A man who identifies as “transgender” has qualified to race in the female division for the 2025 Boston Marathon.
According to Outkick, a trans-identified male who goes by the name Riya Young Suising will compete in the women’s division this April. Suising was reportedly Robert Chien Hwa Young and is 57 years old.
Reportedly, Suising announced his acceptance into the race with a Facebook post, where he wrote, “Yay! 15th Boston next April, and I barely made it in this time.”
The Boston Marathon does offer a “non-binary” category for runners who think they are transgender, the outlet noted (via Outkick):
The Boston Marathon has gender qualification categories of male, female, and non-binary. Female and non-binary qualifiers have identical qualifying times of four hours and five minutes while male qualifiers must demonstrate a time of three hours and 35 minutes.
Suising would not have come close to qualifying in the male category, but snuck into the female category with a qualifying time of just over four hours and one minute.
According to Reduxx, Suising previously sued a spa for not allowing him to bathe with women. Additionally, he has been competing against women since at least 2010, as well as participating in women’s dance classes at the San Jose Dance Theatre. He’s reportedly worked as a flight attendant with United Airlines and works part-time as a massage therapist and a Zumba instructor. […]
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