Trans cyclist stands alone on podium after winning age group in female category
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Another day, another transgender athlete coming out on top.
Lesley Mumford is the latest cyclist to beat the competition, this time in a 100-mile gravel race in Colorado last weekend.
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Mumford won her age group in the female category and shared a photo of herself celebrating alone on the podium, writing, “I have no idea why so many people bailed before the podiums, but they did. I swear I wasn’t the only one in my age group.”
The 46-year-old, who transitioned in 2017 while a Colorado SWAT team leader, according to the New York Post, came in sixth overall in the female category, beating 35 other cyclists.
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She won her age group handily, beating second-place racer Lindsay Kriete by 17 minutes and third-place finisher Michelle Van Sickle by more than 30.
It is unclear why the other riders didn’t stand on the podium but critics believe it was a conscious decision.
“The silent protests are starting!” tweeted three-time Olympian Inga Thompson. “The women are refusing to stand on the podium with the man! Well done!!!”
“Enough is enough!” swimmer Riley Gaines concurred.
Gaines has become a spokesperson of sorts against biological vs. transgender women in sports following her losses in meets to trans athlete Lia Thomas.
“Empty podium except for the male who naturally finished atop all the women in the women’s category,” she continued. “Despite there being a non-binary/trans category he easily could have competed in. Keep it up girls!”
Megyn Kelly chimed in on her Sirius XM show, saying, “there’s a story every other day now about a trans person winning a women’s cycling event.”
She added: “Women’s cycling is all but gone to us — I mean it’s worse, I think, than women’s swimming,” and refused to refer to Mumford by her preferred pronouns.
“He suddenly decides he’s a woman, and goes and steals all their medals. No wonder [female athletes] are quitting,” Kelly sniped.
Kelly’s guests were Britt Mayer and Carrie Prejean Boller, co-founders of The Battle Cry, a group fighting to keep trans athletes out of women’s sports.
“We thought that being polite was going to somehow make this all go away. But it’s getting worse,” Mayer said.
“But as it gets worse, I think that women are becoming a lot stronger in their convictions and realizing what’s at stake.”
Boller added that she “loves that women are getting the balls to stand up and say, ‘No more.’
“You will not erase us women. You will not replace us. No! We’re taking a stand,” she said. “If we stand together, we will win.”
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