Tw marathon runner

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I kind of feel sorry for the guy in a qualified way. Having an open category would help this person a lot.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/athletics/2024/04/14/transgender-glenique-frank-big-six-marathons-boston-london/

https://archive.ph/Y79sm bypass the paywall

Glenique at least had the decency to apologise for running in the women's category.

yes, they are so right, they need to be able to take part as themselves, not as females

I am not convinced that this chap isn't just taking the piss out of women like a middle aged Dylan Mulvaney.

Well. While he's campaigning for a trans category, he could always - I dunno - sign up as a male, since that's what he is. 🤷🏽‍♀️

Exactly. It's very convenient to have a trans category, the Boston "non-binary" qualifying times are the women's times! So a mediocre biological male runner can qualify as a "non-binary" runner.

"I’m campaigning for all people who don’t conform to the norms that are expected of them."... So that includes all women then? Ffs.

And yes, I'm pretty sure that if I hadn't looked up his race number when watching the marathon last year, and started a MN thread about it, he might have gone unnoticed. I didn't see any Twitter posts about it until I posted on MN. It shouldn't have had to come to that. At least the uber woke bbc helped us find him.

“Because I don’t conform, angry people think that I’m evil, negative, or bad. I’m campaigning for all people who don’t conform to the norms that are expected of them. Humans shouldn’t be angry with each other but rather ask questions.”
It's not because you don't conform; it's because you are cheating; that's why people are angry and think you are bad!
God I'm fucked off with these abusive arseholes twisting shit - it's like living in an abusive relationship but via the newspapers.

Glenique at least had the decency to apologise for running in the women's category
It would have been far more decent if he hadn't done it in the first place.

How difficult is it to have an open category? It's not like this is a new issue. Unfortunately where open categories have been available they haven't been used, transwomen only want to invade women's spaces.

@MrsJamin I thought there was something familiar about this. I should have checked for another thread.

I don't understand why they don't sign up as male runners as the least worst option. Well, I know why most of them don't but that doesn't entirely seem to be the case here. Glenique isn't entirely lacking in self awareness, just can't make that final step. It's not like Glenique will stop being trans or vanish in a puff of cognitive dissonance.

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