'Actually nonbinary': BBC Olympics announcer corrects co-host for not using 'they/them' pronouns for female shot putter



A BBC announcer corrected her colleague for using the wrong pronouns for American shot putter Raven Saunders.

Saunders has been in the spotlight during the Olympics for her unique attire and consistent gay activism since the 2021 Tokyo games where she won a silver medal.

The track and field athlete consistently appears with multicolored hair, excessively long finger nails, and often wears a mask of some type while competing.

'Raven Saunders is actually nonbinary.'

Her attire was typical during a recent Paris competition when the BBC's Steve Backley was commenting on her unorthodox appearance.

"The colorful character Raven Saunders is back," Backley said during the broadcast. "Good to see her back, sort of. Sort of see her, I mean," he added, in reference to her mask.

Announcer Jazmin Sawyers, who is actually an injured long jumper from Great Britain's team, quickly jumped in to correct Backley's lack of obscure pronoun usage.

"Well, we can’t see them very well,” Sawyers replied, making sure to use the term "them."

"Raven Saunders is actually nonbinary and wearing the mask there. We're quite used to seeing them with interesting attire. Should that be allowed? Why not," the 30-year-old concluded.

"Why not, indeed," Backley responded.

While Saunders pushes political viewpoints through her athletics, she hasn't been too strict on pronoun usage despite allegedly identifying as "nonbinary."

Just two days prior to the pronoun debacle, Saunders posted a video on her Instagram page where she is repeatedly referred to as "she."

Saunders also posted an image in December 2023 along with a caption where she referred to herself as a woman multiple times and not a "nonbinary."

When Saunders won a silver medal for shot put at the Tokyo games, she staged a protest during the medal ceremony. While on the podium, she raised her arms and crossed her wrists to form an X, which she claimed was a protest in support of "oppressed" people.

"Raven Saunders Protests on the Podium," a page called Women's Running said. "When asked what the ‘X’ meant, [Saunders] responded: 'It's the intersection of where all people who are oppressed meet.'"

According to the Huffington Post, Saunders said at the time that she was intent on inspiring "many young girls, so many young boys, so many LGBTQ people, [and] so many people that have battled suicide."

As for Saunders' bizarre attire, it is allegedly part of her "alter ego," according to an Associated Press writer.

"Before a shot put competition Raven Saunders transforms into their alter ego, The Hulk," writer Patrick Graham claimed. "That includes mask, sunglasses, gold teeth, hair dyed green and purple and long bedazzled nails."

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'Dream come true': 16-year-old Quincy Wilson to become youngest ever male USA track & field Olympian at 2024 summer games



Track star Quincy Wilson will become the youngest male to compete for the United States in track and field at the Olympics in 2024.

The runner and his coach both publicly confirmed that he was added to the Team USA relay pool for the summer games in Paris following an impressive performance as the U.S. Olympic trials in Eugene, Oregon.

Wilson broke the under-18 world record in the 400 meter that stood for 42 years, only to break the record again in the semifinal two days later.

Despite finishing sixth in the final and failing to qualify for the Olympics, he was added to the USA roster. He was happy about his finish at the time nonetheless.

'I told my mom, dad, and now, it's the dream come true.'

"I've never been this happy a day in my life when it came to track. I've been working for this moment. ... That's 42 years, 42 years of nobody being able to break that record, and I broke it twice in [three] days," he said, per ESPN.

Coach Joe Lee received the call from the committee responsible for the relay pool selections and immediately played a prank on the young Wilson. When he called the 16-year-old, he pretended that he had bad news.

"I was extremely nervous and then he called me and said just like, 'Unfortunately, we have some bad news.' And then he was like, 'I'm just kidding. We're going to Paris,'" Wilson explained.

Wilson told ESPN that when he found out the news, he "started running around the house" after realizing his dreams were coming true.

He also posted an image of himself on Instagram with the caption "WE GOING TO THE OLYMPICS."

The young star from Potomac, Maryland, said he started visualizing his goals at just the age of 8, when he was competing in the Junior Olympics.

"I remember [seeing sprinters] Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt go head-to-head and I was just like, 'I want to be up there one day,'" Wilson reportedly said. "I told my mom, dad, and now, it's the dream come true."

The high school junior then said he was dreaming about making the Olympics before his third run at the trials in Oregon.

"I was dreaming about it when I was in Oregon about to do my third run. I dreamed about being an Olympian," he recalled. "It was just being on that Olympic stage, holding that gold medal, and things like that."

While Wilson will become the youngest male to compete in track for Team USA at the Olympics, the youngest in either gender goes to Barbara Jones.

All the way back in 1952, the Chicago-born sprinter was just 15 when she competed in Helsinki.

Not only did she compete, but she won the 4x100-meter relay race alongside fellow Americans Mae Faggs, Janet Moreau, and Catherine Hardy, according to Encyclopedia.com.

Olympic records indicated that she was also the youngest person to win a gold medal in Olympic track and field at 15 years and 123 days old.

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'I was never a boy': Transgender NCAA track champion vows to return to sport and take 'all the records'



A former NCAA track and field champion who believes he is a woman said he planned on returning to the sport to capture subsequent female athletic records.

Cece Telfer won the women's NCAA national championship for 400m hurdles in 2019 and was part of a flurry of male athletes being identified for their dominance of female sports at the time.

Telfer reportedly transitioned from male to female in 2018 before dominating his sport.

In a new interview with an LGBT-focused outlet, Telfer said that he had plans to return to the track and dominate female athletes once again. He made multiple references throughout the interview to his dreams being "taken" from him through the rejection of male athletes in female comeptitions.

"I look forward to indoor track, because 2024 indoors is going to be epic. My dreams were taken away from me once again. So I plan on going back to New England, hitting up all the indoor competitions, and taking all the names, all the records, and everything."

"That doesn't look like first all the time, that doesn’t look like second place, that doesn’t look like podium all the time, but the track meets that count will count," he added.

'Off the track, I am a very, very girly girl. I mean, on the track, too. I like to take care of myself and feel very pretty.'

After being denied a shot at the Olympic trials and a ban by the NAIA of transgender athletes, it appeared that Telfer planned to return to the NCAA.

"That's what's burning this fire in my heart and in my body. So it’s keeping me going to know that I can go to indoor competitions and still be the girl to talk about, period," Telfer told Them.

Telfer explained that he is actually a woman several times in the interview; such as when the athlete was plainly asked about his "mental health."

"Anti-trans rhetoric from past athletes, current athletes, is making it so much harder for women like me to exist in society and even compete in sports," Telfer said. He then claimed that "everything is slowly being taken away" from him.

When asked what kind of person he is, Telfer said that he considers himself a rather feminine woman.

"I consider myself to be a voice for people who don’t have a voice. Off the track, I am a very, very girly girl," he claimed. "I mean, on the track, too. I like to take care of myself and feel very pretty."

The outlet went even farther, however, suggesting that Telfer has faced stereotypes and asking how he deals with the idea that people might see him as an "angry black woman."

"I might be a little angry, but that's just how I feel. And we are allowed to be angry. It’s a normal, healthy human emotion. However, I know that because of the color of my skin, I cannot live that normal human emotion," he theorized.

While claiming that he was "never a boy," Telfer revealed that he had gone through a "war" with his "mental and physical state." He also concluded that because he identified as a woman, his mother would never accept him.

"When it was time for me to break out of that shell and be like, 'No, I have to live for me now,' I came to the realization that [my mother was] never going to love me for who I am."

"I was never a boy, never saw myself as a boy, never identified as a boy, never conformed to anything that was masculine boy unless my parents were forcing it upon me," he added.

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Crowd boos as boy wins girls' state championship track and field race in Oregon



A boy pretending to be a girl has officially won a girls' track and field state championship in Oregon, but as he was pronounced the winner, race spectators showed their disapproval by booing — loudly.

Aayden Gallagher, a 10th-grade student at McDaniel High School in Portland, has been making a name for himself in girls' track and field competitions this spring. As Blaze News previously reported, Gallagher won a 200M heat by more than five seconds last month. Then at the Portland Interscholastic League Championships a few weeks later, he took home gold in the girls' 200M and 400M races, assuring himself a spot in the state championships.

'The roar and standing ovation for Donelson may surpass anything that comes next week at the Prefontaine Classic. Or, yes, the Olympic Trials.'

Well, the Oregon state championships have since come and gone, and Gallagher once again bested the competition. In the girls' 200M sprint, he turned on the jets with about 30M to go to sneak past Roosevelt High School sophomore Aster Jones and finish in first with a time of 23.82 seconds, about .2 seconds ahead of Jones. DyeStat called it "one of the fastest times in state history."

As Gallagher crossed the finish line, members of the crowd protested his win by loudly booing. The boos and jeers were so overwhelming that multiple outlets have remarked upon them. LibsofTikTok shared a video of the race — and the crowd's reaction — on X:

This is Aayden Gallagher. He’s a boy who thinks he’s a girl and just came in 1st place in the women’s 200m Oregon State Championship.

Listen to the audience’s loud BOOs as they announce him as the winner!

People are sick of this madness! pic.twitter.com/wke0CTHFl6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 19, 2024

Several outlets have also reported that Gallagher has recently needed "extra security" at practice and in competition and that this security detail whisked Gallagher off the track immediately following his victory, preventing him from shaking hands with his female competitors.

"There was extra security in place for that ceremony. But it did not take away the air of blatant transphobia that was circulating around the stadium," one attendee told Outsports.

The boos and jeers reportedly continued when Gallagher later stepped to the top of the podium to collect his gold medal.

By contrast, the audience roared with approval on Saturday when two-time defending champion Josie Donelson of Lake Oswego held off Gallagher in the 400M by just .15 seconds to win her third gold medal in the race. "The roar and standing ovation for Donelson may surpass anything that comes next week at the Prefontaine Classic. Or, yes, the Olympic Trials," DyeStat wrote.

Though Tyler Kelleher, the athletic director at McDaniel High School, and Ryan Keene, the school's track coach, have helped Gallagher dominate girls' track events, at least one Oregon coach was frustrated that a male has been allowed to compete against girls at the state championships.

"This is destructive to girls sports," the unidentified coach told DyeStat in response to a question about Gallagher's 200M win.

Gallagher declined to speak with the media on Saturday, DyeStat reported. Kelleher and Keene did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

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Male high school track athlete dominates girls, qualifies for state finals after capturing 2 gold medals

Male high school track athlete dominates girls, qualifies for state finals after capturing 2 gold medals



A male who claims to be female outperformed his more feminine competitors in two separate days of races in Oregon high school track and field events.

Aayden Gallagher is a 10th-grade student at McDaniel High School and will soon compete in the Oregon state finals at the varsity level after yet another event saw him win two gold medals against girls.

Gallagher first made headlines in April 2024 when he was seen on video dominating females in a 200-meter heat.

He officially clocked in at 25.49, while the second-place finisher was a full five seconds behind. Gallagher easily won the heat but did not finish with the best time in the event. In a separate heat, sophomore Aster Jones of Roosevelt High School beat Gallagher's time by more than a second at 24.43.

The footage garnered worldwide reactions, however, with comments from the likes of Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), who called it "disgraceful."

"Let's call this what it is: encouraged AND celebrated cheating at the hands of the 'adults' in the room. So many fingers to point, but shame on the parents, the schools, the boy, our weak administration," said former NCAA athlete Riley Gaines. Gaines also called out the Oregon athletic body in charge.

"My daughter has been running track since she was 7 years old and to work so hard for so many years, for it to be taken away by a boy that cannot get attention any other way than to run against girls."

Nearly a month later, the same boy was pictured again taking first place in the girls 400-meter varsity run, and second place in the 200 meter. This qualified the teen for the Portland championships.

According to the Daily Mail, the Oregon State Athletic Association has allowed students to "participate for the athletic or activity program of their consistently asserted gender identity."

Gallagher was defeated in the 200 meter by his likely arch nemesis Jones, who beat him at the aforementioned event, as well. Jones defeated the trans-identifying boy by 0.17 seconds.

In the 400 meter, however, Gallagher defeated the female runners by several seconds.

Fast forward to the Portland Interscholastic League Championships where Gallagher was at peak performance winning two gold medals to earn a spot at the state finals.

Gallagher dominated both the 200-meter and 400-meter events and took the top of the podium alongside his less-than-enthusiastic competitors.

A parent of one of the female racers in the district allegedly told the Publica that the boy's inclusion in the events have been "disappointing and frustrating."

"My daughter has been running track since she was 7 years old and to work so hard for so many years, for it to be taken away by a boy that cannot get attention any other way than to run against girls," the parent reportedly said.

TRANS RUNNER GOES TO GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIPS!\n\nA male student who identifies as a "girl" has secured a spot in the Oregon state championships after taking FIRST PLACE in TWO Girls Varsity races yesterday.\n\nWatch the moment Aayden Gallagher won gold in the 200m race:
— (@)

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