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Transgender cyclist Austin Killips wins women's Tour of the Gila – next stop Olympics?
Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | May 1, 2023 | Oliver Brown

Posted on 05/01/2023 11:52:50 AM PDT by grundle

Transgender cyclist Austin Killips wins Stage 5 Gila Monster to take home the overall victory at Tour of the Gila

In what has been described as a "Lia Thomas moment" for cycling, Austin Killips, a 27-year-old transgender rider, has won first prize for women at the Tour of the Gila, the premier road race in New Mexico.

It marked the most significant result yet for Killips, a trans-identifying biological male from Chicago, who also won a medal in women's cyclocross at the US National Championships and who is now tipped to challenge for a place at the Tour de France Femmes and at next summer's Paris Olympics.

This year's running of the Tour of the Gila marked the first time in the event's 36-year history that equal prize money had been offered, with a total purse of $35,350 (£28,145) in both the men's and women's races. Killips, who only took up cycling in 2019 before starting on hormone replacement therapy, earned almost £8,000 for finishing top of the women's general classification, plus an £800 bonus as "Queen of the Mountains".

"Austin is cycling's equivalent of Lia Thomas," Inga Thompson, a three-time US Olympian and five-time national road race champion, told The Telegraph. Thomas won a US women's collegiate title in swimming last year, in the 200-yard freestyle, having been ranked 554th in the country in the equivalent male category.

"This really highlights the issues that are happening to women in cycling," Thompson said. "We have more than 50 transgender women in the sport. And what's going on in the background is that women are just quietly walking away. They think, 'Why bother, if it's not fair?'"

(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...


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KEYWORDS: deathofthewest; hewon; postrealityworld; waronwomen
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1 posted on 05/01/2023 11:52:50 AM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Transgenders: Pussies with penises


2 posted on 05/01/2023 11:54:44 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: grundle

Why are these POSs everywhere?


3 posted on 05/01/2023 11:55:29 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: grundle

Upside down world.


4 posted on 05/01/2023 11:58:01 AM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: grundle

Insanity is in control. To cheer a man who claims to be a woman for winning in a sports competition, it is first necessary to deny what humans have agreed upon for thousands of years, that men have, on average, different physical strengths than women. This has been proven billions of times and there is no doubt about it.

Along came liberalism, and the established truths of the ages were thrown into the trash can.


5 posted on 05/01/2023 11:58:41 AM PDT by I want the USA back (No one is assigned sex at birth. One's sex is noted and recorded. My pronouns Haha, hehe, hoho, hoo )
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To: grundle

What an historic achievement!


6 posted on 05/01/2023 11:59:13 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: grundle

“next stop Olympics?”

1. The Olympics has been the goal all along regardless of sport.

2. The way to put a stop to this is to refuse to compete against them.......they wanna win in women’s sports so bad let ‘em compete alone.


7 posted on 05/01/2023 11:59:53 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ConservativeInPA

It’s about rubbing the noses of normal people in their LGBTQP dog droppings.


8 posted on 05/01/2023 11:59:56 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Transgenders — pussies without whiskers.


9 posted on 05/01/2023 12:00:22 PM PDT by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: grundle

Some observations. The few spectators at the finish line don’t seem to be excited about this “winner”. A would suspect a vast majority of people don’t support this nonsense (biological male competing in a female sport). But women in general aren’t making a big enough stink about it, so they get to watch their fellow women have their sports destroyed.


10 posted on 05/01/2023 12:03:27 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: grundle

We have pretended that women can be Rangers, Seals, firefighters, Marines, infantrymen, etc. When do we stop pretending?


11 posted on 05/01/2023 12:05:37 PM PDT by alternatives?
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To: ConservativeInPA

Because they crave attention and Democrat voting women allow it.


12 posted on 05/01/2023 12:06:09 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: grundle

More sickness.


13 posted on 05/01/2023 12:06:52 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: grundle
"We have more than 50 transgender women in the sport. And what's going on in the background is that women are just quietly walking away. They think, 'Why bother, if it's not fair?'" -- Inga Thompson, a three-time US Olympian and five-time national road race champion

Too bad all the women quietly walking away don't stand up and scream about this horrible injustice. Come ON, women. Men are stealing your womanhood and you are going to just sit there quietly and let it happen? You are getting cancelled either way, either by quitting and quietly walking away or by letting these MEN beat you in women's sports.

14 posted on 05/01/2023 12:06:55 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else…)
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To: grundle

rofl!


15 posted on 05/01/2023 12:07:53 PM PDT by Scarlett156 (My aluminum baseball bat keeps telling me it wants to talk to J3rry S3infeld. )
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To: Jan_Sobieski
To paraphrase SouthPark's General Disorder...

"The East Germans did it first"

16 posted on 05/01/2023 12:09:02 PM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: grundle
Call me cynical, but before I get all irate about the deliberate inequities involved, I'd like to know which women lost money and points because a cheating man was allowed to compete.

Second, these women who were cheated out of their prize. How do they vote? Which causes do they espouse? In any arena other than women's sports, do these women applaud and embrace the "transfreaks" society?

Because, if they do applaud trannies, sorry, I don't feel bad for them. That's poetic justice.

17 posted on 05/01/2023 12:11:50 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.." )
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To: nobody in particular
I wanna see them burn their bra!

on another note, sports competition can be reduced to 3 classifications...1) male 2) female 3) everything else (goulash)

let's these cross genders compete in the goulash category.

18 posted on 05/01/2023 12:19:27 PM PDT by SGCOS (not vaccinated for covid and never will be)
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To: grundle

Only the mentally ill accept these results.


19 posted on 05/01/2023 12:20:53 PM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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To: grundle
Why are they so deluded? A man enters an athletic competition for women and wins it. Does this person not have a brain? Is this person basically completely amoral? How does he justify his unfairness to women and girls? What satisfaction is there in this "accomplishment"?

20 posted on 05/01/2023 12:22:12 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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