Reduxx reported that a male qualified as a female to compete in the 2025 Boston Marathon.
Robert Chien Hwa Young, who goes by Riya Young Suising, has placed in numerous female running competitions.
Guess what. Young barely qualified as a female for the Boston Marathon. From Reduxx:
Suising, 57, celebrated his qualification in the race via Facebook with his confirmation email from the 129th Boston Marathon: “Yay! 15th Boston next April, and I barely made it in this time,” he wrote. He has qualified for the female category. The race is set to take place in April 2025.The Boston Marathon has age and gender qualification categories. Genders include male, female, and “non-binary.” Notably, the “non-binary” category has identical qualifying times as the corresponding female categories.In Suising’s case, he had to demonstrate a time of 4 hours and 5 minutes or less; Suising qualified with a time of 4 hours, 1 minute, and 27 seconds. Had he been forced to compete with other males he would not have qualified for the marathon, as participants in the men’s category are required to meet a 3 hour and 35 minute performance cutoff.
Young loves to compete as a female, stealing prizes and medals from actual females:
Suising competed in the 2024 San Francisco Marathon dressed in a “sexy” bumble bee costume, complete with black nylons and a mini skirt. He wore the same outfit in previous races, including a 2017 New York City Marathon and in a 2018 Los Angeles Rock and Roll Half Marathon. He also competed in the female category of the 2024 California International Marathon on December 8.In a since-deleted Facebook post from 2015, the Palo Alto Run Club announced that Suising was seen taking second place in the women’s category of the Brazen Racing half marathon, seizing a $500 prize.Suising has also won at least two other women’s running prizes, including taking second place at the 2015 Jed Smith 50K, and third place at the 2013 Ruth Anderson Memorial Endurance Run.
Young also dances in female classes at the San Jose Dance Theatre.
Young also works as a flight attendant for United.
Reduxx spoke to Beth Bourne, a woman in California who I have talked to quite a bit, since she spotted Young on a flight last month.
Bourne has also competed against Young in California’s races.
“I’ve competed in several international marathons, including the Boston Marathon in 2010, so I know this it’s a big deal to qualify for a spot. I’m also super disappointed that the captured Boston Athletic Association has a ‘non-binary’ division, which of course is predominantly men winning all of the top spots across all age groups.”Biological males have won in the non-binary category both years it has been offered by the marathon, and with the accommodation of trans-identified males in the women’s category, it provides men three opportunities to take top spot.
Young has made news before. He’s one of those who yells when someone misgenders him.
Young filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau against Spa World in Centreville, VA, because it does not accept trans customers.
Sang Lee, the spa owner, said the business “does not allow intoxicated customers or inappropriate sexual behavior.” He also told Young, “Look, I had a couple of complaints from my customers, I had to respect that.”
Young claimed he didn’t do anything.
The spa responded to the BBB, but Lee said the translation was wrong. From WJLA:
Spa World responded to the BBB in writing:”It is our policy to not accept any kinds of abnormal sexual oriented customers to our facility such as homosexuals, or transgender. We strongly enforce this policy for the safety and the comfort for our customers, and also to promote a healthy reputation for our business. Spa World accepts family-oriented customers many times with young children. Also, for the safety and the comfort for young children at Spa World, we strongly forbid any abnormal sexual behaviors and orientation in our facility. Despite the controversial issue of homosexuality and transgender, it is our policy to not accept them.”But Lee said that statement is not true at all. “This is a free facility, anybody is welcome here to try to have a good time,” he said.Lee claims a new employee — an accountant — wrote the statement to the BBB while he was out of town. Lee said the statement was inaccurate because of a language barrier. “This one simple vocabulary, he misused it. Instead of ‘misbehaving,’ he said ‘sexual orientation.'”
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