Attention! I've been completely wrong this whole time:
Male athletes racing against women aren't winning because of male puberty, they're winning because of their superior training, fitness, and tactics.
Jordan Johnson was much fitter than the women at this race, obviously:
Kallie (aka Drew) Winners certainly would not have beaten all these cat 4 women without the expert coaching of Rebecca Gross.
Evelyn Sifton just outsmarted the female racers by "taking the better line" and - miraculously - having a stronger sprint.
Tara (Todd) Seplavy simply hydrated and strategized to outsmart those female racers.
Leslie/Wesley Mumford's advice for winning is to stick to your plan and ride your own race, ladies. Well, unless there's a man in it. Then he'll probably beat you.
What can I say, Anna Rick Lisk is just better at bike racing than the women he's racing against. 🤷♀️
He can start a crit late and his incredible fitness means that he can still catch the group! He obviously could have gone pro.
Jillian (Jonathan) Bearden simply worked his ass off to win every stage in the P/1/2 at the Steamboat Stage Race. If the women had worked harder, one of them would be on the top step!
"It's not happening."
"It's fake culture war stuff."
"The far right made it up."
"There are about 19 total of them competing across all sports."
🧵Here's a thread of males CURRENTLY competing in ONE sport: women's cycling. 👇
Kylie (Kyle) Small is the current women's singlespeed cyclocross US national champion. He recently took women's podiums for Fort Lewis College at the 2024 collegiate cycling nationals and was named a collegiate All-American.
Catherine (Nicholas) Barnwell has seen a lot of women's podiums recently in road and cyclocross.
As the year comes to a close, here's a thread of males who have won in women's cycling in 2023. 🏆
(Because "This never happens," and "I bet you can't even give me an example," and "How many people can this possibly affect?")
Here's Tiffany (Trent) Thomas on the top step at the Randall's Island Crit.
Tiffany is 47 and has a spot on the women's pro crit team LA Sweat.
Austin Killips is a name that no one would know if he had chosen to compete in his correct sex category, but he has made a name for himself racing against women.
Killips won the GC at Tour of the Gila riding for the Amy D. Foundation women's development team.
Let's take a moment to honor the dads of women's bike racing!
Some have grown children, some share custody, and some have young ones at home.
Somehow, all of them find the time to stand on women's cycling podiums at all different levels.
Incredible!
Tara (Todd) Seplavy has taught his kids the important lesson that you can still hang in the women's P-1-2-3 as a rather out-of-shape 48-year-old cat 3 as long as you put in the effort (and are male).
Inspiring!
Jillian (Jonathan) Bearden and Jenna (Jimmy) Lingwood both have masters national championship titles in the US.
The wives of Bearden and Lingwood don't have any national titles. Their kids are learning that dads can do anything they set their minds to*!
It's encouraging to see media coverage of Austin Killips wrongly taking the women's win at @TouroftheGila.
This is happening at every level of cycling. Whether or not the male wins is irrelevant. At any level, women's sports are for women.
Examples from this week⬇️:
Tara Seplavy (Todd) raced in the women's P/1/2/3 at the Daniel Harwi 35th Annual Lower Providence Spring Classic Crit.
"Prim Rose" raced in the women's 4/5 at the Monday night Portland International Raceway race. Rose reported feeling "so powerful" all throughout the race - wow!
I won't tell you which one Prim Rose is - you'll have to try to figure it out.
Former mediocre male racer who quickly had success after transitioning to the female category. Raced with the pro women at the Colorado Classic. Masters national champion. Colorado state Champion.
Austin Killips
Went from never having raced bikes to racing at the elite level in women's road and cyclocross in just a few years. 3rd at the US National Cyclocross Championships in the women's elite. Raced @UCI_CX World Cup in Europe.