A 6’5″ male Trinity student came second in a women’s 5km race after putting his name down as female, in an effort to expose the absurdity of the college’s gender policies.
Con Óg Ó Laoghaire, 22, applied to run in the annual race after he was inspired by male rapper Zuby, who broke a female weightlifting record as a way of demonstrating the unfair advantage that male-born transgender athletes enjoy in women’s sports.
Rapper Zuby identifies as female to smash weightlifting record https://t.co/oMs60ylKol
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) March 3, 2019
“My main motivation was Zuby, who smashed the British women’s deadlift,” Con said. “I wanted to make a point.”
Ó Laoghaire, who is 6 foot 5 inches tall, said getting into the contest was easy.
“I registered online and clicked a box saying I was female. When I came to collect my race number from the Trinity Sports Centre, the lady there said “So you’re male?” as she went to make an adjustment to her spreadsheet. In a slightly triggered tone I said “No, I am female”, and that solved the matter.
“Seeing as it was a once off I don’t think Trinity Sport would risk incurring the wrath of the woke in their very heartland.”
2019: I tried to make a point of transexuals having an unfair advantage in women's sport .. but got rekt pic.twitter.com/02WNu6OeCV
— Con Óg Ó Laoghaire (@ConOg_OL) February 11, 2021
After winning 2nd place in the race, Ó’Laoghaire said the crowd and other athletes had mixed reactions.
“When I emerged from the crowd of runners in the Pavilion Bar to retrieve the ladies #2 medal, I had never seen a place so quiet with that many people in it. I think some people were puzzled, some were amused, some were stunned. But mostly, people were all of those at once.”
“I did a bit of running before college, although at the time of the race I was more interested in guzzling protein shakes and cans of Tesco lager.”
Did feel pretty bad out taking the medal haha pic.twitter.com/wsk7j0HuSo
— Con Óg Ó Laoghaire (@ConOg_OL) February 11, 2021
O’Laoghaire is a member of the eurosceptic Irish Freedom Party, and contested the 2020 General Elections in the Dun Laoghaire constituency.
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