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Trans identifying athletes have won officially approved women’s cycling event American Cycling On Tuesday, she urged women to speak out in protest.
Transathlete Kate Phillips took first place at the Lions Masters National Championship in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Phillips beat veteran female cyclist Julie Peterson for money, and Peterson refused Win the podium At a protest medal ceremony.
“You could clearly see the power he had,” Peterson said of Phillips on Fox News Digital.
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Transgender cyclist Kate Phillips took first place at the US Cycling Lions Masters on July 1st. (Icon provided)
Peterson said he didn’t know that Phillips had signed up for the event until he had already registered himself and discussed the situation with staff.
“If I had known, I would have spent thousands of dollars on my trip and never had to take a break from work to race,” Peterson said.
“I said, ‘I don’t want to compete with guys,’ and they scolded me right away and said, ‘Oh, you can’t call him a guy.’
Veteran female cyclist Debbie Milne competed in Tuesday’s event and finished in seventh place. Milne also made a statement against US cycling to allow Phillips to compete.
“To be fair to all humans, if we want to say him or her, he was born in a biological man. That’s true,” Milne told Fox News Digital. “And that makes it an unfair advantage, and no matter what happens afterwards, it’s a completely different topic.
“I raced for 25 years on conditions that only women could understand. There’s a lot that only women born get through for the cycles we have.
Milne also said he was unaware of trans athletes taking part before the race.
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“I wasn’t expecting this entirely, I drove for 13 hours and then came and did a national championship,” Milne said. “I didn’t know. I’d like to know what the terminology would be if I came. But that wasn’t even known to me.”
Veteran female cyclist Christina Gray, who didn’t compete with Phillips on Tuesday, said she had to compete with trans athletes in cycling from Oregon, so she wanted to speak out in support of her fellow female peers.
“I’ve had to compete with biological men in the past 10 years of races, and I’ve been forced to take the podium with a lot of them and more recently in the last five years,” Gray said. “In Oregon, almost every weekend, our races have biological men, actually on weekends.”
The three women then contacted the Independent Council on Women’s Sports (icon) to spread awareness of the incident.
Fox News Digital reached out to USA Cycling and Phillips for comment.
The US Cycling Transgender Eligibility Policy allows biological men to compete in female categories under certain conditions.
- Use the Elite Athletes’ Equality Application to provide written and signed declarations to the US Cycling Technical Director that their gender identity is female.
- For athletes, Section IX below meet the Elite Athletes’ Equity Assessment Process. a) Group A athlete. Or b) want to participate in a championship race at a national championship.
Several other team USA national governing bodies were scrutinized last year for transgender eligibility policies.
USA Gymnastics removed its transgender eligibility policy this year and is currently assessing it.
“In May, USAG removed the policy to assess compliance with current legal landscapes,” read the USA Gymnastics Statement provided to Fox News Digital.
USA Fencing announced in April that it is preparing to change its gender eligibility policy after a viral protest by female fencers Stephanie Turner Protesting against trans opponents has sparked a massive backlash and federal intervention.
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The organization said it was preparing to fix it. Current policy This allows biological men to compete with women and girls.
American Athletics (USATF) Official Transgender Eligibility Policy Currently, we refer to the World Athletics Guidelines on our official website. The USATF previously referred to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) policy as seen via archives Wayback Machine.
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