Trans cycling

What a slanted dishonest BBC article:

A top amateur cyclist says his sport is less inclusive and welcoming than ever after it banned transgender women from competing in the female category.

Josh Jones, 31, from Cambridge, believes British Cycling's new rules "fail the cycling community".

From next year, these athletes will compete in an "open" category with men.

British Cycling said it aimed to "promote equality, diversity and inclusion, whilst prioritising fairness".

Jones, who has been competing for 12 years, has 44 wins across all disciplines and is currently 13th in the British Cycling National Rankings.

He believes he is the first and only openly gay rider to hold a world ranking in any cycling discipline, but recent moves within the sport have left him dismayed.

Nice try: equating trans to gay. We're not fooled. Gays aren't being banned from women's events: men are.

"The three main governing bodies - British Cycling, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and Cycling Time Trials - have all introduced new policies that prevent transgender people from participating in the sport authentically," he said.

In July, the UCI - world cycling's governing body - said anyone who had transitioned after male puberty could compete in a "men/open" category but not in women's events.

Cycling Time Trials said it was "convinced that after undergoing male puberty, a rider will retain strength, stamina and physique which will give them a permanent advantage over someone who has not".

But Jones said: "An open category is essentially just a different label being used for the men's category. It does not respect people's identity. It denies that transgender women are women."

Because they're not women. They're men, with male advantage in sports.

He believes the governing bodies should consider the "social impact of excluding transgender woman from competing authentically".

No concern, of course, for the "social impact" of women not being able to compete against men. The sense of entitlement, and total lack of concern for women, is breathtaking.