Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges will not compete in a men’s or open-category race, suggesting it is not safe.
Bridges, a biological man who began identifying as a woman in 2020, was ruled to be ineligible to compete in the British National Omnium Championship in 2022. That Union Cycliste Internationale race would have been Bridges’s first women’s race. Still today, Bridges refuses to race in any other category, according to an interview with ITV News.
“Will it be safe for me to compete in an open category?” Bridges said. “A ban is a ban. You can say you can compete in the open category, but we’re women — we should be able to race in the women’s category.”
British Cycling subsequently banned all transgender cyclists and nonbinary cyclists from its competitive races. Despite the ban, Bridges is challenging
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