Tasmanian International Women’s cyclist calls out trans inclusion in competition sport

Hobart based International and National Women’s cycling competitor Jodie Willett last year resigned her membership of AusCycling over their policy of trans inclusion in women’s cycling competitions.

Last year Jodie Willett wrote to AusCycling advising them that until such time as Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and AusCycling reversed their decision on trans inclusion in women’s competitions and ‘a separate competition category for transgender athletes’, she would not be continuing her membership.

Since then, the Union Cycliste Internationale has reversed its decision and now bans men who have been through male puberty from the elite women’s categories as many other sporting bodies such as FINA and IAAF.

Jodie wrote:

“In June 2022 the UCI claimed to be in the possession of new scientific evidence and reduced the testosterone threshold to 2.5 nmol/L and doubled the time that biological men must keep it at this level for international competition to 24 months. But no scientific study can compare the athletic performance of a man who has taken hormones for 2 years, to the fictional woman he ‘would’ have been had he been born with two X chromosomes. No study can do that with any accuracy, because one of those subjects has never existed. Women are not the sum total, nor should be defined by, their testosterone levels. Correspondingly, there is no testosterone level at which a man becomes a woman.”

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