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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions
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Snowypeaks · 20/02/2024 19:31

AmateurNoun · 20/02/2024 17:52

This but doesn't seem to make sense to me:

"Bridges, who has undergone transition and is using testosterone blockers, challenges the validity of the peer-reviewed studies referenced by British Cycling and others. These studies purportedly show that transgender women who have suppressed testosterone maintain a performance advantage even after puberty." (my emphasis)

Hmm. I think that they've put the word "even" in the wrong place. Maybe it was meant to say this:
These studies purportedly show that even transgender women who have suppressed testosterone maintain a performance advantage after puberty."

AliceA2021 · 20/02/2024 19:40

Two Trans cyclists beat women, slow hand clap to your biological advantages Emily...

https://images.app.goo.gl/5hTpqkSe1HyznXfR6

https://images.app.goo.gl/5hTpqkSe1HyznXfR6

pressedclaycup · 20/02/2024 19:46

I saw this individual on C4 news tonight crying about it being unsafe to compete in the open competition and how their human rights were being violated. Where is there concern for female cyclists who would be unsafe competing against males like Emily? This male plans to take there ban to court to ensure all TW can compete alongside actual females. Selfish, entitled behaviour, its all about them and their validation.

I feel like trans activists are ramping up again after some sound defeats last year.

EmilysNailVarnish · 20/02/2024 19:53

Since British Cycling changed their policy, I don’t think any of the TW who were competing in domestic women’s cycling have continued to race. Funny that?
Some have headed to non-BC races where they can get their gender identity affirmed and celebrated.
Emily’s mate Cara Dixon has taken womens gravel and long distance race titles.

Justme56 · 20/02/2024 19:56

@LoobiJee I don’t understand that either. At the level Emily was cycling would they not have been required to prove testosterone levels to compete when they were allowed in the female division. In both the old and new they would have had to ‘out’ themselves surely. I have to admit I don’t know much about testing for testosterone.

HermioneWeasley · 20/02/2024 19:59

Another one who would LOVE Emily to bring a court case

AvacadoFieldsForever · 20/02/2024 20:00

We can't all get everything we want exactly how we want it

This. A million times.

Helleofabore · 20/02/2024 20:00

Imagine too with the huge bank of wins that US male cyclists have accrued, I suggest that this will blow any credibility that Harper’s study would have shown.

The claim around fairness simply cannot withstand the number of male wins over the past 12-18 months. And the number of women leaving the sport. Nor when males shoulder barge and push bikes into female competitors to try to win?

Has Bridges simply not kept up? Did they fall down a hole and not see any of this?

MrsOvertonsWindow · 20/02/2024 20:02

This is what happens when someone is indulged and allowed to railroad over other people - in this case women. Had BC stepped out from under Stonewall's yoke in the first place and told Emily to remain in Emily's sex class for cycling - even if they were struggling to succeed - then Emily would have had time to reconcile the consequences of their decisions with their racing career.
It beggars belief that a born male can repeatedly gaslight the population that they are now a woman and get an audience from simpering journalists in order to threaten their way into women's sports.

No - which should have been said to Emily from the outset.

Itscatsallthewaydown · 20/02/2024 20:03

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AlwaysGinPlease · 20/02/2024 20:05

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 20/02/2024 17:48

Oh dear, that's sad.

Howling 🤣

DadJoke · 20/02/2024 20:16

serendipitea · 20/02/2024 18:15

I think it will be a useful court case if it happens, whatever the outcome, as it will add case law to the Equality Act. I don't know of any other legal challenges.

So wasn't there a Rugby player who was crowdsourcing for a legal challenge? A few months back? I know several 'GCs' had contributed to say "bring it on!". Has that fallen through?

This one, I guess, thanks for pointing it out. I think it wasn't funded.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/rugby-julie-anne-curtis-trans-ban/

Trans rugby player raises thousands in bid to challenge trans ban

A trans rugby player has raised thousands in efforts to launch legal action against a rugby associaiton for its ban on trans women.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/rugby-julie-anne-curtis-trans-ban

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 20/02/2024 20:28

Unsafe? There's film footage of a male transitioner shoving a female cyclist off the racetrack! I've forgotten her name, but she retired after that race.

UltraLiteLife · 20/02/2024 20:30

NeighbourhoodWatchPotholeDivision · 20/02/2024 20:28

Unsafe? There's film footage of a male transitioner shoving a female cyclist off the racetrack! I've forgotten her name, but she retired after that race.

Austin Killips…was seen seemingly trying to push female cyclist Hannah Arensman off the race course during the UCI Cyclocross National Championships in December 2022
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Former Olympic cycling champion Inga Thompson has claimed controversial trans cyclist Ausin [sic] Killips was not immediately disqualified after appearing to shove another rider out of the way because the umpires were too afraid of being labelled 'transphobic'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12462811/trans-olympic-cyclist-Austin-Killips-shove-scandal.html

Olympic cycling champ slams umpires over Austin Killips controversy

Inga Thompson has claimed controversial trans cyclist Ausin Killips was not immediately disqualified because the umpires were too afraid of being labelled 'transphobic'. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12462811/trans-olympic-cyclist-Austin-Killips-shove-scandal.html#:~:text=36%20shares-,Olympic%20cyclist%20Inga%20Thompson%20says%20controversial%20trans%20rider%20Austin%20Killips,too%20scared%20to%20punish%20her

Girlontherailreplacementbusservice · 20/02/2024 20:31

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No silly, crying is girl behaviour it's what ladieees do. Girls cry, Bridges cries therefore Bridges is a girl (because they are never women are they?). Case closed.
Except as Columbo would say 'just one more thing' do hormones shrink lungs? Or bones? Or change q angles? Or reduce hand size?
Oh it's not one more thing is it? There are 100's of those pesky differences between male and female bodies.

WickedSerious · 20/02/2024 20:32

WhamBamThankU · 20/02/2024 17:58

Who'd have thought you should be female at birth to compete in womens sports 😱

Outrageous innit?

0psiedasiy · 20/02/2024 20:36

We should to with genetic testing xx you go this way, xy this way, it's the only way to resolve it (but then the women wanting to be men with all the extra testosterone will ping up)

afternoonoflife · 20/02/2024 20:38

This sounds like the kind of guaranteed successful case that the Good Law Project would take on. I hope someone tweets Mr Kimono.

pressedclaycup · 20/02/2024 20:39

0psiedasiy · 20/02/2024 20:36

We should to with genetic testing xx you go this way, xy this way, it's the only way to resolve it (but then the women wanting to be men with all the extra testosterone will ping up)

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But these males need their validation fix by transgressing females boundaries and spaces, what's the point in transitioning if you don't get to make yourself a massive victim and the centre of attention?

Cosmosforbreakfast · 20/02/2024 20:39

DadJoke · 20/02/2024 20:16

This one, I guess, thanks for pointing it out. I think it wasn't funded.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/rugby-julie-anne-curtis-trans-ban/

Can never understand the 'Let Trans People Play' slogan. No one is stopping them from playing. They can play in the male category which is the correct category for men. They really should change it to 'We demand we are let force our way into women's sports categories'. Which is all it's about really.

Froodwithatowel · 20/02/2024 20:41

Really it comes down to let male people with TQ+ identities trample over women and children if they want to, and stop moaning on about nonsense like other people matter too.

No. Those who have this problem and do not feel they can possibly be happy without doing so are just going to have to find other ways to enjoy life.

hellsBells246 · 20/02/2024 20:45

Bridges said she would not feel safe competing alongside men

How the duck does Bridges think women feel competing against trans women?

and does not like transgender women having to 'out' themselves to compete in the category

So she wants trans Women to lie and pretend they are women?? As if that's ever possible.

Helleofabore · 20/02/2024 20:45

DadJoke · 20/02/2024 20:16

This one, I guess, thanks for pointing it out. I think it wasn't funded.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/21/rugby-julie-anne-curtis-trans-ban/

Much of the funding came from feminists and men who wanted this test in court. It seemed that Curtiss didn't quite like that the money didn't come from people sympathetic to Curtiss.

Lion400 · 20/02/2024 20:46

Be interesting to see who Emily Bridges’ lawyer is. A man? A man who says he’s a woman? A woman? A man who says he isn’t a man or a woman? A woman who says she isn’t a woman or a man?

HellonHeels · 20/02/2024 20:47

AutumnCrow · 20/02/2024 17:52

A court case? AYE CRACK ON PAL.

😂

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