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Masters = not pro-cycling?
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I asked someone who’s answer I respect. Answer was that it’s great. So it’s great.
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Interesting interview with her here https://www.velonews.com/2018/10/news/qa-dr-rachel-mckinnon-masters-track-champion-and-transgender-athlete_480206
Main gist seems to be:
Its that the way that we think about human rights, in that legal and ethical standards of when it’s OK to override a person’s human right, is that the performance advantages aren’t high enough. ...
Is being trans just another natural physical characteristic that, if — and this is a gigantic “if” — it provides an advantage, should we treat it like just being tall? We do not regulate height. In many sports height provides a massive competitive advantage. I’m six-foot. I’m too short to be an elite volleyball athlete. If you compared a five-foot woman to a 6-foot-4 woman, the tall woman will have such a competitive advantage that the shorter woman won’t be able to compete in volleyball or basketball. But we don’t consider that massive advantage unfair. Is being trans just another way to be a natural person who maybe gets an avenge for it that we should treat like being tall?
I'm not fully convinced by her argument but I'm also not convinced that a bloke would go through years of hormone therapy to have a chance of winning at women's sport so I'm not sure how big an issue it is.
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Any thoughts on Rachel McKinnon's Masters Word Champion track win? Or are none of us qualified to answer?