Posted on 05/06/2023 9:08:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body for cycling, may revise its transgender athlete policy days after it defended the regulations when a male-bodied athlete won a women’s race.
Townhall covered this week how UCI issued a statement defending its policy allowing male athletes to compete against women. This came after Austin Killips, 27-year-old a biological male, took home the overall win in the Tour of the Gila race in New Mexico this week.
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“The UCI acknowledges that transgender athletes may wish to compete in accordance with their gender identity,” the statement said, according to NBC News. “The UCI rules are based on the latest scientific knowledge and have been applied in a consistent manner. The UCI continues to follow the evolution of scientific findings and may change its rules in the future as scientific knowledge evolves.”
The parameters for male-bodied athletes to compete in women’s events includes the maximum permitted plasma testosterone level to 2.5 nanomoles per liter and extending the transition period to 24 months.
Killips began racing in 2019, which Townhall covered, and reportedly began hormone replacement therapy the same year. He may now move on to a spot at the Tour de France or the Paris Olympics.
On Thursday, the organization came forward and said it would “analyze the current situation” and revisit its trans athlete policy. A new decision is anticipated in August, according to the New York Post.
“The UCI’s objective remains the same: to take into consideration, in the context of the evolution of our society, the desire of transgender athletes to practice cycling,” the organization reportedly said. “The UCI also hears the voices of female athletes and their concerns about an equal playing field for competitors, and will take into account all elements, including the evolution of scientific knowledge.”
"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 after Killips won this week.
"This really highlights the issues that are happening to women in cycling," Thompson added. "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?'"
I may think that’s a good thing.
So, they allow men to compete in women’s races, but ban you if you take Sudafed or Meldonium? Really?
And I wish I was 6'-4" solid muscle and I wish I was a multi-billionaire and I wish that the USA was purged of communists and Democrats, but we don't always get our wishes.
Why should the freaks get THEIR wishes when REAL WOMEN area getting screwed out of their wishes (and hard work) by MEN?
This whole this is utterly absurd beyond belief. I hope the nation regains it senses and puts the freaks back in the closet where they belong.
“”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?’”
Sounds like these women need to learn to CYCLE HARDER. Either that, or learn to STAND UP FOR YOURSELVES, since us men are SPENT - we’re through fighting Leftists for our own causes, much less your causes. Time to step it up babes - or kiss your precious Title 9 goodbye.
These lunatics overplayed their hand. They got what they wanted and this will quickly cause the public to see clearly how insane these people are. This will be the end of them.
Had they just kept to sterilizing and mutilating kids they’d have managed to fool people longer.
They should walk away but it shouldn’t be quiet. They should get to the starting line and stay thete when the gun goes off. Then walk away.
Make this rule: If a person born a biological male wishes to compete in women’s sports, then he/she must not have male genitalia.
Brilliant!! And do it over and over and over again!
Headline writer missed a prime opportunity to use “backpedal”...
“...when a male-bodied athlete won a women’s race.”
Trans women should be called Dick Chicks, while Trans men should be called Chick Dicks.
Yep. Send a message.
If they waited a half hour, and then all the women started themselves with an official timer that would be cool, too.
But some fake woman would learn of it and try to crash it the second time, maybe the first time.
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