But look at it from the non-binary activists' perspective: no race or race organizer has pushed back on this nonsense. They've all caved. Running USA, the trade organization for the road race industry, has given grants and awards to some of the OG non-binary activists. The head of New York Road Runners bragged about his role in a non-binary trans-identifying female runner get a Therapeutic Use Exemption for testosterone from USADA, which was facilitated by a white shoe law firm, Winston & Strawn, working pro bono. The running media scolds each other when they don't refer to Nikki Hiltz as they/them while she pops off about how much she disdains the female category (the category, not the Substack).
Given all that, if you were in their / they / them shoes, why *wouldn't* you push for me?
This is such horsehit. I could barely stand to read the whole thing.
Hey, Fernandez, sweetie, guess what? Nobody owes you anything. You're not elite. You're just a greedy, gaslighting, manipulative little shit. You want money. And you think society owes it to you. Surprise! It doesn't.
Gee, I "identify" as a prima ballerina! Therefore, ABT or NYCB should put me on stage! After all, I'm elite because I say so!
Next “they” will be demanding elite level prize money for “agender,” “gender queer,” “omnigender” and “gender fluid” participants as well. Completely fucking crazy.
Since these idiots live in their world of make-believe why do they not just imagine they are winning prize money? Or even better - imagine they re running the race!
I wish I hadn't read this just before going to bed last night 😅
What a mess, this is the inevitable conclusion of a non binary category in sport. If you begin with accepting nonsense then all sorts of nonsense will follow.
There should not be a non binary category in any sport. It's only been entertained under a "what harm does it do? justification". Everyone is included in the two biological sex categories. Yes, even "intersex" people with DSDs. If race organisers want to include women who take testosterone then my suggestion is to introduce a "Non-Competetive" category. Or include them in an Open category.
Thank you for untangling the mess that tries to hide their entitlement. Totally. Prize money for identifying as a fraudster. How in the world does a professional organization cater to these spoiled brats?
As a 39 year old female I ran my first marathon in 4:08. I declare that I am ELITE and I shall file suit for back pay of prize money and distress for not being GIVEN special privileges and praise!
I don’t understand any basis for distinguishing racers on the basis of gender identity. There’s no cis, gay, or lesbian category, right? But perhaps I’m confused. Does nonbinary refer to a biological condition like intersex or something similar?
We need two divisions in sport: Women’s, for biological women, and Open. Anyone may compete in the Open division, but only women in Women’s. No giving anyone their own special snowflake division. Women’s and Open. Nice and simple. Cheap, too.
This is ripe for either a large group of men and women wearing ridiculous clothing (I favor men wearing hot pants and yarn pigtail wigs, women wearing flannel bras and yarn beards), and signing up as non-binary and strolling through the race, or all men registering as non-binary to protest with all the women registering as men.
If the race wants non-professional, then give it to them.
I stopped reading as I am so sick of this. Rounding them up and putting them in quarantine is starting to sound like not a bad idea after all. There will never be an end to their demands.This is way beyond "if you give a mouse a cookie..... " I wish these groups would stop caving..
I listened to this story and sent the interviewer an email pointing out that this person (Cal Calamia) did pretty well in a category they created for themselves, but would be way behind the pack in the men's category and can't compete in the female category because they are doping (with testosterone injections). It kind of puts people like this in a bad spot but we shouldn't have a new category (with prize money) for doped up females and men who can't win anything in the men's division. Seems like a bad idea.
I'll just jump here because this one is near-and-dear... a few months after taking non-binary first place in the New York City Marathon, Calamia was on New York Road Runners' "Set the Pace" podcast, hosted by NYRR's CEO, Rob Simmelkjaer. Because of course she was.
In the course of the show, Simmelkjaer gave "a shout out to David Feher, a friend of mine who I know worked with you, a great lawyer who’s done a lot of great work in this area. I was happy to be able to connect you with David and help you get this TUE … He was instrumental in this whole process."
Feher is a pretty up-there lawyer with a solid sordid history in these matters: he was on Caster Semenya's 2009 legal team. His current firm, Winston & Strawn, crowed in their end of year report about how they repped Calamia pro bono in her application for the TUE. Because much DEI. Very rainbow.
NYRR was the first major running org to have non-binary prize money, and everyone followed. A few years later, you have the CEO bragging about how he brokered the intro to a major law firm that led to a female getting a TUE for T to run in the now-lucrative NB cat.
So I'd like to ask KQED: What *does* fairness look like, because ^that^ ain't it, because most people don't get any of that.
Here's my deep dive into the small but powerful Genderwang Legal Universe:
When I heard the KQED story about Cal C. I had many questions. The way they present things is so very slick and polished that most people don't understand the underlying issues and just want to go along with the Leftie narrative that's being presented.
Absolutely. I could not believe the NYT reporter did not ask a follow-up question abutuse of testosterone. And Cal just assumes she is above the rules that apply to everyone else
Nonbinary is a grift made up to get stuff you don't deserve. It's a power thing for people who normally would be dreadfully ordinary. Funny story about the female you mention, Cal Calamia. I, like thousands, perhaps millions, of NYT readers, was kind of surprised to read back in 2021 in the effusive story about Calamia that she took testosterone. She had just, I think, won the MYC Marathon's first nonbinary division. And astoundingly, the NYT sportswriter dutifully wrote that down,printed it and did not follow up with a question any sportswriter would have--Say, isn't testosterone a banned substance? Calamia was very open about it. In fact she made Tiktok videos about her use of testosterone. Calamia advertised this herself left and right so I assumed she must have some kind of TUE. But still, here is a person who thinks she is not female, so I shot an email over to Travis Tygart at USADA asking if Calamia was on their radar. Tygart got back to me and was actually kind of surprised, and interested. Btw, in very rare cases, men have been granted TUEs for T, but never women. USADA figures women have no medical need of exogenous T. So, here is a person who won the nonbinary division of a major marathon (time was well back of women's open winner, 2:50s if I recall), had actually received prize money from another race's nonbinary division, and was very openly using a banned substance. Not a good look? Interested, I looked into Calamia's "transition" timeline which, again, she was very open about on social media, and discovered she'd run at least one marathon in the female category while using testosterone. She apparently conveniently forgot that T provides unfair advantage even if you don't win and even if you're taking it for the purposes of growing facial hair. Bc nonbinary people have special rights. Long story short, a deep-pocketed social justice law firm took on her case pro bono against USADA, Calamia refused to submit paperwork that showed medical need of T (which would have been mental health diagnosis of gender dysphoria or that she would be suicidal if she didn't appear male (which is as binary as you can get), said it was too invasive although this is what every other athlete who applies for a TUE has to do, AND SHE PREVAILED. Against USADA! So now Calamia has a TUE to use T as long as she races in the men's or nonbinary categories (ha, they backdated the TUE to include the marathon she ran in the women's category), and ever since then Calamia has been loudly advocating for prize money in the nonbinary category and, recently, a nonbinary elite category. So yes, you have that exactly right—mediocre men and doped up women are getting paid the same as legitimately talented runners who follow the rules. Creating a category based on a tiny number of people's identity has made a joke of the sport
Thanks for this! I was listening to this story on KQED and wanted to smash my radio. I knew there was a much bigger story going on here but leftie media presents it as a tale of courage and smashing boundaries when it's mostly people who are confused about biological reality trying to get special treatment.
I felt like the reporter Marissa Lagos, wanted to push back on the idea of male athletes in female category but of course no one in Leftie media is allowed to do that. You could literally lose your job, And Cal just kept going on about oppressed she was with questions and paperwork about her testosterone use. They/Thems always make it about Themselves, nobody else matters.
Case in point, the three who have filed a complaint against the Philladelphia Marathon claiming they just want to be treated like other athletes. Well, in Cal's case, no other female runner ever has received a TUE for testosterone, so one would imagine she'd be expected to prove that she really has a medical need of it (which of course is absurd--why would a female who identifies as trans nonbinary (?) such as medical records. Any other runner on the planet, though few if any have ever made such a stupid demand, would be expected to submit these medical records. Nope. Cal refused. Absolutely outraged that she was treated like every other runner. And somehow, with major muscle from law firm, Cal was granted special rights.
(I wrote this, irresponsibly, without adequate coffee.) I meant to say Calamia should have had to prove medical need of testosterone which would necessarily involve submitting medical records. And few if any females have been so deluded as to claim they medical need testosterone to grow facial hair. And yet...
Well, you can read the Philadelphia Gay News coverage that I linked to. But since yu are able to judge, I'm guessing you are also able to write and research something of jhigher quality. Please send the link
But look at it from the non-binary activists' perspective: no race or race organizer has pushed back on this nonsense. They've all caved. Running USA, the trade organization for the road race industry, has given grants and awards to some of the OG non-binary activists. The head of New York Road Runners bragged about his role in a non-binary trans-identifying female runner get a Therapeutic Use Exemption for testosterone from USADA, which was facilitated by a white shoe law firm, Winston & Strawn, working pro bono. The running media scolds each other when they don't refer to Nikki Hiltz as they/them while she pops off about how much she disdains the female category (the category, not the Substack).
Given all that, if you were in their / they / them shoes, why *wouldn't* you push for me?
This is such horsehit. I could barely stand to read the whole thing.
Hey, Fernandez, sweetie, guess what? Nobody owes you anything. You're not elite. You're just a greedy, gaslighting, manipulative little shit. You want money. And you think society owes it to you. Surprise! It doesn't.
Gee, I "identify" as a prima ballerina! Therefore, ABT or NYCB should put me on stage! After all, I'm elite because I say so!
Next “they” will be demanding elite level prize money for “agender,” “gender queer,” “omnigender” and “gender fluid” participants as well. Completely fucking crazy.
Since these idiots live in their world of make-believe why do they not just imagine they are winning prize money? Or even better - imagine they re running the race!
Ha! Great idea!
They're acting like they're Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks combined when they're really just a couple of gender-drunk losers.
I wish I hadn't read this just before going to bed last night 😅
What a mess, this is the inevitable conclusion of a non binary category in sport. If you begin with accepting nonsense then all sorts of nonsense will follow.
There should not be a non binary category in any sport. It's only been entertained under a "what harm does it do? justification". Everyone is included in the two biological sex categories. Yes, even "intersex" people with DSDs. If race organisers want to include women who take testosterone then my suggestion is to introduce a "Non-Competetive" category. Or include them in an Open category.
Thank you for untangling the mess that tries to hide their entitlement. Totally. Prize money for identifying as a fraudster. How in the world does a professional organization cater to these spoiled brats?
As a 39 year old female I ran my first marathon in 4:08. I declare that I am ELITE and I shall file suit for back pay of prize money and distress for not being GIVEN special privileges and praise!
Totally nuts. Activists gone crazy. They need to be told “no.”
FFS. They definitely deserve their own category. And it starts with “E” ENTITLED!
I don’t understand any basis for distinguishing racers on the basis of gender identity. There’s no cis, gay, or lesbian category, right? But perhaps I’m confused. Does nonbinary refer to a biological condition like intersex or something similar?
You're not confused, they are. You're absolutely right. There should be no categorisation on the basis of gender identity, it's nonsense.
The basis is, some men want to win prize money without having to race against other men.
We need two divisions in sport: Women’s, for biological women, and Open. Anyone may compete in the Open division, but only women in Women’s. No giving anyone their own special snowflake division. Women’s and Open. Nice and simple. Cheap, too.
where’s your compassion? how do you expect they them to pay for their bottom butchery? /s
This is ripe for either a large group of men and women wearing ridiculous clothing (I favor men wearing hot pants and yarn pigtail wigs, women wearing flannel bras and yarn beards), and signing up as non-binary and strolling through the race, or all men registering as non-binary to protest with all the women registering as men.
If the race wants non-professional, then give it to them.
I stopped reading as I am so sick of this. Rounding them up and putting them in quarantine is starting to sound like not a bad idea after all. There will never be an end to their demands.This is way beyond "if you give a mouse a cookie..... " I wish these groups would stop caving..
"Winter Parts"??
I listened to this story and sent the interviewer an email pointing out that this person (Cal Calamia) did pretty well in a category they created for themselves, but would be way behind the pack in the men's category and can't compete in the female category because they are doping (with testosterone injections). It kind of puts people like this in a bad spot but we shouldn't have a new category (with prize money) for doped up females and men who can't win anything in the men's division. Seems like a bad idea.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12035999/with-trans-athletes-under-attack-what-does-fairness-look-like
I'll just jump here because this one is near-and-dear... a few months after taking non-binary first place in the New York City Marathon, Calamia was on New York Road Runners' "Set the Pace" podcast, hosted by NYRR's CEO, Rob Simmelkjaer. Because of course she was.
In the course of the show, Simmelkjaer gave "a shout out to David Feher, a friend of mine who I know worked with you, a great lawyer who’s done a lot of great work in this area. I was happy to be able to connect you with David and help you get this TUE … He was instrumental in this whole process."
Feher is a pretty up-there lawyer with a solid sordid history in these matters: he was on Caster Semenya's 2009 legal team. His current firm, Winston & Strawn, crowed in their end of year report about how they repped Calamia pro bono in her application for the TUE. Because much DEI. Very rainbow.
NYRR was the first major running org to have non-binary prize money, and everyone followed. A few years later, you have the CEO bragging about how he brokered the intro to a major law firm that led to a female getting a TUE for T to run in the now-lucrative NB cat.
So I'd like to ask KQED: What *does* fairness look like, because ^that^ ain't it, because most people don't get any of that.
Here's my deep dive into the small but powerful Genderwang Legal Universe:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/02/how-lia-thomas-and-a-small-cabal-of-lawyers-are-waging-lawfare-across-womens-sports/
When I heard the KQED story about Cal C. I had many questions. The way they present things is so very slick and polished that most people don't understand the underlying issues and just want to go along with the Leftie narrative that's being presented.
Absolutely. I could not believe the NYT reporter did not ask a follow-up question abutuse of testosterone. And Cal just assumes she is above the rules that apply to everyone else
Meant to write about use of testosterone.
Nonbinary is a grift made up to get stuff you don't deserve. It's a power thing for people who normally would be dreadfully ordinary. Funny story about the female you mention, Cal Calamia. I, like thousands, perhaps millions, of NYT readers, was kind of surprised to read back in 2021 in the effusive story about Calamia that she took testosterone. She had just, I think, won the MYC Marathon's first nonbinary division. And astoundingly, the NYT sportswriter dutifully wrote that down,printed it and did not follow up with a question any sportswriter would have--Say, isn't testosterone a banned substance? Calamia was very open about it. In fact she made Tiktok videos about her use of testosterone. Calamia advertised this herself left and right so I assumed she must have some kind of TUE. But still, here is a person who thinks she is not female, so I shot an email over to Travis Tygart at USADA asking if Calamia was on their radar. Tygart got back to me and was actually kind of surprised, and interested. Btw, in very rare cases, men have been granted TUEs for T, but never women. USADA figures women have no medical need of exogenous T. So, here is a person who won the nonbinary division of a major marathon (time was well back of women's open winner, 2:50s if I recall), had actually received prize money from another race's nonbinary division, and was very openly using a banned substance. Not a good look? Interested, I looked into Calamia's "transition" timeline which, again, she was very open about on social media, and discovered she'd run at least one marathon in the female category while using testosterone. She apparently conveniently forgot that T provides unfair advantage even if you don't win and even if you're taking it for the purposes of growing facial hair. Bc nonbinary people have special rights. Long story short, a deep-pocketed social justice law firm took on her case pro bono against USADA, Calamia refused to submit paperwork that showed medical need of T (which would have been mental health diagnosis of gender dysphoria or that she would be suicidal if she didn't appear male (which is as binary as you can get), said it was too invasive although this is what every other athlete who applies for a TUE has to do, AND SHE PREVAILED. Against USADA! So now Calamia has a TUE to use T as long as she races in the men's or nonbinary categories (ha, they backdated the TUE to include the marathon she ran in the women's category), and ever since then Calamia has been loudly advocating for prize money in the nonbinary category and, recently, a nonbinary elite category. So yes, you have that exactly right—mediocre men and doped up women are getting paid the same as legitimately talented runners who follow the rules. Creating a category based on a tiny number of people's identity has made a joke of the sport
Thanks for this! I was listening to this story on KQED and wanted to smash my radio. I knew there was a much bigger story going on here but leftie media presents it as a tale of courage and smashing boundaries when it's mostly people who are confused about biological reality trying to get special treatment.
I felt like the reporter Marissa Lagos, wanted to push back on the idea of male athletes in female category but of course no one in Leftie media is allowed to do that. You could literally lose your job, And Cal just kept going on about oppressed she was with questions and paperwork about her testosterone use. They/Thems always make it about Themselves, nobody else matters.
Case in point, the three who have filed a complaint against the Philladelphia Marathon claiming they just want to be treated like other athletes. Well, in Cal's case, no other female runner ever has received a TUE for testosterone, so one would imagine she'd be expected to prove that she really has a medical need of it (which of course is absurd--why would a female who identifies as trans nonbinary (?) such as medical records. Any other runner on the planet, though few if any have ever made such a stupid demand, would be expected to submit these medical records. Nope. Cal refused. Absolutely outraged that she was treated like every other runner. And somehow, with major muscle from law firm, Cal was granted special rights.
(I wrote this, irresponsibly, without adequate coffee.) I meant to say Calamia should have had to prove medical need of testosterone which would necessarily involve submitting medical records. And few if any females have been so deluded as to claim they medical need testosterone to grow facial hair. And yet...
Ultimately, if women can only compete against men or other women who are taking testosterone, voila, no more successful women getting paid in sports
This is poorly written and researched, does anyone have a better article about this situation?
Well, you can read the Philadelphia Gay News coverage that I linked to. But since yu are able to judge, I'm guessing you are also able to write and research something of jhigher quality. Please send the link
Oooh feisty lol