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The silent protests are starting! The women are refusing to stand on the podium with the man! Well done!!!
The CO2UT gravel race was yesterday.
Trans-identified male cyclist Lesley (Wesley) Mumford was🥇 in the women's 40-49 age group (out of 14) and 6/33 for women overall on the 100 mile course.
Lesley doesn't know why no one else showed up for the podium!
#ThisNeverHappens
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This is the advocate, Tara Seplavy, that
@jamesstout
thanks for all their ‘advice’ in women’s cycling. This is why I will not be silenced by men like you.
@jamesstout
@ithompsonfdn
@autostraddle
@t_seplavy
It was masks off when your interviewee posted this image representing their fantasies of violent aggression against women who disagree.
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I wholeheartedly support this!!! Create your own classification and they will come!
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Yes, All of us used to be ‘polite’ and ‘respectful’. But you actively tried to shame and silence us. We will not be silenced any longer. Women Athletes are furious. Can you feel the heat! We will not allow Gender Doping anymore.
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@i_heart__bikes
Every. Single. Person. in cycling knows this isn’t fair to women athletes.
@UCI_cycling
@wada_ama
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When I decided to start taking HRT with enough testosterone to bring me up to a healthy level of .3 nmoles/l, because of menopause, I knew I couldn't race my bike with the women anymore. I didn't die, it wasn't genocide, my identity wasn't erased, I wasn't eradicated.
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@jamesstout
@autostraddle
@t_seplavy
Of course you want men included in women's sports. I believe that's call misogyny. The latest science shows that no amount of testosterone suppression mitigates the advantages of being born male. I'll continue to advocate for fairness for women in sports.
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It is time for Women Cyclist to start protesting
@UCI_cycling
Policy. Start taking a knee at the starting lines. Team managers need to speak up and protect their riders. Hold signs at every race “Save Women’s Sports”.
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I have zero sympathy. Welcome to reality of your actions which you’ve never been held accountable
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@fem_mb
@VP
@joerogan
@megynkelly
@JohnCleese
@Martina
@jordanbpeterson
@andrewdoyle_com
@Daley_thompson
There are over 50 transgender women in cycling. It's destroying the grass roots development of our young women. Many have already walked away, saying, 'Why bother?'
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@sharrond62
@UCI_cycling
was shown the survey of the Elite women cyclists. 93% said No to TW in their sport. It was ignored.
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I contacted the women on the podium and said if they chose to not stand on the podium next time, I’ll pay the fine.
There were two males on the women's international omnium podium at Jerry Baker Velodrome in Washington yesterday:
Jenna (Jimmy) Lingwood 🥇
Claire (Ivan) Law 🥉
(
@DLappartient
- it's such a minuscule amount of males in women's cycling that it's really not affecting the sport)
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Congrats to the IOC for allowing the Men’s Sexual Rights Movement to hijack Women’s Sports. Well played, Sirs, well played.
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@MaryOConnorMD
@BicyclingMag
@ICFSport
@icons_women
Because Tara Seplavy works
@BicyclingMag
and this is the pic he posted, directed at me, for speaking up for fairness in Women’s Sports
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If this doesn't make you cry and demand fairness for women, you don't respect women's rights for fairness.
@UCI_cycling
@DLappartient
@HansenAdam
@katkanash
Please vote for women to have a fair chance in sports.
@ReduxxMag
"Most women have natural testosterone levels of 0.12 to 1.79 nmol/L, but Semenya has male gonads producing a normal level of testosterone for a male. In 2011, Semenya was measured as having 15.6 and 29.3 nmol/L."
Lynsey Sharp would have taken the bronze in a fair race.
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This is Molly. Married to a woman, dresses like a man, no makeup, no hormone suppression, races with the women. Doesn’t even do their hair. The mental gymnastics needed to justify cheating women is Olympic Gold.
🧵Remember how trans-identifying male cyclist Molly Cameron won the first stage and placed 4th on the second stage of the Cascade Gravel Grinder last weekend?
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The leaderboard on
@Strava
3rd, 4th, 5th are women. Theft from women athletes on so many levels.
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I am speechless that Keith seems to think if a woman,
@Riley_Gaines_
, is beaten by a man, she ‘sucks’.
@Riley_Gaines_
Can you just address the reality and move past it? You sucked at swimming. That's why you lost.
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@jamesstout
Tara Seplavy and McKinnon/Ivy worked together, with others, to have me removed from the Board of Directors of OBRA, Oregon Bicycle Racing Assoc. I was asked to be silent. My removal allowed me to speak up for women. I should send them a Thank You note for removing me.
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The top 3 finishers are 46 XY DSD and have gone through male puberty.
@ReduxxMag
Here's the moment when three intersex males took gold, silver, and bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics Women's 800M event. Not a single woman placed in their own category.
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I never thought that a young, woman rider is cycling could get hurt by a TW. I thought this would only happen in contact sports. Then we saw the permanent damage to a young woman in volleyball, now cycling. I have been proven wrong. Women's sports needs to be for women only.
🚴 Trans-identifying male BMXer, Chelsea Wolfe (30) collided w/
@BritishCycling
rider, Sasha Pardoe (16) resulting in a concussion for the teenager & removal from the
@fiseworld
World Cup.
High schooler loses chance at 7k euros in winning prize money by failing medical clearance.
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@fairplaywomen
OUT with the sponsors that supported men in women’s sports. IN with the sponsors that respect and protect women athletes. Thank You!!!
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Join us at the Pro Cycling National Championships to Save Women’s Sports.
@IWF
@IWN
@Riley_Gaines_
@DexterSaxapahaw
@MichelleNash45
@PaulaYScanlan
@tmsilverman
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So many women athletes are quietly walking away. I applaud Hannah Arensman for telling us why she’s leaving cycling.
@UCI_cycling
@usacycling
Arensman ends career because she is discouraged after finishing fourth at US CX champs between two trans women.
It’s the price we’re apparently willing to pay for this particular inclusiveness.
Is there a negative long term implication?
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@jamesstout
@autostraddle
@t_seplavy
Let me try again. No amount of testosterone suppression mitigates the advantage of being born male. This is not fair to women athletes.
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Another tragic loss for women’s cycling. Hannah had the bravery to tell us why. Most quietly walk away so they don’t get eviscerated like I did, Hannah will be. Please send her words of support. To the women before me who were silenced, I have not forgotten you.
'I've left cycling – losing to a trans rider hurts on a million different levels'
Exclusive interview with Hannah Arensman, the US champion cyclist who walked away from her sport aged 24, despairing at the unfairness of competing against biological males
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@i_heart__bikes
@BicyclingMag
@usacycling
How Tara feels about women cyclists who speak up.
@BicyclingMag
Use a baseball bat.
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Austin Killips places first in the women’s race and wins $5,000 at the Belgium Waffle Ride.
@iocmedia
@DLappartient
@katkanash
@megynkelly
@MegynKellyShow
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Yes, I did. I’m willing to die on this hill, sacrifice my ‘bad’ reputation to protect women’s sports. Cue Joan Jett ‘Bad Reputation’.
I hope this doesn't sound boastful, but yes, I totally did.
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If I had switched to ‘boy’ mode when I was racing, would I have gold medals instead of all my silvers?
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Here's a photo of the letter. Let them block this. The silencing of women continues....
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@Hogshead3Au
@WSJ
Any drug that gives one even the slightest advantage is deemed illegal. Yet, allowing a male bodied athlete with a 10-30% advantage over women is okay. Because the feelings of men is more important than the opportunity women athletes. Women’s feelings don’t count
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@jamesstout
@autostraddle
@t_seplavy
You talk about me in your article but you don’t want me to speak. Ooookay, misogyny and the silencing of women athletes in full display. Please, do continue to tell me why men in women’s sports is fair.
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Emily can compete in the trans category or the Open category. They are not banned from competing. Emily wants an unfair advantage by competing against women. No amount of testosterone suppression by Emily makes this fair for women athletes
‘Elite sport is over for me': Trans cyclist Emily Bridges on legal fight against competition ban, as
@stevescott_itv
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We have a Brave Race Promoter!!! Congratulations to Belgian Waffle Ride for having the courage to step up and protect the women's classification!
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@JournalistJill
@jamesstout
I’m enjoying being their problem, along with
@IOC
,
@UCI_cycling
,
@usacycling
I will fight to protect Women’s Cycling. I will not be silenced.
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Flags hung at Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome are in direct conflict of USAC Fan Code of Conduct, & intended to intimidate women. Jenna Lingwood, TW, won two races. Women told to be quiet. Some women chose to not attend.
@usacycling
Can Save Women’s Sports also hang a flag?
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I would like to start honoring the women who spoke out before me, that were shamed, silenced and quietly walked away. I have not forgotten you. These women should be honored. There are so many of you.
@oliverbrown_tel
@ithompsonfdn
This has been happening for at least 20 years, a plethora of males in women’s cycling…women have raised their voices MANY times and have been drummed out NO MEDIA reports on this until recently…What do you suggest they do?
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If we change the name of Women's Sports to People Who Menstruate Sports, we can make sports fair again. Looking for that eye roll emoji.....
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Please, do continue to tell me why it's fair to allow men in Women's Sports.
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Johnson beats the women by 2 1/2 minutes, 4 women enter the race that usually draws over 20 women.
@usacycling
is killing off our grassroots development of women, ignoring UCI policy.
Today male racers Tessa (Michael) Johnson and Evelyn Williamson once again proved they are GREAT at women's cyclocross at Jackson Park in Chicago.
Johnson took 🥇in both the women's 1/2 AND the singlespeed.
And Williamson took 🥈in the women's singlespeed.
Results🧵👇
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“He”. HE won the women’s race. He won by 5 minutes. He will be in Knoxville, TN, June 25th, racing the women for a spot in the World Championships and long team for the Olympics. Please attend our protest.
"He" won the women's race. People can identify however they want but in a sport with divisions for male & female if a biological male enters & wins the female division, it's unfair. Accuse me of misgendering but it doesn't change the outcome. This is wrong
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Castor is 46XY DSD and has gone through male puberty. While we respect and have compassion for those with DSD, this is simply not fair to women athletes.
Caster Semenya has won a recent ruling. Caster has a Difference (or Disorder) of Sex Development (DSD), and the press has been misleading the public for a long time about about athletes with DSDs. People with DSDs deserve compassion and to live their lives free of harassment,…
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Full grown man, Lingwood, beats a 14 year old girl at Adam Myerson’s race by a stunning 6 seconds in the Elite Women’s field. 🙄🙄🙄
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It is Men’s Right today to compete against women and dominate Women’s Sports, if they ‘feel’ like it. Thank You
@iocmedia
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How many signatures will be ignored by the
@iocmedia
@NCAA
before they will listen. But they listened to 7 Transgender women who self reported and said they were weaker and changed IOC policy. But IOC won't listen to the 1000's of signatures of women. IOC won't protect women
Sport is standing up & speaking out! 🗣
#Fairness4Females
400 Olympians, Paralympians, Nat’l Team Members and Coaches, Men & Women, 7506 ✍🏽, support transgender inclusion policies that don’t blow up the female categories.
@worldolympians
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Remember when Rapha did this to a young woman athlete? Will they do this again to any woman they sponsor who asks for fairness in women’s sports? And people wonder why athletes don’t speak up.
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One sport at a time is slowly reeling back this nonsense of Trans Identified Males in women’s sports.
BREAKING: The International Cricket Council bans transgender women from women's cricket following a 9 month consultation
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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Women will play on. Help support a protest for women cyclists. Team owners, start speaking up for your women. Men, take a knee for Save Women’s Sports. Display Save Women’s Sports at cycling events. Get loud.
@JeanHatchet
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Please join us at the Rally/Protest of the policy in place. Save Women's Sports
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Mississippi votes to ban transgender athletes from girls' and women's teams
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Grassroots development of girl’s sports is being destroyed by allowing boys to compete against the girls. Why bother when you know it’s not a level playing field.
45% of girls are quitting sports – and low body confidence is the
#1
reason why 💔
#Dove
#DoveSelfEsteemProject
#BodyConfidentSport
#BodyConfidence
#GirlsInSports
#LetsChangeBeauty
#KeepHerConfident
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@jamesstout
talks about me in his article, but wants me to be silent. How’s that working for you???
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@TomHPearman
@usacycling
If having male biology isn’t enough, throw in some line blocking and shoulder punches.
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Castor Semenya needs to train harder so they can be competitive in the men’s classification, where he belongs.
👇Must read thread, and note in particular the 2nd point of screenshot. The DSD males are non-elite ie not that good male athletes, yet they still beat the world’s best female athletes. Semenya said Sharp should train harder. Actually it is Semenya who needed to train harder.
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The power of women standing together!
@iocmedia
@AlisonSydor
@mara_yamauchi
@jk_rowling
@sharrond62
@Martina
@cathydevine56
@FondOfBeetles
@actionmarion
@MariaBlower
@Hogshead3Au
and all the other amazing women listed in our letter!!! I am grateful
BREAKING: British Cycling Board of Directors has voted in favour of an immediate suspension of its transgender policy.
"We understand there are concerns regarding the extent to which our current policy appropriately reflects the Sports Councils’ Equality Group guidance"
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We will be having a peaceful protest in support of women athletes.
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IOC medical director Richard Budget says, “Everyone agrees the trans women are women “. He obviously didn’t ask the women.
@iocmedia
You are a joke. And NO, my uterus never fell out running.
@helensaxby11
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So many men in women's cycling
@joepabike
@i_heart__bikes
@micahling007
@ithompsonfdn
@BicyclingMag
Why is it hate to point out it's not fair to have biological males competing against women? It's not just a handful
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High School boys are faster than Olympic women. This is one that needs to be shared again.
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@babybeginner
I am convinced that any trans identified male that wants to box against a woman is because they hate women.
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We stand on the shoulders of the women before us that fought for the right to vote, reproductive care, Title IX, now the right to sex separated sports. We fight for the younger women coming after us. Women protested for these rights. It's time for us to protest, again.
@ithompsonfdn
let's do this!
Girls and women of all ages, sports, & divisions...enough is enough. Its unfortunate girls are being asked to make this sacrifice, but change has to happen. Im sick of messages from female athletes/parents reminding me my experience is not unique
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I’d like to see Olympians and Elite athletes, Worlds athletes band together to help protect women’s sports and help promote a new category for transgender athletes. Now that they have much need visibility and rights, it’s time for them to have their own Olympics and Worlds.
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I have received many messages from American female athletes contacting me about fear of speaking up for fear of retribution and losing sponsors if they do. This is called intimidation and discrimination of women.
@iocmedia
I have received messages from Canadian female athletes thanking me for speaking up on this issue, that as active athletes they dont feel safe to speak.
@cbcsports
@EthicsInSPORT
&
@WomenandSportCA
all part of the intolerance to having open discussion in 🇨🇦
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@OliLondonTV
Thank You, Oli! I've followed you for years and deeply appreciate your voice. Yours is a voice of great value and knowledge because of your journey!
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@JanePagie
@BritishCycling
@sharrond62
@Martina
@fairplaywomen
@mara_yamauchi
Many of us are working at the international level. We can only get traction if the women competing join us and boycott. When we put out our letter to the UCI, the British women boycotted. It worked. We need more women to become brave
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@B_Lea1
@usacycling
When that marginalized group has a 10-45% advantage, they are not marganilized. They have an unfair advantage. Women have been marginalized for 10s of thousands of years by men. Women are the true marginalized group. It is not their job to carry the issues of a TW.
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This is what they did to me when I spoke up. I can handle this as an older women. Young women athletes should not have to face this as they try to enter sports and ask for fairness. 93% of your Pro Women Cyclists do not want men in women's sports. Please listen to the women.
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@sharrond62
I see a pattern. I sent a letter , 80 plus Olympians and Olympic coaches to the medical director at the IOC, nothing.
@bc_Sanders
sent a petition with over 9,000 signatures, nothing.
@SaveWomensSport
did a petition. They are ignoring women's voices
@iocmedia
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@BillieJeanKing
@AthleteAlly
@LambdaLegal
@TheWNBPA
@WomensSportsFdn
I am so sorry you supported this. Women deserve equality in Sports and you have abandoned the women athletes.
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Another company that shows its true colors. Dropped Bethany, a young woman who recovered from losing her arm to a shark, for a Trans Identified Male. He’s obviously had to struggle more than a young woman who faced a shark and fought to live.
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@oliverbrown_tel
It's my understanding that just about ALL the women are unhappy about this but are forced to go along and be quiet. I'm sure the 'rest of the story' will soon emerge, not unlike the Lia Thomas and the locker rooms.
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@mara_yamauchi
@runthinkwrite
Basically, they recognize women need a sex separated sport but it’s more important to include male biology into our sport even if it’s not fair because we shouldn’t assume it’s not fair even though the studies show it’s not fair because you’re women and it really doesn’t matter
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Is anyone else as angry as I am about the harm KNOWINGLY being inflicted upon woman athletes!
Last weekend 3, yes three women’s rugby players had to be removed from a game and treated for injuries from hits sustained by a transwoman.
The referee, after repeated dangerous tackles, had to remove the trans player from the game.
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I was so excited for the maiden voyage and launch of
@CyniscaC
One press release, a brief pause, and they’ve become the Titanic.
Hard to read this hit piece by
@amrook
covering the cowards + misogynist bullies at
@CyniscaC
who have slung out the brilliant athlete
@ithompsonfdn
for advocating fair competition for female cyclists. I am incandescent with rage.
#IStandWithIngaThompson
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Women are not small men. We are a sex separated, protected category.
@BBCWomansHour
Two-time Olympian here. Trans women are male & therefore belong in the male category. Sports bodies need to set clear category rules on sex at birth & then enforce them. Female athletes are sick of this🤬. Women are not a level of testosterone.
#SaveWomensSports
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This is what misogyny looks like. All men and a transgender woman discussing fairness for women in women's sports. They should be discussing prostate health in men's sports.
@sharrond62
@Martina
@Hogshead3Au
@AlisonSydor
@mara_yamauchi
@MariaBlower
@BritishCycling
@UCI_cycling
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Another stunning and brave TW took 1st place. This never happens 🙄🙄
@usacycling
is destroying the grassroots of women’s cycling. Where is the leadership and promise by Brendan Quirk to follow UCI policy? Where are the women on the Board of Directors standing up for women?
Male racer Gage Martin took the win in his very first women's mountain bike race, the Land Mine Mountain Bike Classic.
Can you believe there's ANOTHER extremely talented male women's mountain biker? What are the chances?!
#ThisNeverHappens
#SaveWomensSports
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@Dove
We had a huge growth in women’s sports until they allowed boys into girl’s sports, destroying the grassroots development of women’s sports. This will take decades to correct.
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@MailOnline
Transgender women have a 45% upper body strength advantage over women. This will only result in actual harm to women.
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Both are choices, transitioning and taking HRT for menopause. Both choices mean you don't get to compete in sports. We don't get to have it all.
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On Tuesday,
@UCI_cycling
defended their stance on allowing TW in Women’s Cycling. Now they might think about it??? Women and men need to start protesting HARD! Make our voices heard publicly.
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The
@UCI_cycling
@DLappartient
said they would consult women cyclists before the upcoming UCI Management Committee meeting in Glasgow. To date, no women cyclists I know have been consulted.
@katkanash
sent out an email that she will represent the athletes' voices 1
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So many women are grateful and thankful
@DLappartient
@UCI_cycling
The UCI adapts its rules on the participation of transgender athletes in international competitions
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White man’s tears when they can’t cheat in Women’s Sports. Heartbreaking.
Testerical activist starts crying to avoid answering a question about women's sports. 😢🎻
#SaveWomensSports
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@Riley_Gaines_
@usacycling
International Cycling Union, UCI, removed the policy allowing Trans Identide Male, TIM, into women’s sports.
@usacycling
has decided to not follow UCI rules, as they had promised
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Our Bodies, Our Sports: Keep Women’s Cycling Female Tickets, Knoxville | Eventbrite. 1:30 at Pat Summit Plaza to listen to us speak. Join us at the bike race to peacefully watch and support our women.
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Another brave organization standing behind their women!
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@Hogshead3Au
@sebcoe
Our job, as Olympians, is to protect the women athletes who come after us.
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One by One, common sense is returning to women's sports.
NEWS: (thread) Badminton England has released new policy, and the headline is that it's Open/Female.
Details here:
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Whoever wrote the
@usacycling
new policy on men in the women’s classification, purposefully kept this vague and confusing, to please no one and to keep themselves from being held accountable. Cowardice at its worst. Even better, quoting Ted Steven’s Act while they violate it.
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@prideinprotest
Men, posting pictures of boxing gloves, meant to threaten and intimidate women. Typical male pattern violence.
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This has to stop. Once again, young women are left to fend for themselves as Roanoke College in Virginia does nothing to help these young swimmers .
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