What is a woman? Asking for some cyclists.

I met the editor and some of the staff at an event last year. The editor is a woman and so were some of the others. They were lovely

Reading that thread it is blindingly obvious that all the people involved in that thread including the one who scolded others before anyone had even said anything 'contentious' all know what a sodding woman is!

Although I did like the logic of Person B below!

Person A
According to Bob Marley, a woman is a person who doesn’t cry.

Person B

I think Bob was inferring that women make men cry. A lack of woman means no crying. Therefore I conclude that a woman is somebody or something that makes men cry. By this logic the movies ET and Watership Down are women.

"The ones that have the body plan built around the production of large gametes, gestation of fetuses and breastfeeding of babies, you incomprehensible morons."

"Also you know what a woman is when you get chicked in a time trial and you hate it"

I'm sick to death of all these idiots pretending they've no idea what male and female are in order to be all cool and progressive or whatthefuckever. Fuck off the lot of you... you bloody know, stop lying,

To be fair, reading that thread there are very few who are outright cultists. And the few that seem like they are at least put forth what one can call an argument. Of course those are still very silly ("have their identity denied", who in their right mind could possibly think that this is a good argument to allow some males to compete in the female category?). But overall the discussion is incredibly civil considering it's the internet and it's this topic.

OP Is this you with a name change CyclingSam?

If you're on there, please mention the safety aspect. It might not be massively relevant but women competing against men get hurt more and hurt worse in certain sports.

Or tell them to ask Hannah Arensman what she thinks .

The thing that all women have in common is a feeling. All children know what that feeling is so we must change their bodies, but adults find it so confusing they can't even begin to put it into words. It's not personality, behaviour, likes or skills, it's that thing, you know.

In fact it's so hard to say what it is, that essentially there's no difference between men and women, it's just that feeling, you know.

Anyway let's campaign to draft laws based on that thanks

The only answer can ever be Adult Human Female - I love the woke tripping up over their own inclusive talk though, if it wasn't so dangerous to women's sex protected rights it would be hugely entertaining.

Some of these posters really don’t know what a woman is.

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/uci-bans-trans-women-from-female-events/

If you would ring your bell and cycle furiously towards this person expecting them to leap into a hedge or the road or otherwise make way for you - that is a woman. If it is a person that you would courteously stop for - that is a man. My observation of MAMIL etiquette round here.

I came off their site after they launched a women only section for anyone who had she/her pronouns in their sign up bio. 🙄

Oh gawd, STW is run by idiots who are so right on, they think advocating for women only cycling is transphobic. I wouldn’t waste your time with them.