Opinion | Lance Armstrong's trans hypocrisy is almost too on the nose this Pride Month

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Opinion | Lance Armstrong's trans hypocrisy is almost too on the nose this Pride Month
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'Leave the rule-abiding trans women alone,' writes Veronica Ivy. 'I still have all my titles. You’re the one who had the unfair advantage.'

Trans women are women. Trans women are female. Our sport’s governing body says I’m female. My U.S. and Canadian identification documents say I’m female, including my birth certificate. My medical records all list me as female. So officials in sports, government and medicine all consider me, a trans woman, to be female. The people who disagree are just wrong.

And this brings us to Armstrong’s point about supporting the trans community while effectively asking whether trans women are real women. Moreover, he seems to compare his extensively documented cheating to a trans woman’s just existing. These are not comparable.These sorts of questionstrans women, because they cast trans women as “other,” at best.

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