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A trans-identifying athlete won a female cycling event which was officially sanctioned by USA Cycling on Tuesday, encouraging opponents to protest and express themselves.
Trans athlete, Kate Phillips, won first place at the National Masters Lyons Championships in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Phillips beat the cyclist of veterans women Julie Peterson for gold, and Peterson then refused to take the podium during the medal ceremony to protest.
“You could clearly see the power he had,” Peterson told PK Press Club Digital about Phillips.
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Transgender cyclist Kate Phillips won first place in the USA Cycling Lyons Masters on July 1, while second place Julie Peterson refused to stand on the podium. (Gracefulness of icons)
Peterson said that she didn’t even know that Phillips had registered the event until she had already signed up and even argued with officials of the situation.
“If I had known, I would not have spent thousands of dollars on a trip and in free time to come and do a race,” said Peterson.
“I said:” I don’t want to run against a man “, and they quickly scolded me and said” Oh, you can’t call him a man “, and I say to myself” well, he is a man “, so I was quickly scolded and corrected that she is a woman and I don’t even know how to say.”
The cyclist of veteran women Debbie Milne participated in the Tuesday event, ending in seventh place. Milne also spoke out against the United States for allowing Phillips to compete.
“To be fair to all humans, if we mean it, he was born a biological man, it is a fact,” Milne told PK Press Club Digital. “And this is the thing that makes it an unfair advantage. Everything that happened after that is a whole new subject.
“I have run for 25 years in conditions that only women can understand. There are many things that only a woman born goes through because of the cycles that we have. Same only is something that a biological man born to man can never live.
Milne also said that she was not aware of the participation of the Trans athlete before the race.
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“I did not expect it to lead 1 pm, to come and do a national championship,” said Milne. “I did not know, I would like to know that it was the terms if I came. But it was not even made known to me.”
The cyclist of veterans women, Kristina Gray, who did not face Phillips on Tuesday, wanted to express himself to support her peers because she said that she also had to compete with the trans athletes in cycling as the native of Oregon.
“In my last 10 years of racing, I have had to run against organic men, I have been forced to be on the podium with many of them, more recently in the past five years,” said Gray. “In Oregon, every weekend, there is a biological man in our races, every weekend, practically.”
The three women then contacted the independent council on female sports (icons) to publicize the incident.
PK Press Club Digital contacted USA Cycling and Phillips to comment.
The transgender eligibility policy of cycling in the United States allows biological men to compete in the category of women under certain conditions:
- Provide a written and signed declaration to the Technical Director of Cycling of the United States, using the Elite athletes’ request for equity, that their gender identity is a woman.
- Satisfying the equity assessment process of elite athletes in section IX below if the athlete: a) is an athlete group; or b) wishes to participate in a championship race during a national championship.
Several other national guidelines for the United States team have been examined for their transgender eligibility policies in the past year.
USA Gymnastics has abolished its transgender eligibility policy this year and is currently asking for it.
“In May, the USAG eliminated its policy to assess compliance with the current legal landscape,” read an American gymnastics declaration provided to PK Press Club Digital.
USA Fencing announced in April that he was preparing to change his sex-eligibility policy, after a viral demonstration by the women’s shooter Stéphanie Turner triggered a mass reaction and a federal intervention by protesting against a trans opponent.
The organization said that she was preparing to modify its current policies which allow biological men to compete with women and girls in case it is “forced” to change them.
USA Track and Field (USATF) official transgender eligibility policy Now refers to the global athletics directives on its official web page. The USATF previously referred to the policy of the International Olympic Committee (CIO), as seen in an archive via Wayback Machine.
