{"id":14418,"date":"2020-02-16T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=14418"},"modified":"2020-02-16T12:02:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T16:02:45","slug":"transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-us-olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-us-olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Transgender woman will become the first ever to compete at US Olympic marathon trials for a spot in Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_2020-02-16-Transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-US-Olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-T...-1024x495.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_2020-02-16-Transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-US-Olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-T...-1024x495.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_2020-02-16-Transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-US-Olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-T...-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_2020-02-16-Transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-US-Olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-T...-768x371.png 768w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Screenshot_2020-02-16-Transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-US-Olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-T....png 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>NEWS THUD<\/strong>, by  <a href=\"https:\/\/newsthud.com\/author\/jmccallum\/\">J.C McCallum<\/a> &#8212; February 14, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>A male who identifies as a female is being allowed to compete in a  marathon against other women in a trial that, assuming he qualifies,  could send him to the olympics to compete against women from around the  world: <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Megan Youngren will become the first openly transgender female athlete to compete at the United States Olympic marathon trials.<\/p><p>The 29-year-old will make history on February 29 in Atlanta, where \nshe will compete against 63 women for a spot on the Olympic team to \ncompete at the Summer Games in Tokyo later this year. <\/p><p>Youngren began her transition from a male to a female when she was a \ncollege student in 2011, according to Sports Illustrated. She also \nstarted taking hormone medication that year, and in 2012, she came out \npublicly as transgender. <\/p><p>She officially finalized her transition last year, submitting the necessary paperwork. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image, links and comments at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/newsthud.com\/transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-us-olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-tokyo\/\">https:\/\/newsthud.com\/transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-us-olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-tokyo\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS THUD, by J.C McCallum &#8212; February 14, 2020 Excerpt: A male who identifies as a female is being allowed to compete in a marathon against other women in a trial that, assuming he qualifies, could send him to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/transgender-woman-will-become-the-first-ever-to-compete-at-us-olympic-marathon-trials-for-a-spot-in-tokyo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14420,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14418\/revisions\/14420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}