Timothy LeDuc Is The First Openly Nonbinary Winter Olympian, And I'm Rooting So Hard For Them To Win The Gold

“There’s such an expectation that I feel pressured to fill all of the time as the ‘male’ pairs skater — I like to say the ‘lifting partner’ — but, you know, there is an expectation,” they said. “And so often, the story that we see told in pairs and ice dances, it’s a Romeo and Juliet story. It’s the man and woman in love. Or it’s this fragile girl, and the strong man comes in to save her, right?”