The REAL CRIME at the JERSEY CITY MARATHON

Exactly. 'Gender' as it is nebulously defined by a fad ideology, is meaningless for sports categories. It means literally nothing. Sex is what is relevant to one's sports performance, so just have the sex categories male and female.

It’s a grift and it takes away $$ from opportunities to grow the sport and drive competition

Looks like it's dumb to not enter the non-binary field, if you're looking for prize money. Even the top women, would've increase their take if they went that route.

Hell, throw on a wig with lipstick, or a fake mustache, and get after that money!

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!

Does running as non binary prevent you from running as a man or woman at other races? It seems like it would be advantageous to run as nonbinary if your interest is money, then turn up at Swathmore twilight in a few weeks for a fast time. After all don't the woke believe you can identify as something different every single day.

I think the goal of nonbinary is to prevent men from taking money from women though. There is a lot of outrage about obviously fast dudes feeling like they are women. While the nonbinary purse wastes a lot of money on slow times, there are now grounds to not award money to a 241 dude in the womens race.

that would be nice, looks like there were only a handful of nonbinary entrants though, so people would whine about a $10 prize purse

Put this in the fine print:

$1 from each athlete's race entry will be dedicated to the prize pool for the category of that entrant. The prize pools shall then be dispersed with 50% to the winner, 25% to second place, 15% to third place, 7% to fourth place and 3% to fifth place."

So, in this case you are looking at $5, $2.50, $1.50, $.70 and $.30

An elite non-binary mid-distance runner could do this race as a Sunday long run and clean up the cash. Maybe next year......?

Yes, "Gender is what a person says it is and no one else can question it," per the wokesters. So yes, change your gender as needed, day to day, race to race, to scoop up as much prize money as possible, where ever possible. Their rules!

This is what will eventually kill this transgenderism push. When men start entering everything meant for women, en masse, and women get fed up. Sports, modeling, pageants, jobs, women's-only clubs, etc and all the women are pushed out.

It's all cute right now, because it's a rare man that suits up in women's garb to steal what is rightfully a woman's. It's one in a thousand right now, it's a novelty and the wokesters love to fight over it and make a point out of it. But when 95% of women's sports, jobs, pageants, modeling gigs, bathrooms, locker rooms, prize money, women's award, etc, are taken over by men in a woman's disguise, that's when people will get fed up and the fun will be over.

Obvi.... because the entire race in question is packed with hobby joggers. It's not even minor league for domestic marathons.

Except the Jersey City marathon falls pretty well outside of "the sport." It's a 50 states, age grouper recreational event. Looking at the results, it isn't even competitive, either. So no, the money wouldn't be going anywhere else but to other arbitrary categories of age grouper recreationalists. Big deal.

NYC marathon is copy/paste, but it’s not as recreational as you’re leading to.

Redistribute the non binary nonsense to men’s and women’s winner and Jersey City is well on its way.

Nikki doesn’t need their own category, phenom athlete. Nico can beat the domestic straights. Literally, what is the point?

Also just want to point out that in the hobby jogger world, NYRR lines up non binary on the women’s standard, road blocking all of the men lmao. AA start at the front is something 80% women, 5% non binary, 15% male. It’s a joy

I can never stop you from dreaming

What is next with this insanity - male non-binary and female non-binary? Why not go totally
crazy?

1 category for each side of L G B T Q and +

Hurt? I don't like that term. But the focus on gender isn't good for society.

We should separate sport and only sport on sex. No one else should ever ask about gender. It just separates us, insteads of unites us. Who cares how you view yourself?

If a driver's license asks, it should say "sex" as well. Gender is a social construct.

My best friend today had 2 biological males playing in her daughter's flag football league.

I'm always confused that sex and gender don't depend on each other, until it comes to sports, then sex and gender are the exact same thing.

Jersey Marathon prize pot encouraging people to identify as non-binary with that carry on. Madness.