British Cycling : Investigate after transgender cyclist wins women’s mountain bike race

Maxine Yates, a transgender woman, won the women’s 19+ category in British Cycling’s downhill national series event at Fort William earlier this month.

British Cycling are investigating a complaint into how a transgender woman won a national series mountain-bike race after the governing body had last month to suspend its trans inclusion policy voted last month to suspend its trans inclusion policy.

According to Yahoo Sports She was competing in what is considered to be the «expert» category – below the higher elite level – but British Cycling had made no distinction when it announced the immediate suspension of its transgender and non-binary policy on April 8, pending a full review.

The suspension of the transgender policy had followed the decision to accept Emily Bridges’s entry for the national track omnium championships, only for the world governing body to rule that her application would be deferred to an expert panel, Yahoo Sports reports.

British Cycling and the UCI’s most recent rules stated that transgender women could race in the female category provided that their testosterone had continuously remained below 5mnol for 12 months.