Transgender cyclist told she can no longer compete in men's events - despite decades of racing

Mostly, having a Men-only category is daft. Should be called General, open to all participants, including those in the narrower cats. They'll get there, I think.

Maybe there should be two new transgender categories.  A category for those who were born male and changed to female and another for those who began as female and changed to male.  Of course you can only race in the category that applies to you.   

Skinsuits don't leave much to the imagination and I presume the picture of the Gentleman above is the individual in question.  We are in danger of letting our desire to please people cloud realities. I am with Germaine Greer on this one; women in a race would not be impressed or think it is equality to have to compete against the person shown above no matter what she identifies as. I don't see why "Mens" categories can't be open to everyone.

There is a case of like this in the netherlands - Natalie van Gogh, she races in the womens categorie`s. sometimes the press screams murder when she wins a race but overall that doesn`t happen too often indicating that it`s not too unfair. She claims also to have lost a considerable amount of muscle power due to hormonal treatment which i do believe, as i have trained with her a few times.

Letting her race with the women does make her a good female cyclist, but as a man she would have made a very decent top amateur racer (not a winning one, but a pretty good one nonetheless)

A difficult topic, but it`s redicilous in the case of the article: there`s no possible advantage there at all. so why exclude her there?

As someone who was diagnosed with Transsexualism, and undergone sex reassignment surgery, i believe the rules the Olympic Games use should be enforced in all sports. The Olympic Games insist that anyone changing sex must have undergone sex reassignment surgery and been on hormones for 2 years which all Transsexuals will have done.

Transgender on the other hand is simply an umbrella term, nothing more. Transsexual has been forcibly included under the Transgender umbrella, against Transsexual wishes, along with the Transgender identities which are transvestite, crossdresser, gender queer, bi-gender and non-conforming gender. As the individual above has not undergone sex reassignment surgery then why are the deemed to be female? They claim they identify as the opposite sex but as female do not have penises, then how can they claim to identify as something that doesnt exist? 

Transgender in short isnt a medical condition, like Transsexualism, its a fashion statement and hopefully very soon society will opne their eyes to this fact. 

This issue seems suddenly to have burst onto the scene, there are more and more people like Molly who inhabit a middle ground where there are few certainties.  No doubt somewhere a court is working on a ruling that will throw everything up into the air and God knows how things will turn out.

The area that probably holds the greatest potential for dispute is when athletes who were born men later identify as women and compete as women.  Their genetic make-up will give them a distinct advantage in that category and this will upset a lot of competitors.  Maybe these individuals will have to forgo the right to enter the higher levels of their sport?

I'm glad I'm not in charge!

Can't they just relax the rules and let her continue racing in the men's? I could understand it if she wanted to compete in the women's but wasn't allowed due to having an unfair advantage.