Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Veronica Ivy, a Canadian cyclist who became the first transgender woman to win a world track cycling championship, took issue with the sport’s governing body’s updated policy on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s events.
Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) released its new policy on Friday, prohibiting any trans cyclist from competing in women’s events if they "transitioned after (male) puberty." Ivy vented her frustrations on her Instagram account. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Veronica Ivy, an associate professor of philosophy and roster faculty in women’s and gender studies at the College of Charleston, at Hampton Park, March 14, 2021, in Charleston, South Carolina. (Gavin McIntyre for USA Today via Imagn Content Services, LLC) "However, now I'm forced into the humiliating ‘Men's/Open’ category," Ivy wrote. "No cis woman will be in this category, only trans women and CIS men.
That means it's not ‘open.’ "The UCI has said loud and clear that trans women are not real women and that we must be treated as other, and the cis women must be ‘protected’ from us innocent trans women." Ivy called the UCI’s policy "nonsense." "It's an indignity.
It's inhumane. It's disgusting. "I will not be deterred by this hateful targeted transphobic policy." Ivy won the 2019 UCI Masters World Track Cycling Championship in the women’s spring 35-44 age bracket.