A biological man won a women’s cycling event at the UCI Masters Track Cycling World Championships on Saturday.
According to Pink News, Dr. Rachel McKinnon, a biological male who works as an assistant professor at the College of Charleston, has “faced backlash” for winning the women’s event, with people “accusing her of having an unfair advantage over her opponents.”
In response to these complaints, McKinnon accused critics of being “transphobic bigots,” and after being accused of “cheating” by some users on Twitter, McKinnon replied, “Still waiting for the transphobic bigots to point to a rule I broke.”
Many sporting events now allow athletes to sign up under the gender they identify as, even if it isn’t their biological gender, including the Olympics, and there have been a number of examples of male-to-female transgender athletes beating biological women.
In June, a transgender student from Connecticut beat the record in a girls track competition, while the athlete in second place was also transgender.
McKinnon is also not the first transgender woman to win women’s cycling races.
Charlie Nash is a reporter for Breitbart Tech. You can follow him on Twitter @MrNashington, or like his page at Facebook.
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