Last year, transgender cyclist Austin Killips appeared to push a female competitor during a competition, and former Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson thinks there’s only one reason she wasn’t banned from competing as a result: she is a transgender woman.
During an appearance on the “Gaines for Girls” podcast hosted by anti-trans activist Riley Gaines, Inga Thompson discussed transgender cyclist Austin Killips, who appeared to push a female cyclist during a competition that took place late last year. Thompson claims that if anybody else but a transgender athlete had done that, it would have been an automatic disqualification.
“If a woman had done that to another woman or if a man had done that to another man, every official out there has told me, is an automatic disqualification,” Thompson told Gaines according to Fox News. “But, it shows again the preference is going to the transgender women in the sport, no official wanted to touch it because they were going to get labeled as transphobic and then they had maybe some sanctions coming after them.”
In a decision made earlier this year, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), which is the world governing body for the sport of cycling, now prohibits transgender cyclists who “transitioned after (male) puberty” from participating in women’s events.
[Fox News]
