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Women's cycling - major sponsor pulls out as policies are not 'trans inclusive'

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Xoxoxoxoxoxox · 13/04/2022 08:26

Helen joice has just put this up on twitter.
A new major sponsor is being sought to ensure that the 6th Women’s CiCLE Classic and 8th Junior Men’s edition of the race can go ahead as planned, following the decision of longstanding sponsor Pete Stanton to withdraw his sponsorship of the races...due to the decision to not include trans atheletes.

  • A man tries to use his money to force women to accept transwomen in women's races.
I hadn't thought about the trans activism behind sponsorships deals that fund women's sport that must go on behind the scenes but here is an example laid bare. The men's races are not under threat just the women's races of course.

www.velouk.net/2022/04/12/news-sponsors-needed-for-womens-junior-cicle-classic/.

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Artichokeleaves · 18/04/2022 22:48

Aka the decision to protect female only sport and female athletes from mixed sex competition.

Since it really isn't all and only about TW.

Runningslow · 18/04/2022 22:45

The decision to block transwomen in womens sport

PermanentTemporary · 18/04/2022 22:43

Which decision @Runningslow?

Runningslow · 18/04/2022 22:11

I see there’s an open letter to BC asking for them to reverse the decision

MajesticWhine · 18/04/2022 22:07

79%
Every little helps

EdinburghFeminist · 18/04/2022 21:15

78% funded now. Some of the comments from supporters are interesting, one is from one of the competitors (anonymously).

334bu · 18/04/2022 19:21

75% raised now.

TeiTetua · 18/04/2022 18:02

What are you suggesting might have happened/ought to happen instead as a matter of interest?

It would be better to have no race?

Of course not! (I mean not have no race. Do have a race.) But keep an eye open for anyone trying to cause trouble. This is the kind of thing that provokes the trans mob.

PermanentTemporary · 18/04/2022 12:51

74% now. I'm pleased to be pretty sure this very achievable goal will be realised.

SpringCalling · 18/04/2022 11:13

Donated. We have to give the weak sponsors something to think about when they're targeted. To know women will do it by themselves if necessary - again and again ......

elgreco · 18/04/2022 00:04

No interest in cycling at all but donated to fuck over the MAN.

SweatyChamoisPad · 17/04/2022 22:54

Just donated. Heartening to see donations from both Katie Archibald (current GB rider) and Guy Elliott (Race Controller of the OVO Women’s Tour) in the crowd funding list. #deedsnotwords

Bettygirl · 17/04/2022 15:26

@TeiTetua

I can't help thinking that funding the women's race to allow it keep out biological males is going to make it a natural target for harassment, and maybe violence.
Isn't that how male violence has always worked? No need to break the law and actually commit violence, the threat of it has always been used to intimidate women and coerce us into submission.
EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 17/04/2022 14:50

@TeiTetua

I can't help thinking that funding the women's race to allow it keep out biological males is going to make it a natural target for harassment, and maybe violence.
What are you suggesting might have happened/ought to happen instead as a matter of interest?

It would be better to have no race?

Interesting sidelight on the (grounded in prior experience) expectation of what happens when women don't just accept coercion or what is meted out to them.

TeiTetua · 17/04/2022 14:44

I can't help thinking that funding the women's race to allow it keep out biological males is going to make it a natural target for harassment, and maybe violence.

PermanentTemporary · 17/04/2022 13:31

Donated. 64%. Good to read that they are near to a deal for 2023.

EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 17/04/2022 12:36

@334bu

Is it only the women's race that this person sponsored? Did they also withdraw sponsorship from the men's race?
Junior men's category race as well, iirc.
334bu · 17/04/2022 12:26

Is it only the women's race that this person sponsored? Did they also withdraw sponsorship from the men's race?

Bettygirl · 17/04/2022 11:57

The whole thing smacks of men telling women, we allowed you to have some rights, we can quiet as easily take them away.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 17/04/2022 10:30

61% funded.

I think the point has been made. Women won’t stand back and let this happen anymore

forceforgood · 17/04/2022 09:29

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Vargas · 16/04/2022 21:30

More than 50% of the way there...

MrsOvertonsWindow · 16/04/2022 18:11

Thank you all for the explanation.

Plasmodesmata · 16/04/2022 18:01

43% funded from 173 donations when I just looked now. It'll get there, no problems - like we said at the time, there are a lot of women (and possibly even some men) who will chip in a bit for a fair race.

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