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British Cycling has suspended its transgender and non-binary participation policy and will be performing a ‘full review’ in the coming weeks.
The suspension comes in the aftermath of Emily Bridges’ failed attempt to enter a women’s event at the British National Omnium Championships last weekend.
Bridges’ mother says the 21-year-old has been “dumped by email” and a statement will follow in the coming 24 hours.
Bridges was due to compete in her first women’s event in Derby, coming up against five-time Olympic champion Dame Laura Kenny. However, British Cycling said it was informed by the UCI, cycling’s governing body, she is not eligible under its current guidelines.
It is understood although British Cycling accepted she had met the requirements – current transgender regulations require riders to have had testosterone levels below five nanomoles per litre for a 12-month period prior to competition – the UCI has not yet granted her switch in licence.
Bridges came out as a transgender woman in October 2020 and continued to compete as a male during her transition, winning the men’s points race at the British Universities’ championships in February.
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british cycling has announced it has suspended its policy of allowing trans and non-binary riders to compete in women’s races pending a review the decision stems from conflicting policies between british cycling and the sports international governing body the uci now the announcement comes amid a high profile case involving british cyclist emily bridges who was due to race in her first women’s event last weekend british cycling regulations allowed her to compete but the uci ruled she was ineligible well the british cycling board of directors have voted in favor of an immediate suspension of its current policy and will begin a review a little later this month a statement the issue read as follows when we developed our transgender and non-binary participation policy we did so with the intention of advancing the cause of promoting diversity and inclusion within the sport of cycling understanding that this is a fast-moving area of sports policy and scientific research we committed to reviewing our policy annually or more frequently as required to reflect emerging circumstances they went on to say while the current policy was created following an extensive external and internal consultation the review will allow us time for further discussion with all stakeholders including women and the transgender and non-binary communities as we strive to provide all within our sport with the clarity and understanding they deserve i continue by saying we remain committed to ensuring that transgender and non-binary people are welcomed supported and celebrated in the cycling community and the inclusion of these groups within non-competitive activities remains unaffected by the suspension we will also continue to work tirelessly to ensure that our sport remains free of hate discrimination and abuse in all forms and that we prioritize the welfare of riders volunteers event organizers commissioners and others that our sport cannot continue without well in response emily bridges mother sandy tweeted a photo of the statement with the message dumped by email we’ve just received this in our inbox we’ll be making a statement at some point during the next 24 hours [Music]