Tokyo Marathon to Recognize Non-Binary Runners Starting in 2025
- With Tokyo, all major marathons to have a non-binary category
- Business leaders have called on Japan to boost LGBTQ rights
Runners at the start of the Tokyo Marathon 2024 in March.
Photographer: Kimimasa Mayama/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
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The Tokyo Marathon is adding a non-binary category for runners from 2025, making it last of the six World Major Marathons to do so.
The marathon with a planned field of about 38,000 runners will set up non-gendered changing rooms and restrooms, while participant lists and records will include the non-binary descriptor. The Tokyo Marathon Foundation said in a statement posted Monday on its website that it “aims to be the most inclusive race in the world, respecting the diversity and identities of participants.”