Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Transwoman takes women's world record

220 replies

Pepvixen · 13/10/2018 15:30

Rachel McKinnon has tweeted that Rachel has taken the women's 200m indoor cycling world record.

It makes me so angry for the women who have trained so hard to have to compete against male bodied athletes.

OP posts:
Thread gallery
11
2rebecca · 13/10/2018 16:17

According to the Twitter feed it was. It was an age range flying 200m record. Not sure how official the times are. It's heats of some competition

LemonJello · 13/10/2018 16:17

Cheat!

I bet Rachel could beat my four year old too. I’m just cutting the medal out of the back of a cereal packet Rachel, then I’ll stick it in the post.

OrchidInTheSun · 13/10/2018 16:20

McKinnon's instagram says the record was beaten 10 minutes later so I'm assuming that's true.

But actually it was never actually a world record at all was it? I can just hear the stony silence when a transwoman wins a race in the Olympics. Most sports fans I know have one word for that - cheating

Siun · 13/10/2018 16:22

Agree. Ridiculous and not inclusive as it exclud3s women

Redkeyboard · 13/10/2018 16:24

This Rachel McKinnon? Who advised on including males in women’s sports on the grounds of the principles of Fairplay without any consideration of the impact on or fairplay for the women?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=fWDhU-tgxxU

Siun · 13/10/2018 16:30

Gawd. Love the orders on how to think.

TigerDrankAllTheWaterInTheTap · 13/10/2018 17:01

The tweet said women's world record. The Instagram post said world record for 35-39yo women and clarified that it was beaten ten minutes later. I looked up the world record times and I'm pleased to say it's a long way off the real women's record, which was presumably set by a much younger woman (and a real one).

I cannot get my head round the sheer barefaced cheek of McKinnon claiming to have broken a women's world record. No shame at all.

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 13/10/2018 17:03

Man tells women to accept men taking their spots in sports. How surprising.

ErrolTheDragon · 13/10/2018 17:07

I cannot get my head round the sheer barefaced cheek of McKinnon claiming to have broken a women's world record. No shame at all.

And first time on an indoor track. Yeah, there's a reason for that, dude.

The only people who should be competing in women's sports are women -XX chromosome, plus any intersex people medically considered to be women, who have female-typical testosterone levels.

Materialist · 13/10/2018 17:09

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Charley50 · 13/10/2018 17:18

"The authorities won’t do anything so imo Women athletes should stop completing. They’d only have to do it for a couple of meetings, the no shows would get huge publicity and the general public would be outrage at what’s happening."
I agree with this.

MrsBertBibby · 13/10/2018 17:23

But she identifies as a world record holder so how dare anyone say she isn't.

Bloomcounty · 13/10/2018 17:32

I had OH check as we've got friends in the track and professional cycling world.

According to him, Kristina Vogel of Germany holds the 200m sprint track cycling record, at 10.384, and has done since 2013. This person seems to be blowing hot air out of their butt.

Bloomcounty · 13/10/2018 17:34

As if women's cycling doesn't have enough trouble getting funding already. Sheesh.

doublethink · 13/10/2018 17:42

Wow, she must be a SERIOUSLY gifted athlete to be at such a high level in multiple sports. Amazing. It's almost as if they are superhuman, with some sort of mysterious physical advantage.

AtrociousCircumstance · 13/10/2018 17:46

Fucking bullshit.

In twenty years all ‘women's’ sport will be won by men.

ShotsFired · 13/10/2018 18:05

The responses to the Tweet give me hope.

People seeing the charlatan from Charleston straight away.

MangoSplit · 13/10/2018 18:43
Angry
NotTerfNorCis · 13/10/2018 21:10

I get the impression McKinnon just wants to wind people up. McKinnon knows from experience that McKinnon claiming to win women's sports events or break their sporting records will upset a lot of people.

R0wantrees · 13/10/2018 21:14

Rachel is a professor at an American university

I've become thoroughly disillusioned by the title 'professor at university' recently.

Maybe I had been naive.

Even so, its been disappointing.

NameChangedAgain18 · 13/10/2018 21:25

Somewhat ironically McKinnon 'teaches a class on ethics and inclusion at Charleston'.

Yes, McKinnon identifies as an academic as well. McKinnon and Kathleen Stock have exchanged views. I say "exchanged" but it was more of an evisceration of McKinnon's argument, with McKinnon shouting "TERF" and "no debate" in response. Embarrassing.

LangCleg · 13/10/2018 21:29

This is the same Rachel McKinnon who, on Mother’s Day in the US, advised trans kids to run away from home to find a new “glitter-queer” family.

Yes, this is what I remember about Rachel. One in a long line of transactivists encouraging parental alienation and inviting private contact with kids.

With not a single one of their supposedly responsible groups coming in to tell them that mirroring abuser tactics is a massive no-no because it means a kid can't tell the difference between you and abuser until it is too late.

littlbrowndog · 13/10/2018 21:35

Me to rowan
Seems like education is not all it cracked up to with idiots doing teaching like that

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 13/10/2018 21:59

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig · 13/10/2018 22:11

You know how good the human eye is at recognising a human face? It’s really good at recognising male and female faces too. I’ve watched a few of these trans videos and all I can see is men’s faces. I know that sounds awful but I just can’t see anything other than a man. It’s very confusing.