Quick shift
Fox News (sorry) on Rhys McKinnon/Veronica Ivy six weeks ago:
Veronica Ivy, a Canadian cyclist who became the first transgender woman to win a world track cycling championship, took issue with the sport’s governing body’s updated policy on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s events.
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) released its new policy on Friday, prohibiting any trans cyclist from competing in women’s events if they “transitioned after (male) puberty.”
Ivy vented
herfrustrations on her Instagram account.“However, now I’m forced into the humiliating ‘Men’s/Open’ category,” Ivy wrote. “No cis woman will be in this category, only trans women and CIS men. That means it’s not ‘open.’
“The UCI has said loud and clear that trans women are not real women and that we must be treated as other, and the cis women must be ‘protected’ from us innocent trans women.”
It must have been embarrassing that he had just quoted them as saying he is a woman.
Ivy called the UCI’s policy “nonsense.”
“It’s an indignity. It’s inhumane. It’s disgusting.
“I will not be deterred by this hateful targeted transphobic policy.”
Deterred from what? He will be deterred from forcing his way into women’s races if that’s what the official policy is. That’s a case where saying is definitive: rules. Just saying McKinnon/Ivy is a woman doesn’t make him a woman, but saying the new rule is that trans women can’t compete against women does make that the rule (if you’re the officials in charge saying it).
Note, of course, also, that he considers it “inhumane” to keep him out of women’s races but clearly not inhumane to allow him to compete in women’s races. Being humane=putting Rhys McKinnon first.
In May, the organization defended its policy after trans cyclist Austin Killips became the first transgender female to win a UCI stage race at the fifth stage of the Tour of the Gila.
After considerable backlash, UCI then said it would review its policy, which ultimately led to Friday’s announcement.
Keep lashing back. Inch by inch, row by row.
‘transgender female’ please stop.
Oh, so now he’s fighting for the “inclusion” of women in the Men’s/Open category? How chivalrously noble of him. Or, is he just making sure he ends up somewhere higher than last place?
Yes, and?
You made that decision to be “other” some time ago.
If you’re cheating, you’re not innocent, even if the rules, up until now, have invited you to cheat, and allowed you to cheat. So, rules or no, you were cheating and you knew it. Your “victories” were only possible through a ridiculous loophole, which the authorities responsible have seen fit to close. You are still male and always will be, certificates issued by confused, cowed, or bullied bureaucrats and departments notwithstanding.
And someday the departments that issue birth certificates and passports are going to come to their senses. At that point McKinnon is going to have to try convincing his genes, bone structure, lung capacity, etc. to pick up the resulting slack.
YNnB — and the male pattern baldness, and the prostate hypoplasia.
Line upon line, precept upon precept
Quote: “However, now I’m forced into the humiliating ‘Men’s/Open’ category,” Ivy wrote. “No cis woman will be in this category, only trans women and CIS men. That means it’s not ‘open.’“
This strikes me as at odds with trans ideology’s idea of ‘open’, given that, if a women’s bathroom were to be “inclusive” and accept self identifying TW to enter, and after that occurred, no female adults or minor children used that bathroom, feeling that it was humiliating, undignified, inhumane and disgusting, and that only males used that bathroom thereafter, I expect that Veronica Ivy would state that this bathroom was indeed “open” to “all women”.