2026-09-28 08:03 UTC
RE: https://mstdn.social/@junesim63/117347113352349696
See also the legal threats against #parkrun another charity whose weekly events are facilitated entirely by unpaid volunteers.
They provide a course for anyone to run or walk around at a specified time and will provide participants with their time upon presentation of an identifying barcode.
What anyone links to that barcode in terms of name, age or gender is not policed by parkrun (no 'papers, please' or medical tests required), and for that it is targeted by those wishing to eradicate trans people from public life.
The only restriction is 'We prohibit the registration of names which include rude, offensive, political and/or inappropriate language, which may incite and/or reference any kind of violence and/or hate towards others, contain sexual connotations and/or bring parkrun into disrepute, and our decision is final.'
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@fak@cupoftea.social 2026-09-28 08:16
I would love #parkrun to be more explicitly trans-inclusive, but for their lack of desire/ability to enforce participants use their government IDs (which can (at least currently) be changed to accurately reflect gender rather than sex assigned at birth anyway) and all of the privacy concerns that such verification entails - they are threatened by a well-funded and rabid mob of literally a handful of people.