Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Austin Killips, a transgender female cyclist, 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.
Speaking to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Killips addressed the controversy surrounding trans athletes' participation in sports which seemingly came into focus with the emergence of former UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas’ during the 2021-2022 season.
From left to right, Marion Norbert-Riberolle, Denise Betsema and Austin Killips pictured on the podium after the women's elite race of the "Kasteelcross" cyclocross cycling event, race 7/8 in the "Exact Cross" competition, Saturday Jan.
21, 2023 in Zonnebeke, Belgium. (DAVID PINTENS/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images) "It's certainly concerning that the nature of the discourse, the amount of energy that has gone into building this narrative would lead you to believe that there's this massive number of trans athletes participating in sports and winning all the time, when the reality is that we're statistically underrepresented," Killips told the outlet. "By the number, some of us do well, a lot of us do just fine, are just normal competitors." MARTINA NAVRATILOVA RIPS TRANSGENDER CYCLIST'S LATEST TRIUMPH IN NORTH CAROLINA: 'WHAT A JOKE' "If the rules say trans people can play, then it doesn't mean that we can't win." Killips became the first transgender female to win a Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) stage race after winning the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico back in April.