What Claire Sharpe did and what she said was really nice. The way BBC covered it, by counterpointing each one of her remarks with up to three TERF viewpoints whitewashed as “women rights campaigners”, not as much. BBC and NYTimes are complicit to trans genocide. Having said that, I’d prefer a better source linked because there is a reason I am getting my news from lemmy and not the mainstream.
I think this article is better, and also goes in more depth on the other women who declined besides Claire Sharpe. The BBC article was difficult to get through.
What Claire Sharpe did and what she said was really nice. The way BBC covered it, by counterpointing each one of her remarks with up to three TERF viewpoints whitewashed as “women rights campaigners”, not as much. BBC and NYTimes are complicit to trans genocide. Having said that, I’d prefer a better source linked because there is a reason I am getting my news from lemmy and not the mainstream.
I think this article is better, and also goes in more depth on the other women who declined besides Claire Sharpe. The BBC article was difficult to get through.
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/cycling-uk-100-women-in-cycling-trans-exclusion
Yes it was difficult to get through because the mental gymnastics they did to try and make TERFs palatable was more exhausting than cycling itself.
Edit: Yes, that was a much more inspiring and fair coverage. THANKS!