Gender Inclusive Racing with Cal Calamia

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🗓️ 18 April 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Cal Calamia has been a runner their entire life, but in 2018, their relationship with the sport changed when Cal came out as trans non-binary. Most races in the US only have two gender categories, men and women, and Cal doesn't fit in either one. In an effort to make space for themself and other non-binary athletes, Cal has become an advocate for gender inclusivity and races across the US.

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0:00.0	Non-binary runners having their own category doesn't take anything away from any other runner.
0:07.1	It just makes more people happy and it allows more people to connect with themselves and with running and we all want to experience the joy of running together.
0:19.8	Cal Calamia has been a runner their entire life, but in 2018 their relationship with the sport changed when Cal came out as trans non-binary.
0:30.5	Most races only have two gender categories, men and women, and Cal doesn't fit in either one.
0:37.4	In an effort to make space for themselves and other non-binary athletes, Cal has become an advocate for gender inclusivity and races across the U.S.
0:47.2	I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living an REI co-op studios production.
0:54.2	Cal uses he or they pronouns and we'll be using they them pronouns throughout this episode.
1:00.4	Cal Calamia is a teacher, a poet, a student and they're at the top of their running game too.
1:08.4	Cal is competitive by nature constantly pushing themselves to achieve better times.
1:14.2	Last year Cal made history as the first ever winner of the non-binary categories and two races in the Bay area.
1:21.4	They're fast. They finished the San Francisco marathon in three hours flat.
1:26.2	Cal Calamia, welcome to wild ideas worth living.
1:32.1	I'm so stoked to be here. Thank you for having me.
1:34.9	You're always naturally good at running, weren't you?
1:37.9	Yeah, I was just always running in general.
1:41.3	I used to kind of bother like aunts and uncles at family parties and invite them to play run around with me.
1:48.6	And they'd be like, what do you mean? Play run around and I was like, you're run around.
1:52.8	So everyone tells that story about me as a little kid just like wanting to move and like having
1:58.0	all this energy and just wanting to expend it. And then when I started playing soccer and kindergarten,
2:04.4	we would run as a punishment, you know, through elementary school and I loved it.
2:08.8	And when I was in this sort of like in-between space between elementary school and middle school,
2:14.5	the upper middle school kids came in to the cafeteria during lunch and kind of taught us
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