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Leslight finds acceptance in title-winning seasonA year ago, Tyler Leslight was making news as a transgender jockey. Now he's making news as a jockey. And a premiership-winning one at that. Leslight, the jockey who transitioned from being born a girl, has scored a major early career goal in winning the Queensland country apprentice jockey premiership. With 41 winners on the bush circuit, Leslight was leading junior rider and was only two wins off the top senior country jockey for the 2022/23 season. The 23-year-old, who is based in Moranbah, told Racenet he has found wide acceptance on and off the track. "The apprentice premiership was a goal for me for a lot of reasons and one was to prove to people that I'm not just only that (transgender)," Leslight said. "Some people initially told me I had to worry about some of the old fellas out here in the bush, I was told they weren't going to like it (Leslight being transgender). "But I will tell you what, the people up here don't care about that side of things. "I have had zero problems with anyone, they are not judgmental at all and they don't really care. "The great thing about my season is it shows that I can win and I can win on horses that aren't even supposed to win. "I rode two winners that were 100-1 shots and, yeah, I looked like sh-t on them and I rode them badly, but they won." While the country apprentice title goal was set a long way out, in the closing stages of the season Leslight realised he was in touching distance of the senior bush jockey title. Leslight knew he was up against it when he went to Corfield to ride last Saturday – that's Corfield 1450km northwest of Brisbane, not Caulfield in Melbourne. But when he rode the first winner of the day – which was also his first ride with just a 1.5kg bush claim – his hopes briefly rose. "I needed to have a really good day at Corfield on the weekend and Robbie Faehr needed to have a bad one, he was riding at Tambo," Leslight said. "I didn't get there but to only be beaten by two in the senior premiership was great, considering I was suspended three or four times in the season. "Riding a treble at Mount Isa on rodeo Thursday last year was a real highlight. "That was a big deal because it was my first riding treble and it was a TAB meeting. "It was the first week of the season so it gave me a good kick, I was as crook as a dog that day as well. "I ended up riding three trebles in the season. "The Alpha Cup was also a big one for me on Stampede Warrior. "When Billy (Leslight's boss and champion country trainer Bevan ‘Billy' Johnson) got the horse, it was a really low rating horse. "To go from such a low rating to Open company in eight starts and to see horse be so progressive and going through his gears was great. "When you sit on him, he just tows you into a race and you feel so confident on him. "He taught me how to ride a bit, being a staying horse who would come from behind." So having knocked off an important goal early in his career, what's next for Leslight? He so far has been knocked back for his provincial license by authorities who have told him to improve his record with the whip, after receiving some whip suspensions. But he's keen to get his ticket to ride in provincial areas, as well as ride at the iconic Birdsville Cup carnival in the Queensland outback in early September. "I want to do Birdsville and then we will start looking at some plans for the future," Leslight said. "Birdsville has always been on my to-do list. "I haven't set any plans in stone after that. "There is the option of going to another trainer on loan for a few months, another option is to stay here and ride at places like Rockhampton and Townsville when I get my provincial license. "I feel like I'm in a good spot with riding. "There were a couple of weeks a while ago when I didn't get a winner and it really upset me. "I was putting too much pressure on myself and trying too hard and I was getting suspended because of that." It was also a landmark season for Leslight's boss, trainer Johnson who took home country training premiership honours and claimed back the top spot for the first time since the 2019/20 season. |
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let's hope he gets his whip action sorted out...
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the final result of sex development in humans are unambiguously male or female over 99.98 percent of the time.
Thus, the claim that “2 sexes is overly simplistic” is misleading,
because intersex conditions correspond to less than 0.02 percent of all
births, and intersex people are not a third sex. Intersex is
simply a catch-all category for sex ambiguity and/or a mismatch between
sex genotype and phenotype, regardless of its etiology. Furthermore, the
claim that “sex is a spectrum” is also misleading, as a spectrum
implies a continuous distribution, and maybe even an amodal one (one in
which no specific outcome is more likely than others). Biological sex in
humans, however, is clear-cut over 99.98 percent of the time. Lastly,
the claim that classifying people’s sex based on anatomy and genetics
“has no basis in science” has itself no basis in reality, as any method
exhibiting a predictive accuracy of over 99.98 percent would place it
among the most precise methods in all the life sciences. We revise
medical care practices and change world economic plans on far lower
confidence than that. ... Gender ideology seeks to portray sex as so incomprehensibly complex and multivariable that our traditional practice of classifying people as simply either male or female is grossly outdated and should be abandoned for a revolutionary concept of “gender identity.” This entails that males wouldn’t be barred from female sports, women’s prisons or any other space previously segregated according to our supposedly antiquated notions of “biological sex,” so long as they “identify” as female. But “intersex” and “transgender” mean entirely different things. Intersex people have rare developmental conditions that result in apparent sex ambiguity. Most transgender people aren’t sexually ambiguous at all but merely “identify” as something other than their biological sex. Once you’re conscious of this distinction, you will begin to notice gender ideologues attempting to steer discussions away from whether men who identify as women should be allowed to compete in female sports toward prominent intersex athletes like South African runner Caster Semenya. Why? Because so long as they’ve got you on your heels making difficult judgment calls on a slew of complex intersex conditions, they’ve succeeded in drawing your attention away from easy calls on unquestionably male athletes like 2022 NCAA Division I women’s swimming and diving champion Lia Thomas. They shift the focus to intersex to distract from transgender. Colin Wright https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-biologist-explains-why-sex-is-binary-gender-male-female-intersex-medical-supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-lia-thomas-3d22237e |
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