Males Win All Medals In New Non-Binary Category at 2022 USA Cyclocross National Championships

“The next step is to open up cycling even more so that it is no longer surprising when there are nonbinary fields, so that it is not just a sea of same color faces at the start line, so that any person with any intersectional set of identities who wants to take part feels welcome in every bike race. And for sanctioning bodies like USA Cycling and UCI to recognize the amazing work being done by groups like Black Foxes, Chicago United, Queer Gravel, RIDE, Native Women Ride, and so many others and instead of doing their own programs, partnering with the organizations already on the ground and giving them money that could really push all of this forward,” they said.

I don't even know what to make of this quote. Earlier the cyclists had made sure to get in a rip on USA Cycling "for not being the best ally in the past," a typical social-justice attack on someone who did what you want, but not soon enough for your taste, which is very immature. But on the quoted paragraph, they're even pre-emptively angry at USA Cycling for the possibility that the organization might do its own outreach to diversify the sport, rather than "partnering" with their preferred activist movements. I'm more and more convinced that social-justice types are just kind of angry/aggrieved/anxious personalities, full stop -- not righteously angry about injustice but just kind of angry, and/or aggrieved, and/or anxious at all times, and as a result they just lash out at whatever happens to be in front of them. Here, they don't even bother to point out ways in which USA Cycling held back minorities (because it hasn't), but they still find a way to make a dig at whatever they can, in this case the potential but so far imaginary future act of USA Cycling to do what the activist ultimately wants, but through the "wrong" channels. To hell with these people.

Oh, and of course part of the demand is that USA Cycling "give [the preferred organizations] money." How silly of me to miss that.

Does the team Chicago united win by shooting the other bikers?

Why not just create a new category, and call it the Open division?

If they are non-binary they can't be males. The two are mutually exclusive.

Similar to my thoughts on the non-binary hockey championships, I admittedly can’t make up my mind on this subject. On the one hand, I’m very happy about it because maybe this will siphon some of the biological men “identifying as women” away from women’s sports, which I do not believe they have any place in regardless of medical intervention. But on the other hand, this creates a situation where it’ll just be more prize money to men. A bit of a catch-22. Still, I think this is as close as we will get to having a third category and keeping women's sports fair.
What a world.

But was it a real cyclocross course?

so have the non-binary athletes and transgenders ended women's sports as we were warned against?

Why people still complaining about this new non-binary division.....doesn't it solve all the grey-area issues when they were running as in the female only devision.

Kinda odd that when a solution to the probleb (threat to women's sport) is presented, people pivot and attack the solution.

It's almost as if they just have a problem with non-binary people and want to attack them no matter what and this whole 'we need to save womens sports!" was just a charade for their hate.

sure seems that way.

there arent non binary people. everyone is either male or female. stop lying sexist (racist) leftist.

As long as the paychecks for other divisions remain the same, it literally doesn't affect you. Just don't watch.

So in your view, the way to solve the problem of entitled males trying to horn in on the female category of sport is to create a new mixed-sex division - called non-binary, trans, open, fluid, rainbow unicorn, whatever - in which all the winners inevitably will be males claiming special gender identities and the female participants claiming the same or similar gender identities will always lose out - and in the case of sports like hockey, the female participants' physical safety will be put at risk as well?

How about just telling males claiming trans and other gender identities that they don't belong in female sports, and no matter how much they want in, the answer is simply NO.

How about men and boys do their/your bit for "diversity and inclusion" by taking steps to make guys who say they "identify as" trans, non-binary, gender-fluid, catgender, pupgender, vapogender, kinkgender, furrygender, etc feel more welcome, included and at home alongside other members of their/your sex?

Seems to me that the simplest solution would be for everyone to come to terms with the fact that athletes' gender identities and gender expression don't matter in sports - only sex does.

More male privilege. Nice work.

It's lose-lose because the men 'identifying as women' will still insist on competing in the women's category anyway. Only some of these men identify as 'nonbinary.'

Male and female refer to sex. Non-binary is a "gender identity," an idea some people have about themselves in their minds. Gender identity doesn't erase or trump sex. Everyone who has, or claims to have, a non-binary or other gender identity still is male or female.

You seem to be mad.

Are you upset that female to male trans people are at an unfair disadvantage?

Other options are:

- Compete in the mens category and lose.
- Compete as against women as women, which they don’t want to do.

Is your solution to create a new, female to male category to help them, or are you just hating on male to female athletes who now aren’t taking medals from real women?

All field hockey sticks are right-handed and so left-handers are at a disadvantage. Imagine they put on a specific event for left-handed field hockey players but a bunch of right-handers turned up who identified as being left-handed. That's men in women's sports. No matter how you mess with the categories, it doesn't change the reality.

Why do most men only have this option, but ones who say some internet-invented nonsense about being "nonbinary" have an out?

I don't know much about the history of para sports, but I think there were fewer categories in the beginning. But then more categories were created because it was obvious some people had advantage over others within the category.

If more trans people participate in sports, maybe they can reach the critical mass to sustain both MtF and FtM categories. I don't think we are there yet.

I am pretty much sure ExL was talking about females to male trans people, and not male to female or male nonbinary.