9]}.

5. Limits of the available reporting and what’s not in these sources

Available sources do not offer a comprehensive, state-by-state database of every transgender athlete who has ever competed or won in Florida-hosted NCAA championships; the provided set mentions Telfer and Thomas as historic winners but does not list every event held in Florida or every champion from those events (not found in current reporting). The sources do not document any official reversal of Lia Thomas’s result by NCAA authorities, nor do they show a legal mechanism by which a state governor could change NCAA championship outcomes ^{[3] [2]}.

6. Competing viewpoints and implicit agendas in the coverage

News wires and sports outlets emphasize athletic facts and rarity of the milestone ^{[2] [4]}. Political coverage — particularly outlets reporting on DeSantis’s proclamation and Florida legislation — frames the story as part of a broader cultural and policy fight over transgender participation in sports, sometimes carrying partisan thrusts either defending inclusion or arguing about fairness and state sovereignty ^{[3] [9]}. Sources like the NCAA and reporting in Tampa Bay/Politico show the NCAA’s institutional interest in protecting championship-hosting rights and its stated non-discrimination stance, which can conflict with state-level exclusion laws ^{[7] [8]}.

7. Bottom line for the original question

Based on the supplied reporting, yes: at least two openly transgender athletes have won NCAA championships noted in these sources — CeCé Telfer (2019, Division II track) and Lia Thomas (2022, Division I swimming) — and Lia Thomas’s 2022 victory prompted high-profile reactions in Florida because the state’s resident Emma Weyant finished second and Governor DeSantis issued a symbolic proclamation contesting the result ^{[1] [2] [3]}. Available sources do not mention a formal change to the NCAA result or a statewide registry of every transgender champion in Florida-hosted events (not found in current reporting).