Vogue - another captured publication?

[SabrinaThwaite]

Vogue magazine has published a piece by Emily Bridges:

I Was Banned From Competitive Cycling Because I’m Trans. That Won’t Stop Me Fighting For My Rights.

https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/emily-bridges-trans-cyclist?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_social-type=owned

Full of the usual hogwash and inaccuracies, and the discredited CCES report is doing some heavy lifting.

And apparently they will be trying to take British Cycling to court. We shall see.

I doubt it, sadly, because they were following the rules at the time. Same goes for the DSD athletes at the Rio Olympics getting all the female 800m medals. Even though they can't compete now, they could at the time, so no rules were broken.

And following up on another point, yes MN is very good for learning, and FWR in particular.

I'm guessing that means certain males will hold certain female records forever more then.

What a pile of 💩

Yes, sorry I quoted the wrong item there!

It is, although going back to the 800m I do think the likes of Keely Hodgkinson and Mary Moraa can achieve records.

With parkruns, we just need some of the elite ladies to go to the ones where the course record is held by Longthorpe etc and beat it. A few weeks ago Louise Small (not quite elite elite, but right up there) ran Teignmouth parkrun and achieved a new ladies ourse record of 17 minutes. I thought it was a pity she hadn't gone to Parke - I think she could have beaten Longthorpe's record there.

Interestingly there was an article on Twitter about Longthorpe having run an ultra at the weekend in the female category but someone realised and s/he was put into the non binary category so a woman won her rightful prize. What was particularly interesting about this was that some years ago Longthorpe was interviewed for Womens Running magazine and specifically said that they would not compete in the female category at races. But s/he did. Maybe s/he won't again.

“When all else around me was failing, my running was there as something to cling to”: Siân Longthorpe interview - Women's Running (womensrunning.co.uk)

Theres absolutely no way of doing that without ending up being sued or dragged through the CAS. Those wins were legal under the rules at the time, however wrong the rules might have been. The reason Armstrong et al got stripped of their palmares was because they were found to have been cheating under the rules that were in place at the time.

The point is, literally everyone except the mediocre male-bodied people in question KNOW they cheated and didn’t win honestly.

Even the mediocre male-bodied people know in their heart of hearts that they cheated.

Hence the pathetically drastic measures they took to cheat.

Okay, so wins are stuck but surely records could be struck off. They're not female records, they're records set by a male in the female category.

It's so unfair that those would be allowed to stand for perhaps decades, maybe even forever. In 40 years time the record could still stand, with the fact that the record setter was actually male being lost to time. That's infuriating.