Rachel McKinnon story has made the Daily Mail

It feels like gaslighting on a massive scale

I think one competitor Sarah Fader who made the final with a faster time pulled out.

www.velonews.com/2018/10/news/commentary-the-complicated-case-of-transgender-cyclist-dr-rachel-mckinnon_480285

I can’t understand why any of the women competitors agreed to race against a bloke. Whatever his current testosterone level, he has a male cardiac output, male size lungs and male muscle bulk. He’s basically cheating by claiming to “identify as” or “feel like” a woman in order to have an unfair advantage in an event he should never have been allowed to enter. His body is still totally bloody male, whatever his delusions or “gender feelz” say.
If this is allowed to continue, it’s the death of women’s sport in every single area of competition. Can you imagine the next fucking Olympics? It will be men’s events and er... men pretending to be women’s events.
Real women won’t get a bloody look in.

Callmejudith
It's the first time I've seen the video linked to in the article.

Ohmigod I hadn't noticed it until you posted about it. Big fucking man striding to the podium and struggling to get the winner's jersey on over the big man's shoulders and chest.

And a grovelling apology wasn't good enough for him, he still had to put the boot in.

Oh no i don't mean to give the impression that i was criticising her merry

Really sorry if thats how it reads (which is ironic) i just think its dreadful that she needed to d that

All evidence points to them being a bad sport Rodger, in all senses of the word!

McKinnon responded to that tweet by refusing to accept the apology...

I read that as somebody deciding that getting into a feud with McKinnon will be time consuming and pointless when no rules were broken. More productive to explain why the rules are unfair and fight for change. I think she is gracefully taking the high road.

I can't see one comment supporting McKinnon's "win". The public are not having any of this.

This

(Hopefully )

Oh poopy

Should have taken a photo...give me a sec

merry

Its was this bit i had a problem with

i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/10/20/05/5220724-6296975-image-a-59_1540011549390.jpg

and then has to issue a grovelling apology due to a back lash

I think it was more that she could see that there was no point in pursuing the argument on social media. The problem is the rules.

If you compete you accept the rules, otherwise, don't compete. I can only imagine what she had to go through in her life to be where she is now, how hard it is to fit in.

Helping someone to "fit in" is no reason to destroy sports for women.

And besides, this is another myth perpetuated by the trans cult isn't it, that it's oh so veh hard.

So this Mckinnon, decides to fulfil his wildest sexual fantasy of portraying himself as a woman full time. Realises he could win a bunch of gold medals and break world records in the process.

What a tough, tough journey.

McKinnon doesn’t seem to realise that there really is very little difference between people who have different levels of pigmentation in their skin, beyond the colour of their skin, so it isn’t comparable at all.

Gah, picture missing.

The difference in height is a good visual indicator of the physical advantage men have over women but it doesn’t show the magnitude of the differences in testosterone levels.

Men have twenty times as much as women so we are really talking about a difference in scale like this.

I think the non-apology she released is fair enough. She's saying sorry to McKinnon but still saying she's unhappy with the rules and working with a group to get them changed. She's done as much as she can without looking like a bitter, sore loser.

It's the first time I've seen the video linked to in the article. Makes it even more obvious. The Mail know exactly what they're doing with this one.

Aspie but that never happens........

I think the forced apology is the worst part. It’s like having to respect the pronouns of some thug who punched you.

I wonder who leaned on the third placed woman to make her apology?

I wish the tabloids had picked up more on Pip Bunce.

I agree, but Pips Bunce, to a casual observer is slightly comedic. Even his name Pips Bunce, has comedy value.

Rachel McKinnon on the other hand is the personification of trans entitlement in all its competitive glory . And the photographic evidence of physical advantage is undeniable.

Obvious man is obvious.

Im just so angry

The fact that the third placed competitor makes a comment anout how unfair it is and then has to issue a grovelling apology due to a back lash

Really beyond angry,