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.
Trans perverts have brought women’s athletics to an end.
The latter.
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“Jonathan Bearden co-founded U.S. Trans National Women’s Cycling Team”
There’s a simple solution staring us in the face. Just have all the trannies compete on that team, not the Real Women’s Team. They would get super viewer ratings for a few races as people tune in to watch the freak show. Then they could slowly fade into oblivion and we’d be done with it.
Trannies happy, Real Women happy, Real Men happy. There is no down-side.
When you have more balls than Lance Armstrong, maybe you shouldn’t be in the women’s race.
Tennis and Golf that’s when this blows..maybe.
Why can’t the have a biological-women category and a separate transgender category? That would produce fair competitions.
If only Lance Armstrong knew all he had to do to cheat was identify as a woman...
That trans man on Jeopardy did well but isn’t the highest money winner. That person was pleasant and smart.
So angry and upset at real women being denied something they’ve trained & worked so hard for..
I don’t see the NOW Gang being too upset about it.
A loser who is also dishonorable, a liar, and a pervert.
They should be castrated with a rusty razor and left to bleed.
There’s another upside — that idiot VP at Bud Light would have the perfect venue for her advertising. She could not find a more receptive audience for her beer ads.
“Study Shows Men Are Better Women Than Women”, details at 11.
You know what? I’m done. I could GAF if women care so little as to just let it happen and continue to do nothing but whine, especially after what happened to Riley Gaines.
The left will march children out of class to protest fake science; I guess it’s not important enough to simply refuse to compete against ringers in drag (at a bare minimum).
What’s it gonna take, ladies???
What, it’s just not as important as suffrage? You even let the faqs take over the ERA. You want this as ‘women’s lib’? You got it.
If I was the parent/husband of an affected child/wife, the effects would have already made the news, but it would have been for naught - other than personal satisfaction - in the face of acquiescence.
Oh, and by the way: If you want our help (men), you only have to ask.
Footnote: To be clear, I’m mocking leftist women here...but the core question stands.
Why do we have to pander to the perverts at all?
They’re male. Let them honestly compete with the other men. Or go home and whack their peepees.
I don’t care.
On second thought ... until the WOMEN get up and start defending WOMEN’S athletics ... why the hell should I care? Let the trannies compete as women, turn women’s athetics into a complete joke, and reveal the ludicrous idiocy of faggotry and perversion that a majority of women voted for.
I respect Miss Gaines.
This is going to continue until real XX women wake up and stop voting Democrat.
Absolutely. She’s a champion. We’ll now see if she has the fortitude to see it through. If I was retired, I’d volunteer to be her security.
They don’t want ‘fair’ they want ‘dominance and submission’.................
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