There was a time when stories like this were intended as comedy
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what a man!
A transgender runner won the women's trophy in the prestigious New York Upstate Classic Half Marathon, beating the first woman across the finish line by six minutes and finishing fourth overall. The runner, who goes by Kae Luci Ravichandran, finished the course in 1 hour and 24 minutes. Amanda Aussems finished with a time of 1:30:39.
In 2021, for example, the fourth-place runner finished in 1:24, and the first-place woman finished in 1:37:59. So Ms. Aussems was not only denied a win, she may have been denied the women's course record.
This might have been any other women's sporting event where a man who isn't quite good enough to get on the medal stand decides to discover he's a she and compete[s] against women. Then, in the words of former French President Jacques Chirac, Ravichandran ''missed a good opportunity to shut up.'' In a post-race social media comment. Ravichandran wrote, "Embarrassingly slow, gave up after mile 5 because my tendon was acting up. Very out of shape. I'll take the [win] tho[ugh."
It is difficult to take this as anything less than trolling. He finished literally a mile in front of the first woman and says he gave up at "mile 5."
