Some light relief in sport

Someone should observe at some point that treating male and female non-binaries the same always tends to result in male bodies and male health requirements being addressed as default, while female unique needs being neglected. Someone should observe how this leads to systemic, institutional discrimination, such as female exclusion from sports. (AFP) - Beijing The head coach of China's women's table tennis team has been changed at the global championships in Germany. Perhaps someone might start a political movement to redress the exclusion of women.

Someone should observe at some point that treating male and female non-binaries the same always tends to result in male bodies and male health requirements being addressed as default, while female unique needs being neglected. Someone should observe how this leads to systemic, institutional discrimination, such as female exclusion from sports. (AFP) - Beijing The head coach of China's women's table tennis team has been changed at the global championships in Germany. Perhaps someone might start a political movement to redress the exclusion of women.

the woman who won the marathon in the women's category was 25th overall

That's bloody impressive.

So now there are two categories for women to lose to men in: the original women's category and now the non-binary category too.
That's progress for you! 🤷🏼‍♀️

they didn't think that statement through... but it can now be used time and again to show that actually its not fair

"it feels performative" -- Says someone enacting a performance of a 'gender identity'.
You couldn't make it up.

Also. Look at the jump on qualification times by age category between 40-49 and 50-59. It changes 15 minutes for men and half an hour for women. That there is the effect of menopause. Something no NB male will have to deal with. I presume they've carved out space in the NB categories by taking places equally from the male and female category. (Big marathons are always over-subscribed, even if you need to qualify, so they'll have quotas got each category I imagine). I think they assign some places based on how much faster than qualifying you are. At Boston anyway. Which means a NB category will skew towards males. If they do it blind, with no regards for sex. Which just means women, particularly older women, bumped out of the event to make space for males.

This is funny as hell.

But previous poster is right... if you end up with prizes in the NB category then it's basically two prizes for male runners. And if they continue the batshittery and start to NB qualification times based on average NB results then it's more opportunity for male runners too. It already is because males have a choice of qualification times.

Getting in to run Boston marathon is an achievement in itself. They've just made it significantly easier for some men to do that.

You can't escape the sex binary in sport. You just can't get away from it. Your body either carries the evolutionary trade-offs imposed by child bearing or it does not.

So let me get this straight. The person in the Chicago Times article didn’t want to run in the non binary category , having previously campaigned for it, because there wasn’t a subdivision for ‘elite’ runners. So, not enough ‘provision’.

I have a feeling that what Calmia (nearest autocorrect will allow) really wants is to run around alone through a cheering crowd, breasting the finishing tape to wild applause. Aka ‘Mummy, Mummy look at me on the swings, no, Mummy, look,watch me’

This person is a teacher.

That’s the best definition of being “NB” that I have ever come across: “a bit flaky and a pain in the arse”.

In the case of my non binary colleague, it's a handy shorthand for "I'm a bit flaky and a pain in the arse".
Still kicking myself that I didn't have the presence of mind to say, "dunno, didn't ask" when he asked whether the person who had passed me the laptop that he'd left in a meeting room (again) was male our female.

Yeah...
So what does being 'nonbinary' actually entail (other than being a normal three dimensional human)? Most of the high profile 'nonbinary' males I've seen seem to be indistinguishable from beardy blokes other than the pronoun 'they'.

I love having to define non binaries by their sex. For example to question women's groups who include non binaries. I ask them if this will include non binary males if it is a woman only group or event.
Such stupid nonsense usually like the answers.

This is so funny. They want a non-binary category made binary according to sex? It's almost as if you can't identify out of your sex class...

It's hilarious. Where does the quote come from, OP? Would be keen to see the responses.

Cant help wishing they'd signed off as
"Just my two cunts"

Yep. Agree with all of this.

But Calamia grew concerned when they realized there was no “elite” nonbinary division, as in the male and female races, or any finish line ribbon or monetary prize.

So there would be two monetary prizes for men and just one for women (and in most sports the male prize is bigger anyway). Cool cool.

The non-binary category is in old money a mixed-sex category. Those who don't believe that there biological and physical differences between the sexes are free to participate in those categories and see the reality. This is what happens when ideology meets reality.

I'm one of those who is happy with their being a third category, especially in mass participation events. But by entering the third category, you accept that some have a significant biological advantage i.e. sex. Or are taking hormones.

If you want your sex to be recognised, you need to enter the correct sex category/not take testosterone.

Qualifying times could maybe be an average of the two sex classes.

Fenbyism?