Female athletes are being forced to self-exclude or suffer humiliation as males who appropriate female stereotypes invade their sports. 

Cycling, swimming, soccer, rowing, tennis, athletics and a myriad of other sports have all allowed male bodied athletes to compete while ostracising females who object. Every week there are new examples of ‘the thing that never happens’, happening.

Three males identifying as women have dominated the podium of an elite cycling race in Washington. Each two-person team that finished 1-2-3 included a male, despite it being a women’s race.

The image of the finalists on the podium shows the first-place male towering over his female and male counterparts.

Jordan Lothrop has switched from podium finishes as a male, as recently as last year, to now dominating the female competition. He was ranked 22 in the male division in Canada.

Second place was taken by Jenna Lingwood, 43, who raced as a man until 2017.

Henry Lin now goes by the name Eva Lin. He took third place in the race. Unsurprisingly his rankings have improved dramatically after switching to the women’s competition.

The thing that never happens, according to Australian Sports Commission boss Keiren Perkins, happened again in rowing when a male competitor in the female division totally dominated the competition.

Male Rower Brooke Moss Wins Women's U23 Race at Cromwell Cup Regatta After Half the Female Rowers Scratch from Finals @usrowing

The Cromwell Cup regatta was held yesterday in Cambridge, MA.

The U23 1x women's final should have been won by a ♀️, but instead a ♂️  beat the only woman in the final by 29 sec. The other female competitors, who raced the time trials, scratched the final.

Women are being forced to self-exclude from sports as their categories are being dominated by males who appropriate female sex-stereotypes. 

The North West Sydney Football team the Flying Bats are demonstrating this beyond any shadow of a doubt. They have up to five males in their women’s team. They are undefeated and have scored more than 50 goals over the season with only 3 goals being scored against them. 

Enough is enough. No male can ever be female. Either do away with sex categories in sport or stop erasing women and give us back our female divisions, for the sake of our dignity, fairness and safety.