He would not feel safe competing alongside men
Oh good, more whining from a man about not being able to compete in women’s sports.
Emily Bridges once dreamt of racing for Olympic glory in Paris this summer. But after British Cycling barred transgender women [aka MEN] from competing in the female category last year,
shehas all but given up on elite sport.
Diddums. After British Cycling barred men who pretend to be women from competing in the female category, Bridges gave up. That’s good news.
Bridges said the policy amounts to a ban from elite cycling.
“A ban is a ban. You can say you can compete in the open category, but we’re women – we should be able to race in the women’s category,”
shesaid.
They’re not women. They’re men who try to look like women, which doesn’t make them women. I could try to look like a dolphin, but it wouldn’t make me a dolphin.
British Cycling had given
herthe option to compete in the ‘open’ category alongside other transgender women, transgender men, and athletes born biologically male. But Bridges saidshewould not feel safe competing alongside men and does not like transgender women having to ‘out’ themselves to compete in the category.
Diddums. Again. Journalists should stop taking this entitled whining seriously. They should also stop calling men “she” and “her” – it just further entrenches the tedious destructive lie.
Beyond sport, Bridges is unequivocal about the impact about the wider impact excluding transgender athletes is having.
Shebelieves calls to restrict the participation of transgender athletes reinforces the idea that trans women are not women and that they are a threat.
It’s not “an idea”; it’s the reality.
Having to “out” yourself to compete in the “open” category? Really? To compete in the “open” category, all you have to do is sign up. It’s the OPEN category, open to everyone.
“Outing yourself” is a bad thing? Really? You want Trans Visibility or don’t you? You can’t have Awareness and Visibility and Pride and Celebration without being seen. You can’t have it both ways.
“Outing yourself”? Really? Like it isn’t Obvious that you’re male?
You “don’t feel safe” in the Open category? In what way? How are you “not safe”? Never mind how “not safe” YOU are for women. You’d think you’d understand how the WOMEN feel having to compete against YOU.
Bridges was happy to out themselves when being lauded as a brave hero, so it’s not the ‘outing’ that’s the problem, it’s the lack of winning and adulation.
Right here. This. WHY can’t anyone see that this applies to female athletes? Female athletes, who didn’t change their body from the body that could compete in their category safely. Female athletes, playing in sports after a long period of being denied. Female athletes, who get smaller prizes and less media attention. And now what they have fought so hard to win is being snatched from them, and by men who often do real damage to the women playing the sport they love.
We hear so much about transwomen (i.e. men) wanting to participate in the sport they love. We need to hear more about women (i.e. women) and how they want to participate in the sport they love but can’t because some man took their spot.
They love it so much! But they don’t love it enough to still participate if they can’t use the women’s locker room. They don’t love it enough to still participate in a division they are actually eligible for. They don’t love it enough to still participate if they can’t be guaranteed to win. They don’t love it enough to still participate if they can’t dominate and lord it over women. Their love for their sport is actually fickle and shallow.
In addition to the bizarre ideas that anyone would have to “out” themselves as anything to compete in an Open category — or that advocates of Pride and Visibility would be cautious about coming out — is the ridiculous implication that there’s a substantial number of trans-identified males blending into the woman’s category with nobody having noticed those bodies aren’t female.
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