Some nonbinary runners are irate that Chicago Marathon's new nonbinary division isn't paying out prize money

What's wrong? Well, a certain UPenn swimmer has not been in the headline for a while, and Rightwing Cultural Warrirors need something new to get outraged about. Like any other porn, outrage porn is addictive. And Chicago Sun Times is feeding their addiction. After all, they are in the business of generating clicks.

This whole thing is dumb. They never should have put "gender" on the entry forms, people just got squeamish about putting "sex".

This was never supposed to be a showcase for your gender, your identity, or anything else. Nobody cares.

M and F categories, based on sex. Which is biological.

Ok, ok, there are those rare but highly impactful intersex or DSD athletes ... so how about an Open category and a Female. Everyone is Open, and you have to qualify (BIOLOGICALLY) as Female.

Done.

If you have a different gender, or if you feel like a different gender, or wanna dress as a different gender, or if your identity doesn't fit into a traditional box ... fine, who cares, that's your business, nobody is stopping you.

But for athletics, there are the Open and Female categories.

Done, fixed.

Oh wait, on second thought ... I feel really old. Guess what, I identify as 100 years old. Time to go smash some age group records.

Actually, no I am a Literalist Born-Again Christian. Converted a few years ago ... looks like I'll be destroying those youth records. Can't wait for middle school!

Oh, wait, no - I am beyond age. It is just a number and I don't identify with that. I am a person without "age" and I refuse to accept society's labels. I want my own non-ageist category! And PAY ME SOME DAMM PRIZES BECAUSE I AM SOOOO SPECIAL!!!

btw I am suing the IOC for being biased and discriminatory against my kind.

And no, I am not some right wing conservative.

Right, they're not competing against women, no prize money so what's the big complaint now by the Karens and Kens? The complaints are contrived however, they are real and a culture of hate.

They want anyone who isn't heterosexual to die and cease to exist. Pretty much what Hitler wanted when he orchestrated the holocaust.

Also the article says NY already had a NB category last year and the other majors will follow.

Fixed

Because at the end of the day all this is is pure unadulterated human selfishness at its finest, framed up under a "righteous" "cause".

It never was about the "right to participate" because there were no restrictions on participation to begin with - everyone was welcome to compete based on the hand biology dealt them - the same conditions that 99% of people don't feel like they need challenge because it's as equitable and fair as is possible in a world where sometimes not everything is simply equitable and fair.

No, this was about profit. Money, plain and simple - it always has been and it was only a matter of time, as the OP's handle says, the inch didn't become a mile - it was exposed as a mile. So done with it all, seriously.

Turns out Sheila was a man

Funky Cold Medina

Get it right. Her/His name was Sheena.

Basically one person is upset about it? Dear God, you need help. I'd bet the farm you are a left-wing nutjob.

A Women's Division and an Open Division. Done.

"she" has stubble

These men and women won’t be happy until we’re all gone insane.

That’s the ticket. I like it.

These people are the king of being victims

How about a "With Penis" division and a "Without Penis" division? If you think you're a woman but you have a penis you can still claim that you're a woman but you can't race in the "Without" division.

This is it.

I see way too many articles these days claiming people are upset about something, then open them up and see something like this where it's 1-2 people being interviewed, or worse ones where it's a collection of tweets as if 10 people on Twitter speak for all of society.

Then people share those articles and say WOW LOOK AT THE *insert political affiliation* FREAKING OUT AGAIN WE ARE SO SCREWED MAN. And then there's online debates sparked by a very small amount of people.

Otherwise reasonable people everywhere then proceed to fight over societal sentiments that don't actually exist. Rinse and repeat. This is why the internet really sucks sometimes

100%

No thanks. The female category of sports should be for the half of the human race who are female. Opening up girls' and women's sports to males whose penises are missing or never developed in the first place is grossly unfair to females.

Characterizing women and girls as people "Without Penis" is also a dick move that's sexist as hell and pretty insulting to boot.

I am gonna guess the conservative media is going to have just as much a field day as the Liberal media on this. Great for clicks on both sides.