Um, excuse me, how is it ok for @SenFettermanPA to literally deny the existence of trans athletes in Pennsylvania?

It's NOT a "small handful," Senator Fetterman. Stop trying to erase trans people. 😤

Don't believe me? Here are some examples from cycling.

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https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1896728606812028954

Here's Katheryn (James) Phillips on the podium at the Hummelstown Criterium in south central Pennsylvania.

Austin Killips, a male former pro women's cyclist, has written a piece for The Guardian!

I'm proud that my coverage of his AZT record made it into @realDonaldTrump's speech announcing his women's sports EO.

Let's explore some of Killips' claims. 🧵👇

theguardian.com/sport/commenti… Killips says that his interest in events like the Arizona Trail Race was due to their co-ed leaderboards.

But these events all have separate male and female records. And Killips races in the "female" category.

Here's another male-to-female cyclist comparison:

Cole Sprague ➡️ "Chloë Spritz"

Spritz has been doing extremely well in women's singlespeed and category 1/2 in cyclocross.

I'm sure he was an incredibly talented bike racer when he raced against men, too, right?

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Cole Sprague's career finish breakdown on says he took a few wins and a few placements towards the top when racing against men.

Looks like all the wins were early in his cyclocross racing career.

2/ crossresults.com

Let's compare the results of another male before and after his transition to the women's category.

This guy used to race with males under the name Kyle Small (L).

Upon enrolling at @FLCSkyhawks, he changed his name to Kylie Small (R) and started racing with the women.

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Here are some road and a few mountain bike race results taken from .

Kyle Small raced in men's 4 and 5 and in some junior age group races. His best results come in the men's 5, which is for complete beginners. bikereg.com

When I post about men racing in the women's category, I often get questions along the lines of, "How did he do in the men's category?"

I'm going to start posting some comparisons.

Today let's look at Henry Lin (📷left) vs "Eva" Lin (📷right)

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Here are Henry Lin's road racing results from road-results.com

Looks like Lin started racing in college at @SJSU. He got one road podium and otherwise mid- to back-of-the-pack results. (These are reasonable results for a beginner and nothing to feel bad about.)

Btw DNP stands for "Did Not Place." Depending on the type of race and size of the field, sometimes officials only give placements to a certain number of riders.

🏆 With the year coming to a close, it's time to celebrate some of the transwomen (also known as "men") who have won in women's cycling in 2024.

These males are an oppressed minority, yet they're brave enough to show up to women's bike races and WIN.

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Arya Elowen, formerly known as Michael Pillman, took some women's cat 4 wins in Colorado. He even took the women's cat 4 crit championship title!

I wonder why this talented athlete never won during his years of racing in the men's 4s.

💫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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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.

🧵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.

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.

🧵#3 about men racing in women's cycling.

Remember, this is SO RARE that we should just shut up about it!

#savewomenssports

Citaly Carapia races for Las Meras Meras Petateras in Mexico.
According to the team instagram profile, it's an "Equipo de ciclismo 100% femenil" Citaly Carapia races both road and mountain bike.

Thread 🧵#2 about how "this never happens" and there are "so few" male-bodied trans racers in women's cycling that it can't possibly affect anyone at all!

#SaveWomensSports

First: Tessa (Michael) Johnson Tessa (aka Michael) has been cleaning up in the cat 3/4s this season racing for Comrade Cycles Racing.