GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN"
You and your tribal anarchists got a problem with that?
Posted on 08/08/2017 5:45:11 PM PDT by BBell
Jillian Bearden, first female transgender cyclist to ride in a pro U.S. peloton, emerges as beacon for other trans athletes
303Cycling’s Nicole Odell caught up with Jillian Bearden last year, telling her story as a transgendered athlete. Read those stories here:
SALIDA — Less than three years into her transition from Jonathan to Jillian, pro cyclist Jillian Bearden has once again found serenity on her bike. Now, using studies and stats collected during her long career, she’s helping prove that transgender athletes change more than their names, they change their biology.
Bearden has watched her performance ebb since beginning hormone-replacement therapy in 2015. As testosterone fades and estrogen grows, her fastest times on favorite climbs have slipped into what she calls “the gutter.”
It was tough realizing her hard-earned power, developed over more than a decade of elite-level bike racing, was waning.
“I went from 16 minutes to 26, 27, 28 minutes,” she said of her times on her those climbs. “I was like holy … Testosterone gives you this drive, this oomph, and I didn’t have that push. My muscles looked fairly big, but I did not have that push to drive that extra energy. I had good days and really, really bad days. But at the end of it all, I always know that I won the biggest race of all. I am here on planet Earth with my family and it doesn’t really matter how slow I am. I’ve already won.”
On Thursday, when Bearden saddles up with the world’s best female cyclists for the Colorado Classic in her hometown of Colorado Springs, she will be the first transwoman to race with a pro peloton in the United States. Thanks to recently relaxed International Olympic Committee rules governing transgender athletes, and USA Cycling’s embrace of those new rules, Bearden has become a beacon for transathletes across the globe.
Bearden is basking in a light that saved her life. In late 2014, she was driving in the dark and pushed her car to 90 mph. She turned up her favorite tune and prepared to whip the steering wheel and end it all. The darkness was all-consuming, eclipsing all the outward trimmings of success: a family, a home, a job and elite-level talent on a bike.
But just before that fateful yank, Bearden said she felt “an angelic light” penetrate her overwhelming misery. Maybe it was from her mom. Or her brother, who had taken his life almost a decade earlier.
“Whatever it was, that presence brought me out and the message to me was ‘Tell your mom. Just tell your mom,’ ” Jillian said.
Jillian told her mom. Then she told her spouse. And her kids. And now she’s telling the world, that since her birth, despite the misplaced hardware and the name Jonathan, she is a woman. It’s not just that she always wanted to be a woman. She is a woman.
You ever been an athlete . . . without the federal government and the feminists running things to punish the boys?
Ever wonder why men are withdrawing from our new culture?
{ shrug }
Played H.S. and College Sports. Got a dresser full of triathlon T-shirts... some > 30 years old.
Never felt “punished”.
And you didn’t answer the question.
Maybe they can get Lance Armstrong to enter the event as well while they’re at it.
>>Ever wonder why men are withdrawing from our new culture?
Because they were raised/indoctrinated to be neutered poodles?
Calm down. You like the government running your sports for the benefit of girls. You’re used to it now, just as they planned. You’re mad, really mad, at me for . . . what?
So you’ve never been an athlete?
I realize you never answered the question.
I guess, in your world, you win something?
>>Calm down.
I’m quite calm when recognizing the fact that males are being indoctrinated in this culture to be neutered poodles.
I never felt punished when I was participating in XY sports and XX humans had the same opportunity.
Maybe you’re projecting your own un-calmness and “punishment” for whatever.
>>You’re mad, really mad, at me
Because I asked if you’d ever been an athlete?
It’s a perfectly reasonable question to explore how informed your opinion is, or isn’t. And asking it doesn’t mean I’m “mad” at you.
>>this has nothing to do with athletes
Tell that to the parents of prospective XX college athletes who’ll be “competing” with XY abominators of nature like Jillian Bearden and HIS ilk.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/27/us/texas-transgender-wrestler-trnd-hold/index.html
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/03/high-school-boy-wins-all-state-honors-in-girls-track-and-field/
Etc etc.
What you need is more government control, lol.
A Republic is a system of government characterized by the Rule of Law.
You’re free to move to Somalia if feudal/tribal anarchy is more your speed.
LOL.
From what I call tell, Somalia has moved here . . . which is good for you as they love big government organized activities.
You and your tribal anarchists got a problem with that?
The women have fought for years to make their sport just as important as the men’s sport. And now one man/woman steps in and steals the prize . . . and the poor women are not allowed to say anything due to political correctness.It’s the perfect torment, lol.
Asking if you’be ever been an athlete is “running though the bushes screaming”.
SMH.
Naked, you forgot naked.
I like my point. That’s why I made it.
I don’t go naked in the bushes, but if I did I’d be as calm and quiet as a Hindu cow.
YMMV!
And I like the point of the authors of the Declaration of Independence better than yours.
You missed the point.
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