British Cycling being embarassing, obsequious idiots ...

His post of a TERF cartoon is reprehensible.

I didn't see that in my very quick scan of things (am on vacation with low bandwidth, so I read without images).

For the record, I don't think JK Rowling has ever been a hatemonger

Erm... I think whenever anyone's views seek to exclude or extinguish the rights of others, or control them, then that I'd call that hate.

What surprises me most is that she considers herself a champion of women, a feminist, but the attacks on women's rights are not so far from the attacks based on race, nor attacks of sexuality, nor attacks of gender, nor attacks against the disabled, etc, etc.

Ultimately the common theme is that those with power seek to deprive others of any legitimacy or power. What happens when any person contributes to an attack on another group is that the only winners are those with power today, mostly rich white cis-men. Any thin wedge in a culture war only grants the ability for new powers to be used to control all others... a fine example is the US culture war repelling abortion rights, bodily control rights, and that laws against trans people further grant legal controls over cis-women too.

If TERFs were wise they'd realise that the struggle remains intersectional. Excluding others sets their own struggles back as can now be clearly seen. TERFs could do with reading more Marx, but I doubt they will.

and that BC's decision is broadly the right one for elite-level completion.

Probably TBH, but not for many of the reasons given in this thread.

Elite-level competition requires consensus amongst all of the elite sports organisations to define something that they have no ability (or wit) to define.

They cannot define born sex as binary, because it isn't in large enough numbers as to be an uncomfortable truth. They can barely define a binary born sex as being fixed and permanent, because it isn't and hormone treatments are miraculous. They can't define gender, because it's in large part a social construct and social constructs vary by society and the culmination of global elite sports groups covers many socities.

The only thing an elite sports org can do is define the lowest common denominator that they can somehow explain and globally agree to reach consensus upon... by their (elite sports orgs, now including all them, UCI, etc) own definition, as soon as they said a woman could not compete in the TdF (and needed their own race) or that a woman could not compete alongside a men in a track event... they have to continue excluding people as otherwise all of it collapses in. The boundaries were arbritrary, and trans people (and black African people) just put pressue on these boundaries.

They have to exclude people, they have to make the sport less relevant to all. It's the logical conclusion of their own actions. In that respect, it is their only choice, so it's right for them.