Timothy LeDuc and their partner, Ashley Cain-Gribble, are challenging figure skating’s traditional gender stereotypes. LeDuc could become the first out nonbinary person to compete in the Winter Olympics.
On Thursday, LeDuc, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, and their partner, Ashley Cain-Gribble, will compete in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships with the hope of securing a spot on Team USA for the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing in February.LeDuc, 31, is no stranger to historic firsts — they were the first openly gay athlete to win gold in a U.S.
Then, in 2016, LeDuc found their current skating partner, Cain-Gribble, who accepted them and celebrated their nontraditional partnership. “I don’t think Ashley was really ever interested in being the fragile girl,” LeDuc said. “She’s such a powerful, amazing athlete. So for her, when I kind of came to her and said, ‘You know, I don’t really want to do this romantic style. It doesn’t really seem like us,’ she was like, ‘Heck yeah, I’m good with that.’”
They said their parents are now supportive and were accepting when they came out as nonbinary at 28. But the figure skating world remains rigid in its traditional gender expectations for athletes, LeDuc said, and that’s something they are trying to help change.
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