Posted on 04/11/2023 5:57:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
Biological men are increasingly winning competitions against women in the female categories of cycling competitions across the world.
Women have lost out to male competitors in swimming, indoor track and weight lifting, among other sports. In perhaps the most highly publicized story of a transgender athlete, Lia Thomas, born William Thomas, began breaking records on the University of Pennsylvania women’s swim team after competing for men’s team for three years, ranking 462nd.
The realm of professional cycling tells a similar story, with biologically male racers swapping out mediocre careers on men’s teams for record-breaking careers on women and girls’ teams.
Jilian Bearden (born Jonathan Bearden), the co-founder of U.S. Trans National Women’s Cycling Team, explicitly admitted to holding a competitive advantage over female athletes. Bearden took first place in the women’s division of the U.S. Peleton at El Tour de Tucson in 2016.
“I went from 16 minutes to 26, 27, 28 minutes,” Bearden said according to The Denver Post. “I was like holy … Testosterone gives you this drive, this oomph, and I didn’t have that push.”
The cycling governing body Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) lowered the permitted levels of testosterone from 5 nmol/l to 2.5 nmol/l in 2022. A woman’s average strength, stamina and physique are all much lower than a biological male’s even after the latter undergoes testosterone suppression, according to the Sports Councils’ Equality Group.
The difference has shown on the track. A transgender mountain biker in New Zealand began competing as a woman a matter of weeks after competing on the men’s team, snagging the national mountain biking championship in Wanaka.
“If everyone’s not happy then maybe everyone’s not doing their best racing,” the biker, who goes by the name Kate Weatherly, said to The New Zealand Herald in 2018.
Rachel McKinnon, also a man, set the world record for women’s cycling while competing in the women’s 35-39 age category at the 2019 Masters Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester, England.
Austin Killips never raced at the elite level until joining the women’s team, and quickly racked up the trophies. He placed third at the Women Pro Race at the second day of the Really Rad Festival of Cyclocross and took first place in the female elite division at the Verge Northampton International Cyclocross in Massachusetts.
Tiffany Thomas dominated a New York City cycling race after taking up cycling in his 40s. Thomas won a top place in the cycling team LA Sweat against his teammates, who were all aged 32 and under.
Some sports organizations and governing bodies have taken steps to protect women’s sports from male competition. World Athletics voted in March to ban biological males from competing as women in athletic competitions.
“In these circumstances, the Council decided to prioritise fairness and the integrity of the female competition before inclusion,” World Athletics said in a press release.
"On August 27, 1976, the United States Tennis Association bars transgender athlete Renée Richards (formally Richard Raskind) from competing in the U.S. Open as a woman, stating he must pass a chromosomal test. Richards fails the test, sues the USTA and wins the right a year later to compete via a New York Supreme Court ruling."
No men playing in the WNBA. WHY?
I would think that, when there’s flexibility with your sex, there can be flexibility with sex.
When awards are ready to be handed out the REAL women winners should push the man off the podium and take their place. This madness will only end when women stand up to the fake pansy men who are stealign their awads, scholarships, contract, etc.
Men rule.😄😄
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Good one!
““Study Shows Men Are Better Women Than Women”, details at 11.”
Seems like even MEDIOCRE men are better than women.
LOL.!
“If everyone’s not happy then maybe everyone’s not doing their best racing,”
Arrogant POS cheating woman hating degenerate.
“Why can’t the have a biological-women category and a separate transgender category? That would produce fair competitions.”
That would be an admission that one can not become the opposite gender no matter what they do to their bodies.
“What, it’s just not as important as suffrage?”
More proof that the 19th amendment wasn’t a good idea.
Ironically it has made women’s life worse and it’s wussifying this country into oblivion.
This is 100% on women. If they wanted it to stop, it would. If no woman would compete against these mental-cases, it would be shown to be the farce that it is.
I could be mistaken, but I believe wholeheartedly that Griner person really is a dude so yeah there is (or at least was) one.
Not on the LPGA Tour, but getting close
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/culture/jay-maxson/2023/04/04/wpga-shuts-down-hot-twitter-account-after-man-wins-womens-golf
Just make a Freak League and pit the trannies vs the roid-users. Battle of the hormone-addled freaks!
Wow, I’d pay BIG bucks to watch that on pay per view! That would be better than any UFC match. Can they fight to the death?
Great point. Hadn’t thought of that.
No men playing in the WNBA”
Are you sure about that?
Yeah someone else said the same thing. I hadn’t thought of that. Brittany griner comes to mind. I wonder what ever happened to her?
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