Here it is.... the eventual conflict between competitive sports and gender hoopla. A transgender pre-op guy wins a woman's cycling race. Is that good for women? For sports? Or is it time to get sports co-ed?

So either you're finding that letting a trans woman compete in a womens sport is accepting her as a woman, ..................
or you are ok that no one with a vagina will ever win at sports ever again.

Jonathan/Jillian Bearden, pre-op, 36-year-old biological male dominated the women’s division of the Nov 2016 El Tour de Tucson, an annual cycling competition in Arizona that attracts thousands of amateur and professional cyclists, winning the 106-mile race in 4 hours and 36 minutes, 25 minutes behind former Mexican Olympian cyclist Hugo Rangel, who took home first place in the men’s division.

That's right, a professional male cyclist who feels like a woman was the winner of a woman's race, and was that close to the time of a Olympic cyclist after 106 miles

On the other hand, in June 2016, Alaskan high school girls felt cheated after teenage male Nattaphon Wangyot took home all-state honors in girls’ track and field. Wangyot immigrated from Thailand.

Is allowing pre-op men to compete in sports of the opposite sex disproportionately impacting female athletes, who will lose opportunities to get advanced in their sport and never get to the Olympics? Simply to cater to male athletes who identify as female? Are we ready for co-ed locker rooms where your daughters, sisters, and moms are showering with teammates, or competitors, who are still equipped with penis and testicles?

So - if you are offered the decision to keep competitive sports based on xx or xy chromosomes, or whatever the athlete wants to "identify" as will be the sex based competitive field they are placed in, regardless of how far past their contemporaries they place in the sport. Do you vote to let them, not let them, or throw out gender based fields, and all entrants to a sport compete for the win, with no trophy for the mens best and the womens best.

What the hell difference is there between mens and womens tennis? Bowling? Diving? Gymnastics?

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/07/first-female-transgender-pro-cyclist-colorado-classic-2017/
http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/22/its-absolutely-huge-biological-male-dominates-womens-cycling-competition/
http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/03/high-school-boy-wins-all-state-honors-in-girls-track-and-field/

You might be wondering why I bring this up.... well, I'm of the opinion that anything going on in the wheeled world is fair game to post, and I'm also a proponent of leveling the field for women to get a fair deal in all aspects of life.... mostly focusing on women in motorsports, mechanics, and jobs in the automotive field.

So this crosses several things I blog about, bicycling, women, and racing. And though it's a extremely controversial issue most people avoid, I'm no quitter, as you might guess - I don't go to meetings