Posted on 06/12/2023 9:18:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
A man who claims to be a woman crushed his competition in a North Carolina cycling event, beating the second-place finisher by a whopping five minutes.
Austin Killips, 27, won the 137-mile long Belgian Waffle Ride, leaving the two women behind him, Paige Onweller and Flavia Oliveira, far behind him.
“It was just a grueling effort,” Killips said after the race. “I am just really proud to lay it out there and get the result.”
“I asserted myself there and was able to get a gap early,” he boasted. “’We were kind of all riding together for quite a while and, you know, I have a cross background and I am going to attack these single track sections as hard as I can and did that. … One of the mid-race single-track sections I just kind of hammered and was able to stay clear.”
In December 2022, Killips was harshly criticized online after it looked as though he pushed Hannah Arensman, 24, off the race course at the UCI Cyclocross National Championships.
Arensman, who finished in fourth place, was angered by the incident.
“I fully expect that in cycling, as a full-body contact sport, you’re going to get hit at some point,” Arensman later said. “But when you have someone born a man run into you, over six feet tall, it’s quite different. I tried to keep racing, not to let it get into my head at all. That one instance caught on video felt unnecessary, though.”
In an amicus brief submitted in West Virginia’s Supreme Court appeal to preserve a law designed to protect women athletes from unfair competition, Arensman announced her retirement from the sport.
“I have decided to end my cycling career,” she wrote. “At my last race at the recent UCI Cyclocross National Championships in the elite women’s category in December 2022, I came in 4th place, flanked on either side by male riders awarded 3rd and 5th places. My sister and family sobbed as they watched a man finish in front of me, having witnessed several physical interactions with him throughout the race.”
Arensman called on the bodies that govern women’s sports to protect female competitors.
“I feel for young girls learning to compete and who are growing up in a day when they no longer have a fair chance at being the new record holders and champions in cycling because men want to compete in our division,” she wrote. “I have felt deeply angered, disappointed, overlooked, and humiliated that the rule makers of women’s sports do not feel it is necessary to protect women’s sports to ensure fair competition for women anymore.”
After the Belgian Waffle Ride, Onweller acknowledged there was a significant difference between her and Killips.
“Most of the day I was riding with the top three women together: me, Austin and Flavia. But I just couldn’t match Austin — you know, the power is not comparable.”
“A transgender athlete won the women’s overall, which has caused some controversy,” she wrote in a blog post. “For those following women’s road cycling, you are aware of the UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) rule that this is currently allowed. Rather than sharing my personal opinions about the UCI rule, I think it’s most important to recognize that all athletes, no matter how they identify, should have a space to compete and race.”
Then she suggested a separate race be held for men and women.
“Underneath all helmets is a face and a person who deserves respect, dignity and a safe space to ride bikes,” she wrote. “In the future, I feel a separate category may be appropriate but event promoters are also learning what is best to preserve both female cycling while also creating an inclusive space for all to ride.”
Every single gender confused individual is a clown 🤡.
How do guys like this look at themselves in the mirror and not feel disgusted?
Sounds like the women that competed just didn’t seriously take the need to get into top condition, as we’ve been told over and over again that there is no difference between men and women.
...so perhaps the women take getting into condition a bit more seriously next year?
“How do guys like this look at themselves in the mirror and not feel disgusted?”
I’m enjoying this bit of Left-on-Left crap. The women who forced their way into Augusta and other all-men locations now have to fight Leftists, not conservatives, if they want to retain what they got - time to step it up, gals!
There is some kind of self-loathing and disgust which lead them to believe they could "become women" in the first place.
What's fascinating is that a large portion of the men>>>>women trannies are actually fully-grown, hyper-masculine men - athletes, soldiers, MMA fighters, etc... who have spent their lives focusing on their masculinity - suddenly "rejecting" it to "become women."
2020's America has opened up, and is exploring, a whole new realm of psychopathy.
Psychology pHD's can spend the next 50 years analyzing this.
That fruitcake shouldn’t be allowed to compete against women .
Hannah Arensman - Retired
science is settled
men are better at being women
I’ve noticed something interesting.
Why aren’t there any “transgender women” (men) in this equestrian sport - a sport where men already compete against women?
Is it because women routinely (not exclusively) win against men?
Just wait. It’s coming..................Tally Ho!...............
I guess you missed the point.
I know what you meant................
In my experience with libs, winning is everything for them. Cheating is ok, being unfair.. no problem. Tilting the scales, easy peezy.
The APPEARANCE of winning is the golden ring.
Freud identified cross-gender fetishism. Researchers starting in the 1950s developed a variety of classifications of transsexualism.
Gender Dysphoria was known as Gender Identity Disorder from 1980 to 2013. (The term 'disorder' was removed to avoid stigma). In 1982 the terms androphilia (sexual attraction to men)and gynephilia (sexual attraction to women) were added. Autogynephelia and Autoandrophilia were added in 2008.
What changed in the 2020s was not social media, hormone treatments, or surgery, but a push by those who stand to gain by promoting special rights for these pawns and to then use such rights to subjugate the rights of others, just as had been done in Weimar Germany.
Yes, of course such sexual fetishism has been around "forever."
But what the USA has done it turn a very small, almost unspoken about, socially-suppressed form of psychopathy - and turn it into a mass social and political movement, as (you point out) a form of street-agitation and red guard/brownshirt political force.
Likely couldn’t finish in the top 100 of a men’s race.
Because deep down they really hate women and are looking in that mirror and smiling that another woman went down to defeat. It is their aim. Period!
Everything liberals mess with they destroy. When is enough enough?
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