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Meg Elliot

'This is an issue for everyone' – cyclists urged to join solidarity rides with trans community after exclusion from Cycling UK list

A cycling club before riding.

‘We have updated the rules about who can be nominated for our 100 Women in Cycling Awards,’ was the small print under awards nominations for Cycling UK’s 100 Women in Cycling last month. The organisation's definition of what a woman is had been changed to exclude trans and non-binary women, due to legal advice, it later said.

Megan Joy Barclay didn’t notice it at first, a box at the end of something that should have been celebratory. But once she did, she was put off.

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