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"'I Don't Have Any Advantage"

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More Plates More Dates

Health & Fitness, Science, Education, Self-improvement

4.9806 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0

So, guys, Derek, more plates, morning, it's.com. Today we're going to be revisiting the trans athletes

0:04.8

discussion. There has been a shit ton of breaking stories when it comes to different sports

0:12.2

and trans athletes' ability to participate in them as of late. Most notable coming from cycling,

0:20.5

swimming, and rugby.

0:21.6

We're gonna get into them one at a time.

0:23.6

This was, I've had like all of these as like separate videos to do,

0:26.6

but at this point there's just so many piling up that I'm just gonna consolidate it all into one like big ass video, I guess.

0:33.6

Hopefully not too long, but we'll see.

0:36.6

So this was a notable one. Trans cyclist Emily Bridges,

0:39.6

21 years old, claimed she has no advantage over female rivals and wouldn't have beaten

0:43.9

Dame Laura Kenny and says trans women are a punching bag and in culture war. So this is Emily Bridges.

0:51.7

I want to inspire people to be who they are on the cover of the June issue of Diva,

0:56.8

where she said trans women are the current punching bag populist movements like to go for.

1:01.9

Emily Bridges began hormone therapy last year and was previously declared as eligible to compete in women's events by British cycling,

1:09.1

who then performed a U-turn.

1:11.6

Pictured here, August 2018 competing as a man.

1:14.6

Zach had set a national junior men's record over 25 miles in the same year and competed

1:19.7

as a man until earlier this year.

1:21.8

So pretty fucking recent.

1:23.8

Now known as Emily Bridges, she was going to race against women, including Laura Kenny Kenny in March but this was stopped at the 11th hour amid the claims of a

1:32.2

boycott so getting into the details basically Emily claims that there would have been

1:37.1

no advantage whatsoever should have been able to race against cis women and this

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