British cycling has announced a ban on transgender women from the female category of its competitions. The BBC report:
Under a new participation policy that the governing body said was "predicated on fairness", such athletes will compete in an 'open category' with men.
Female races will be "for those whose sex was assigned female at birth".
Observed at birth, not assigned. Not a good start.
From then it's all about trans cyclist Emily Bridges:
The changes will prevent riders such as Emily Bridges potentially being part of the British women's team.
Last year Bridges – the country's highest-profile transgender cyclist – was stopped from competing in her first elite women's race by the UCI, cycling's world federation, despite meeting the rules at the time.
Bridges reacted to the announcement with a statement on social media, calling the change a "violent act" by a "failed organisation" that was "controlling" the conversation on transgender inclusion.
She added that the racing scene was "dying under its watch" and that British Cycling was engaged in "culture wars".
On and on it goes. No comment from one of the thousands of women cyclists who've been fighting for this: it's all about poor Emily.
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Here's what 'Emily' really sounds like. No wonder Bridges issued a statement rather than speak in person. And when trans-identified men have useful idiots at the BBC doing their propaganda for them, why should they ever have their voice recorded again?https://t.co/qaS6L8jKwL
— Simon Edge (@simonjedge) May 26, 2023
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“I know a lot of people will think I’m being dramatic”
WELL QUITE LOL pic.twitter.com/aSKAIZMK2m
— Dennis Noel Kavanagh (@Jebadoo2) May 26, 2023
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Some highlights:
"British cycling are supporting this, they are furthering a genocide against us"
"To constantly see your existence being put up for debate, and the other side openly calling for our eradication"
"It is literally a fight for survival for me and my family at the moment"
Dear oh dear. As a bloke you're being told you can't race aagainst women because it's unfair. That's it. Now go away. You're pathetic.
Mick Hartley 
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