Thread by @i_heart__bikes

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.

Taryn Askew (Todd Downs) races women's BMX. The Bloom, a women's BMX magazine, did a feature on him recently.

Bee (Brandon) Black says his very fast rise through the ranks of women's downhill mountain biking is due to his hard work and talent.

Roxy (Roger) Bombardier races women's road, gravel, and cyclocross.

Sammy Rose (Samuel) Dobroszi raced for many years in the men's field. He's now a women's road cat 2.

Eva (Henry) Lin used to race on the men's squad for San Jose State University. He switched to the women's squad in 2022 and has had MUCH more success! He's pictured here racing in the women's field.

Lesley (Wesley) Mumford often writes about how he's proud of being a "single mom" and his "growth mindset."

Chloe Spritz used to go by Cole Sprague. He races road and cyclocross and has taken lots of women's podiums.

Casey (Michael) Williamson, aka Evelyn Williamson, aka Evelyn Hound, races track, road, cyclocross, and gravel. He was the only member of the 606 Racing women's squad to wear a dress for his feature photo. I wonder why!

"Prim Rose" races women's mountain bike, cyclocross, and road for PDX Dream Team.

Natalie (Nolan) Hibbard-Pelly races on the women's squad for the University of Washington cycling team.

"Abigail" Francis races for the women's squad at Colorado State University.

Averi Firari (David Flaten) used to be an elite men's racer. Now he's a cycling coach and is dabbling in racing "as a woman."

Wren Stark Haven (Ben Haven Taylor) races for Chill Racing.

Jordan Johnson races for Ride or Die Collective. He's a "sprinter."

Tessa (Michael) Johnson seems to constantly be on women's podiums in cyclocross, track, and road.

"Candace" Kennedy-Hess is one of the co-presidents of "women's" team Sturdy Girl Cycling.

Patricia/Patti (Patrick) Flynn races for Half Acre Cycling. The team has both men and women on it, but Flynn only races with the women.

Eva (Matthew) Kloiber races women's road, cyclocross, and gravel.

Henrietta (Henry) Watts switches between the women's category and the non-binary category.

Tara (Todd) Seplavy often has his registration hidden on @bikereg. He gets women's podiums and upgrade points, but somehow never gets so many that he upgrades to cat 2.

Alison (Robert) Roth races in the women's category in mountain bike and cyclocross. He sometimes races in the nonbinary category.

Katheryn (James) Phillips is the women's representative for his local cycling association, MABRA. I'm sure he's really helping to grow the sport of women's cycling!

Arya Elowen (Michael Pillman) raced for several years with men, but for some reason is a women's cat 4.

Zee Mars, aka Zero Mars, races women's road, cyclocross, mountain bike, and track.

Claire (Ivan) Law races women's road, track, cyclocross, and mountain bike.

Jenna (Jimmy) Lingwood races road and cyclocross with elite women.

Kylee (Kyle) Rood used to participate in men's endurance sports. Now he races in the women's or nonbinary category in cyclocross, xc skiing, and skimo.

Erica (Eric) Miller races road and cyclocross for co-ed team Physio Racing. He used to race in the men's category for that team, but now he only races with the women.

Zoey (Zakkary) Marks is a member of men's team D3stroy Cycling Club. His teammates all race against men, but "Zoey" only races with the women.

Sandy (Vincent) Hosey races for Sol Squad, a women's cycling team.

Sylvia Dardenne races for elite Belgian women's team Baloise WB Ladies. He's 50 years old and most of his teammates are in their 20s.

Antonia (Matias) Saelzer races downhill mountain bikes in Chile.

Emil Carr-Ross races in the women's category in ultracycling.

Cara (Cameron) Dixon races gravel and ultracycling events in the women's category. When he gets called out, he often claims the event in question wasn't a race.

Kenzie (Kenneth) Statz competes in women's mountain biking and gravel. His impeccable bike racing makeup is often easy to spot in the women's field.

Tiffany (Trent) Thomas hasn't raced recently but is still listed on the roster for women's domestic elite team LA Sweat.

Carly (Carl) Gauger races mountain bikes in the women's category.

"Sofia" Zarate's team Drang By Olympica includes both men and women. Zarate only races with the women.