Women’s cycling now to be decimated/ women silenced

@Nomoreusernames1244 - just a slight update to your post:

NGBs are audited - both internal audit and by UKSport and Sport England/Scotland/Wales. They also have to complete an annual assurance process and are scored on this. Funding is ringfenced - UK Sport funding goes to the performance programme, Sport Council funding goes to participation programmes. BC membership income mainly goes on insurance for grass roots racing. Salaries are split between various bits depending on the staff role. They also get income (either cash or value in kind goods) from sponsors. As far as I remember athletes are given their funding grants from UKS. Funding is means tested. If they earn over a certain amount from personal sponsorship (Eg Laura Kenny becoming the face of Ride London, for example) then she won’t be lottery funded. Sports have to report to funders quarterly - participation figures or race results. BC also have an AGM where councillors from the regions (the real grass roots) approve the annual report and accounts, appoint auditors and accountants, and question the board of directors and management team. It can get lively - not everyone is of the same opinion. Different genders, home countries, different disciplines etc all make for a complicated sport. This has been an almighty fuck up and no doubt will be brought up at the next AGM towards the end of the year.

Great ratio replies to this British Cycling's tweet

Sean Ingles (The Guardian) reporting that it’s a technicality as Bridges needs to see out the term of their UCI registration before it can be changed, and that there was talk of a boycott by GB women.

Oh and as to the original point- it is about medals. The more medals, the more money. It’s that simple.

Cynically I wonder if they think it will help the medal tally and therefore government funding

Lottery funding for sports has gone from it’s original plan of providing a living for adult athletes so they didn't need to work and could focus on training full time, to a means of controlling athletes and everyone involved.

Firstly I will make the point that as far as I can see, there are no audits of how NGB’s spend these millions, and no requirement to publish detailed accounts. As far as I can tell they have free rein on how and where the money goes.

Secondly that money is often used to control athletes. This is their income, remember, take that away and they have no money for food, bills, rent, let alone training and competing. Do x or y, or lose your funding, isn’t uncommon.

Ngb’s also have total control over who they fund. If they don’t like you, or for whatever reason don’t want you selected, they just don’t fund you. Results don’t matter. They can fully fund a 12 year old, and not a 21 year old who is out there winning races.

There are athletes who’ve refused funding because of the control it gives the NGB. But if you’re a young athlete with big dreams this may be your only shot, and speaking out could get that funding removed, and you deselected from the GB programme.

So I completely understand why women aren’t speaking up. They risk their livelihoods as well as their sporting career.

YES!!!!!

[quote Dimpsey]British cycling statement just released. Emily not going to be allowed to participate: www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20220330-British-Cycling-calls-for-coalition-to-address-transgender--and-non-binary-participation-in-elite-sports-0[/quote]
That helps explains why certain Twitter accounts suddenly went private.

Plus maybe having delusions shattered and discovering that the vast majority of people in the UK are not supportive of males in women’s sport.

That is such a weasely statement! Pass the buck to UCI on Emily Bridges (so they can claim to support trans inclusion but don’t have to face the public outcry), fail to use the word “woman” even once, call for a coalition so you can pass the buck (again) and pretend you’ve never even heard of the Sport Councils’ Equality Group or their guidance and evidence.

Gobshites (as my granny would say).

I am pleased for the women athletes competing this weekend though.

This is the only possible, fair and equal solution.

Gender is not sex. Sex is a fixed, unchanging fact, and those of that sex require sex based rights, spaces and sports .

New TQ+ categories are an option. Making male categories of sport inclusive of all males is also an option given all the fascination with 'can we make this about size, weight, testosterone levels'.

Male people cannot come into female sports without destroying female sports and removing that opportunity from the entire female half of the human race. There will be no impact of any kind upon male sports however, never mind an equal one. What's 'fair' about that?

[quote Dimpsey]British cycling statement just released. Emily not going to be allowed to participate: www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20220330-British-Cycling-calls-for-coalition-to-address-transgender--and-non-binary-participation-in-elite-sports-0[/quote]
That has the air of a forced hostage statement, but I'm glad they caved to the pressure. Laura Kenny being beaten would have caused uproar.

twitter.com/unherd/status/1509221580097957898?t=P7yzgRie61PDiqBGare0mg&s=19

This looks interesting as well.

"'When it comes to sport, it should be about sex rather than gender, and sex should be based on your biological sex'.

Health Secretary @sajidjavid shares his thoughts on trans athletes with @freddiesayers. Full interview out tomorrow "

[quote Dimpsey]British cycling statement just released. Emily not going to be allowed to participate: www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20220330-British-Cycling-calls-for-coalition-to-address-transgender--and-non-binary-participation-in-elite-sports-0[/quote]
Wow!

But i do agree the sexism of transmens careers ending where transwomen careers flourish needs to be explored.

'Bridges won't be competing because we got a slap on the wrist. Blah blah blah. Filler'

Wankers

faux indignant waffle, no less!

That's a start, but I'm not seeing any commitment to protecting WOMEN'S sport in that spiel of waffle.

Encouraging news. This should put the brakes on and give time to reassess.

British cycling statement just released. Emily not going to be allowed to participate: www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20220330-British-Cycling-calls-for-coalition-to-address-transgender--and-non-binary-participation-in-elite-sports-0

@Jessica747

"there's literally one, yall are really good at making mountains out of molehills, there's o n e"

Other posters have already explained why o n e isn't the point and why o n e does matter.

But here's a link to a list of all the women who have lost places in competition because they were competing against a trans woman. It isn't just o n e.

shewon.org/?fbclid=IwAR39aBrto15A2HKMreW3hhbIBmjg_MPRcYdpdTXDPZbpiFe-EZIJKGe4INE

@WinterTrees

Raised in the HoC. (By a Labour MP, astonishingly. Thank you Tonia Antoniazzi)

twitter.com/anyabike/status/1509129787503259653

Thank you for letting us know. I watched the HoC clip you posted. I have written to thank her. She was clever, putting it all in legal terms that would be hard to shout transphobe about. Kemi Badenoch backed her up and said she would look into it.

It is always straight out male supremacism: that male people are more important, matter, their wishes and feelings must trump even the basic access to life and safety of females. While trying to tell you at the same time that sex isn't a thing.

It is not a TQ+ issue. It is a wholly sex based issue.

The thing that strikes me is that an elite male athlete can take female hormones and change sex categories and carry on with their career. There is no option for female athletes to take hormones and change categories and be competitive. If they 'transition' their career is over.

Surely even even the trans movement can see this is blatant sexism and inequality.

Sadly, it will take more and more of them.

Mara Yamauchi has been very clear as well for a while.

Interestingly, a few more female athletes have started to speak up like Sharron Davies and Martina Navratilova. Today on twitter, Ellie Baker (800m runner) and Sally Gunnell (former Olympic gold medallist in the 400m hurdles) have both spoken out against this. It almost feels like we are starting to turn a corner.