First, what a poorly written article. Took a couple reading to sort out that the first half of the article was a completely unrelated event and set of people from the second half.
So the primary victim came in 4th in a bike race that had cis women come in 1st and 2nd with trans women coming in 3rd and 5th, and that was the straw that had her retire, with her claiming that some other race involving a trans woman might've caused her to be overlooked for an international team and all that's made it discouraging to train.
That "overlooked" word tells me all I need to know that there was no consequence to her. If the international cyclocross team (lol) was objectively selected based on placement in qualifiers, she'd have some point. But if it's more subjectively selected as she's implied, I'm confident that cyclocross's grant hill would be able to factor in if she was the first-place or second-place cis woman, or just look at times, and select accordingly.
Given all the outrage, there's gotta be something out there where a cis woman suffered direct tangible damages as a result of a trans woman being in their sport, right?
