"...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.

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.

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.

If a trans woman places 999th in a race of 1000 women, transphobes will still talk about the "unfair advantage" she had over the woman who placed dead last.

The constant targeting of trans people as part of a pathetic culture war is reprehensible.

Big numbers scary, that's how they work.

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.

Well I'm just curious about what place she got amongst women, now.

how pathetic that they need to make their own monsters like this

trans women are women. full stop. enough of this charade.

We need a petition to rename Fox News to Trump News

And it's not like like this marathon was an event with the main goal of entertainment and leisure and what place you end up in doesn't have the slightest significance or anything! I don't think the Olympics was checking the photo finish ready to send letters to the cis women if only the trans woman hadn't ranked higher than them.

Whatever happened to the Olympic ideals? Citius, Altius, Fortius, Communiter? Apparently, going faster, higher, stronger, together, wasn't a factor here, somehow. The fact that some particular athlete tried to be the damn best they could, yet didn't want a particular prize anway, was of no consequence according to the public.

Damn straight we should return to Olympic ideals, but I'm afraid that while we have dipshit gatekeepers, that's going to take its time.

This is why i don't read newspapers or watch the news. Truth is never on their agenda. Even plain facts are weaponized constantly as a way to make you live in fear and hate

Stay away from the news. It'll save your brain.

Not arguing but, you know all news organizations do this right? No matter which side of the isle they lean.

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.