By The FirstA 54-year-old transgender personal trainer defeated more than 14,000 women at the London Marathon this week, sparking outrage on both sides of the Atlantic.
From the NY POST:
Transgender runner Glenique Frank is offering to return her London Marathon finisher’s medal over the outrage caused by her beating nearly 14,000 women in the female category.
“If they want me to give my medal back, I’ll say, ‘OK, fine. No problem,’” the 54-year-old personal trainer exclusively told The Post of the unintended outrage Sunday’s run sparked.
“If they really think I’ve stolen the place [of a female runner], I don’t mind giving the medal back, because I’ll run again next year for charity.
“But I don’t want to apologize, because I didn’t do anything wrong,” Frank stated firmly — saying she was only sorry for “upsetting” her critics, who she maintained were mostly “haters.”
“They’re angry because they’re saying that one of 14,000 women behind me could have had my place. Really? I did [the race in] 4 hours 11 minutes. There’s lots of women that beat me,” noted Frank, who came in 6,159th place in the female category.
