Posted on 03/31/2022 12:34:50 PM PDT by Morgana
Trans cyclist Emily Bridges has been barred from competing in a women's omnium race against Dame Laura Kenny this weekend.
Emily Bridges, 21, will not compete against five-time Olympic champion Dame Laura Kenny in the National Omnium Championships in Derby on Saturday.
It came as sport's international governing body the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) said the controversial cyclist was ineligible.
There has been backlash against the inclusion of Bridges, who was on the Great Britain Academy programme as a male rider called Zach Bridges and raced in men's events as recently as last month.
The trans woman began hormone therapy last year and was previously declared eligible to compete as a woman under British Cycling's policy as she lowered her testosterone to the required level.
British Cycling said today it recognised Bridges' 'disappointment' with UCI's decision that she couldn't take part under current guidelines.
It said: 'We acknowledge the decision of the UCI with regards to Emily’s participation, however we fully recognise her disappointment with today’s decision.
'Transgender and non-binary inclusion is bigger than one race and one athlete – it is a challenge for all elite sports.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Can sanity win?
One battle here.
Can it win the war?
I hope so.
If he still has his spoke then he’s a male cyclist. End of story.
Tour de farce.........................
“If he still has his spoke...”
I’d say “if he still has his kickstand”.
And he/she’d fight it all the way to the Supreme Court and Ketani whatshername wouldn’t know what gender Emily is because she’s not a biologist.
Just start a trans league for everything and be done with it.
They had better watch out. Slow Joe just may and f*rt in their general direction.
I’m so glad to see the Europeans tell our idiot government where they can shove their silly transwhatever ideas.
Whether he cuts off his penis or not, he is still a male. Just a mutilated male. You cannot transform a normal human male into a female.
I have been saying for years now: If women refused to participate in events a so-called trans participates, they could solve this issue in a matter of months.
Don’t mess with the Queen’s anointed. (Trott is her Maiden name fyi)
“ Honours and awards[edit]
Trott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to cycling[48][49] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours, also for services to cycling.[50] Both Laura and Jason Kenny received their CBEs on Tuesday 25 April 2017 at an Investiture in Buckingham Palace.[51]
Taken together, Laura and Jason Kenny won 12 Olympic gold medals, which places them among the most successful Olympic medalist families of all time.
She received an Honorary Degree from the University of Essex in 2013.[52]
In 2014, the former Grundy Park Leisure Centre in Cheshunt was renamed The Laura Trott Leisure Centre in her honour following a £4 million redevelopment. Trott attended the launch ahead of competing in stage four of the first Women’s Tour from Cheshunt to Welwyn Garden City.[53]
Kenny was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to cycling.[54] Her husband Jason was knighted in the same list, also for services to cycling.[55]”
My view, too.
Tranny phobia!
If you can transition once, why not daily depending on the upcoming copetition?
began hormone therapy last year and was previously declared eligible to compete as a woman under British Cycling's policy as she lowered her testosterone to the required level.
Male athletes are generally banned from taking performance changing drugs by governing bodies. Now governing bodies are requiring the use of performance changing drugs in order to "correct God's mistake" as they would view it.
They use to call them freak shows.
Even if he doesn’t have his spoke or his nuts, he’s still a male. Ask any of these so called medical experts if a soldier who gets his total junk blown off in battle is then medically considered to be a woman. Also ask them if that soldier can then get pregnant and mensturate. These a##holes have got to be stopped.
Let me see, if you’re born a male and you want to be female you’re going to have to deal with a few, ahhh, compromises. I don’t know where it fits in terms of the hierarchy but one compromise is you can’t compete against natural born females.
It seems a small price to pay.
Even if he doesn't (that is, had a Chopadickoffofme), he's STILL a male cyclist. His Y chromosomes don't just vanish, or magically change to X.
So, people are starting to take a stand for reality.
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