{"id":1938948,"date":"2023-05-26T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prioritizing-fairness-riley-gaines-praises-cycling-group-for-ban-on-males-competing-in-female-category\/"},"modified":"2023-05-26T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T19:58:29","slug":"prioritizing-fairness-riley-gaines-praises-cycling-group-for-ban-on-males-competing-in-female-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prioritizing-fairness-riley-gaines-praises-cycling-group-for-ban-on-males-competing-in-female-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Riley Gaines commends cycling group for prioritizing fairness by banning males from competing in female category."},"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\">32<\/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%2Fprioritizing-fairness-riley-gaines-praises-cycling-group-for-ban-on-males-competing-in-female-category%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=1938948&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--><h2>Former Swimming Champion Praises British Cycling for Prioritizing Fairness<\/h2>\n<p>Female athletes have been fighting for fairness in sports for years, and it seems that their voices are finally being heard. Riley Gaines, a former swimming champion, recently praised British Cycling for announcing a ban on males competing in the female category. She credited the organization with &#8220;prioritizing fairness&#8221; and called on other governing bodies to follow suit.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<h3>Great News for Women in Sports<\/h3>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Great news! Prioritizing fairness as intended to be in sports. Women should never be used as collateral damage to validate feelings\/identity of others. Its time governing bodies of all sports follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BritishCycling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BritishCycling<\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m certain you played a big part in this!&#8221; Gaines tweeted to three-time Olympian female cyclist Inga Thompson, who recently encouraged women to protest the unfairness of women being forced to compete against males in her sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) May 26, 2023<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The new cycling policy was made to &#8220;safeguard the fairness of competition,&#8221; according to The Daily Mail. The change includes making the current men&#8217;s category an &#8220;open&#8221; category where trans-identifying male cyclists can compete against other men, while the female category is just for those who were born female.<\/p>\n<p>British Cycling Chief Executive Jon Dutton said, &#8220;Our new policies are the product of a robust nine<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-title-ix-rules-may-force-schools-to-allow-men-into-womens-sports-and-facilities\/\" title=\"Biden's Title IX Rules May Force Schools to Allow Men Into Women's Sports and Facilities\">-month review process<\/a>, which we know will have a very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/election-officials-approve-petition-to-recall-progressive-l-a-county-d-a-gascon-signature-gathering-begins\/\" title=\"Election Officials Approve Petition To Recall Progressive L.A. County D.A. Gasc\u00f3n, Signature-Gathering Begins\">real-world impact<\/a> for our community both now and in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The review concluded that &#8220;even with the suppression of testosterone, trans women who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prioritizing-fairness-riley-gaines-praises-cycling-group-for-ban-on-males-competing-in-female-category\/\" title=\"Riley Gaines commends cycling group for prioritizing fairness by banning males from competing in female category.\">transition post-puberty retain<\/a> a performance advantage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While some trans-identifying male cyclists have criticized the new policy, female athletes like Gaines are celebrating this step towards fairness in sports.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1685202016677000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3BHv9qMQC3OwHMBCkGZXpF\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Gaines commended British Cycling for prioritizing fairness by banning males from competing in the female category. The former swimming champion, who lost an NCAA award to a male swimmer, praised the organization&#8217;s decision. British Cycling&#8217;s departure from International Federation rules was announced on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":1938949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[541],"tags":[6492,4020,19721,9990,23955,27735,4925,17380,17213,14812,9522],"class_list":["post-1938948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-banning","tag-category","tag-commends","tag-competing","tag-cycling","tag-fairness","tag-female","tag-gaines","tag-males","tag-prioritizing","tag-riley"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938948","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\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}