Transgender female cyclist Austin Killips addressed the national debate surrounding trans athletes' participation in sports, adding that they are “statistically underrepresented.'
Austin Killips,spoke out in an article over the weekend about the"nature of the discourse" surrounding transgender athlete participation in women’s sports, which Killips called"concerning," adding that trans athletes are"statistically underrepresented" in sports.
Killips became the first transgender female to win a Union Cycliste Internationale stage race after winning the Tour of the Gila inback in April. The victory sparked an uproar on social media which prompted the UCI to defend Killips and its policy. "The UCI rules are based on the latest scientific knowledge and have been applied in a consistent manner. The UCI continues to follow the evolution of scientific findings and may change its rules in the future as scientific knowledge evolves."was among those to speak out against Killips’ victory, saying in a tweet:"this will happen more and more- women’s sports is NOT THE PLACE for trans identified male athletes.
"I do think there is this nature of when trans people do well at something, it's like, 'Oh, man, this is the first time this has ever happened," Killips said.
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