MOSCOW, Jan 15 Two-time Olympic medalist, Russian figure skater Irina Slutskaya admitted that he is afraid to think about what might happen in the world and sports in the future after the precedent with the first non-binary athlete at the Winter Olympics. It was previously known that the US figure skater Timothy Leduc, who identifies himself as a gender that falls out of the binary, will go to the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games systems. He will be the first open non-binary athlete to compete at the Winter Olympics. «What I will never understand. It had to happen sooner or later in such conditions of promoting a new ethics in the United States. For the first time, an athlete who does not rank It turns out that this is called a non-binary athlete. American Timothy Leduc, who is paired with Ashley Kane-Gribble, announced that he is a non-binary person and asked to use the pronouns they/them when referring to him, «- Slutskaya wrote on her Instagram page. «During my sports career, this was impossible to imagine! There were male and female sports, the athletes themselves were strictly divided into two sexes. There were no rhythmic gymnasts in women's costumes either. I'm afraid to imagine what will happen in in the world and in sports, in particular, in 10-20 years with such propaganda. What do you think about it? Do you support such a trend? Or are you in the same horror as me? «, — added the former figure skater.
