People who still defend males in female sport are embarrassing and shameful. 

Who in their right mind could ever think it was “kind” or “inclusive” to humiliate women in their own sex-based sporting division? What sort of person is proud they gaslight women into accepting a lie under the threat of penality?

More good news out of the USA is that female cyclists are drawing a line in the sand and calling out this misogynistic behaviour. A male cyclist named Kate Phillips won a masters national championship and some women have taken action.

Julie Peterson came second to the man and refused to take the podium at the medal ceremony in protest.

"You could clearly see the power that he had," Peterson told Fox News Digital about Phillips.

Peterson said she wasn't even aware that Phillips had registered for the event until she had already registered herself and even argued with officials about the situation.

"If I had known, I wouldn't have spent thousands of dollars in travel and time off work to come and do a race," Peterson said.

"I said, 'I don't want to race against a man,' and they quickly scolded me and said ‘Oh, you can’t call him a man,' and I'm like ‘Well, he is a man,’ so I was quickly scolded and corrected that it is a woman and I don't even know what to say."

Veteran women's cyclist Debbie Milne competed in the Tuesday event, finishing in seventh place. Milne also spoke out against USA Cycling for allowing Phillips to compete.

"To be fair to all humans, if we want to say him or her, he was born a biological male, that is a fact," Milne told Fox News Digital. "And that is the thing that makes it an unfair advantage. Whatever has happened after that is a whole different topic.

"I've raced for 25 years in conditions that only women can understand. There's a lot that only a born female woman goes through because of the cycles that we have. Even that alone is something that a man-born biological male can never experience. There's nothing that can stimulate that, when you show up to the race and you are at the worst point of the monthly cycle and you know you're at a disadvantage."

Milne also said she wasn't aware of the trans athlete's participation ahead of the race.

"I totally did not expect this, to drive 13 hours, to come and do a national championship," Milne said. "I had no idea, I'd like to have known that's what the terms were if I came. But that wasn't even made known to me."

Another cyclist Kristina Gray, who did not compete in this race also spoke out. 

"I have in my last 10 years of racing, I've had to race against biological males, I've been forced to be on the podium with many of them, more recently the last five years," Gray said. "In Oregon, every almost weekend, there is a biological male in our races, every weekend, practically."

More people need to speak out. It is not rude, hateful, vilifying or violent to speak the truth that men are not women, it is just plain fact. These men can still compete in the correct sex category, in a mixed or special category. They are not women and should never have been given permission to compete in women’s events.

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