Posted on 02/11/2021 7:14:45 AM PST by Kaslin
Men who identify as women often have a distinct physiological advantage over their fellow female opponents that cannot be denied.
MADISON, Wis. — Sherry Mix puts in 10 to 15 hours a week training for elite-level mountain and fat-tire bike races in the region. The Verona, Wis. woman says it’s hard work but rewarding to the women who ride.
But as “equity” politics are further infused into just about every aspect of life, including competitive sports, cyclists like Mix are forced to compete on an unequal course. Last month, Mix finished third in a Snow Crown Fat Bike Series event in De Pere billed Fattyshack. The winner of the USA Cycling-sanctioned event was Kenzie Statz, a cyclist who was born male and now identifies as a transgender woman.
Statz beat the second-place finisher by about two minutes, and was about three minutes faster than Mix. But the transgender cyclist finished more than 10 minutes ahead of the next closest competitor.
Statz has been finishing in the money in a number of races. Before transitioning and competing in the women’s events, it appears Statz didn’t fare nearly as well in the men’s competitions.
Mix said Statz is a really nice person, and she has nothing against transgender people wanting to compete in a terrific sport. But Statz, like other men who identify as women, often have a distinct physiological advantage over their fellow female opponents that cannot be denied.
“We’re just trying to figure out what we can do. You get these guys actually training, they’re just naturally faster and stronger than women. It’s just science, how bodies work,” Mix said.
It seems USA Cycling is more interested in political correctness than science.
The Colorado-based organization that champions cycling from starting riders to world-class athletes, follows the International Olympic Committee guidelines on transgender athletes. IOC policies state that cyclists who transition from female to male are eligible to compete in any male category without restriction. Those who transition from male to female are eligible to compete in the female category if they:
— Have declared their identity is female. The declaration cannot be changed, for sporting purposes, for a minimum of four years.
— Demonstrate that their total testosterone level in serum has been below 10 nmol/L for at least 12 months prior to their first competition (with the requirement for any longer period to be based on a confidential case-by-case evaluation, considering whether 12 months is a sufficient length of time to minimize any advantage in women’s competition).
— Maintain total testosterone level in serum below 10 nmol/L throughout the period of desired eligibility to compete in the female category.
“Compliance with these conditions may be monitored by random or for cause testing. In the event of non-compliance, the athlete’s eligibility for female competition will be suspended for 12 months,” USA Cycling states on its website.
But there remains disagreement over the thorny issue of how much testosterone in trans women athletes is unfair. As The Guardian reported in 2019, plans to introduce stricter guidelines for transgender athletes for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo (scrubbed allegedly because of the pandemic) were stalled “because the whole subject is so politically charged and sensitive.”
Officials from USA Cycling did not return a call seeking comment.
A study released last month by the British Journal of Sports Medicine finds transgender men continue to have an athletic advantage over natural females even after a year on hormone therapy.
Mix’s story is just one example of an anti-science phenomenon happening across the country, now being enforced by the federal government. During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden vowed to use the Department of Education to investigate and address any violations of transgender students’ civil rights, including removing federal funding or risking legal action. Sure enough, one of President Biden’s first acts in office was to issue an executive order that, in part, demands transgender students be allowed to compete on opposite-sex sports teams.
A few weeks later, Montana’s American Civil Liberties Union chapter used Biden’s executive order to threaten the state’s federal funding if it passed legislation protecting women’s sports by banning men who identify as women from participating.
“I understand they’re [transgender athletes are] looking for a place to belong, but I don’t think putting them in the women’s category is the right answer,” Mix said.
She said other cyclists feel similarly, but they’re afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled bigots and the threat of losing their licenses to compete. USA Cycling-sanctioned races require a license to enter.
“People are scared to say anything. It’s deemed bullying,” Mix said. “They can tell you you can’t race. They can kick you out of a race. I could have my license taken away.”
It’s another twist in the left’s conflicted culture wars. The losers, critics say, are the women who have worked so hard to advance the rights of women to compete.
“Most of us are riding 10 hours a week, easily 15 hours a week in the summer. We train every day for this,” Mix said. “To have a guy come in and take that away, that’s why women fought so hard to protect our equal rights. It’s like taking those equal rights away.”
Instead of men’s and women’s sports division, make it an XX and XY division. Yes that leaves out a few genetic variations like XXY but they are a miniscule part of the population.
The agitators and revolutionaries tear down peaceful civil societies by proclaiming those societies are “unjust”. Through destruction and bloodshed they foment societal anarchy. And then when these agitators and revolutionary foot soldiers are no longer needed they are executed and wiped out so as to prevent them from agitating against those they've installed. And these useful idiots are shocked - shocked - that those they installed into power now destroy them.
Over and over the cycle goes.
There is a certain incredible level of passivity of women (feminine types as well as feminine RINO men) and so called “minorities” in that realm too... which makes me think they are not real minorities in the sense of those “ethnies” intent on preserving its own culture as any culture or sane minority would do.
The way the feminine tends to hate reality, like being explained how to pick up a wrench and put up lighting and pavement in the streets. As a result EVERYTHING has to be IMPORTED for them, including THINKING for them. Thus we now have feminine schizo freak men THEY eff’ing IMPORTED (like Chinese products and services now) in their sports telling them who is boss.
Way too many times I have harped on women having these “gay friends” fixing the technicalities for their Yotube channel or Tinder/Instagram follower account and profile making... gay friends they valued more than their “mansplaining” husbands in oedipal rebellion who objected to these pimps ho’int them and the kids.
Well, now they’ve had it, and circkets it is. No, we get more “Trump is bad” oedipal penis envy schizo “rebellion” on little things that are not important than on things that DO MATTER as an adult (and not as a schizo kid watching Disney channel or Nick Jr. watcher).
Oh, indeed, and in this case the cycle was pre-empted and coopted.
When we look at the way they tell black people they can “rebel” so long they commit abortion in series, it is obvious they have been pre-determined to be disposed of once the job is done of putting the oligarches up there.
The writing has long been on the wall, but acculturated schizophrenics who obsessively wear Air Jordan shoes and are glued to unimportant kid issues watching the disney Nick Jr. channel will not see that, and even attack you for “mansplaining” them as an unPC adult what this writing means.
The elites can psycho-patronize them putting them in McDonald clown suits and do it now in their face and they will not see it.
Okay. So if women are totally equal to men in all terms why is this a problem?
Women can be astronauts? Firefighters? Frontline combat soldiers? Women can be husbands? And fathers?
But now that we have “removed the sexist barrier” in everyplace imaginable, how can anyone object to “progress”?
Can’t figure out where to put the “/s”
Plus We don’t NEED sports competitions in the first place.
That is eerie!
Getting insane out there !
How did the loons get so much power?!?
“Midwives at a hospital have been told they can no longer use the term “breastfeeding”.
It’s part of a new strategy by the UK’s National Health Trust to be more inclusive to trans communities.
Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals (BSUH) NHS Trust in England is the first to introduce the policy.
Changes in terminology include no longer referring to “mothers” as a lone word but instead use “mothers or birthing parents”, and referring to “breastfeeding” as “breast or chest-feeding”.
Breast milk has to be referred to as “chest milk”, “human milk” or “milk from the feeding mother or parent” while “father” has been replaced with “parent” or “co-parent”.”
Healthcare workers were also provided examples of how to use the terms in sentences such as: “The nutrients in human milk are unique”.
The policy document claims gender identity “can be a source of oppression and health inequality”.
“We are consciously using the words ‘women’ and ‘people’ together to make it clear that we are committed to working on addressing health inequalities for all those who use our services,” it reads.
“As midwives and birth workers, we focus on improving access and health outcomes for marginalised and disadvantaged groups.
“Women are frequently disadvantaged in healthcare, as are trans and non-binary people. We also recognise that women of colour, particularly black women, experience significantly higher rates of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy.”
Yep. That’s about it. Registered Democrats.
Need more of this. Need exposure. Right now mainstream media is ignoring this. I say woman brought this on by acceptance. But it won’t change until every American is aware and right now maybe 1 percent knows of this.
She may just be charged. Lucky for her media is concentrating on other issues. However, they will find this quote in a few years when the transphobic mania happens.
As a metastatic prostate cancer patient, I can confidently say that one year on androgen deprivation therapy is not long enough. Four years on ADT would be long enough. At that point, no man would have a chance against a well-trained female cyclist.
Even then, I still oppose biological men being able to compete against women.
Gee, how about you guys, aka wanna-be-females, can compete against the females, as pseudo-women, yet you can’t claim the woman/female’s prize. Instead there needs to be divisions in the competition and a separate prize that the pseudo-woman receives as the winner of their division. This way natural-born women, born with XX are to be declared the winner of the natural-born female/woman division of the same race or game and be able to claim the prizes they are deserving of. {raspberry & an eyeroll
The women should be allowed to inspect the "plumbing" prior to the event.
If the tranny still has the plumbing hanging out, the women should be given a pair of pinking shears, and the opportunity to "equalize the competition".
If the transqueer doesn't want equality, leave the event.
If the plumbing has been corrected, check and see when "her last period occurred" and if there is no proof of periods, the transqueer is DQed.
XX will never equal XY in overall strength.
Follow the science.
OK, I believe in transmorgifigation.
This is the best of the day.
I just gotta keep "circling back".
“MOUNTAIN” racing in Wisconsin....??
IIRC, the tallest place in Wisconsin is Rib Mountain ski area...at just about 1510’ altitude.
Make a 3rd category-—TRANSGENDER along with women & men.
I think they mean “mountain bike and fat-tire bike races.”
Considering the majority of women voted for him, quite fair. They said so by voting for him.
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