Trans athletes take Gold, Silver and Bronze in women's cycling race

How dare they!

Cheating Mother Fuckers 😤

Putting my rational hat on, as someone who voted to get the Tories out - this isn't in the UK and Nandy can truthfully say that British Cycling along with multiple UK sporting organisations finally sorted their rules a couple of years ago, having found out what having male athletes in women's sport ACTUALLY looked like.

It us v galling that none of them have the guts to say 'the balance is better now because a whole load of sportswomen told us they'd have our hide in public if we didn't get it sorted, on the background of years of work by a small group of women, many being Labour supporters, who are still being treated like outcasts for doing actual feminism. Funny old world, eh?'

They're gonna be so mad when they find out there's no such thing as a "birth gender".

Isn't Nandy claiming to be ending the culture war?

More like running away and hiding from her responsibilities.

And handing sport over to men. Awful woman.

Nikki defines transgender as 'not identifying with your birth gender'. But Nikki belongs in the women's category unless Nikki decides Nikki needs to take testosterone to be neither male nor female. Sex is the important factor for categorising sport not gender, or feeling or really, really, really wanting something

How ridiculously meaningless Lisa Nandy is

You can stop there.

The fucking comments are so infuriating.

Women, we totally agree with you but as men who hold all the fucking power we're going to do jackshit and just judge you for not speaking up is the overriding message. It's like the world has collectively decided that women have the power the change this, despite women not EVER having the power unless with huge backing. And the backing, unfortunately, is lacking, as no one with any real influence and power will stand up and say no.

Sick of it. So sick of it.

Well, they probably voted for it so need to suck it up.

Also identifies as transgender according to DM story.

I'm not up to the logical puzzle of being transgender yet claiming non-binary status.

No difficulty at all with NH competing in women's events. NH's eligibility is not carte blanche for eligibility to other non-binary athletes who may not have been born female.

Looking at that photo I’m now wondering whether this was actually an elaborate stunt by these men and their female teammates to point out the absurdity in USA Cycling derogating from UCI rules in domestic competition.

Nikki Hiltz is a woman - she identify as non-binary but she is female.

How ridiculously meaningless Lisa Nandy is on this issue. On one hand she is saying that excluding males is 'broadly sensible' but then is sitting on the fence and declaring the 'balance is right'.These are platitudes being handed out left, right and centre. This is not leadership, this is trying to placate those who subscribe to the 'taking the heat out of the discussion' type platitudes. It is certainly not showing any strength of leadership though.

Fucking hell.
Other than mentally chanting 'Cheat cheat cheat cheat cheat' and ranting a bit I have nothing useful to contribute.

Selfish wicked fuckers.

How convenient for them.

I’m a bloke but totally with you all on this. BTW Nikki Hiltz - ‘trans lesbian’ read heterosexual bloke who fancies women! Plus ca change?

For decades many women's sports remained amateur while the equivalent male sports were professional and there were only a handful of women earning a living from sports compared to 1000s of men. Just when far more women's sports turn professional (admittedly often at much lower pay then men) and the profile rocketed the men showed up. Where were all these men with inner lady feels when the FA banned women from professional pitches? Or when media coverage of female sport was pretty much limited to tennis and athletics? It almost like it wasn't worth stealing from women when there was nothing to steal.

Erm, where does it say they have lowered testosterone? This isn’t a UCI-regulated race (in which they would not even be permitted to enter) and I can’t imagine there is any doping control so why even bother to suppress natural testosterone?

What is more interesting is that this was a Madison which consists of 2-rider teams working in partnership - it appears that the female partners of these men were completely onboard with this.

She's making a fool of herself. It's time to stop hiding behind 'transgender athletes', this is endorsing that women's sports must accept men and tolerate mixed sex sports and all its disadvantages for women because it's nice for men.

She might call saying no to men 'bigoted transphobia'.

I would call her belief that women's sports have a duty to lie down and be a resource for men's self expression bigoted, insane and quite staggeringly sexist.

What choice do they really have?

To do what Lynne Pinches did takes not only enormous courage but willingness to suck up a lot of consequences, including loss of sponsorship or hope of hanging onto the crumbs of career left over when the men have emptied out women's sports for their own personal jollies.

The cowardly Daily Mail are as bad as these shameful cheats by calling them “she”.

These articles make my blood boil.
I get so angry.

I know I'm wrong, and I know I shouldn't, but I'm now starting to get angry at the women next to these cheats.

Why are they standing with them? Why are they competing together, and why are they smiling at been used like this?

Womens sports are not the place for failed male athletes

I have to correct myself.

Looking back the post was

No trans gender person has ever won a medal at the Olympics.

Which is actually untrue. But the misogyny is clear. Quinn has been discounted as being a trans gender person who won a medal at the Olympics.