Megan Youngren to Become First Openly Transgender Athlete to Compete at the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials

A 2:45 runner taking a top 3 spot... That's funny.

Clearly trolling as there is no possible way she will finish in the top 50 let alone top 3

Nobody cares. Good for her!

Stop with the hate. Its toxic for everyone, including yourself.

First of all, there's no way she's going to be top 3, so that's silly to contemplate and there's no point in formulating it as Megan wanting to take a spot.

Secondly, she's following the rules. Don't like the rules, fine... work to change them. But there's no need to denigrate fellow members of the running community.

Won't make the team but it sets the precedent.

In 2028 when a transgender is challenging for a spot, the argument will be, you've always let transgenders compete as women, why is Brogenia Austin any different? You just hate transgender.

(sorry Brogan, I'm just picking out a random dude that would crush the women's field)

Foot in the door wrote:

Won't make the team but it sets the precedent.

In 2028 when a transgender is challenging for a spot, the argument will be, you've always let transgenders compete as women, why is Brogenia Austin any different? You just hate transgender.

(sorry Brogan, I'm just picking out a random dude that would crush the women's field)

Indeed. When a trans actually qualifies for the Olympics in 2024, they will say "Who cares, s/he isn't going to win gold".

Step by step we as women are eradicated from our own sport.

iii wrote:

Foot in the door wrote:

Won't make the team but it sets the precedent.

In 2028 when a transgender is challenging for a spot, the argument will be, you've always let transgenders compete as women, why is Brogenia Austin any different? You just hate transgender.

(sorry Brogan, I'm just picking out a random dude that would crush the women's field)

Indeed. When a trans actually qualifies for the Olympics in 2024, they will say "Who cares, s/he isn't going to win gold".

Step by step we as women are eradicated from our own sport.

Based on June Eastwood's results, it's going to take a 2:10 guy to do it and I dont see that happening. To go from being near world class as a guy to running 5:20 miles, would be a miserable experience. It's more likely our theoretical 2:10 runner would wait until after he retired from competitive running, to transgender. Bruce Jenner waited about 40 years.

A serious athlete completely transitioned should be welcome.

However it sounds like her body still produces ten times the testosterone of any other woman and she simply is on an honor system to take a drug to reduce it sometimes, a drug which apparently is illegal and banned for any other athlete and she doesn't even have a TUE for it, now being allowed to get a TUE many years afterwards.

So she can just stop taking the medication or even inbetween taking it, her body still has large surges of testosterone for muscle growth and recovery.

And there hasn't been any monitoring, at all by USATF despite regulations.

So even the smallest most lax rules haven't been followed. That seems dishonest. And this isn't high school, this is a national level race with qualification required.

If 1% of the US population is transgender then it shouldn't be a surprise that one out of hundreds of female Olympic Trials qualifiers might be transgender.

David S wrote:

If 1% of the US population is transgender then it shouldn't be a surprise that one out of hundreds of female Olympic Trials qualifiers might be transgender.

1% of the population isn't transgender. Give me a break. That would mean there are 70 million transgenders in the world.

Across wrote:

Nobody cares. Good for her!

Stop with the hate. Its toxic for everyone, including yourself.

Men competing as women would seem to be unfair to women competitors.

Why do you hate women?

This sets a precedent. This dude won't steal the stop but someone, sometime soon very well could. Its not hate. That is a guy, not a girl, and should not be competing with females.

Stop with the ignorance. Its toxic for everyone.

SDSU Aztec wrote:

Based on June Eastwood's results, it's going to take a 2:10 guy to do it

Using the 12% rule between men vs women, a 2:40 woman is a 2:20 man

Of course Vaporflys change all that. Unlikely she could do this again in 2024.

Has Sally Bergesen weighed in on this one yet?

The Bootie Judge wrote:

Men who are a half hour too slow to compete with the men, can identify as a female and run with the girls. The day is coming when 3 swinging dicks take all the Women's Olympic Marathon Medals! I will laugh my a$$ off!!

Can't wait to see it in boxing. Love to see Mike Tyson come back identifying as Michelle Tyson.

I'll pay to see him put some b!tch in a coma!

There are many posts like this, but it takes a lot more than merely identifying as a woman. The hormone treatments are no joke and can slow someone down by 30 seconds a mile.

You and other sick people would pay to watch Tyson put a woman in a coma, but promoters are not going to schedule a fight that normal human beings don't want to watch.

Femin!st wrote:

Men are not only stealing scholarships from girls . . . .

I'm much more concerned that athletes "steal" scholarships from scholars.

Avocado's Number wrote:

Femin!st wrote:

Men are not only stealing scholarships from girls . . . .

I'm much more concerned that athletes "steal" scholarships from scholars.

POD

SDSU Aztec wrote:

The Bootie Judge wrote:

Men who are a half hour too slow to compete with the men, can identify as a female and run with the girls. The day is coming when 3 swinging dicks take all the Women's Olympic Marathon Medals! I will laugh my a$$ off!!

Can't wait to see it in boxing. Love to see Mike Tyson come back identifying as Michelle Tyson.

I'll pay to see him put some b!tch in a coma!

There are many posts like this, but it takes a lot more than merely identifying as a woman. The hormone treatments are no joke and can slow someone down by 30 seconds a mile.

You and other sick people would pay to watch Tyson put a woman in a coma, but promoters are not going to schedule a fight that normal human beings don't want to watch.

Tyson vs Rosie O'Donnell would sell out MSG!!!

Across wrote:

Nobody cares. Good for her!

Stop with the hate. Its toxic for everyone, including yourself.

It’s all fun and games and “Nobody cares”, and then they will break World Records and win major races. No way taking hormones can change all the fixed, biological features that are advantageous to men.