Move Them Doggies Out.

You will never guess where a trans person showed up… the Iditarod.

Meet Quince Mountain, the Iditarod's first transgender dog musher
Along with his 14 dogs, Mountain is competing in the 1,000-mile sled race through the Alaskan wilderness. He expects to finish in 12 days.
NBC Out News
By Julie Compton
March 9, 2020

“Nobody really knows out there who I am,” Quince Mountain, the first openly transgender athlete to compete in the Iditarod, told NBC News just days before the “last great race” commenced. The famed annual dog sled event, which started in Anchorage over the weekend, will wind through 1,000 miles of Alaskan wilderness and end in the small village of Nome on the state’s western coast.

To the villagers along the Iditarod’s remote, often sunless trails, Mountain is just another musher on a sled helmed by 14 dogs. And the dogs? “The dogs don’t care,” he said of his trans identity. They just want to run — and they’ll likely be doing so for nearly two weeks straight.
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“I’m in a sport where I’m wearing a big parka, you know, most people didn’t even know I was trans,” he said of his life before “Naked and Afraid.”

I cannot even imagine what it is like to be in a dogsled race for 12 days and a 1000 miles.

Mountain said his goal isn’t to be the first rookie to cross the finish line this year or even the first — and only — transgender athlete to complete the Iditarod. Instead, he said it’s all about his canine teammates: Will he be able to protect them along one of the most punishing terrains on earth, in wind speeds of 60 to 100 miles in hour, and still make it to Nome?

“That’s the question,” he said. “My goal is really to just do as well as I can with my dogs.”

With trans athletes in the news this is one trans athlete that is blazing his own trail.