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31st March 2022
12:45pm BST

Bridges came out as transgender in 2020 and began hormone therapy last year (Instagram)[/caption]
Although no cyclists competing on Saturday had come out and openly voiced their opposition to Bridges' participation, the Guardian reports that there had been discussions amongst female riders about potentially boycotting the event in Derby
There had been calls from female athletes in other sports for female cyclists to boycott the event.
Former Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies said the "very serious threat of a boycott helped hugely" to prompt intervention from the UCI.
She told GB News: "It would not have been fair to ask Laura Kenny and the other women cyclists that Bridges would have come up against to have to race a rival with the advantages of a biological man."
Ellie Baker, who was fourth at the European 800 metres indoor athletics championship, called for a mass boycott of the race on Saturday.
She tweeted: "How this has been allowed to happen is just ridiculous. I would refuse to race and hope that the other women would stand with me on this too. This is totally unfair. The advantages a trans women have had from going through puberty as a boy to a man can never been undone."
https://twitter.com/EllieBaker1998/status/1509142270255243273
Former Olympic champions Sally Gunnell backed Baker's words, tweeting that "females passed and present should stand together on us."
The current trans inclusion rules are that a rider's testosterone levels must be below 5nmol/L for at least 12 months before their first race. This is on the basis that this will reduce a rider's performance to female level, which in endurance cycling is around 10 percent lower than male performance.
In a recent interview with Cycling Weekly, Bridges said that she believed the current rules are appropriate. She has been participating in a study at Loughborough University to monitor her change in performance, with results indicating a 13 to 16 percent drop in her power outputs across six-second, one-, five and 20-minute durations.
Earlier this month, US college transgender swimmer Lia Thomas won the 500-yard freestyle at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Championships.
Her participation was backed by 300 swimmers in an open letter, but also faced some opposition from others.
Despite winning the 500-yard freestyle, Florida governor Ron DeSantis named runner-up Emma Weyant as the winner of the event.
Last summer, New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard became the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the Olympics.
She competed in the women's super heavyweight weightlifting competition, but was eliminated in the first round.
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