Rachel mckinnon is quite plainly and simply an asshole. The majority of men male average heightweight 5913 stone womens 53. Mckinnon lived unambiguously as a man called rhys until. Veronica ivy born 1982 formerly known as rachel mckinnon is a canadian philosophy professor competitive cyclist and transgender rights activist. This is the maximum weight grouping and includes all women that weight and over for men the 83kg masters group. Mckinnon was simply not fair.
The gold medal was won in herculean style by the canadian rachel mckinnon. Mckinnon in both a 200 and 500 meter time trial during the weekend. And does not account for those other advantages enjoyed by men such as height weight spatial awareness speed. Im too short to be an elite volleyball athlete. Men forget all the time that women are smaller and what that might mean to our daily life. No absolutely not.
Fader however told me that she felt that racing against dr. You are biologically a man and you think its fair to enter a competition populated entirely with biological womana competition that these woman have trained extensively forthen. Even though they know that if theyre approached aggressively by someone 6 inches taller and 15th larger theyd back off because theyre not idiots they conveniently forget that thats the status of the majority of women vs. Mckinnon who considers himself transgender but is still biologically male won the track cycling medal last week competing against a field of only women. In 2018 she became the first transgender world track cycling champion by placing first at the uci womens masters track world championship for the womens 3544 age bracket. Mckinnon sailed to an easy win largely because she had a significant height weight and power advantage over her competitors who didnt have the luxury of actually being male.
Rachel mckinnon is the perfect example of how this structure works and operates as well as why we should resist it. If you have all the biological anatomical hormonal musculature etc characteristics of a man ie. We do not regulate height. Rachel mckinnon has been publicly tweeting about their workout recently and then i fell down a rabbit hole of also publicly available statistics. In many sports height provides a massive competitive advantage. Professor of philosophy and roster faculty in womens and gender studies.
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