New British Cycling trans policy

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The new British Cycling policy goes public at 11am tomorrow. Anyone dare to speculate on the outcome? Will it be a win for women?

Oh yes!!!

Oo
As a PP mentioned, America has woken up and started voting

You would need two more categories because females claiming to be men cannot compete fairly with males claiming to be women. With or without a testosterone boost for the females and testosterone suppression for the males.
Also there is no necessity for a special category based on identity.

Nearly right! Bridges was competing successfully pre transition, but an accident put paid to their international ranking in the male competitions, but because there is a huge discrepancy between male and female timings EB as a poorly ranked man was still ahead of most elite female competitors . So they transitioned, hoping to race as a trans woman in womens races. Bridges is on record as saying that they had always intended to transition post Paris Olympics ( high hopes of a medal). But there doesn’t seem to be much if any evidence, that this was said before the accident. The answer to the question I think a lot of people would like to know is , if Bridges hadn’t had the accident would they still be riding as a man?

viques, I know that swimming mums, tennis mums, and gymnastics mums can be seriously competitive, sometimes close to deranged. Is this also true of cycling mums?

Excellent news. The pendulum is definitely swinging back towards sanity.

I only know of one cycling mum, who used to post on MN and turned out to have skin in the game in the form of EB. So on that basis I would say yes, 100% in my very limited experience. 🙂

However there are probably lots of lovely cycling mums who stand at the side of the track holding stop watches and sticking plasters and don’t call other women rude names for being GC.

The angries have it at the moment - lots of furious men not getting their way and stomping their size 11s in frustration. Soz boys.

I'm so glad to see this at last.
The powers that be are starting to be sensible again.

Now, if we could just persuade the writers of online forms which ask for "gender" to ask for "sex" instead.....................................................................

I’m sure this has been explained somewhere but please humour me…why aren’t there male/female/trans men/trans women categories in sports?

Bridges's statement contains shining examples of whatabouttery. The comment about "whitest, straightest sport" is a flagrant attempt to make a false analogy between being black or brown or same-sex attracted and being a bepenised person who wants to beat women in sporting events. It also serves to force-team black and brown people and LGB people with bepenised people who want to beat women in sporting events.

Unluckily for Bridges, we are getting pretty good at spotting whatabouttery and forced-teaming.

Box of tissues for Emily.

On reflection, they're very upset. Better make it man-size.

The official line is that there wouldn’t be enough funding or competition for such a small cohort of the population to have their own category.
I’d also consider the fact that it is exclusively males entering and dominating women’s sports which is the issue. They’re winning big prizes while having a huge advantage. Not so for any trans men who compete in men’s sports.
In short, opening up trans categories would not provide those males with the required funding and validation. It only impacts the females negatively. Which, historically, people have not really given a shit about.

Me too!

There was no such thing as "transgender" five minutes ago.
Taking hormones is a choice.
Claiming a special identity does not put you in a different physical category.
Male and female or Men/boys and Women/girls covers every human being on the planet.

Great news indeed!

Oh I agree with all that, but if we assume that Mr Emily and his pals are truly serious about competing fairly then it would seem a logical step to open up further categories. Of course it’s all BS - TWAM.

Good to know about the official line though.

Perhaps an International Military Tribunal is needed, given that there's apparently a genocide going on...

It'll be tactically brigaded. But for a few hours before the batsignal went out, reality was apparent.

People are calling it a toddler tantrum. Strikes me more as a narc rage.

They're not women. That headline implies that adult human females who do not identify as women are banned from the the women's competition.

Language matters.

Way off the mark about cycling being the 'whitest' sport - has he seen sailing? Rowing? Canoing? Archery? Clay pigeon shooting?

Mind you, isn't sailing gender-neutral?

I don’t think fairness is a genuine concern. Just an easier win and the rewards that brings.

As a white man taking up space in a women’s sport which could potentially be taken by a woman of colour… he’s got some brass neck.

Bridges obviously hasn't watched many equestrian events either.

Now there is a sport where men and women compete on equal terms...perhaps Emily should consider swapping one's bike for a horse?