Despite being male and 28, Riya Isha is allowed to compete in the women's under 26's All-India Inter University Athletics Championship.
Riya wins three events: the 3-km walk, the long jump and the hammer throw
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2022: 'Anamika' wins an Indian High Court ruling to compete against women in judo on the basis that there isn't a third category for people who say they're transgender. Within days Anamika wins a women's 78 kilogram judo competition vaishnavisundar.com/gods-own-count…
Victoria Monaghan was a New Zealand men's darts player with a national ranking, before retiring in 2018 with, seemingly, zero tournament wins.
2022: Monaghan is allowed to return - and compete in women's darts - and immediately wins the New Zealand Open
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The first women's professional disc golf tournament in which the prize money was equal to the men's has been won by a man who 'identifies' as a woman. Natalie Ryan has been playing disc golf for three years and is already in the top 5 'women' in the world quillette.com/2022/09/28/is-…
2017: Aged 31, Alba Palacios, having played two seasons in Spain's men's regional second division in his 20s, 'IDs' as a woman
2018: Palacios signs a semi-professional contract in Spain's women's football league
2022: Palacios is the league's top scorer
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Pre 2017: Jackie Mautner grew up playing bike polo, and then started 'identifying' as a woman
2017: Jackie takes up women's competitive cycling
2022: Jackie wins the women's Pennsylvania's State Championship
2019: Austin Killips takes up competitive cycling and shortly afterwards reveals Killips now 'identifies' as a woman
2021: Killips becomes a full-time professional women's cyclist
2022: Killips wins the Northampton International Cyclocross tournament
Women's skateboarding is becoming dominated by men who say they 'identify' as women. Violet Whyte, Dakota Cootes and Ricci Tres are just three names who have all won prize money in women's events in 2022
2021: Aspen Hoffman finishes 72nd in the Seattle Academy’s cross-country running boys' league, and then 'identifies' as a girl
2022: Hoffman breaks the Seattle Academy’s school record in the girls’ 5000 metre category and ranks 1st in the league
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2013-15: Michael Johnson races in 78 cycling competitions, mostly for people aged over 40, winning four of them
2015-22: Michael 'transitions' to Tessa
2022: Tessa (aged 53) wins the women's cat 3/4 overall series in the Chicago Cyclocross Cup
Tiffany Newell recently began 'identifying' as a woman.
Newell has broken the Canadian women's 5,000 metre indoor running record
Marjorie Roome took up women's indoor rowing, and has won several world championships (sometimes as the sole competitor as all women have refused to compete) and broken two British records for different age categories. He also participates in men's events
Male Anne Andres took up women's powerlifting in 2019 and quickly became Alberta's bench record holder, and in 2023 will compete in the CPU National Championships. He has posted videos asking why women are so weak when it comes to powerlifting
Emma Farnan played men's rugby at university and nearly made it as a professional, but failed to do so. Aged 21, he announced he was a woman and took up women's rugby within two years. Aged 27, he's now a leading player in a professional women's league
Having competed as a men's cross country runner for the University of Montana for nearly three years, June Eastwood announced he was a woman and just a few months later comfortably won the women's one mile Big Sky Conference Championship
Tiffany Thomas took up cycling in his early 40s - after he started saying he 'identifies' as a woman. He quickly became a racer in elite women's events, finishing first in eight of the first 14 races he took part in
Wren Pyle was a male long distance runner who lost events "by hours". Having grown up skiing, he discovered 'skimo', bought equipment for it and quickly won a women's title. He says he wants to inspire marginalised children and be in the next Olympics
2017: Lesley Mumford announces he is a woman, and takes up cycling
2021: Lesley starts competing against women in elite events
2023: Lesley starts the season by winning two championships, one by 6 minutes, the other by breaking the women's course record
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