{"id":1503480,"date":"2022-06-04T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503480"},"modified":"2022-06-04T16:04:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T20:04:07","slug":"two-dudes-win-first-and-second-place-in-london-womens-cycling-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-dudes-win-first-and-second-place-in-london-womens-cycling-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Dudes Win First and Second Place in London Women\u2019s Cycling Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Ftwo-dudes-win-first-and-second-place-in-london-womens-cycling-event%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=1503480&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--><div><\/div>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Emily Bridges and Lilly Chant, two biological men who identify as transgender, won the first and second place slots at London&#8217;s ThunderCrit cycling event on Thursday. \u00a0<\/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\">BREAKING ??<\/p>\n<p>Emily Bridges and Lilly Chant take 1st and 2nd place in tonight\u2019s Thundercrit cycle race at Herne Hill Velodrome. <\/p>\n<p>Notice anything different about them compared to the cyclist who takes third place? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/savewomenssports?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#savewomenssports<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WomensRightsNetwork?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WomensRightsNetwork<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OF2lmtxKao\">pic.twitter.com\/OF2lmtxKao<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Women&#8217;s Rights Network &#8211; WRN (@WomensRightsNet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WomensRightsNet\/status\/1532804764664225792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/reduxx.info\/biological-males-take-top-2-spots-in-inclusive-womens-cycling-division\/\">Reduxx<\/a>, ThunderCrit is London&#8217;s largest fixed gear cycling race. The victory was announced on Twitter by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensrights.network\/\">Women&#8217;s Rights Network<\/a>, a UK based organization defending women&#8217;s sex based rights.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\"><\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The tweet continues, &#8220;Notice anything different about them compared to the cyclist who takes third place?&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Third place went to the only biological woman in the photo. She&#8217;s pictured holding her child and standing in diminutive regard to her biological male counterparts.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In response, one tweet reads, &#8220;This pic tells the story of gender ideology perfectly. Men first, women &#038; childrens needs last.&#8221;<\/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\">Two men kiss as they celebrate stealing 1st &#038; 2rd place in a womens race&#8230;woman takes care of her child as she stands on the 3rd place she has been relegated to due to male cheats.<\/p>\n<p>This pic tells the story of gender ideology perfectly. <br \/>Men first, women &#038; childrens needs last. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0rcX8a8UdZ\">pic.twitter.com\/0rcX8a8UdZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aja ????????? (@Aja02537920) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aja02537920\/status\/1533031836040962049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Bridges and Chant&#8217;s victories contribute to a growing trend of biological men, who identify as transgender, competing in and dominating women&#8217;s sports. UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas has won swimming competitions by unprecedented margins while openly laying <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/im-a-woman-lia-thomas-wants-to-compete-in-2024-olympics\">ambitions towards the Olympics.<\/a> \u00a0Last year power lifter Laurel Hubbard was named <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/trans-athlete-laurel-hubbard-named-sportswoman-of-the-year\">&#8220;Sportswoman of the Year.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>All three victors competed in ThunderCrit&#8217;s Lightning category, which their website specifies is for &#8220;cis-women, non-binary people&#8221; and &#8220;trans men and women whose physical performance aligns most closely with cis-women.&#8221; The site continues that &#8220;cis-people cannot choose their racing category. Cis-men will race in the Thunder category, cis-women will race in the Lightning category.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>Prior to Thursday&#8217;s race, Bridges had been unable to compete in women&#8217;s cycling events. As reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/british-transgender-cyclist-blocked-from-racing-biological-women-after-competitors-threaten-to-boycott-race\/\">Outkick<\/a>, Bridges couldn&#8217;t race in the British National Omnium cycling event after protest. Bridges was also cycling and winning competitions in male categories as recently as February, and was registered for the British National Omnium as a man. <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The outrage continued through Bridges&#8217; involvement in ThunderCrit, as one tweet noted &#8220;If injustice doesn&#8217;t inspire fury, you&#8217;re morally defunct.&#8221;<\/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\">Two men in 1st and 2nd place in a women&#8217;s race. If another man chooses to enter, there&#8217;ll be no female winners. In women&#8217;s sports. If injustice doesn&#8217;t inspire fury, you&#8217;re morally defunct. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/alrKeT4hb4\">https:\/\/t.co\/alrKeT4hb4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 dammit (@guillotesque) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guillotesque\/status\/1533070801901129731?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 4, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>In October 2011, Chant posted on social media it would take 11 months of hormone treatment to reach acceptable levels to compete in women&#8217;s sports. ThunderCrit didn&#8217;t adhere to this criteria as June falls within that period.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>These victories occur amid the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/confirmed-biological-male-swimmer-lia-thomas-does-have-unfair-advantage-over-women-competitors\">statistical advantages<\/a> biological men, even undergoing hormone treatment, have over women. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>ThunderCrit didn&#8217;t specify metrics for determining how their non-cis participant&#8217;s could self-assess their physical performances.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>The term &#8220;cis,&#8221; as applied to gender, was coined in 1991, by German sexologist Volkmar Sigusch to create a distinction where everyone is either &#8220;cis&#8221; or &#8220;trans.&#8221; Sigusch&#8217;s work in gender theory extended beyond transgenderism and included other common sexologist topics such as his 2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Mvkk8\">SPIEGEL interview<\/a> where he identified as a pedophilia apologist.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section data-v-f313b7e6=\"\">\n<p>With the increasing number of biological men dominating women&#8217;s sports <em>The Post Millennial&#8217;s<\/em> Libby Emmons tweeted:<\/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\">Women don&#8217;t matter to anyone. No one in power cares if women are marginalized, commodified, colonized or erased. <\/p>\n<p>Feminists fought for equality then gave it all back as soon as men demanded it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/l0Blhy0pDD\">https:\/\/t.co\/l0Blhy0pDD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 libby emmons (@libbyemmons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libbyemmons\/status\/1532854205001637890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Bridges and Lilly Chant, two biological men who identify as transgender, won the first and second place slots at London&#8217;s ThunderCrit cycling event on Thursday. \u00a0BREAKING ??Emily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":1897673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/biological-males-win-womens-cycling-event-kiss-while-third-place-female-cares-for-child?utm_campaign=64487","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503480","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=1503480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1897673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}