Posted on 05/26/2023 6:00:58 AM PDT by RandFan
British Cycling is to ban transgender women from the female category of its competitions following a nine-month review and consultation.
Under a new participation policy that the governing body said was "predicated on fairness", such athletes will compete in an 'open category' with men.
Female races will be "for those whose sex was assigned female at birth".
The changes will prevent riders such as Emily Bridges potentially being part of the British women's team.
Last year Bridges - the country's highest-profile transgender cyclist - was stopped from competing in her first elite women's race by the UCI, cycling's world federation, despite meeting the rules at the time.
Bridges reacted to the announcement with a statement on social media, calling the change a "violent act" by a "failed organisation" that was "controlling" the conversation on transgender inclusion.
She added that the racing scene was "dying under its watch" and that British Cycling was engaged in "culture wars".
British Cycling's policy had allowed transgender women to take part in elite female events if they met testosterone-based regulations.
But with the governing body at the heart of the debate over balancing inclusion with fairness, its regulations were suspended amid mounting controversy about Bridges and a review was launched.
"Research studies indicate that even with the suppression of testosterone, transgender women who transition post-puberty retain a performance advantage," said British Cycling.
"Our aim in creating our policies has always been to advance and promote equality, diversity and inclusion, while at the same time prioritising fairness of competition.
"We recognise the impact the suspension of our policy has had on trans and non-binary people, and we are sorry for the uncertainty and upset that many have felt during this period."
Transgender women will be able to participate in non-competitive recreational and community cycling without restriction.
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This is interesting and could be used by other sporting bodies.
If Cycling is this important to protect, then the Brits should give some thought to the effects of replacing the men in their military with females.
You just wait. Some transsexual is going to claim a human rights violation, and appeal this to some court. And the transsexual will win.
As for the human rights of real women, those rights don’t matter.
Kudos for them. All this crap is about is protecting male athletes who are too weak to compete against other males so they declare themselves to be females. Since when does a few percent of the world’s population get to decide how the rest of the world should behave?
It's one thing to have society sponsor sporting events now and then, but paying huge salaries to athletes, trashing something like the Olympic ideals to allow professionals into amateur games, spending public money to build sport stadiums, pretending that Lia Thomas is a girl, and so on; maybe it's time to downplay the importance of sports in general.
Gambling is keeping professional sports afloat.
Trannies need their own league.
Perfectly stated simple logic.
These degenerates need to be driven back underground
Gender/sex isn’t “assigned at birth” as if there was a committee that said this one will be a musician and this one a bricklayer and this one a lazy no good. It is determined at the moment of conception with either an XX or XY chromosome. Until recent times the sex was only discovered at birth.
It’s not good enough, though. The Trannies will just push for no sex to be “assigned” at birth. The competition criteria needs to be based on DNA.
Agree. The Trannies started this “assigned at birth” nonsense. We must not give an inch when they use Orwellian tactics to change language.
That happened quite a while ago. Think gay marriage.
I don't watch sports, but I might watch that.
Think of the cat fights.
Cue the “drag races” puns.
“We must not give an inch when they use Orwellian tactics to change language.”
Headline writing would be a good place to start: Brit cycling to ban cross-dressing men from competing in female category
Transgender works out like breeder mules does.
Yeah, I still remember when the gays started coming out of their closets all they said they wanted was to enjoy their perverted life style in private. Now they want to rule the country.
In other words, back to normal.
Easy way to solve this. Make three categories, and let people compete where applicable:
Male
Female
Transvestite
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