www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2022/04/11/90-per-cent-elite-womens-cyclists-opposed-racing-transgender/
Apologies if this has been posted but can't see it. In today's Daily Telegraph sporting section and trailed on main paper front page.It's behind a pay wall, so a few extracts below.
A survey by the Cyclistes Professional Assicues had canvassed female members before making representations to the sports's governing body, the UCI, which intends to review its rules on trans competitors. 92% did not agree with trans athletes racing in the women's pelaton.
Triple world champion Marion Clignet, who is part of a group which wrote to the UCI last week calling for its guidance to be rescinded said her group "was for the inclusion of transgender athletees in cycling without compromising equality in women's cycling".
"This does not mean the women don't believe there should be inclusion for trans athletes in cyling - we just want to keep the promise of fair and safe cycling to women alive and well."
But legal experts have stressed the need to widen the debate to questions of human rights. Dr Seema Patel, a senior lecturer in law at Nottingham Law School said: "This is not a simple scientific debate, even the notions of biological male and biological female are far more complex than the public would expect them to be."
Really? Clearly Dr Patel is not as good at biology as she is at law.
Jugen Steinacker, chair of World Rowing's sport medicine commission has described the current situation as as mess.The governing bodies of swimming and triathlon are reviewing their rules.
Mr Steinacker said there was also significant opposition in his sport to trans gender women competing in women's events. "Elite sport cannot be inclsive without compromising the rights of women to stand a fair chance of competing for medals."