Phillipa york in the guardian

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jun/16/when-i-stopped-racing-i-thought-who-am-i-pippa-york-on-leaving-her-old-life-behind

equating young girls going on the pill with puberty blockers

“If you look at puberty blockers, that’s going to start around 12. Young girls are given the pill, so are we going to say that’s not OK? The decisions being made now over puberty blockers are purely political.”

and denying men have an advantage over women

She states that the idea that “somebody who’s been through male puberty has this innate advantage is just ludicrous. People come in all sizes. Each of us has different levels of testosterone at which our body is healthy.”

The comments he made against BC are also bang out of order. The Federation bent over backwards at first to accommodate him and his ideas, in particular their then Head of Comms. This was a misguided attempt to make the sport appear ahead of the curve, and when it became apparent that some backtracking needed to be done to consider actual fairness, PY didn't like it and threw her toys out of the pram. He was also less than considerate to the female riders on the squad right from the start.
If you go to the cycling centre you can watch the riders train. I've lost count of the times I've done so. If staff have written to the UCI it's possibly because if they have spent months helping the likes of Laura Kenny and Katie Archibald be the very best they can be, training so hard that they vomit when finishing a session, and it can't be easy to then watch a second rate, no-mark cyclist like Emily Bridges try and take one of those slots on the squad.

Self serving and deluded.

If he conflates the pill with GnRH analogues, he has a very sketchy understanding of hormones, which is rather worrying, given that he is presumably on hormone treatment.

"somebody who’s been through male puberty has this innate advantage is just ludicrous. People come in all sizes. Each of us has different levels of testosterone at which our body is healthy."

Again, really sketchy understanding of hormones.

A short blip following the SC ruling saw the Guardian go uncharcteristically quiet and even produce one or two sensible articles. Seems that over the past few weeks it's reverted to being up to its tits in GI again.

Sport has finally got with the programme on this issue, with some very welcome intervention from courageous former athletes like Martina Navratilova and Sharron Davies. More and more are defining women's categories as precisely that.

The tide has turned. They have lost.

It is just another male person leveraging their little knowledge about female people to advantage other male people. It is misogynistic bullshit

I thought it was good that they countered the misinformation being spouted by PY in the article. Let's hope the Guardian can make a habit of producing more balanced journalism in this area.

And it clearly illustrates why people like PY should be no where near decision making when it comes to trans inclusion in sport. They are unable to put their bias and personal experiences to one side to look at the science objectively. It was advice from Gendered Intelligence that caused the English and Wales Cricket Board to produce their woeful trans inclusion policy that has only recently been overturned. It is a terrible idea to involve activists in policy making.

PY sounds incredibly bitter to accuse British Cycling of having a problem with the LGBT spectrum just because they decided to protect the female category. Unlike other sporting bodies, British Cycling actually listened to their female athletes (who apparently were planning boycotts).

It is a reminder that we are approaching Tour de France season though.

It's not just fact free, it's active disinformation.

So he can't see the difference between preventing pregnancy in young children who may well be abused by older man, and people taking sex hormones? Another one who isn't going to click on that.

The problem isn't just that - they are completely different drugs.

This is delicious irony.

"somebody who’s been through male puberty has this innate advantage is just ludicrous. People come in all sizes. Each of us has different levels of testosterone at which our body is healthy."

What's his theory for why the fastest men are so much faster than the fastest women?

Does he think the women just aren't trying hard enough?

I note that they are still light on actually taking on the legal arguments. It is just more of the same 'poor transwoman' articles and absolutely zero on women's experiences.

Think you've nailed it there. 👏

How can he claim that testosterone doesn't improve strength and stamina, with a straight face? He's lying through his teeth, he knows that's exactly why he took it.

Yet another middle-aged transvestite being given a national platform for his misogyny. Thanks, Guardian.

@SinnerBoy nails it downthread. TRAs in general are light on arguments because practically every word they spout is demonstrable BS. It isn't even necessarily ignorant BS, but outright lies. The likes of 'Pippa' York appear to live in a topsy-turvy parallel universe where fact equals fiction and vice versa.

It's one of the most fascinating exercises in reverse logic and cognitive doublethink I think I've ever witnessed. Actually, scrub the 'reverse logic'. To reverse it, there would have to be logic there in the first place, and I don't think as yet we've come that far ...

Yeah, it makes you wonder what he good thought that doping with testosterone at the Vuelta in 1992 - for which he served a fine and a suspension - was going to do for him if it doesn't improve strength and stamina..🙄

So his first ever use of hormones was to cheat? Awesome.

edited for stupid typing.

Let me guess. That would be mainly women?

I'm so tired of the experiences of older men who say they are trans being written about, they moan about how hard their lives have been and claim poor me. I suspect there are 15 year old girls out there with harder lives than him but we never bloody hear about them do we?

Btw, it appears that Millar still managed to marry a woman prior to discovering his brave and stunning true identity. Wonder if he told her about his 'secret world' before they tied the knot?

Ditto.

The big Adam's apple's a dead giveaway, innit?