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Jun 18, 2023 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X

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It's Father's Day!

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*!

*in women's bike racing

Antonia (Matias) Saelzer was the Chilean downhill mountain bike women's national champion in 2021. Saelzer stands on women's podiums all the time while his wife and kids watch proudly. Amazing!

Lesley (Wesley) Mumford has had many wins and podiums over the last couple of years in fat biking, mountain biking, and gravel.

Mumford refers to himself as "just a mid-40s mom." If only we could all be so humble!

Bee (Brandon) Black is new to racing but won his first women's downhill race! I'm sure his kids are super proud.

Kenzie (Kenneth) Statz has had more success in the female categories than in the male ones. I'm sure his kids understand that this is due to his hard work and superior training.

Fathers Erica (Eric) Miller, Patti (Patrick) Flynn, and Dahron Johnson all stand on women's podiums from time to time, too. Isn't it great to see fathers in middle age keeping themselves fit?

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Nov 22

💫Did you know that today, Nov 21, is the Day Of Remembering That Men Are Still Racing In The @usacycling Women's Category?💫

Such a special day!

Today we recall the racers who will never be female but who are allowed to race in USAC's women's fields anyway for some reason.🧵👇

Here's Kylie (Kyle) Small racing (and winning) a women's singlespeed cyclocross national championship.

This is not how you grow the women's field, @usacycling. "Kylie" will never be a woman.

Here's Lesley (Wesley) Mumford on the top podium step of a @usacycling women's cat 3 cyclocross race.

Even if Mumford eventually makes it to cat 2 and has to report his testosterone levels, he still will never be a woman.

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@i_heart__bikes

Jun 6

A large number of my tweets have been removed in the EU for defamation/insult. 🇪🇺

This has made me deeply consider my ways. I have now realized that trans women are women!

🧵I would like to set things right with a thread of brave trans women racing bikes as their true selves!

Jenna Lingwood has had tons of wins in road and cyclocross over the past several years. She even has a national championship title. She's so strong!

Abigail Francis races for Colorado State University. She's showing the world that trans women can be on collegiate women's cycling teams. Amazing!

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@i_heart__bikes

Jun 2

I keep seeing:

"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.

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@i_heart__bikes

Dec 24, 2023

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.

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@i_heart__bikes

May 3, 2023

@TouroftheGila

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.

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@i_heart__bikes

Apr 9, 2023

🧵Males in women's cycling - master thread🧵

"This is a tiny group of people. It's not an issue. It hardly affects anyone."

Every woman and girl at every level of competition deserves the right to race in a category free of male advantage.

#ThisNeverHappens #SaveWomensSports

Jillian Bearden (Jonathan)

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.

@UCI_CX

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.

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