Emily Bridges Documentary - ITV Wales Tuesday 29th November

Wasn't a problem for the Welsh football this week, most of those players are English too.

If I was cynical, I would say that Emily is trying to use Welsh nationalism as another route to enter the female category. The Welsh are a very proud and patriotic people and would probably overlook the whole "born male" thing if it meant winning medals like Nicole Cooke did.

Hilarious given that Emily would only qualify by residency, not birth, if her parents or grandparents aren't Welsh.

From the cycling weekly article

"All we as trans athletes deserve are the same opportunities, and the same level playing field as everyone else."

How can EB say that and not see that women, you know the actual women, want exactly the same thing when they are at the start line. The women want a level playing field so that means EB you can fuck right off.

5th placed Gabby Shaw is a full time professional cyclist. Bridges is a student and yet they still managed a podium place.

”I haven’t dominated, Amy Perryman just needed to try a bit harder if she wanted a podium place”.

You can say “I’m in the correct category” until you’re blue in the face, but that doesn’t make it true.

Again: nope.

Only third,poor Emily .

“I’m aware I have other traits and attributes to other female riders, but they aren’t so widely different that it makes competition unfair," she said

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Let’s see it, then. Rather than just stating something, prove it. Because that evidence is huge, given that by definition it would have to undo our entire understanding of sexual dimorphism, physiology and the very foundation of and reason for having womens sports in the first place. That’s some meaty fucking evidence, and I’d definitely like to see it. Demonstrate to me that any cohort of male bodied people can be proven not to have meaningful physiological advantages over females, and let’s weigh that up in terms of what it does and doesn’t tell us about fairness in sport. You’ll need three groups- male to trans people, males who do not identify as trans, and women (no identity need be specified). Run those comparisons. Show us the data.

At the moment, all you seem to be driving towards proving is that you’re not that good of a cyclist compared to other males, your identity is paramount, whatever you say about your performance should be regarded as gospel, and for those reasons you must be allowed to compete with women.

Nope.

😁 And showing us the way...

That Gucci campaign is just the cover of Frampton Comes Alive.

Good grief, that article! The forced teaming of Bridges with women is evident throughout: “my fellow female athletes” “other women”

And this whopper:

I am not a man

I am appalled by this statement made by Bridges.

”Two trans people were among the victims of this attack, and their deaths are directly related to dehumanisation and demonisation of trans people in the media, online, and in debates such as those about sports.”

It was snuck in towards the end of the article about this tv show.

This male knows no boundaries. They certainly cannot stop deploying the emotional manipulation to attempt to get their demands met. But that did seem to be Bridges mother’s tactic too.

This male is now leveraging the action of another male, one from the LGBT community, in an attempt to silence female athletes and those who are campaigning on their behalf.

Shame on Bridges.

www.cyclingweekly.com/news/im-still-here-trans-cyclist-emily-bridges-still-dreams-of-racing-commonwealth-games-for-wales

That’s the thing with lycra cycling kit: it’s very clear to see who is male and who is female

I was bemused by Emily's not very Welsh accent and read that Emily moved to Wales at 9 years old. So not only does Emily identify as a transwoman, Emily is also transwelsh.

I'm hoping the programme will have peaked a few more after hearing what is clearly a very male voice with a very male physique bemoan the fact that that they cannot compete as a woman.

'I have to be who I am'

What do people really mean when they say this? You can't be anyone else. It's a really odd phrase.

God what a pity fest...

That argument that TW are actually at a disadvantage because of a weaker engine driving a bigger frame.

Lots of footage of EB coming last in races with other men.

Lots of tinkly sympathy music (so jarring)

Absolute load of self deluded waffle. As fellow females …. No Emily you are not female. You just can’t ever be female because you are a MALE.

Whether we are talking about the fact that tall women will almost always be better at basketball...

And male women will indeed be better at lots of sports than female women.

Opening women's sports up to male people is taking opportunities to win away from female people and giving them to male.

Regardless of how you do or do not define "woman", that is fundamentally what people need to decide if they are ok with. Not the lovely happy feels of including trans women, but the fact that doing so unavoidably requires taking opportunities to win away from female people and giving them to male.

Just read that ITV article. What a load of bullshit.

This is what queer people are facing in 2022. Our basic human rights are being debated over so-called “valid concerns'' leading to radicalisation and attacks.

You can't conflate the horrendous attack on the gay bar in Colorado Springs to EB not being able to race against women!! But EB has done so.

This isn’t about sport for me, it’s so much more and trying to fight in the way I can and know how to.

Oh, of course it's all about sport. Otherwise EB would be an activist another way.

I was aware of how the trans swimmer Lia Thomas was being treated in America, and I recognised the potential for things to progress the same way.

What, with women being forced to change in the same changing room as Lia and told to shut up if they complained?

I’ve felt a much deeper connection to being Welsh since transitioning and losing the opportunity to represent my country really hurt.

😂What, because EB wasn't good enough as a man to race for Wales?? Because her lady brain is more patriotic?

We feel our bodies changing and there’s a clear physical difference between being on hormones and before HRT. But this is not just a feeling, my data across transition will be published soon, and I believe it will show that I haven’t got any unfair advantage and that I’m not going to dominate women's sports anytime soon.

Because the data will be flawed?

But realistically, sport never has been or will be completely, 100% fair. Whether we are talking about the fact that tall women will almost always be better at basketball, or that women from poorer countries have fewer resources to work with than women from richer countries, or that men get more coverage and better funding than women, there are plenty of discussions to be had about what fairness in sport really looks like.

FFS. A trans women competing against women is nothing like a tall woman competing agianst a shorter woman 🙄

It’s kept cycling alive for me, that inclusive community that I wish road and track cycling was and should strive to be.

Move over, women, and make way for meeeeee!

The cognitive dissonance and self-absorption really are something.

So it’s all moved on from trans women to trans female. Nothing is safe is it?

You forgot the hints of suicide

Cheat!

“My brain works better without testosterone”