Professional cheating
Another cheat cheats his way into a marathon.
A trans-identified male who previously sued a spa for not allowing him to bathe with women has announced that he has been accepted to compete as a “woman” in the 2025 Boston Marathon. Riya Young Suising, born Robert Chien Hwa Young, has placed on the winner’s podium at multiple women’s running competitions.
That’s the fun thing about being a man running in women’s competitions: you get to win!
The Boston Marathon has age and gender qualification categories. Genders include male, female, and “non-binary.” Notably, the “non-binary” category has identical qualifying times as the corresponding female categories.
In Suising’s case, he had to demonstrate a time of 4 hours and 5 minutes or less; Suising qualified with a time of 4 hours, 1 minute, and 27 seconds. Had he been forced to compete with other males he would not have qualified for the marathon, as participants in the men’s category are required to meet a 3 hour and 35 minute performance cutoff.
So this new trans thing is such a gift for men who are willing to cheat.
You’d think it wouldn’t really work, wouldn’t you? I mean, an aspiring boxer wouldn’t punch toddlers just for the sake of “winning” – what would be the point? You’d think it would work the same way with men competing against women. “Oooh I ‘won’ but everyone knows it wasn’t a fair race so actually I didn’t win plus I look like a complete asshole.” But no, he goes right ahead, and even brags about it. People are weird.
I’m not sure you can place on a podium but I could think of plenty of places where he could profitably be placed. At the bottom of a very large hole comes to mind. I think that would be an appropriate signifier of shame.
I recommend that women athletes get organised as an international union. (This approach has worked in the past.) Then they adopt a policy of only competing in contests consisting 100% of competitors born female; no transwhatevers (born male) allowed. “Women’s” competitions could finish up consisting completely of trans cheats who cannot hope to win any other way, and this would pressure event organisers who did not want their contests to become a laughing-stock to get their collective act together.
Surely he could compete in the “non-binary” category–isn’t that the whole point of having it? Of course it’s a bullshit category, but at least he’d be competing against people who signed up for it.
It’s a travesty, but there won’t be any winning here for Bobby. The winning women’s time is around 2:22, and he isn’t going to run anywhere near that. He will only be taking away a woman’s opportunity to run at the back of the pack.
The fact that the ‘non-binary’ category has the women’s times means he is taking a spot from a woman. Boston Marathon has a finite number of places, divided up into categories by age/sex, qualified by time. If ‘non-binary’ was an actual category, it would have different times. The fact it has the women’s times means it is a rebadging of some women’s spots.
@Naif #5
It’s worse than just one man stealing a women’s spot.
If the competition is divided in two, for the sexes, then half the limited number of spots belong to women. Adding a “non-binary” category effectively takes away however many women’s spots there are and gives them to men. If divided in three, then two-thirds of the places are for men, and only one-third for women. If not divided equally, whatever smaller number are assigned for “non-binary” are effectively deducted from the women’s category.