i think this kind of opens up a different question: why do we segregate these kinds of things by gender in the first place? why do we have male and female races? are women not strong enough to compete with men?

"but, the science.."

what the science says is that sexual dimorphism in humans is broadly not separable from natural variation, and what little dimorphism exists is largely a consequence of sexual selection. the science does not uphold the idea that bicycle races should be gender segregated. at all.

but, let's be directly empirical. run a co-ed race. see what happens. my prediction: sex is not a predictive determinant in the outcome.

so, people are going to push back against this, and the counter-response is going to be to try and argue that it's a lot of transphobic, or broadly anti-trans bias. no. the truth, as i've been pointing out for years, is much more surreal: what we call radical feminists are really operating from a point of deep misogyny.

...because the point they're beginning at is the assumption that the women can't compete with the men, and that just isn't true, to begin with.

https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/canada/by-winning-a-canadian-transgender-cyclist-fans-flames-of-gender-politics/wcm/40df37e7-0233-4bff-b3ba-195547b36ffa