Transgender mountain bikers, who began to dominate women's races shortly after the transition, said the new rules were "terrifying" to ban trans-athletes. He said, "Do not ruin women's sports."
New Zealand racer Kate Weatherley, 24, said while attacking the new rules offrom FINA, the governing body of FINA World Championships. .. This bans her competition if applied to mountain bikers as well.
"People talk about the fact that we are entering and ruining women's sports, but there is a much bigger problem facing women's sports," WeatherlyInsisted on one news.
"The idea that several transgender women participate in sports and often can't win is pretty scary to ruin women's sports," she said. Told.
But her transition to Weatherly's own women's event made a great start when she jumped in 2018. At that time, the profile ofby the staffis written.
Despite finishing the midpack in the men's open division From the downgrade elite, she won her first race as a woman for over 30 seconds, the 2018 profile was one of the many critics who attacked her unjust advantage, former junior world number two Was defeated.
Weatherly subsequently won the National Championships in the Elite Women's category. This is higher than when I was a man, and I won repeatedly in 2019.
At that time, Weatherly insisted on the difference. This was mainly due to the hormone blockers she had been taking since she was 17 years old and crushed her chances while in the men's department.
"I was training and riding hard, but I lost power and speed on the track," she said at the time. Was there.
"I'm depressed. I'm trying to push myself as hard as I can, but it's getting slower and slower."
This week'sInstagram In post, she argued that hormone replacement therapy helped transgender women "with little or no testosterone, potentially less than cis competitors," and promoted recovery time and muscle. / Makes building bond densities much more difficult. "
" People are so focused on the benefits that they ignore the fact that there are actually drawbacks associated with the transition, "she told 1News.
She complained that FINA's rules were too "cut and dry" and "essentially prohibited transgender women from competing."
Proposals to separate departments simply "follow" other "transgender people," Weatherly complained.
It was part of the ugly approach of "trying to separate transgender women from Sith women when we are all women."
"More than that, we need to build the understanding and acceptance of the queer people as a society before we worry about sports," she insisted on Instagram.
