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Nina Paley (ninapaley@spinster.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-May-2023 03:38:54 JSTNina Paley Should I start a TERF bicycling club? It could be international and people could create local chapters. It doesn't have to be TERF-only, or even women-only; I'd happily include everyone, even trannies. What I don't want is the bullshit walking-on-eggshells experience I have in my local bike club.
For example, this morning I went on a club ride and did chit-chat and mentioned I’m going to the ICONS of sport conference in Denver, because I want men out of women’s sports, and the guy adjacent to me said, “you mean transwomen??” and I said, “they’re men” and he said, “well I have no opinion, except it sounds an awful lot like when they kept black players out of the National Baseball League.”
Here's a blog post I wrote last year which should give an idea of my local bike club's social environment: https://blog.ninapaley.com/2022/03/21/cycling-and-gender-intersect-in-meaningful-ways/