Being an occasional Parkrunner (struggling to break my
personal 30-minute target), I was shocked to hear Olympian Sharron Davies
say that course records on Parkrun are now being set by male-to-transwomen. Timestamp
6:09 at Fairness
in sports governance: A Sex Matters webinar 28 June 2023.
Two transgender male-to-female runners, Siân Longthorpe and Lauren Jeska, hold Parkrun records in the women's 45-49 age group category and the women's overall category respectively.
Siân Longthorpe is the transgender male-to-female runner who broke the record in the Porthcawl Parkrun on Sat 20 May 2023 in the women's 45-49 age group category by one minute and 13 seconds (18m 53s). She was a married man until 2019.
www.spectator.co.uk/article/parkrun-have-got-their-trans-policy-very-wrong
The overall Parkrun women's record is held by Lauren Jeska, a
transgender male-to-female runner who is a convicted attempted murderer.
A report dated 24 May 2023 at www.lbc.co.uk/news/feminist-activists-outraged-as-womens-parkrun-record-holder-revealed-to-be-trans
states:
Lauren Jeska, 41, was jailed in 2017 after repeatedly
stabbing UK Athletics official Ralph Knibbs, 48, after he questioned her
eligibility to compete as a woman … the Parkrun website still shows Jeska has
the record for the Aberystwyth Parkrun, running the 5k in 17 minutes and 38
seconds.
Action point
At about the 53:45 mark in the Fairness in sports governance discussion, Sharron suggests taking action by emailing https://support.parkrun.com/hc/en-us/requests/new to propose the administratively simple solution that they create new separate categories for transmen and transwomen and non-binary people.
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