Transwoman wins women's US cycling race & gets $35k prize

I think this has already happened with weightlifting!

Bizarre, isn't it.

Activists: Women, revolve your lives entirely around what this male says happens to be going on between his ears at this moment, prepare to switch pronouns/reality/boundaries.... btw he might be lying.

Women: how do we tell?

Activists: you cannot refuse to revolve on command whether he is or not, since you might accidentally 'punish' a real one by trying not to get hurt by a pretending one. This isn't about you! Service human on three. One, two, good girl....

It's funny how the trans activists distinguish between genuinely pretending to be a woman versus pretending to pretend to be a woman in their arguments. It's still a man either way!

“The ethical standards of "no one transitions just to win" just won't apply to them.”

Not sure this ethical standard applies to Western “TW” tbf.

The short sightedness of the sporting bodies is irritating.
Once this ideology takes hold, it isn't the western transwomen who will win all the medals for women.
It is the transwomen of all the other nations which never seem to win any medals that'll take the lot. The ethical standards of "no one transitions just to win" just won't apply to them. Western bodies will have themselves in a bind as they'll have racism allegations stopping them from pointing out the blatantly obvious.
At this point, girls would have stopped caring about elite sport and the men will fight each other for the right to the women's podium.
Some women will still compete as some "low level" competitions will attract only women. It'll look like women's sport still exists. It'll be a mess for women but there'll be no outcry about women, just how unfair it is that not all countries have the same standards.

Professional motorcycle racer Judd E. Banner, the brave trans-vehicle rider, was allowed to race after he told league organizers he's always felt like a bicyclist in a motorcyclist's body.
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Nails it, that is!

https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record

Babylon bee did an earlier, shorter article on this that mails it!

Youtube just recommended me this video, I think it does sum up the ridiculousness of the situation:

Does oestrogen block testosterone? Or does he just want the feminising effects of oestrogen without the nasty side effects of androgen blockers? Interesting admission that androgen blockers have nasty side effects though.

The only good thing I can think of is this: the prize money is quite substantial so what's to stop any man from saying that they felt like a woman when they entered the competition and then felt like a woman in the day of the race, so now we're back to biological males competing against biological males? I really really hope more biological males do this....because those who know they'd never win in a male to male race will have a tantrum 'because it's not fair' and will shine an even brighter light on the quite ridiculous situation we're currently in.

I'm loving the Twitter references today about men winning women's races due to 'gender doping'.

This was always inevitable.

There are large rewards for your person winning: sponsorship, publicity, the money is big.

If you can win by the certainty that some beta males will successfully knock out females, then yes of course you'd be all for them being in the women's races. Why wouldn't you? A sense of honour? Morals? Ethics over personal gain?

So last century.

Bloody hell do I miss the last century.

Another Telegraph article today by the chief sports writer Oliver Brown
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cycling/2023/05/02/trans-cyclists-have-olympics-in-sights-no-one-can-stop-them/

There is also "UCI under pressure as Davies warns women's sports at risk". Can't see that on the online version though. Plus there is a yet another one on "Controversial policy and how it stacks up to IOC framework", both by Tom Morgan the sports new correspondent.

I know a lot of mumsnetters don't like the DT because they perceive it as right wing, but you have to hand it to them. They are all guns blazing in favour of women's sports - even pre-dating the trans debacle.

Today's articles in the print edition devote the sports splash and and an inside double page to the issue.

From what I can make out, director Julie sounds like it was a team effort with Austin deliberately chosen to be the person the team was supporting to win, and the other riders, Casey in particular, were chosen to support Austin in winning. ( in the way the riders in tour de France teams work to help one member of their team win). Which makes it a team cheat effort to help a male win, from a team set up to support women.

How can Julie live with herself? This is basically approved cheating. It’s her loophole, to get her team to win.

Good point.

And one of those inconvenient truths the TRAs ignore. (Along with all the others. Like Biology).

If it was as simple as altering testosterone and oestrogen levels, why have we not seen any trans men break into men's sport and compete at a meaningful level? After all if they took suitable amounts of testosterone that would level the playing field. ..?

I do hope that at some point in the not too distant future all these wrongs are righted and that the results tables are updated to show the true positions of the women and the biological males results are struck through.

Roughly paraphrasing what he's saying - at first he took oestrogen to 'feminise' the body but latterly it was just to suppress Testosterone in order to be allowed to race women. It seems that the latter times were when the difficult side effects really made themselves clear.

Here is a long conversation with Austin on how hard handling hormones can be. Sounds awful, tbh. Lots of lying about on a sofa, crying. This is not how you imagine a young healthy athlete would behave.

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I read a book on the downfall of Lance Armstrong recently; fascinating on many levels. I genuinely don't understand how anyone can take the sport seriously given the embedded attitude of "it's not cheating if everyone's doing it".

I really want to hear a female sports pundit on the BBC point out that women are not just men with a bit less testosterone. And lots of coverage of the special ladycock lycra bulges.

Hear, hear.

Huge congratulations to the real winner Marcela Prieto, and to second and third place champions Cassie Nelson and Emily Ehrlich. Not just for their excellence at a competition they worked so hard for, but also for bravely doing their best while knowing that they were being usurped by a cheating male who was being enabled by hostile competition organisers.

Great piece from Allison Pearson:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/05/02/austin-killips-trans-cyclist-womens-sport-lia-thomas/

Congratulations to her, very happy for her

Congratulations to the ACTUAL winner. The WOMAN who was pushed into second place by a cheat.

The Emperor is wearing Lycra. The Emperor has a penis.