Last week, the annual Tour of the Gila cycling race was held in New Mexico. The winner of the women’s division in the grueling, five-stage competition was 27-year-old Austin Killips. That immediately prompted an uproar because Killips is a man. (He’s variously described as a trans woman or a “male-bodied athlete.”) The governing body for competitive cycling is the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the organization originally defended its policy that allowed Killips to dominate the female competitors. They said that the UCI “continues to follow the evolution of scientific findings and may change its rules in the future as scientific knowledge evolves.”Read More
Cycling authority walks back statement on trans competitors
