The Washington Post celebrates a woman who openly doped her way a 2:51 marathon as a game-changer
Featuring a series of epistemically bland, incontrovertible, and repetitive—but absolutely necessary—corrections to another shambles of a pro-psychosis article
“A transgender runner’s push for inclusion may have changed the sport,” trumpets the headline of a Washington Post article published yesterday focusing on Cal Calamia, a female marathoner pictured in the piece with a substantial amount of hair sprouting from her face and armpits.
Calamia, 27, ran the Boston Marathon in April in 2 hours, 51 minutes. She did this less than four years after having a double mastectomy, a procedure most women undergo only after a diagnosis of (or a very high likelihood of developing) breast cancer. Most women who undergo this procedure therefore do so with great reluctance, with the aftermath understandably characterized by psychological distress.
Calamia’s psychological disconnect, on the other hand, was ultimately the cause of her double mastectomy, not one of its consequences.
The story is framed as a victory for “nonbinary” athletes, because Calamia has declared herself both “transmasculine” and “nonbinary,” and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has issued a ruling essentially declaring in return that it doesn’t care who injects what into their addled selves when competing in the indefensibly ridiculous “nonbinary” category. As long as this ‘roided-up gal doesn’t compete as a woman, she’s no threat to anyone, because 2:51 and change is so slow for a male as to be competitively irrelevant. And it’s over fourteen minutes slower than the women’s U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifying standard, so even if she raced as a woman, she’d be a competitive threat only to local-yokel-level marathoners.
When I read pieces like these in 2023, I still half-expect to see the same chatter we used to see in the WaPo and elsewhere about the harmful long-term medical effects that result when women load up on androgens. A good reference point is the agonizing spate of physical woes that doped-up Eastern Bloc women from the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s began encountering as they aged post-retirement, among them hepatitis, miscarriages, heart disease, and liver and gynecological cancers. But apparently, women who abdicate their status as women magically also abdicate their risk of incurring predictable and dire health problems from the use of anabolic steroids.
That guy you see at the gym with the yellow Wile E. Coyote eyes looks like that because his bile ducts are jammed up from liver inflammation, and he probably has clinical jaundice even as you watch him grunt his 41-year-old self through a 350-pound bench press. But based on WaPo logic, provided this man identifies “nonbinary,” he just might live forever anyway.
Below are excepts from Kelyn Soong’s article that are false, misleading, or worded in obscurantist Wokish language, along with my corrections to the material therein. (Soong’s most recent piece for the WaPo before this one, “Should you quit your marathon training? Here’s how to know,” is an indication of how seriously he takes competitive running.)
I also singled out some sections not for corrections but for patent ridicule. This is a good opportunity for me to practice shooting for brevity, because there are a lot of errors to correct. (I’m not counting as errors the persistent use of both “he” and “they”—mutually exclusive pronouns, by the way—to describe Calamia, which are incorrect and therefore banal, but hardly the biggest problem with this aspect of an ongoing extra-theatrical worldwide release sane people never anticipated: The Gender Carnival for the Patently Maladjusted and Narcissistic.)
Calamia, who uses both he and they pronouns, has been open on social media about taking testosterone since 2019 as part of his gender transition. (Calamia was assigned female at birth.)
Calamia has boasted for all the world to see about her testosterone use. She’s been coaching at a San Francisco high school as she’s been setting this brave example of better living through Wokish chemistry. And this section confirms that she is indeed female, since “was assigned female at birth” means “is female.” She has female sex organs, and is thus permanently ineligible for long-run scrotal-chafing, frostbite of the knob, and Spandex-induced moose knuckles.
some [transgender and “nonbinary” athletes] receive gender-affirming hormone treatments that have traditionally been banned from the sport.
Change “receive gender-affirming hormone treatments” to “get to take performance-enhancing drugs.”
Calamia said it never occurred to him that his use of doping agents would be viewed as doping, or that he would need an exemption to compete in a nonbinary division as a result.
I just changed that one within the quote itself.
[USADA] also asked for a complete medical history, including psychological records and medical notes, establishing a diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
Calamia said he believes that USADA’s checklist is unnecessarily invasive. By comparison, athletes who use medically-prescribed testosterone to treat hypogonadism, a condition where the body does not produce enough of the hormone, are not required to submit psychological records when seeking an exemption.
Also by comparison, athletes who use medically-prescribed testosterone to treat hypogonadism are males and not disputing this. There is, however, ample reason to question what might be going on in the mind of a woman who believes that achieving her “true self” somehow requires her to undergo deforming surgeries and take drugs because she rejects reality and doesn’t accept that she’s actually a woman.
Calamia decided against including all the items listed as essential in his application. “It feels like overstepping,” Calamia said.
Calamia lied to USADA, omitting the fact that she was taking testosterone. So much for #believewomen, although that one was obliterated into terminal forgettability c. 2020 with the advent of Wokism and the attendant ascendancy of the yammering, dick-wielding trannies.
Calamia quit in 2016 halfway through college. Later, he cut his hair and started to have questions about his own gender. In July 2019, a few months after he started testosterone therapy, Calamia had “top” surgery, which is a chest masculinization surgery that includes removal of breast tissue.
Replace everything after “had” to “a double mastectomy.”
In October 2019, Calamia ran the Chicago Marathon in the women’s division because the race did not yet have a nonbinary division. It was the last time he raced in the women’s category. Now he says he will only compete in races with nonbinary divisions.
She’s not allowed to compete as a woman while doping—not that she would be any good anyway—and at major marathons, she’s going to be around forty-five minutes behind the top elite men she could compete against if she desired. It therefore only makes sense that she’ll focus her efforts on races where she can gain even more sham recognition as a member of a semi-private parade of ostentatious weirdos.
Calamia said he does not know of anyone else in a similar situation as a nonbinary transmasculine runner competing at a high level in the nonbinary category.
Yeah, and that makes we wonder why there aren’t more blondes over 6’ 10” running sub-2:30:00 marathons. Maybe I should have identified as Taller back in the day. Also, Dean Karnazes is known for being the first person to do a lot of things he invented just so he could announce that he was the first person to do those things, and Karnazes’ veracity and credibility have suffered multiple noisy and defacing pings and dings over the years. I take every available opportunity to poison every conversational well with that clown-car-of-one’s name.
They were pushed toward inclusion by lifelong runners like Calamia, who didn’t feel represented when races asked them to register in either a male or female division.
People should really be asking themselves why well over 99.9 percent of human runners have no problem checking the “male” or “female” box on race-registration forms and feeling adequately “represented” as they do, yet this blustering hirsute chick does have a problem with this. Is the problem really with the “old” system, or is the real problem a small but perniciously motor-mouthed army of activist lunatics weaponizing the current BlackRock-enforced Wokeblown climate of cultural insanity and intentionally corrupting that system?
Calamia has also received support from Nikki Hiltz, a 28-year-old elite nonbinary runner who holds the American mile record in the women’s division in 4 minutes 16.35 seconds.
Nikki Hiltz is one of the worst influences on the sport of track and field to come along in a very long time, even if this doesn’t make her a roundly horrible person. She’s an insufferable idiot and a grifter, but she didn’t invent the Wokish game; she just waltzed into its welcoming, caressing, and demonically protective arms.
The thing to pay attention to here is the sheer incoherence: Soong is trying to get readers to accept that a woman who insists on being called “they” and holds the American mile record, and who is not allowed to use testosterone (but probably does), belongs in the same “nonbinary” category as a bearded lady who’s allowed to compete in the male division while doping and has undergone significant radical changes to her female anatomy and physiology.
And this omits the men who compete in the “nonbinary” divisions of these downgraded road races—with men, not surprisingly, making up the majority of most “nonbinary” divisions because everyone knows it’s easier to both qualify for events using women’s times for bigger races like the Boston Marathon that require proof-of-performance and win prizes and delirious accolades from obsequious harridans and scammers who rely on other tricks to extract unearned dough from the system, such as the ever-expanding, fart-powered, grievance-and-insult zeppelin known as Latoya Snell.
This is gaslighting at its finest and most transparent. As always, you are free to reject all of it out of hand.
Testosterone can be a lifesaving therapy for a transgender or nonbinary person, experts say.
Note that Soong is no longer talking about sports here, but wants readers to believe there is still a connection.
A recent study published in JAMA Network Open, found that early access to testosterone reduced gender dysphoria, depression and suicidal thoughts
The state-approved version of Gender Science is as reliable as its versions of Mask Science, Vaccine Science, Climate Science, BLM Science, and Uniparty Corruption Science. In short, the researchers involved tend to be transgender and thus mentally unstable themselves, and in any case are always highly motivated by some combination of funding incentives and disordered cognitive processes to lie in their studies.
It’s invariably easy for anyone who knows what he or she is talking about to debunk papers like those the WaPo and equally disposable New York Times are wont to cite. For example, Jesse Singal has been working tirelessly for years highlight the mistakes and examples of intentional data manipulation in such studies.
Calamia uses a weekly subcutaneous injection and said that his levels now are on the lower end of the “normal” range for cisgender men.
Delete “cisgender.” And some readers may not realize how astronomical the T-level gap between men and women is. The normal ranges:
Male: 300 to 1,000 nanograms per deciliter (ng/dL) or 10 to 35 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L)
Female: 15 to 70 ng/dL or 0.5 to 2.4 nmol/L
If Calamia’s T-levels are in the range of 10 nmol/L, she has about five to twenty times as much testosterone circulating in her blood as a normal woman. She could be doubling her risk of developing heart disease when she’s older, and then there are all those aforementioned health problems afflicting previously androgen-overloaded women athletes from former Iron Curtain countries.
Is all this risk really worth the reward of becoming, in the tormented mind of someone like Calamia, her “authentic self”?
Calamia has over 60,000 followers on Instagram and 41,000 followers on TikTok and works with brands including running apparel company Janji and Zappos and has had modeling gigs with Adidas and PUMA.
Translation: Calamia is a pure grifter. And people on the Internet have sick tastes.
“I realized I’m a runner, and I’m trans, and I’m not doing anything wrong,” he said. “I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing. Whatever the consequences of that may be, those consequences will ultimately expose a deeper issue that we can then work to fix.”
If Calamia knew that those consequences could include ruining her body in ways that spiral far beyond what she hopes to sculpt with chemicals and scalpels, and eventually developing cancer in parts of her she pretends are no longer inside her, would this change her calculus? Doubtful.
“I’m super relieved that USADA made the decision they did, but I wish there wasn’t this much suspense leading up to the ruling,” Espy said.
Awww! Poor bloke. They got the absurd result they wanted, but waiting for it was too stressful. So why put anyone through all these judgments?
Just let. Everyone. In.
Calamia hopes that after the Chicago Marathon, he will have an opportunity to sit down and talk with USADA officials about the TUE process. There’s a lot more left to be discussed, he said.
In a perfect world, these officials would print a copy of this post and read it to Calamia at these sit-downs. [Note to officials reading this out loud to Cal Calamia: Omit this paragraph from the narration.]
What more could this fine and furry lass want? As I mention often, nothing is ever enough with narcissists-on-a-roll like Calamia. Just when some Boomer race director is confident that the nutty concession he or she made last month was enough to silence the clamor from these bozos for a while, they come back and start demanding even more exclusions from the sport’s normal rules. In the name of inclusion, you understand.
Now, I would bet that not all “nonbinary” runners are happy with Calamia’s androgenic antics, even if none are likely to say so. What about men or women who want to compete as “nonbinary” runners, but can run 2:55 without doping? Would they be allowed to dope even though their genderless selves have testicles? And what if a “nonbinary” runner doesn’t want to take steroids because of the health risks and wants a fair playing field?
Assume the idea that “nonbinary” runners are simply neither male nor female is as true as people like Hiltz (who, again, races as a woman, and is probably also on the sauce) claim. This implies that if female “nonbinary” runners are allowed to juice at all, then male “nonbinary” runners should be allowed to used otherwise banned substances, too. Although Calamia’s serum T levels are allegedly monitored, these values shouldn’t matter, because “nonbinary” people have rendered their own physiology obsolete, and U.S.A. Track and Field (USATF) and multiple major road races have abetted and formally sanctioned the entire demented charade.
This would open the door to a spectacle the sport could sorely use: a 2:03 marathoner who is already microdosing, but declares himself “nonbinary” so he can get down to 2:00:30 and break the all-comers world record as a “nonbinary” runner. Please let this happen. Spread the word throughout East Africa, so that some guy there can do it, and Italy, so that some ancient needle-wielding fraudstrosity of an “agent” or “coach” like Renato Canova can benefit from any cash that flows from this glorious exploitation of a vulnerable loophole and thus agitate for it to happen.
Side note: Whatever Cal Calamia’s name was before, her current one reminds me of Roseanne Roseannadanna, a Saturday Night Live character from the 1970s played by Gilda Radner. Roseanne had her peccadilloes, too, but her brand of cultural static had a lot more charm than the Gender Carnival for the Patently Maladjusted and Narcissistic.
(Social share photo: Michelle Gustafson for The Washington Post.)