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TheSpun [ Apr 21] -- Boston Marathon kicked off today after bucking trend & announcing it would be totally trans-inclusive, with trans women allowed to compete as women or -- with NB runners - in a new nonbinary category. @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

thespun.comBoston Marathon Makes Decision On Transgender Runners In 2025The Boston Marathon is set to take place on Monday morning, April 20. The prestigious marathon, arguably the most famous marathon in the United States, maybe

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The rabidly transphobic NYPost, reporting on this, headlines with a trans runner "trampling women" -- as if one of us was some kind of crazed waterbuffalo mowing down female runners. Only at the bottom of the piece do readers learn they mean _metaphorically_ trampling women's rights.

Fabienne, maybe I'm wrong, but a cursory glance at your timeline seems to show that you think of yourself as progressive. And yet on this, you seem to have aligned your opinion with the far right and fascists. Is there some reason that doesn't make you look in the mirror and rethink this stance?

I mean, I know if I'd have opinions that'd line up with literal Nazis, that I'd at least hope that I'd take a long time to think about how and why that's the case, and wonder if it's time to re-evaluate my thinking.

Great to see the Boston Marathon following the science. Massive credit to any trans woman that finishes a Marathon. Try running with low hemoglobin levels its not easy. I lost two minutes over 3km in my first year of hormonal transition.