Man claiming to be female wins women’s world cycling race, accuses critics of ‘transphobia’
In a development that some have decried as a harbinger of the death of women’s sports, biological male Rachel McKinnon won a gold medal this weekend at the Masters Track Cycling World Championships. The Canadian-born McKinnon, who is also a philosophy professor on the faculty at South Carolina’s College of Charleston, first won the women’s sprint 35-39 age bracket last year, and won a gold medal again this weekend while setting a new best time, Cycling Weekly reported. He also won a silver medal in the 500-meter time trial earlier in the week. “Way too many people to thank,” McKinnon wrote on Instagram. “Thank you especially to the dozens of fans cheering your heads off, and I'm glad to have met a new friend Kirsten (Herup Sovang), who took bronze.” He declared in a follow-up that this year’s jersey, medals, and record “mean a whole lot more to me than my first.” In another pair of posts, McKinnon highlighted photos of the three medalists posing for photos, in which Sovang