Leaving female competitors in the shade
Men take top three prizes in women’s race:
Transgender athletes swept the board in a 1-2-3 at a prestigious women’s cycle race over the weekend, infuriating fans and leaving female competitors in the shade.
Male transgender athletes that is. I wish journalism would learn to be clear about this, because confusion is one of the ways trans ideology has managed to steal so much from women already.
Every medalist in the elite women’s Madison at Washington’s Marymore Grand Prix on Friday had a trans athlete on the two–person team, marking the first time trans women are known to have had a place on every podium spot in a race.
Race venue the Jerry Baker Memorial Velodrome in Redmond warns it will not tolerate ‘bullying or derogatory comments especially related to race, creed, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, physical or mental disability’.
It’s Marymoor, not Marymore. It’s one of my favorite parks – the one where you can walk along Samammish Slough all the way to where it empties into Lake Washington. Takes a few buses to get there, but worth it.
Anyway, nice to know the velodrome will tolerate the bullying of female athletes but not the mentioning of male athletes doing the bullying.
It would appear to me that this leaves women athletes only one course, which is to form an organisation dedicated to 1. the exposure and denunciation of all this bullshit and 2. for the exclusive participation of biological females, and exclusion of fraudulent ‘gender identifiers,’ who only take the prizes because they have male musculature, and who cannot be ‘winners’ any other way.
As I believe the great Italian writer and poet Dante Alighieri said: “Iffa you gotta da donger, you don’ta belonga.”
This was not a women’s race, obviously. There’s a very easy way to create a women’s sports division, and that’s according to biological sex. That’s the way women’s sports have always been delineated, very exactly and very reliably. If men (even those who masquerade as women) are allowed to compete, then it’s not a women’s event. There are ways to enforce this, but the people on the ruling committees are chickenshits.
For years they’ve been telling us crazy when we have said this is inevitable. Now it’s here and there will be no tolerance of noticing it.
I see a massive walkout of female athletes coming. All of them, off the fields, off the bikes, out of the water, as a way of saying F. U. to this bullshit.
Oh my christ. I just went to the original article and looked at the photo. Jesus. Fucking. Christ. A “Female” cyclist with a dong in “her” shorts.
@Mike B;
Many of the women who have established reputations on this topic argue strenuously against the strategy of women doing a walkout, massive or otherwise. It’s unlikely to make a key difference, since there are still plenty of women players, coaches, and organizations which are self-righteously on board with gender ideology and the “right of trans athletes to play” — and it’s a guaranteed loss of awards, position, and everything they’ve worked for. It would have to be an almost total refusal across the board, one which includes lesser female athletes who would now be able to qualify, and that’s just not going to happen. It’s the cheaters who need to be focused on and tossed out.
Sastra is right.
Women walking out harms all women.
Women, and men who care about women, must point and stare, boo, shun, refuse handshakes, and never congratulate. These men must be sent to Coventry, ignored and deplored at every level.
Newspapers, magazines, radio and TV shows, blogs, etc must be swamped with stories pointing out the illogicality of pretending men are women and the harm this does to the rights and respect of women and girls.
A cock in a frock should always be received with shock.
Mike B, #5:
And by the looks of it, he’s very…erm…pleased with himself.
As a childless gay man, I’m just an observer here. I have no skin in this game. So I can only stand in wonder at the female athletes who are complicit in compromising their own sport. What is one to do? Who’s going to listen to me “mansplain” that this is not a good thing?
I am, for one!
In a way I have no skin in this game either. I’ve never liked organized sports and am not in general interested in the subject. It’s the injustice that makes me interested in this branch of it. You can say the same.
Yes, it’s the injustice, like the injustice that gay people cavorting with the “T” lobby fail to see when middle-aged straight men in dresses court lesbians, or “trans men” log in the Grindr looking for male partners, or effeminate boys and butch little girls are encouraged to amputate their sex organs. Sheesh.
If there are athletes who are in a position to boycott, more power to them, but it shouldn’t be up to the women who’ve been betrayed by the governing authorities of their sports to redress this issue. They weren’t the ones who bent the rules to allow men to cheat in the first place, so why should they have to both clean up their sports and pay the price to do so? Continuing to compete under these conditions is complying, but boycotting their own sports mean they don’t get to compete at all. By showing “good sportsmanship,” they’re upholding their end of the bargain, even if it’s a bargain that’s rigged against them. They are still acting in good faith, even when their sports federations are not. That takes guts and courage too.
Yes. Make the cheaters feel bad. They should feel bad, BECAUSE THEY ARE CHEATING. Cheaters should be punished; normally they are. The “validation” and “affirmation” they crave is at the expense of women. Don’t give it to them. They are not women, they are men. They are lying when they claim to be women. They are cheating when they invade women’s sport. Even if they’re following “rules” that have been rwwritten to let them “compete” they’re still cheating. In their heart of hearts they must know this.
They will always be male; nothing they say or do will ever change that. There is no shame in being male. But there is shame in cheating. There is shame in lying. At least thereshould be. Don’t like that simple truth? Tough. Get out. STOP LYING. STOP CHEATING. Until you do, your lying and cheating should be thrown in your face at every opportunity. Pressure should be put on broadcasters, sponsors, and regulatory bodies to put this right. Let them know it’s their reputations that are on the line for accepting the dishonesty and cheating. There is no “balance” to be had between permitting men to cheat and fairness for women. It is shameful that anyone thought that any such “balance” was necessary or even posssible, that women’s rights to fair play were so easily disposed of and so willingly sacrificed.
Women’s sport is for women only. Sports are segregated by sex, and for a good reason: fairness for women. It’s not difficult or complicated. Anyone who tells you it is is lying, and is willing to betray women to allow cheating by men. Claims of “nuance” are hiding bullshit. Demands for “inclusion” are supposed to justify cheating women out of what is rightfully theirs. That the authorities in charge permitted this to happen demonstrates that they should be removed from their positions, along with anyone who thought that letting men invade women’s sport was a good idea, supported its implementation, and enforced compliance with this policy are as guilty as the men whose intrusion they enabled. Liars and cheats all. All should step down. If they won’t, they should all be fired. Want to keep your position? It’s not difficult or complicated. Stop lying. Stop cheating. Apologize to the women you’ve wronged, both in the past and present. Apologize publicly. Wherever possible, restore the medals, records, scholarships, and positions stolen from them. Get men out of women’s sport. Then, keep them out by closing the loopholes you gave them to get in. Make this right for women. Otherwise, get out, and make way for those who will. The sooner the better.
At some point, reality will win, because reality doesn’t go away. The women athletes who continued on through this, despite the dishonesty and corruption, will have nothing to be ashamed of.