This is the same coach that picked up Jenny Simpson when she left Wetmore. Jenny ended up going back to Wetmore.
Yeah, this is not a good look for Nikki. I think they’ll continue to dominate this season but by ‘27 & the Olympic year, I think they’ll not be ready w/ Benson as coach.
Nikki resigned with Luluman and will be coached by Julie Benson.
wow, coming to Flag and working with Mike Smith was the best thing they ever did for their career and now they're switching coaches. hope it works out.
I have a feeling this is a control thing - Nikki is big into trans advocacy and with just Benson they can control who works out with them, but as part of a Nike team it's out of Nikkis hands, and there are a lot of athletes, especially women, who have a MAJOR issue with trans participating in sports.
Most women would be OK with her, excuse me, them, participating. Nikki may consider themselves to be trans but they really aren’t in the truest sense of the word. Biologically they are a female. Women have issues with someone that transitioned from male to female competing against them, as they should.
There still seems to be a massive amount of confusion on these boards between "trans-gender" and "trans-sexual"
Trans-gender is someone who self-identifies as a gender different from their birth sex. In Hiltz's case, it appears that she is genetically and phenotypically a completely normal woman (hence she is absolutely eligible for competition in events limited to women). She, identifies as a man some of the time (hence transgender).
Trans-sexual is someone who identifies as a gender that is different from their birth sex, and transitions, as much as possible to the sex with which they identify (often including hormone therapy and surgical alteration).
As far as track and field is concerned there are problems when either trans-gender or trans-sexual athletes who were born male, but wish to compete as female. Those who are trans-gender (full normal males) - and I believe in certain school systems are allowed to compete as female - have a clear unfair advantage. At most, if they are allowed to compete, they shouldn't be placed within the results, so the first true female is the winner (as when I, a British citizen, run in the USATF Masters Championships. I compete, if I finish 1-2-3, I do get a medal, but I don't displace a US runner, so the first three US runners still get their awards). At a serious level of sport, a trans-gender athlete born male, has no place in a female event.
Trans-gender - those males that have transitioned to female - is more complicated as there are arguments that hormone therapy levels the playing field. That isn't truly so, however, for males that have gone through puberty as male and have that larger stronger skeletal structure (like the Turkish boxers at the Olympics). Again, I don't believe that they belong in upper levels of the sport, which surely should be limited to chromosomally normal females.
This doesn't cover the small number of athletes like Caster Semenya or Dutee Chand, who need to be taken on a case by case basis.
As far as Hiltz is concerned, I believe she is a clean athlete, competing in a division for which she is eligible.
Personally, I'm not going to indulge in the "they" thing because, whatever she thinks she is, in the context under discussion she is a "she."
Nitpicking 49.9% of the popular vote (after California took over a month to count) as opposed to 50.0% just shows how pathetic you are.
Oh man. There is a huge difference between "half of the country" and "half of the voters". Half of the voters are 22 - 23% of the country (depending on which numbers you use for the latter). That is not nitpicking.
That has been pointed out so often here, you guys should really get it by now.
Nitpicking 49.9% of the popular vote (after California took over a month to count) as opposed to 50.0% just shows how pathetic you are.
Oh man. There is a huge difference between "half of the country" and "half of the voters". Half of the voters are 22 - 23% of the country (depending on which numbers you use for the latter). That is not nitpicking.
That has been pointed out so often here, you guys should really get it by now.
Nitpicking 49.9% of the popular vote (after California took over a month to count) as opposed to 50.0% just shows how pathetic you are.
Oh man. There is a huge difference between "half of the country" and "half of the voters". Half of the voters are 22 - 23% of the country (depending on which numbers you use for the latter). That is not nitpicking.
That has been pointed out so often here, you guys should really get it by now.
Oh man. There is a huge difference between "half of the country" and "half of the voters". Half of the voters are 22 - 23% of the country (depending on which numbers you use for the latter). That is not nitpicking.
That has been pointed out so often here, you guys should really get it by now.
You don't understand conventional English.
He got it right. The crowd he responded to, not so much.
Lol dude you need to educate yourself before posting - Hiltz isn’t trans. She’s non-binary, meaning she’s biologically a female but doesn’t identify as male or female. She’s always been a female biologically and has no upper-hand on the other women she competes against.
It’s really not that hard to understand. I’m someone from the LGBTQ community, so let me simplify it for you:
TRANSGENDER - When you actually transition from male/female to the other sex.
NON-BINARY - You may transition, but most of the time you’re born a male/female but feel/want to identify with the other sex. In Nikki’s case, she’s a woman in every sense of the word, but feels like/wants to be male on some days and feels like/wants to be female on other days.
Personally, it’s no one’s business but the individual’s. So stop criticizing Nikki and others. Who someone wants to be and/or identify with and/or sleep with/has a relationship with affects your life in no way.
My sentiments exactly, keep all that in your bedroom. Lace up, run, and if you do an interview....talk about your athletic career, training, and races. Enuff said!
A thread mentioning a very noteworthy running-related development, about a person who just won two indoor national championships (and 5th 1500-meter title in a row), in the Pro News/Info/Results section, turns into a thread with 90-95% of the posts ranting about the runner's gender identity and preferred pronouns, and the semantics of the election results.
A thread mentioning a very noteworthy running-related development, about a person who just won two indoor national championships (and 5th 1500-meter title in a row), in the Pro News/Info/Results section, turns into a thread with 90-95% of the posts ranting about the runner's gender identity and preferred pronouns, and the semantics of the election results.
Good heavens.
It's so ridiculous people can't go one thread without focusing on the they/them thing. I guess it works both ways because if someone says "she" then people say they are bigots.
But it would be nice if we could just discus Nikki going to Julie. Julie's a good coach and I think it's a good move for both parties.
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