Well yes, but he repeatedly made his case through misgendering. Instead of “trans women should not be competing in highest level of women’s cycling”, he called trans women “men”. Which takes it from being about women’s cycling to then being about not accepting trans women period.
I don't believe it's the UCI's official stance to deliberately misidentify someone's gender, as he did. Had he expressed his criticism more rationally, I doubt he would be viewed so negatively now.
Fair point. That is actually a good explanation. Not aware of all of his tweets on this, just saw the dust up when he didn’t recognise Austin Killips as Tour of the Gila winner which, under this policy, wouldn’t have happened of course.
everyone knows his views & the language he uses to relay them so i'm surprised this just came up now. I like Mihai - i dont agree with everything he says ( or sometimes the way its said ) but his content is generally pretty good . Shouldnt a community be a broad church rather than an echo chamber
what about the trans people in our community? they would then have to see his transphobia accepted when he doesn’t respect them, respect goes both ways
yeap - as i say language is important. a view on transgender participation in sport arent in itself transphobic though. maybe there are some other tweets that are more damning - i dont know - perhaps the original statement should put a bit more context to the reasoning
yeah I’ve never seen Mihai open any kind of respectful, informed discussion instead just spreading vitriol, I agree statements including more information would be more helpful
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