Man hopes to bring diversity to all-male sport
Bad reporting. Really shockingly bad, inaccurate, misleading, dishonest reporting.
A woman who hopes to become the first transgender driver to compete in the British Touring Cars Championship (BTCC) has praised her “wonderful” welcome to motorsport.
Deborah Stokes, from Kettering, made her debut at Snetterton Circuit, in Norfolk, on Saturday, finishing third in a saloon series race.
The 55-year-old said she wants to encourage diversity in motorsport.
He’s not a woman. The BBC should not lie this way in a news story. It’s deliberate. The BBC chose to say “A woman who” instead of “A trans woman who” at the very beginning. It’s insulting, of course, as always, but in addition to that it’s outright deceptive and confusing. It’s not responsible reporting.
It’s also, as always, nonsensical.
Speaking to BBC Radio Northampton, she said: “Hopefully while I’m doing that I can bring more diversity into motorsport and some natural females into motorsport, because there are hardly any female racers out there.
“It’s basically just men enjoying the weekend.”
And it still is. Adding a man who calls himself a woman changes nothing in that scenario. He’s one more man enjoying the weekend.
At least men have long competed against women in auto racing, so he’s not barging in on an all-women’s sport.
There have been women (not trans women) competing in the British Touring Cars Championship (BTCC).
In motorsport, just like horse racing, there are no separate sex competitions. There is no reason a skilled woman cannot beat a skilled man in either sport. Women already exist in those sports, just not the super special transvestite women.
I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that it’s more difficult for women to get sponsors in motorsports. Just a hunch, since it would be in line with the rest of the way society works. If so, this guy is hedging in on the small pool of sponsors who want to say that they are support women racers, and hence pushing out real women.