Austin Killips, a 27-year-old biological male who indentifies as a female won the North Carolina cycling tour, making the race yet another win taken away from natural-born women. How long before medicore NBA players start indentifing as female to play in the WNBA?
A man who claims to be a woman has won first place in the women’s category in a North Carolina cycling tour, making the race yet another win taken away from natural-born women.
On Saturday, the “Belgian Waffle Ride North Carolina” took place in Hendersonville, where Austin Killips, a 27-year-old man who “identifies” as a woman, won in the women’s category.
According to Reduxx, Killips was in the lead in the women’s division from the outset of the race, and no other competitor ever came anywhere close to him except for a brief time at the midpoint when a woman passed him. But soon enough, Killips rallied and left his female opponents in the dust.
Killips has been taking titles away from women since 2019, when he decided he was a woman and began entering women’s cycling competitions.
In May, both USA Cycling and the Union Cycliste Internationale proclaimed that Killips met cycling’s rules for trans athletes, but his constant wins have met with resistance in cycling.
After Killips won the Tour of the Gila this year, former Olympic cyclist Inga Thompson tweeted that with its rules for trans women, the UCI was “effectively killing off women’s cycling.”