International Cycling Governing Body Bans Trans Athletes From Women’s Competitions
“From now on, female transgender athletes who have transitioned after (male) puberty will be prohibited from participating in women’s events on the UCI International Calendar — in all categories — in the various disciplines.”
A trans woman cyclist from South Korea recently participated in a women’s race to prove that biological males are stronger than female athletes.
The timing is ironic because the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has just decided to ban trans women from competing with biological women.
FOX News reports:
Cycling’s governing body bars transgender females from women’s international events
More than two months after defending its rules on the inclusion of transgender athletes in women’s sports, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced Friday that trans cyclists will now be banned from competing in all international women’s events.
The UCI, the world governing body for sports cycling, released a lengthy statement updating their policy which will now bar any trans cyclist from competing in women’s events if they “transitioned after (male) puberty.”
“The meeting of the UCI Management Committee was held following a seminar on the conditions for the participation of transgender athletes in women’s cycling events, organized by the UCI on 21 June, at which the various stakeholders — transgender and cisgender athletes, experts from the scientific, legal and human rights fields, and sporting institutions — were able to present their respective positions,” the statement read.
“From now on, female transgender athletes who have transitioned after (male) puberty will be prohibited from participating in women’s events on the UCI International Calendar — in all categories — in the various disciplines.”
Cycling Weekly has some reactions from the cycling community:
“Nobody wins in this” — the cycling community reacts to new UCI transgender policy
As news spread, the cycling community was abuzz with athletes and advocates on both sides of the trans-athlete inclusion debate sharing their opinions.
“It’s a step towards the protection of women and also a step toward fairness for transgender athletes,” Inga Thompson tells Cycling Weekly.
Thompson is a celebrated American Olympian and vocal opponent of transgender women competing in elite women’s sports. Even so, she does not see the UCI’s ruling as a victory.
“It’s good for women, and I know that it’s going to be difficult for transgender women. Nobody wins in this,” she says.
Thompson said she believes there’s a place for transgender athletes in sports, but exactly where and what that place looks like is now up to the governing bodies and the athletes themselves to figure out…
“I don’t agree with the UCI’s decision to ban trans women from competing in the women’s category. I know this is a complicated topic for many (yes, professional racing complicates this for sure), but I keep returning to what I believe to be the purpose of sport: to offer opportunities for enjoyment, self-betterment, personal challenge, camaraderie (etc.) for all,” writes Haley Smith, a Canadian Olympian and Life Time Grand Prix contestant.
“Maybe you believe that trans women racing against those assigned female at birth is unfair or wrong. But I truly believe that a ban is much MORE wrong…I don’t have an answer, but I know in my gut that this isn’t the right decision.
This seems to be the way things are going, and it is good news for girls and women.
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I would go further and ban any Y-positive individuals from racing against any Y-negative individuals.
Y?
/ducking
No need to duck. This is serious business.
Transsports needs to be totally transformed by creating a transdivision where transwomen compete against transmen; otherwise sports for men and women will be transitory. To be successful transpersons would be required to be transparent during transcompetions and all eyes would be transfixed on them. Naturally translaters would be made available for the transimpaired.
At minimum, a “penis litmus test.”
Is genetics to determine if they are male or female. Furthermore, test them for banned substances like excessive testosterone before allowing them to compete.
Genetics should be the major determinant. After that is out of the way, issues of drugs that serve to enhance physical prowess would be the next derterminant.
Puberty aside, I still believe it would simplify matters if the only “trans” athletes that were allowed to compete in women’s sports were those that had “fully transitioned” mtf and before puberty. In otherwords, No male genitalia allowed. If you aren’t serious enough about “being a woman” to have the bottom surgery, then you don’t belong in a women’s locker room or in a woman’s competition.
That would stop a lot of this nonsense in it’s tracks.
God willing, and common sense adults, this will NEVER be a thing given children should NEVER be allowed to make those kinds of decisions when that young.
cannot BOTH be true?
They aren’t making the decision: alleged adults are putting these ideas into their young skulls full of mush.
This is human experimentation, vivisection, and has no basis in fact or rationality. It is mutilation of both mind and body.
Someone (not me) pointed that according to Leftists genitalia do not determine sex. The logical question then is, why would removing them, or altering them cosmetically, make a difference?
There is a place for trans athletes – the insane asylum.
Under lock and key.
That decision is startlingly unwoke! This will cause Megan Rapinoe and Dylan Mulvaney to call an emergency meeting and both have their hair dyed flaming red. The horror!
Um, nope. Because red is a hair color actually found in nature.
The place for “transwomen” athletes in sports is in the men’s division. Period.
Why capitulate to their bastardized language? Just say men are not allowed to compete. That’s all.
Let’s see if the UCI gets shunned, banned, demonetized, and otherwise punished on social media. Or if their bank accounts are frozen.
From now on, female transgender athletes who have transitioned after (male) puberty
They are not “female”, which is why they have to out the parenthesized “male” in there.
All they needed to say was, “Only females may compete in female competitions.”
And this BS about mutilating oneself before puberty … they are just encouraging the most horrible and insane sort of child abuse, there.
Men are men. Women are women. If women want to compete against men they have always been able. Men are not allowed to compete with women. End of story.
At the end of the day, any transitioning is entirely cosmetic. Males who transition are still Y-positive and females who transition are still Y-negative. These people need therapy not surgery.
Holy shit! Common sense. There is no such thing as ‘trans’. There are only people with serious mental issues. Therefore you shouldn’t even need a ‘ban’. You compete where your chromosomes say you should compete. Case closed.
I am pleased to see that the pendulum is swinging.
May it careen through the gender psychos.
“It’s good for women, and I know that it’s going to be difficult for transgender women. Nobody wins in this,” she says.
Uh, women win. You even admit to that when you say it’s good go women.
There is either a ban or they are allowed. It’s a binary answer. The whole trans movement has tried to move away from the real truth that in many areas of life, there are only two choices. There is not a spectrum here. They compete or they don’t. Just like there are men and there are women.
About time UCI recognized that which is obvious to us normals. Here in Boise there is an eight mile, 1,800’ climb that three-time Olympic gold medalist Kristin Armstrong trained on. According to Strava, her best time puts her in 18th place, with 1-17 all held by men. Scanning the list looking at names, it appears the next closest woman is in 92nd place (that’s how good KA is). But as good as she is, men are bigger and stronger, it’s science. Now will the cycling organizations go back and fix the results for all of the races “won” by men pretending to be women?
The issue of men competing in womens sports (as transgender women) is extremely trivial in light of the much broader harm caused by the transgender movement.
The transgender movement is an evil ideological movement to completely destroy the lives of a segment of the mentally ill population. There is zero biological or scientific evidence that the transgender fad treatment provides a cure for those suffering from the mental illness.
It pure evil to put fake exterior faucet parts on a human and expect that human body to function normally thereafter. The evil ideologs have created an environment that will require lifetime hormonal treatment.
Pure evil
Why are the quotation marks so often left off? It’s trans-“women” and trans-“men.”
There, FIFY.
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Trans people are men pretending to be women and women pretending to be men.
“Maybe you believe that trans women racing against those assigned female at birth is unfair or wrong.”
“Assigned gender at birth” is a desecration of science, reason, and language.
I loathe the phrase ‘assigned female at birth’. No. They were ‘assigned female at conception. Because that is what they are. Just like they are assigned human at conception and not, say, hummingbird. Because the universe doesn’t care about your feelings and physical characteristics are what they are.
“they are assigned human at conception”
Excellent point!
The pro-abortion left also believes that we are “assigned personhood at birth” – if that early.
Rosa Parks, Riley Gaines, Inga Thompson.