American figure skater to become first
openly nonbinary athlete to compete at
a Winter Olympics
KMGH-TV [DENVER, CO],
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
1/12/2022 11:40:22 AM
Timothy LeDuc is set to become the first nonbinary athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics. LeDuc earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic team after winning the pairs U.S. Figure Skating Championships with Ashley Cain-Gribble. LeDuc understands the significance of the achievement. “My hope is that when people see my story, it isn’t focused on me and saying, ‘Oh, Timothy is the first out nonbinary person to achieve this level of success in sport.’ My hope is that the narrative shifts more to, ‘Queer people can be open and successful in sports.’ We’ve always been here, we’ve always been
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 1/12/2022 11:45:31 AM (No. 1036058)
Is it necessary for me to know the sex choices to watch a sporting or entertainment event? I hope not.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Californian 1/12/2022 11:54:02 AM (No. 1036069)
Do we get this story each time again for all 43675 sports?
"CNN proudly reports first non-binary tiddly winks player wins gold, Jordan's birthing unit thrilled"
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Vesicant 1/12/2022 11:57:33 AM (No. 1036074)
Somehow, I doubt that's a first for Olympic ice skating.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 1/12/2022 11:58:22 AM (No. 1036075)
Baloney. Mental illness.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
philsner 1/12/2022 11:59:13 AM (No. 1036076)
You know the world has gone insane when olympic athletes proudly proclaim their sexual choices.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
keep_right 1/12/2022 11:59:55 AM (No. 1036078)
Since he's already 'paired' with what appears to be a female, I don't really think he's that confused. A little anatomy lesson could really cinch the decision on whether he's a male or female.
20 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Sanchin 1/12/2022 12:00:20 PM (No. 1036080)
This is about the only thing The United States can lead in. Sad what this country has become and focuses on.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rich323 1/12/2022 12:01:11 PM (No. 1036081)
There is concern another virus similar to Ebola is floating around China. Hopefully the athletes from all over the world won’t start another fiasco!
11 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
RobertJ984 1/12/2022 12:03:01 PM (No. 1036084)
He said Qwier I thought that was politically incorrect now. I guess only qwiers can say that to other qwiers. Like blacks I guess.
As you can see, this site doesn't allow it either
16 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
singermom9 1/12/2022 12:03:29 PM (No. 1036085)
Can we just call them all assho***? I am so tired of having to guess everyone pronouns or genders. They are all assho*** to me.
37 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Nimby 1/12/2022 12:08:19 PM (No. 1036089)
Didn't watch Summer Olympics and will not watch the Winter Olympics either!!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 1/12/2022 12:08:52 PM (No. 1036090)
So? Don't care.
15 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
reefdiver 1/12/2022 12:18:59 PM (No. 1036106)
Sick of "nonbinary" already. Stop the BS!
17 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
SALady 1/12/2022 12:20:10 PM (No. 1036108)
He is a mentally ill man who prefers to have sex with other men. Nothing "non-binary" about that.
Gross? Yes.
Nasty? Yes.
Mentally ill? Most definitely.
But still just a man with sick and freaky sexual desires that have a high probability of killing him before his time (AIDS, much higher suicide rates than normal men, etc, etc). Why is this even news?
20 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 1/12/2022 12:25:04 PM (No. 1036114)
Not interesting.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/12/2022 12:42:25 PM (No. 1036133)
FTA: "We’ve always been here, we’ve always been a part of sports."
#5 nails it! That's always been the case for male figure skaters. Timothy at least has the decency and honesty to call himself a "queer" - - instead of using the communist term "non-binary." I wish Timothy and his partner the best of luck. They earned their spot.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 1/12/2022 12:43:47 PM (No. 1036138)
Nonbinary? What's that mean? If binary is going to be the term we call these people, then they are either a 1 or a zero. I'll bet it's a zero.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
kono 1/12/2022 12:47:29 PM (No. 1036144)
Your "Gender" is not pertinent to athletic competition; but your biology most certainly IS. Non-binary? Non-trinary, too. And probably non-quartenary, even...
Timmy may be the first Olympic athlete that likes Chorizo Brussels Sprouts, too. So the hell what?
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
msjena 1/12/2022 12:48:12 PM (No. 1036148)
He's gay. He just doesn't want to declare a gender, but clearly, he's male.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
padiva 1/12/2022 12:52:11 PM (No. 1036150)
Timothy is partnered with a man named Ashley.
It's skating costume is similar to the skating partner.
So the guy is A/C D/C.
Maybe I'm old.....why do people think that their bedroom partner preferences should be the predominant value in their lives?
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hershey 1/12/2022 12:52:13 PM (No. 1036151)
Nonbinary is BS...you are either male or female, if you don't know, look in your shorts...all this gender fluid and transexual stuff is baloney..you can't change your chromosomes....these people need to be cared for....they are not functioning on all their neurons...
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/12/2022 12:59:16 PM (No. 1036158)
There are two rooms in every house that it is boorish and crass to discuss what happens within.
Bedroom and Bathroom.
Makes no difference whether that unasked for information is revealed in a Lockerroom by some blocked headed jock, or at the dinner table by some limpwristed prancer, or some overly promiscuous disappointment to her father..
Discussing what you do on the stool, or under the sheets?
NONE of that is anyone's business but your own, and trying to MAKE "conversation" about it is abnormal, rude, crude and impolite. It was once considered impolitic as well...but the "Politics of the Personal" was designed to intentionally make people uncomfortable, originally by the "Feminists", but various other fringe groups now adhere to the same playbook.
Being tacky, tawdry and tasteless has become a Tactic of attention whoring.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
PESSIMIST 1/12/2022 1:04:35 PM (No. 1036165)
Uh, I'm pretty certain that many, if not the majority of our Olympic male skaters have been "non-binary" or GBTQ.
They understood that people watched them for their skating, not to hear political confessionals. Good for them.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/12/2022 1:07:27 PM (No. 1036166)
It is our national media that ensures the people of the US, if not the world, will hear about it if a deviant tree falls in the forest.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
valinva 1/12/2022 1:11:03 PM (No. 1036169)
I prefer the term "sexually confused". Timothy LeDuc is a male that can't figure if he wants to have sex with males or females.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/12/2022 1:12:06 PM (No. 1036171)
These athletes always claim "I want to be know for my sport, not my sexuality". Well then why are you making an issue of your sexuality. The skating world and Olympics would go on just fine if they did not know that Timothy LeDuc does not want to be a boy or girl. From the picture Timothy looks like a man (he has a beard or needs to shave), he skates in pairs skating with a female so most people will assume that Timothy LeDuc is a male. That he chooses to identify as non-binary is nobody else's business. If, as he claims, he wishes to be know for his skating, and only his skating, stop being the "non-binary skater". Just be the best ice skater, period. You will remove a lot of pressure from yourself and be a lot more happy.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/12/2022 1:18:31 PM (No. 1036176)
So, who cares, but the non-binary athletes. They should have their on special Olympics and stay out of the normal teams. But who is normal anymore?
5 people like this.
Reply 28 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/12/2022 1:28:37 PM (No. 1036178)
In the 1967 Bee Gees single, "To Love Somebody," my mother, hearing the song on the AM radio as our family headed to a Florida spring vacation, got a laugh out of Barry Gibb's "...I am a man, can't you se what I am...." Mom didn't know how bad it would get.
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Litmus test: Would Johnny Weir do it with Timothy? If yes, man; if no, woman.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/12/2022 2:16:24 PM (No. 1036215)
Probably won’t watch much Olympics.
Used to schedule around Summer and Winter viewing.
Now, everything is taped/delayed and covered in commercials and wokeness.
And, you read it here first: in the next 2-3 Olympics, they will have same sex “pairs” skating.
Flyball Dogs predicts.
7 people like this.
Reply 31 - Posted by:
marbles 1/12/2022 2:18:55 PM (No. 1036218)
What was the point of this story ? Money ? Ratings? What?
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 1/12/2022 2:29:26 PM (No. 1036224)
#20 Nailed it! The problem is these folks have confused gender with sexuality.
Sexuality can be very fluid, gender is not, gender is determined by science.
As libs have saying for the last two years, "follow the science".
6 people like this.
Reply 33 - Posted by:
Hugh Akston 1/12/2022 2:34:20 PM (No. 1036229)
If you rearrange the letters in binary you get brainy...ergo...nonbinary becomes nonbrainy.
5 people like this.
Reply 34 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/12/2022 2:39:47 PM (No. 1036238)
What's new? and So what! Sexual disorientation has probably been the norm in 'male' figure skaters for decades. Parents who have entrusted their boys to skating and dance instructors have had no idea or willfully closed their eyes to coaching which included perverted grooming and predation. Why do you think the American Olympic Organization is now having to pay out millions after years of sexual abuse of children?
6 people like this.
Reply 35 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/12/2022 2:47:19 PM (No. 1036248)
Time to end this (*).
6 people like this.
Reply 36 - Posted by:
Hermoine 1/12/2022 3:12:19 PM (No. 1036284)
Utter gibberish...guess HE just wanted to make headlines because he is clearly a HE.
3 people like this.
Reply 37 - Posted by:
Zarin 1/12/2022 3:14:33 PM (No. 1036287)
OMG. More stupidity & drivel raised to the level of tyranny.
4 people like this.
Reply 38 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 1/12/2022 3:51:19 PM (No. 1036316)
Clearly a mental defect in need of institutionalization.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
downnout 1/12/2022 4:32:24 PM (No. 1036345)
if you don’t want people to focus on your non-binary status, don’t make an issue of it. Just skate.
2 people like this.
Reply 40 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 1/12/2022 4:35:56 PM (No. 1036351)
Oh no! I can’t watch male skaters? My life is truly over!
1 person likes this.
Reply 41 - Posted by:
FLCracker 1/12/2022 5:02:58 PM (No. 1036374)
It was necessary to include the "openly" qualifer for this sport.
1 person likes this.
Reply 42 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/12/2022 5:49:27 PM (No. 1036427)
Making up the BS so that the Rainbow Mafia can have another "first." What a bunch of deluded losers.
1 person likes this.
Reply 43 - Posted by:
columba 1/12/2022 6:40:30 PM (No. 1036472)
My favorite car bumper sticker is
Homophobia - No.
Homonausea - Yes.
4 people like this.
Reply 44 - Posted by:
dman 1/12/2022 6:54:37 PM (No. 1036489)
"That's just 'Pat'!" /s
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/12/2022 7:35:31 PM (No. 1036540)
So, just who will he be competing against?
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
rbruce20 1/12/2022 11:26:53 PM (No. 1036665)
Wears a unisex track suit.
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
hoosierblue 1/13/2022 4:27:57 AM (No. 1036773)
This generation is totally nuts!
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
CivilServant 1/13/2022 8:52:16 AM (No. 1036985)
A gay figure skater? Will wonders never cease…..
Tim your 15 minutes are about up, glom onto the PR train now.
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