Transgender cyclist Lesley Mumford, 46, is facing backlash after winning a female category of a grueling bicycle competition.
Lesley Mumford, who transitioned in 2017 while a Colorado SWAT team leader, shared a lonesome photo after winning the 40-49 age group in the female category of Sunday’s 100-mile Desert Gravel Co2Ut.
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“I have no idea why so many people bailed before the podiums, but they did,” wrote Mumford, 46, while posing alone with her arms aloft in victory.
“I swear I wasn’t the only one in my age group,” she wrote of the 43 female competitors who finished after her in the 40-49 category.
Mumford also came in sixth overall in the female category of the race, beating 35 other cyclists. The event has a non-binary category, which Mumford chose not to enter.
She easily won her age group, beating second-place racer Lindsey Kriete by 17 minutes and third-place rider Michelle Van Sickle by more than 30.
Neither Kriete nor Van Sickle has spoken about being a no-show on the podium, but critics celebrated what they assume was a “silent protest.”
“Enough is enough!” agreed Riley Gaines, the swimmer who became an outspoken critic of trans athletes competing against biological women after losing events to Lia Thomas.
“Empty podium except for the male who naturally finished atop all the women in the women’s category. Despite there being a non-binary/trans category, he easily could have competed in. Keep it up, girls!” she wrote, with a “#SaveWomensSports” hashtag.
#LesleyMumford another total coward who could not win as a man, so decided to crash the gate into women's sports, where he doesn't belong. https://t.co/6FJwDiy33r
— LightOnLife (@LakdarSpeaks) May 16, 2023
The CO2UT gravel race was yesterday.
Trans-identified male cyclist Lesley (Wesley) Mumford was🥇 in the women's 40-49 age group (out of 14) and 6/33 for women overall on the 100 mile course.
Lesley doesn't know why no one else showed up for the podium!#ThisNeverHappens pic.twitter.com/MtVUTrI91X
— 🚲 (@i_heart__bikes) May 15, 2023
Megyn Kelly also highlighted Mumford’s win on her Thursday Sirius XM show, saying, “There’s a story every other day now about a trans person winning a women’s cycling event.”
“Women’s cycling is all but gone to us — I mean, it’s worse, I think, than women’s swimming,” she said of the sport first sparking controversy after Thomas dominated events.
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Regarding Mumford, Kelly said she was a male sheriff’s deputy “until two minutes ago.”
“Now he says he’s Leslie Mumford and has won in the women’s” race, she said, refusing to use Mumford’s preferred female pronouns.
“He suddenly decides he’s a woman and goes and steals all their medals. No wonder female athletes are quitting,” she said.
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