What on earth are we doing?
Riya Young Suising, a biological male who identifies as a transgender, has qualified for the 2025 Boston Marathon, which takes place in April. But Suising isn’t competing against other males — instead the 57-year-old will be running in the female division.
Suising, born as Robert Chien Hwa Young, actually celebrated this “accomplishment” on Facebook, posting, “Yay! 15th Boston next April, and I barely made it in this time.” (RELATED: Left-Wing Martina Navratilova Issues Not So Left-Wing Response To Imane Khelif Stealing Glory From Women)
“Barely” indeed; the trans runner is only eligible thanks to the Boston Marathon‘s nonsensical regulations regarding gender qualification.
The historic race has three divisions for runners: male, female and “non-binary.” For the female and non-binary categories, the qualifying time is four hours and five minutes for the 26.2 mile race. For males, the qualifying time is three hours and 35 minutes.
In other words, there’s not a chance in hell Suising would have ever qualified for the male division. But he managed to eek out a time of four hours and one minute, just barely meeting the requirement for the female and “non-binary” division.
Shameful — and it gets worse.
The Boston Marathon held its first non-binary race in 2023, and since then, a biological male has won both of such races. In the 2025 edition, with transgenders now allowed to compete in the female division, we could be looking at a situation where all three divisions see a biological male in first place. And all on the same day.
Is this really how we’re going to head into 2025?
