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

[MrsJamin]

Austin Killips won the Tour of the Gila women's race www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-of-the-gila-2023/stage-5-women/results/
Just outrageous. Any tweet by the organisers mentioning Killips has restricted comments (but of course many quote tweets)
It's getting more and more ridiculous:

• the rider retained their original male first name, Austin.
• they rode for the Amy D Foundation, set up to encourage and support young women through cycling, inspiring the celebration of healthy challenge and empowering the confident pursuit of lofty dreams.
• this is the first year the women's prize money is the same as the men's.

You couldn't make it up. When will the most sports-loving country in the world protect and give a shit about women in sport?

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Nails it, that is!

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.
🤣

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.

“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.

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!

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....

I think this has already happened with weightlifting!