Meet Cal Calamia, the nonbinary runner who just won the New York City Marathon
A post shared by Cal Calamia (@calcalamia)Calamia recently shared their story with Outsports. They spoke about being an NCAA Division I track and field athlete at St.
Louis University, while simultaneously struggling with their identity. “I was struggling. I didn’t have words for what I was feeling but I didn’t like it,” they said. “It affected my relationship with running.
It affected everything, not being right with my identity and not being right with my gender.”The San Francisco resident came out as nonbinary transmasculine in 2018, and their place in the world started to make more sense.
The following year, Calamia underwent “top” surgery, which removes breast tissue. Finally, they felt free.“It was super euphoric because I could run around with just shorts and I felt so like myself,” Calamia told The Washington Post.
