Claire Sharpe says she disagrees with Cycling UK only naming cis women in their top 100 list.
What Claire Sharpe did and what she said was really nice. The way BBC covered it, by counterpointing each one of her remarks with up to three TERF viewpoints whitewashed as “women rights campaigners”, not as much. BBC and NYTimes are complicit to trans genocide. Having said that, I’d prefer a better source linked because there is a reason I am getting my news from lemmy and not the mainstream.
I think this article is better, and also goes in more depth on the other women who declined besides Claire Sharpe. The BBC article was difficult to get through.
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/cycling-uk-100-women-in-cycling-trans-exclusion
Yes it was difficult to get through because the mental gymnastics they did to try and make TERFs palatable was more exhausting than cycling itself.
Edit: Yes, that was a much more inspiring and fair coverage. THANKS!
I really don’t like that apparently “biological women” is being adopted to mean “cis women”. I’m also biologically a woman, at least in part. My main sex hormone is estrogen and my testosterone is so low you cannot even measure it. So it would plainly be false to call me a “biological man”. Just call me a trans woman and those that you call “biological women” cis women. Otherwise this feels like we are adopting terf terminology :(
Came here to say this, the “biological man/woman” phrasing is so rooted in high school level biology
Know. They know about the android infiltration, and how agents are often assigned the wrong hardware.
Thats why so many transcwomen are so good at code.
Also, “woman” is a gender category and therefore based in social conventions, not biology.
Yeah but you did run on silicate body chemistry until you transitioned to a machine body in 2018.
the people who push “biological women” nonsense have never cared about women’ sport or women; it’s just a patriarchal desire to mandate draconian gender norms.
good on claire! <3
"If they don’t want to ride with all women, that’s not the kind of ride I want to be on anyway,”
Yes! This is the solidarity that we love to see.
Being in community with trans folk (and especially trans women) has infinitely improved my ability to be comfortable in and even enjoy my own gender, as well as making me a better feminist.
Assholes on the right like to ask “what is a woman?”, but the truth is that I don’t know. I know that I am a woman, but I am just one data point and I don’t feel equipped to answer such a general question. It’s only through being open to other women’s lived experiences that I can usefully build my idea of what it means to be a woman.
None of us are free until all of us are free.
How does ‘biological women’ exclude trans women?
Except the silicon based and robotic trans women. Obviously.
Except the silicon based and robotic trans women. Obviously.
Transhuman rights now!
It’s because trans women are beings of pure energy, having ascended beyond the need for flesh
The article doesn’t include a quote from Sharpe using the terminology biological women, so I’m not sure why you’ve chosen that wording in your post body. She says at one point “If they don’t want to ride with all women, then it’s not the kind of ride I want to be part of”.
I didn’t. Lemmy did automatically
Weird, and kind of gross, that BBC included something that wasn’t in the article in the link preview. Would you be able to edit your post? It doesn’t seem fair to Sharpe to attribute it to her.
Done!
Thank you! 🙏
