Transgender cyclists have been banned from international women’s competition, prompting the trans rider Emily Bridges to threaten legal action and furiously accuse the governing body of discrimination. The Telegraph has more.
In a move that mirrors British Cycling’s new transgender policy, as well as those now in swimming, athletics and rugby, the Union Cycliste Internationale has ruled that no transgender ‘woman’ who has gone through male puberty will be permitted to compete in the female category.
Riders could previously race provided that they had reduced their testosterone to below 5 nmol/L but this rule came under acute scrutiny in March last year when Bridges entered the British omnium championships following [his] transition.
Bridges, who had set a national record in men’s junior competition, was adamant that [he] met all of the UCI and British Cycling rules to reduce testosterone but was forced to pull out on the eve of the race after [his] competitors secretly considered a boycott.
British Cycling then underwent a review of its transgender policy, resulting in an outright ban of any transgender athlete in female races. The UCI initially opted to reduce the testosterone limit to 2.5 nmol/L but changed policy for the second time in a year at a meeting of its management committee on Friday. It had followed the backlash over the American transgender cyclist Austin Killips winning the UCI’s Tour of the Gila in New Mexico earlier this year.
Bridges accused British Cycling of “furthering a genocide” with its decision in May and a similarly blistering statement was published on [his] Instagram following the UCI’s statement.
“Hope is gone,” [he] wrote. “The trust in the institution is gone. Official, sanctioned competitive sport is no longer for trans people. We will continue to fight this, in sports science labs, in courtrooms, and on the streets, but I am under no impression that it is as easy to unban someone as it is to ban in the first place.
“I haven’t given up though. I will not give up on every trans person, every trans child who sees these announcements and thinks that they are not welcome on the planet. Because that is the impact.”
Good to see some common sense winning through at least in some sporting fields.
Worth reading in full.
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Well, the difference between the Asda chief and Rachel Thieves (erstwhile tea-lady at the Band of England) is that the former has to run a business while the latter does not.
Rachel Thieves (nice one) couldn’t run a bath.
That’s not a problem, Lord Alli will pay for a bath filler for Thieves.
Even fewer staff than they have now, perhaps. After all, although getting rid of boring jobs is probably alright, cutting back on service to customers isn’t. I don’t mind buying fuel from them, where there is no-one to see (no cash accepted – they require £100 up front on an account at their pumps), but they have a habit of cutting back on check-out staff in the small hours, so one can be in a queue for ages if you don’t want to do it all yourself in the store.
They do not “require £100 up front”. They get an authorisation for that amount from your credit/debit card provider, before you start fuelling. The amount is NOT debited from your account.
Labour = Marxist-Socialism… what did Lord Rose and the idiot voters in July expect?
But, but, but, Thieves had lots of support from business before the election. What’s that Sooty? They were not real business owners running proper businesses? Makes sense as how would anyone employing staff not see being forced to increase wages and pay extra employee tax not see her budget as anti-business and anti-growth. September’s CPI will be the low point before a steady rise, interest rate cuts will be glacial and mortgage rates will stay high due to borrowing costs. Looking forward to months of seeing the Lefties Ofcom force GB News to have on for balance – unlike the BBC etc – being torn to shreds.
How long does a government last these days? They are bound to be aware of this and so any such awareness could easily bring about vandalistic or scorched earth tendencies. The bottled it up for a decade and now they want to splurge on it before they get ousted. The next government, if there ever is another election, will be even worse against a backdrop of even worse conditions.
The whole gist of the last four years was ‘don’t be naive’. So don’t let naivete settle on you like a cloud again. If you are naive this time around then you don’t need me to tell you what you deserve. And bear in mind that your naivete and acquiescence has very negative effects on better people than you. They are likely to give you short shrift at the final reckoning.
How may are left for even considering a fight. You thought it would carry on forever like Terry Wogan and Blankety Blank. I’m afraid it isn’t like that. You8 need to match or surpass every depiction of a Russian or north Korean engaged in mortal combat. If you don’t have it then you belong to the world of the dead and they will take care of you shortly. A big difference between saying shit and living by it.
So Liz Truss was correct with her budget then?
It won’t just be supermarkets reviewing the number of employees they can afford. Any shop which has managed to survive on our devastated High Streets will be doing the same thing and most of them will conclude that they can’t generate the sales to pay the increased minimum wage, NI increases …. plus increased rents and council tax.
If Labour had intended to destroy local communities and town centres they couldn’t have done a better job of it.
So that’s obviously what they wanted.
Of course he’s right BUT it’s fair to point out that Lord Rose is a Conservative peer.