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Emily Bridges needs to face biological reality
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/21...l-reality/
EXCERPTS: Apparently, letting women have their own sports is a human-rights violation. At least that’s the view of trans activist and cyclist Emily Bridges.
In an interview with ITV this week, Bridges announced that he is planning to take sporting body British Cycling to the European Court of Human Rights because it will not allow him to compete in women’s events.
According to rules brought in by British Cycling last year, only athletes who were born female are permitted to enter women’s races. In drawing these up, it cited numerous studies demonstrating the vast differences in strength, size and stamina between men and women. It would be impossible to maintain fair competitions for women, British Cycling concluded, if male-born transwomen could freely enter them.
Most right-thinking people would see this as fair enough. Indeed, plenty of other sporting associations have made similar moves to protect women’s sports, both in the UK and internationally. British Cycling updated its policy following changes by World Athletics and World Aquatics.
Yet Bridges seems to view these changes as an attack on him personally and on trans people more broadly. When the rules first emerged last year, he accused British Cycling of encouraging a ‘genocide’ against trans people.
[...] Bridges seems to be under the impression that he is biologically indistinguishable from his female counterparts. This is despite the fact that he is 6’2” and has been through male puberty. He will have longer limbs, bigger lungs, broader shoulders and more muscle mass than virtually every one of his female competitors. Not even hormone suppression can reverse these unfair advantages... (MORE - missing details)
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Emily Bridges needs to face biological reality
https://www.spiked-online.com/2024/02/21...l-reality/
EXCERPTS: Apparently, letting women have their own sports is a human-rights violation. At least that’s the view of trans activist and cyclist Emily Bridges.
In an interview with ITV this week, Bridges announced that he is planning to take sporting body British Cycling to the European Court of Human Rights because it will not allow him to compete in women’s events.
According to rules brought in by British Cycling last year, only athletes who were born female are permitted to enter women’s races. In drawing these up, it cited numerous studies demonstrating the vast differences in strength, size and stamina between men and women. It would be impossible to maintain fair competitions for women, British Cycling concluded, if male-born transwomen could freely enter them.
Most right-thinking people would see this as fair enough. Indeed, plenty of other sporting associations have made similar moves to protect women’s sports, both in the UK and internationally. British Cycling updated its policy following changes by World Athletics and World Aquatics.
Yet Bridges seems to view these changes as an attack on him personally and on trans people more broadly. When the rules first emerged last year, he accused British Cycling of encouraging a ‘genocide’ against trans people.
[...] Bridges seems to be under the impression that he is biologically indistinguishable from his female counterparts. This is despite the fact that he is 6’2” and has been through male puberty. He will have longer limbs, bigger lungs, broader shoulders and more muscle mass than virtually every one of his female competitors. Not even hormone suppression can reverse these unfair advantages... (MORE - missing details)