{"id":1309654,"date":"2022-02-18T05:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1309654"},"modified":"2022-02-18T10:52:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T15:52:38","slug":"u-s-skater-becomes-first-nonbinary-winter-olympian-been-socialized-to-believe-theres-a-man-and-a-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-skater-becomes-first-nonbinary-winter-olympian-been-socialized-to-believe-theres-a-man-and-a-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Skater Becomes First \u2018Nonbinary\u2019\u00a0Winter Olympian: \u2018Been Socialized\u2019 \u2018To Believe There\u2019s A Man And A Woman\u2019"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fu-s-skater-becomes-first-nonbinary-winter-olympian-been-socialized-to-believe-theres-a-man-and-a-woman%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=1309654&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238591535-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>U.S. pairs figure skater Timothy LeDuc is the first openly \u201cnonbinary\u201d athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics, meaning he does not identify as male or female.<\/p>\n<p>Openly gay LeDuc, standing at six-foot-one and rocking a beard, goes by \u201cthey\/them\u201d pronouns and claims he\u2019s trying to break through gendered stereotypes within figure skating to achieve \u201cauthenticity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all been socialized in the same way to believe there is a man and a woman and everybody is going to fit neatly into those categories, so I am also learning with everyone else,\u201d LeDuc said, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/sports\/olympics\/2022\/02\/17\/timothy-leduc-nonbinary-pairs-figure-skating-olympics\/\">according<\/a> to The Washington Post. \u201cI understand there is [a need] to take time out to explain and help everyone understand, but I\u2019m willing to do it and I\u2019m happy to do it because I know it helps push the conversation forward and makes the paths of other queer and nonbinary people coming into sport maybe a little easier.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cSex and gender are different things, and also gender expression is different from gender,\u201d the figure skater claimed. \u201cGender is more an internal sense of self as a man, woman, both or neither. Gender expression can be an extension of that, but it doesn\u2019t always have to be. Yes, I have a beard, but in competition, I wear makeup. And for me as my experience with gender, I portray parts of masculinity and manhood, but I also feel a connection to femininity, [and] it\u2019s just the process of letting that out and letting people see that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cI think people will focus too much on physical characteristics and focus too much on the gender binary and the sex binary, but what we know from science is people exist out of those binaries both in sex and gender,\u201d the athlete added.<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">LeDuc and his figure skating partner Ashley Cain-Gribble say they\u2019re taking on figure skating norms together. Cain-Gribble noted that she\u2019s five-foot-six, which is generally tall for a female figure skater.<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cI\u2019ve had a lot of people tell me that I shouldn\u2019t be in this sport because of the way my body is shaped,\u201d she said. \u201cBut this is my body, and this is who I am. And it was really hard to accept that for a long time. \u2026 It has taken me a long time to get where I am and loving my body \u2014 and it\u2019s not every day. I still have struggles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">And then there are the \u201cgender roles\u201d in the sport, the pair discussed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cThere\u2019s nothing inherently wrong with a romantic story being told on the ice, a Romeo-and-Juliet story being told,\u201d LeDuc said. \u201cThe problem comes when that is centralized or seen as the standard for success and then anything that doesn\u2019t fit that is seen as less than or second class.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cTogether, LeDuc and Cain-Gribble have tried to attack those standards in subtle ways,\u201d The Post praised. \u201cLeDuc still lifts Cain-Gribble, but they competed this year in matching shirts and long pants, and they both skate almost as much as the other as opposed to LeDuc standing around and hoisting Cain-Gribble in the air.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">LeDuc said he has the \u201ctitle\u201d as the \u201cfirst nonbinary Winter Olympian,\u201d but added, \u201cI\u2019m here as an athlete first.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">During the Summer Olympics, transgender BMX freestyle rider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-trans-olympic-athlete-my-goal-is-to-win-the-olympics-so-i-can-burn-a-u-s-flag-on-the-podium\">Chelsea Wolfe<\/a> drew attention over an unearthed Facebook post that said, \u201cMy goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons why I work so hard to represent the United States in international competition is to show the world that this country has morals and values, that it\u2019s not all of the bad things that we\u2019re known for,\u201d Wolfe claimed, following backlash. \u201cI take a stand against fascism because I care about this country and I\u2019m not going to let it fall into the hands of fascists after so many people have fought and sacrificed to prevent fascism from taking hold abroad. 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