{"id":1205789,"date":"2022-01-10T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205789"},"modified":"2022-01-10T18:05:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T23:05:51","slug":"timothy-leduc-set-to-become-first-non-binary-winter-olympian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/timothy-leduc-set-to-become-first-non-binary-winter-olympian\/","title":{"rendered":"Timothy LeDuc Set to Become First \u2018Non-Binary\u2019 Winter Olympian\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftimothy-leduc-set-to-become-first-non-binary-winter-olympian%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205789&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Timothy LeDuc, a pairs figure skater who broke a U.S. Figure Skating Championship record at the event that wrapped up Sunday in Nashville, will reportedly become the first \u201cnon-binary\u201d person to compete in the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>LGBT activists have created a language around the movement, including \u201cnon-binary,\u201d which the gay rights GLAAD organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/amp\/9-young-people-explain-what-being-non-binary-means-them\">defines<\/a> this way:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo be a non-binary person is \u2013 essentially \u2013 exactly what it sounds like: To identify yourself, and your gender, as existing outside of the binary definitions of man or woman, masculine or feminine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBinary\u201d means \u201chaving two parts,\u201d an idea that LGBT activists reject because they believe in the existence of genders other than male and female.<\/p>\n<p>The media promotes the narrative by using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/olympics\/2022\/01\/09\/timothy-leduc-first-nonbinary-olympian-figure-skating\">pronouns<\/a> that the subject prefers, such as in&nbsp;<em>Sports Illustrated\u2019s<\/em> report about LeDuc at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAmerican pair skater Timothy LeDuc made history not once but twice this week when they became the first out nonbinary athlete to make a Winter Olympic team and broke a U.S. Figure Skating Championships record with partner Ashley Cain-Gribble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/10180545\/ashley-caingribble-and-timothy-leduc-perform-in-the-skating-the-us-picture-id1297299209\" alt=\"Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc perform in the Skating Spectacular following the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Orleans Arena on...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>LAS VEGAS, NEVADA \u2013 JANUARY 17: Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc perform in the Skating Spectacular following the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at the Orleans Arena on January 17, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, as a person that exists and really thrives outside of the binary, it can be very complicated sometimes navigating a gendered sport,\u201d LeDuc <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/09\/sport\/timothy-leduc-first-nonbinary-olympic-winter-games\/index.html\">told<\/a> Yahoo Sports. \u201cThere are going to be people that don\u2019t understand it. You know, they look at me, they see that I have a beard or they look at maybe my physical characteristics and say, \u2018You\u2019re a boy, act like a boy. What are you doing?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy hope is that the narrative shifts more to queer people can be open and successful in sports. We\u2019ve always been here, we\u2019ve always been a part of sports. We just haven\u2019t always been able to be open.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The winter games are scheduled from Feb. 4 to 20 in Beijing, China.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/10180547\/tibetan-student-holds-a-placard-calling-for-the-boycott-of-the-2022-picture-id1358225141\" alt=\"Tibetan student holds a placard calling for the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics during a protest on December 10, 2021 in Bengaluru,...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>BENGALURU, INDIA \u2013 DECEMBER 10: A Tibetan student holds a placard calling for the boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics during a protest on December 10, 2021 in Bengaluru, India.&nbsp;(Photo by Abhishek Chinnappa\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The games are taking place as criticism grows about the Communist Chinese Party\u2019s human rights abuses, including sending minority Muslim populations into concentration camps where prisoners have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/05\/protesters-outside-of-nbc-studios-demand-network-sponsors-drop-genocide-olympics\/\">reportedly<\/a> been tortured, sterilized, and even killed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Penny Starr on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennyStarrDC\">Twitter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy LeDuc, a pairs figure skater who broke a U.S. Figure Skating Championship record at the event that wrapped up Sunday in Nashville, will reportedly become the first \u201cnon-binary\u201d person &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}