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“…offers to give participation medal back because she’s being targeted by transphobes and just wants the harrassment to stop.”
I mean, I assume that’s the reason, right? Why else would you give back a participation medal? It wouldn’t be out of principle because it’s a ridiculous thing to expect anyone to do.
I searched up this story after making the above guess and it was roughly right because these people are so damn predictable. Only the worst outlets are reporting on it, and they’re misquoting her horrendously. She didn’t “offer”, she said if the organisers want it back she’ll give it back. It was an acknowledgement that it’s the organisers’ decision, not hers.
She’s maintined the whole time that she’ll follow whatever rules are in place, including running as a man when the organisation requires it. Of course transphobes are using that as “proof” that she’s a man.
She’s also quoted in headlines as saying “I’m not a woman,” but it was sarcasm. She said, “I get it… I’m not a woman, I don’t have a womb.” She was characterising the hateful remarks she’s received and they twisted that and said it came from her mouth and even called it an “admission”.
This is the original article as far as I can tell: https://nypost.com/2023/04/26/trans-marathoner-glenique-frank-offers-to-give-back-medal/
It has the same shameless “14,000” fact-twisting in the headline, but unlike other articles piggybacking on it, at least it tells some of her side and doesn’t constantly misgender her.
She also says she won’t apologise because she didn’t do anything wrong, which she didn’t. She’s running for no prize and she’s raising money for charity, but the culture war needs victims I guess, so she’s fair game to these people.
Thanks for the details. As it always turns out, things are never as bad as conservatives want it to be. Fuck transphobes, who think world needs to align with their views. It’s like they cannot accept that transpeople have always existed whether they like it or not.
things are never as bad as conservatives want it to be
Not disagreeing with your reply and I don’t think you meant anything by it, I just feel like it’s important to point out that even if she had beat every single cis woman in the race, that still wouldn’t be a bad thing, just a thing that makes conservatives (E: and transphobes in general, of course) uncomfortable (but they don’t get to define what’s good or bad for the rest of us).
She’s maintined the whole time that she’ll follow whatever rules are in place, including running as a man when the organisation requires it. Of course transphobes are using that as “proof” that she’s a man.
Man alive, just let the poor woman run. If she’s willing to let you misgender her so she can run then she’s literally doing everything you’re asking her to. Fuck off and let her do her thing!
She looks so happy in those pictures. Fuck the media for sensationalizing a nothing-burger and fuck them again for headlines like these that literally cause violence. They have to know that targeting her will result in threats and harassment.
And a 100 million more "fuck you"s to the assholes who gobble up this conservative propaganda and use it to fuel their circle-jerk of hate.
Ever considered to get into the news business? That was more informative than 100% of actual news.
What gets me is its the London marathon, its a mixed event where men and women run the same course at the same time. So this is literally just conservatives being mad a trans woman existing.
how pathetic that they need to make their own monsters like this
trans women are women. full stop. enough of this charade.
One thing that I found interesting from marathon times is that the wheelchairs finish a solid 30 minutes ahead of the runners (women, men, everyone). Because cities have roads, wheels are the real advantage. Even without gears.
I hope I’m right in thinking that users on Lemmy don’t need this reminder, but I still support sending the reminder in case I’m wrong.
Not arguing but, you know all news organizations do this right? No matter which side of the isle they lean.
Yes, let’s name and shame all of it. Nothing wrong with also noticing the transphobic panic that fox news is constantly trying to create for no reason.
I support the message but damn is it annoying when people use proper punctuation but refuse to capitalize their letters. It’s so lazy, makes it hard to take them seriously. The shift key is right there.
written languages existed before capitalization, and they will continue to exist after capitalization
