{"id":1733585,"date":"2022-11-10T12:11:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1733585"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T17:17:55","slug":"dudes-dominate-non-binary-division-of-nyc-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dudes-dominate-non-binary-division-of-nyc-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dudes Dominate &#8220;Non-Binary&#8221; Division of NYC Marathon"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdudes-dominate-non-binary-division-of-nyc-marathon%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=1733585&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\/11\/article_non-binary_runners.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>For the second year running, biological males have dominated the non-binary category of the New York City Marathon, and this year, their physical sporting advantage was awarded a cash prize, meaning equal prize money for men and women competing in the event is now a thing of the past.<\/p>\n<p>The NYC Marathon made the decision to include a non-binary category for the first time in 2021 but didn\u2019t offer any prize money for the winners. This year, however, the non-profit organization New York Road Runners paid out $9,000 to Jacob Caswell who finished in first place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response, Mara Yamauchi, a two-time Olympic marathoner, and Robert Johnson, co-founder of LetsRun.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letsrun.com\/news\/2022\/11\/gender-identity-has-no-place-in-sport\/\">published an article<\/a> arguing that gender identity has no place in sport, and that the decision to pay out prize money to the winner of the non-binary category was a mistake and amounts to discrimination against female athletes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA non-binary category \u2026introduces something which is irrelevant in sport &#8211; belief &#8211; as a sports category,\u201d they explain in the article. \u201cOther beliefs, such as religion or political affiliation, are as irrelevant as the belief that one is non-binary.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA non-binary category discriminates against females because males run, on average, about ten percent faster than females\u2026So females in the non-binary category are not competing on a level playing field,\u201d the article continues.<\/p>\n<p>The two athletes went on to question what the prize money was rewarding, stating that it clearly wasn\u2019t athletic excellence given that the winner of <a href=\"https:\/\/results.nyrr.org\/event\/M2022\/finishers?_gl=1*625rph*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE2Njc4MzQwODkuQ2p3S0NBaUE5cUtiQmhBekVpd0FTNHllRGJSc1BwcnJlNE1jblJqQWY1ZFBiOU5HeG92SFotRU5pQkM1X0tPYzA3bHRRUDA0U2FQOUxSb0NxNzhRQXZEX0J3RQ..#g=X&#038;page=1\">the non-binary category<\/a> would have finished in 147th place if competing in the men\u2019s category. The NYRR had intended to pay out $15,000 in prize money but only two non-binary runners managed to finish within the 3:10 cutoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAwards aren\u2019t important to me,\u201d non-binary runner <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/WeliwmCcNwc\">Nick Dill, who came in fourth place, told NBC News<\/a> in an interview prior to the race. \u201cIt\u2019s being able to run as my authentic self\u2026It\u2019s important for us to stand up and be able to participate in sports and do what we want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSex, not gender identity, is the primary determinant as to why males are better than females in sports,\u201d concluded Yamauchi and Johnson. \u201cIf the NYRR wants to have a non-binary division in the name of inclusiveness, then that is their right, but it is discrimination against females and goes against the very essence of sport &#8211; fair competition in categories that are relevant to sport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The article was shared on LetsRun.com and received a significant amount of feedback, with many agreeing that gender identity has no place in sports, while others felt being inclusive was more important than fairness. Johnson posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.letsrun.com\/forum\/flat_read.php?thread=11612967\">a statement<\/a> in the website\u2019s chat forum defending the points made in the article.<\/p>\n<p>In response to numerous people asking why he cared, Johnson responded that the truth matters and there \u201cneeds to be a respect for objective scientific facts for society to function.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we are going to have a non-binary category, I say let&#8217;s go all out in 2023. We might as well have prize money in 2023 for gays, straights, whites, blacks, etc &#8211; a bunch of things that have nothing to do with performance,\u201d Johnson concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running, biological males have dominated the non-binary category of the New York City Marathon, and this year, their physical sporting advantage was awarded a cash prize,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1733588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733585","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1733588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}