This is how running gets featured in the NY Times

Just how lucrative and how much clout do you perceive is to be gained going this route? I mean, what's stopping you?

About $10,000 worth so far- certainly more as more races begin adopting this category. My pride and dignity mostly, it's not even a tough transition- from the looks of it you just have to paint your nails and add they/them to your Instagram bio.

You seem intimately familiar, buddy. Good for you that you see little barrier to transitioning, you got this!

Kipchoge should just run in this category during retirement until he’s like 60

Sports are perfect for exposing the grift that all this alphabet nonsense represents.

Just FYI: hardly any males claiming to be women today get castrated.

The whole reason the trans lobby started focusing exclusively on suppressing testosterone through use of T-blockers and estrogen - and claiming that the male advantage in sports could be eliminated if "transwomen" lower their T to 10 or 5 nmol/L for a year or two - is because most males who "transition" nowadays still have their balls and dicks and want to keep them.

This is particularly true of those who decide to "transition" in adolescence and adulthood, after they've had the chance to experience male sex drive, male arousal and male orgasm.

Nowadays, the only males who identify as the opposite sex who routinely are getting their balls removed and penises reconfigured for the purpose of "gender affirmation" are the teenagers who were "transitioned" in childhood prior to puberty by their parents, gender therapists and doctors - and who were put on "puberty blockers" early enough to prevent them from maturing enough to experience normal male libido, erections and male sexual pleasure. Such as poor Jazz Jennings and Trinity Neal, both of whom were prevented from going through puberty and ended up being castrated and having their penises removed and reconfigured before they reached the age of majority and legal consent.

Most males who have experienced male libido, arousal and sexual pleasure don't ever want to give that up even when they claim they "feel like" and "identify as" women and demand to be allowed to compete in women's sports and use women's locker rooms, showers and loos.

It's because nearly all "transwomen" keep their balls and dicks that there have already been several cases in the US and UK where female prison inmates have been raped or impregnated by "transwomen" convicts after the "transwomen" have been transferred from men's prisons to women's correctional facilities.

When males seek and get "gender confirmation" surgeries nowadays, the genitals are rarely involved. The most common supposedly 'life saving" surgeries and procedures that males get for purposes of "gender transition" are facial feminization surgeries, facial hair removal procedures, tracheal shaves, hairline lowering, body contouring, butt lifts and butt augmentation, fillers and fat injections, and surgeries to implant rounded silicone sacs into the chest wall to give the appearance of fully-developed female breasts.

I hate NY Times links. They always require you to register to read them and I refuse to do it. I don't need to get spam email from the NYT.

What marathon did this guy get $10,000 for winning?

Found it, Brooklyn.

runnersworld.com

Road Races Have Begun to Add Nonbinary Divisions. But Is That Enough?

The Brooklyn Marathon & Half Marathon was one of the first races to offer equal prize money across three gender categories.

Open link

If it's going to exist, I would rather see the three categories,than some mediocre dude stealing from women.

this feels like it was written by a bot trained on blog posts from runners world and tumblr

I read the article and these they'd are still complaining even though they got their new made up category. F em.

What are you complaining about? Isn’t a separate category what you always maintained was fairer because it didn’t interfere with and take prize money away from your “purebred” women? Well, now you have it. Men, women, and non-binary. What’s your point? Should the non-binary not compete at all?

This isn't the Olympics. This is local race directors' decisions to start including "nonbinary" as a registration category. It has very little if anything to do with science, and everything to do with evolving culture. Simply put, an increasing number of people, especially in urban areas, and especially people under 30, identify as nonbinary. It is just giving people what "they" want. Personally, I am fine with that in fun runs.

And it has nothing to do with "trans" people competing fairly or unfairly in races. According to a survey by UCLA's Williams Institute, only about 11% of people who identify as nonbinary are trans. And, in fact, plenty of trans people don't actually self-identify as nonbinary. They use he/him or she/her pronouns to describe themselves.

From a NY race director's perspective, including the self-selecting nonbinary option on race applications might ultimately draw more participants and create a more welcoming atmosphere in a community that is fairly progressive and generally supportive of this sort of thing. I think urban race directors are just adapting to their market.

I blame the internet.

To qualify for the prize money, men had to previously have run 1:10 for a half, women had to have run 1:20, and non-binary runners had to have run 1:15. So it's a category in which slightly slower men can win prize money, and women have no chance.

A male ran 1:12:25, finished 11th, and got no prize money. Another male won the non-binary division in 1:12:48 and got $5000. The women's winner ran 1:18:15

Basically, the men got to compete for two different $5000 first place prizes, the women got to compete for one.

Non-binary runners should compete in the category of their birth sex, unless they are female taking male hormones, or male having taken female hormones for enough years to overcome their male advantages.

All the winners in the new nonbinary category in running so far have been males. Which anyone with half a brain could have predicted.

The new nonbinary category just creates an additional arena in which men can win, place, earn prize money, shine, get attention, be applauded and garner bragging rights. By creating it, sports officials have just expanded the scope of "male privilege" while pretending to be advancing "diversity, equity and inclusion."

This is so true