More than 2,100 parkrunners and supporters have written to MPs urging the UK government to defend trans-inclusive community organisations after the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) threatened action against organisations like Parkrun.
You have to be a real piece of shit to go against ParkRun. I think it’s one of the most wholesome things around. Just a bunch of volunteers get together to encourage people to get out and exercise with absolutely no judgment and nothing but good vibes. Even on Xitter they’re getting torn to shreds for this.
Why is their segregation on a fun run at all? Don’t all people just… run together… for fun?
A part of what parkrun offers is the timing aspect - you get an official finishing time that gets registered and compared against your own historical times, against everyone else who finished that day, and against your category, which is your gender + age-bracket.
Yes, they really are this petty
And here I was thinking it was just a fun run in the park!
I think of it as a recurring low-stakes mini-race I can attend each Saturday. It’s good fun, I highly recommend it
I do hope parkrun tells them to go fuck themselves.
I’m not sure I entirely trust the Pink News to be truthful or accurate, which is why I stopped reading it.
It’s a run, for heaven’s sake! It’s an open air event in a public space where the Equality Act applies. I suspect this is click-bait rather than actual news.
