Molly Cameron, professional cyclocross racer and transgender athlete

With Pace

Payson McElveen

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4.8 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

For over two decades, Molly Cameron has been advocating for LGBTQ+ rights within cycling. In her career as a racer, she was banned early on from racing in the women's category, and was forced to race with the men. In 2015, she was briefly banned from racing in the men's cyclocross national championship when the rules were changed to require a person's gender to correlate with the gender on their driver's license. In this interview, she talks with Payson about being thrown into the spotlight...

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0:00.0	When I was standing there at USA Cycling Nationals and I was watching this unfold into like,
0:03.6	you know, whatever, 45 minutes that this is happening. I'm like, for a sport that really grows
0:08.3	from the grassroots up, I can't believe that the leadership didn't realize you want to have some
0:14.5	authenticity. You want to make communities of color and young kids and high school kids feel
0:19.0	fucking awesome about getting into bike racing,
0:21.6	you'd have picked those protesters up by their collars and made a show of dragging them the hell off the venue.
0:27.6	It's showtime, everybody! Showtime!
0:31.6	You've been living in a dream world, Neil.
0:35.6	This is the world as it exists today.
0:41.6	Life moves pretty fast.
0:43.9	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:46.5	You could miss it.
0:49.6	Listen, we talk about practice.
0:52.8	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:54.3	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:56.7	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
1:00.6	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:05.3	This is the adventure stash with Pace and McAlvin.
1:11.3	Hello, everybody.
1:12.3	Welcome back to the show.
1:13.7	And welcome to 2022.
1:16.3	Happy New Year.
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