{"id":1426706,"date":"2022-04-09T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426706"},"modified":"2022-04-09T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T12:30:00","slug":"men-banned-from-womens-british-cycling-elite-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/men-banned-from-womens-british-cycling-elite-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Banned From Women\u2019s British Cycling Elite Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmen-banned-from-womens-british-cycling-elite-events%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426706&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>British Cycling has suspended its current policy regarding transgender athletes, and will now prohibit biological male athletes from competing at its elite female events.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/61036110\">BBC<\/a>, British Cycling said that it will conduct a full review of its transgender athlete policies &#8220;in the coming weeks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The previous regulations states that riders had to record testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to beginning competition in the female division.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Notably, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/61036110\">BBC<\/a> article, published on Friday, has had its headline altered after backlash on social media.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-embed-card\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Any athlete can and may still compete in their actual sex category<br \/>Not one person has been banned from cycling<br \/>Obviously one might not be good enough to achieve at a high level if one chooses to suppress one\u2019s testosterone-but that is a personal choice to take cross sex hormones<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 HelenB (@scrumpyh3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scrumpyh3\/status\/1512384906244108294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The original headline read: &#8220;Transgender athletes can\u2019t compete at British Cycling elite events.&#8221; The headline now reads, &#8220;Transgender women no longer able to compete at elite female events run by British Cycling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card\"><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The announcement of the policy change \u00a0follows close on the heels of news that biological male athlete <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biological-male-cyclist-will-not-compete-in-womens-championships\">Emily Bridges<\/a> would not be eligible to compete at the National Omnium Championships as a female.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The sport\u2019s world governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), reportedly told British Cycling three days before the race that &#8220;because international ranking points are allocated at national championship events, Bridges&#8217; participation could only be allowed once her eligibility to race in international competitions was confirmed. That process is ongoing,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/61036110\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>British Cycling said that it &#8220;understood there are concerns&#8221; regarding how its policy reflected the guidance published last year by the Sports Councils&#8217; Equality Group (SCEG).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cycling\/61036110\">BBC<\/a>, &#8220;An 18-month review developed by Sport England, Sport Scotland, Sport Northern Ireland, Sport Wales and UK Sport concluded &#8216;testosterone suppression is unlikely to guarantee fairness between transgender women and natal females in gender-affected sports.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The review said that &#8220;for many sports, the inclusion of transgender people, fairness and safety cannot co-exist in a single competitive model.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Cycling has suspended its current policy regarding transgender athletes, and will now prohibit biological male athletes from competing at its elite female events.According to the BBC, British<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1426706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}