Three males competed in a women’s cycling competition in Livermore, California this week, dominating the race and seizing first prize from a female athlete.
“Li” (Liam) King, Jordan Johnson, and “Chelsea” (Connor) Wolfe all registered to compete in the women’s fixed category of the Oakland Grand Prix, which took place on September 14. King, whose Instagram bio notes that he uses “they/them/she/her” pronouns, came in first place. He has previously won cycling competitions in the “nonbinary” (mixed sex) category.
According to women’s advocacy group WomenAreReal, the female competitors stood no chance against King.
“He dominated this race from the start. It wasn’t even really a race at all, he was just way out front the entire time,” the group posted to X.
Four members of WomenAreReal were in attendance for the race to support the female athletes, carrying placards with slogans condemning the participation of males in women’s sport. One of the advocates had a sign reading “NO MALES IN FEMALE CYCLING,” while others called out USA Cycling directory for failing to protect the women’s category.
Speaking to Reduxx, Beth Bourne of WomenAreReal said that she had to call police after race officials became hostile and aggressive towards her group at the event. Bourne states that one male race official grabbed her cell phone, ripped one of her signs, and threw them into the trash.
“Within the first two minutes o the race going off, I thought I would ask the USA cycling race officials if they were aware of any men in the women’s single speed fixie race. The official suggested I talk with the race organizer, and as I was asking the question, I was assaulted,” Bourne says. “First by a woman who tried to block my phone and then actually took my phone from me. And then seconds after that, a man named ‘James’ surprise attacked me, cussing in my face and then stealing my phone out of my hand. He then grabbed my signs and threw them in the trash can before trying to push me away with an old pizza box.”
Bourne explains that she has showed up to many sports events to support female athletes as a representative of WomenAreReal, but was shocked at the level of aggression and hostility she faced at the race.
“I have been in at least two or three dozen protest situations around girls and women’s sports, but until today I have never experienced this level of anger or hatred or violence towards me and the other women who were with me,” she says. “It’s shocking to think that I can’t attend a bike race sanctioned by USA cycling in the public streets of Livermore, California, and share my views on protecting women’s sports from discrimination without risking my safety.”
🚨Help me track down this guy and his employer.
— Beth Bourne (@bourne_beth2345) September 15, 2025
He destroyed my Save Women’s Sports sign today in Livermore, CA. @LivermorePolice @usacycling @AttorneyHarmeet https://t.co/UCj7JdmOe0 pic.twitter.com/Ef639QWyjw
This Oakland Grand Prix represented one of the last events where males will be able to unfairly compete against women in USA Cycling events. The organization recently adopted a new policy, set to take effect on September 15, 2025, which brings their sporting categories into alignment with President Trump’s February 2025 Executive Order 14201, Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.
From the new policy: “Pursuant to the requirements set out above, the Women’s Category is limited to individuals who meet the following definition of female: ‘Female means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.’ For purposes of applying this requirement, an individual who was not identified as female at birth may not participate in the Women’s Category at any Competitive Event.”
One of the other male competitors, Chelsea Wolfe, garnered media attention this week for celebrating the assassination of Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk, prompting USA Cycling to issue a statement to Fox News to denounce Wolfe’s comments. Wolfe shared a news story about Kirk’s murder with a “We did it!” caption on his Instagram story. He also referred to Kirk as a “Nazi” in another.
“The views of current and former national team athletes are their own and do not reflect those of USA Cycling. Chelsea Wolfe has not been a member of the USA Cycling National Team or a member of USA Cycling since 2023,” the organization said.
In 2023, Wolfe received sympathetic media coverage in Bicycling magazine after the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) adopted a rule to ban transgender identified males who transitioned after puberty from their female category. Wolfe described the new rule banning him from the female category as having made his world “crumble.”
The third male competitor, Jordan Johnson, also has a history of winning female races. He can be seen on the podium taking first prize at a Colorado Bicycle Racing Association event in 2021, third place in another women’s event later that year, second place in a 2022 USA Cycling Steel City Road Race, and first place in a 2022 Louisville Criterium race.
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