If you can’t compete with men, why not compete with women, and beat little girls out of a trophy.
The transgender skateboarder, Ricci Tres (AKA Ricci And Tres), 29, claimed first prize in a NYC women’s competition this weekend.
Ricci Tres could be seen happily gloating over her win as she beat out a 13 and 10-year old competitor.
Ricci Tres is a divorced ex-Navy father, who has 3 children and was rejected from the women’s Olympic qualifiers last year because her testosterone levels were too high.
During the skating competition, Ricci Tres defeated 13-year old Shiloh Catori, claiming the first prize at The Boardr street skating contest held at the Lower East Side Coleman skatepark in NYC. She took home $500 for the grand prize.
The competition was held for all ages and abilities, but its heats and finals were segregated by gender.
Shiloh Catori, who won the event last year, insists she is not at all upset by the result and says it was fair competition.
However others, including fellow skater Taylor Silverman, say it’s unfair that they have to compete against someone who developed as a man, making them taller and stronger than their competitors.
She took hormones, but found afterwards she still has too much testosterone in her body to meet the requirements of the International Olympic Committee.
Tres was born Richard Batres and before she began taking hormones, which she says is the ‘extent of her transition’, she served four years in the US Navy as a machinist petty officer of the 2nd class.
As Batres, she married wife Hannah and the pair welcomed three children, the youngest of which is still a toddler.
Ricci and her ex-wife are now divorced but as of last year, they were still living together and co-parenting in Los Angeles.
Her three kids call her ‘mom’ and tell her she is pretty, she revealed in an interview last year.
“I am 28, I have three kids, I’m married, I did my time in the military, I own a company. I’ve decided that I like being pretty and cute. So everything that goes with that is female. I love female bodies. I think it’s a work of art,” Ricci Tres gushed about how she sees herself.
“I know I will never be a woman, because women are miraculous, they have babies and create life and do all that awesome stuff. I’ll never have that ability but I feel like I am a woman. I would have wished to be born one so I’ll try to fill that image as much as I can for myself and that pretty much involves being as cute as can be,” she said.
The company she was referring to is Modern Estates, an L.A.-based construction company she runs with her ex-wife.
Her Guatemalan parents, however, are less accepting. In a video shared with USA Skateboarding, Ricci’s father screams in Spanish, mocking her, “I can’t do anything because I’m a woman?! F**k you!”
In an accompanying interview, Ricci told USA Skateboarding’s Robert Brink that she does not think she, or any other transgender athlete, should have to take more hormones to meet gender category requirements because it ‘mutilates’ their bodies.
“You can’t ask an elite professional athlete to compromise their health. Besides the fact that I’ve explained transitioning as a sense of enlightenment has nothing to do with your testosterone level. It’s a matter of decision and feelings. And you’ve finally decided to be you,” she said.
“I’m like really happy with where I am. It wasn’t until this whole Olympic standard thing where I had to reconsider where I was going with it all,” Ricci Tres explained.
However, Taylor Silverman, another skateboarder said she had beaten by transgender competition in the past and doesn’t find it fair or validated for them to compete against young girls.
Silverman says, “I have been skateboarding for eleven years and competing for several years. I have been in three different contests with trans women, two of which I placed second. At the last contest series I did for Red Bull, I placed second.”
The trans competitor who won took $1000 dollars in qualifiers, $3000 in finals and $1000 in best trick. This totaled to $5000 prize money meant for the female athletes.
“I took $1,000 in qualifiers and $1750 for second place, so $2750 in total. The girl who deserved $1000 for best trick took nothing along with whoever would have placed third. I am sick of being bullied into silence,” Silverman said in post earlier this month, before Ricci won The Boardr competition.
However, Ricci Tres speaks up for herself and responded back, “I see nothing wrong with competing. The sport is not physically demanding like swimming or running. I’m not going to go easy on them just because their kids.”
She went on to say, “It’s funny it’s what I am getting beat up over the most, people saying you’re beating little kids, little girls. I didn’t intend to do that. This is the first one I’ve been to that I actually wanted to win….the age thing doesn’t really count.”
“I don’t think I have physical advantage. Look at me. I’m not buff or anything. I don’t work out really, I just skateboard. And I don’t think skateboarding has anything to do with physicality, especially when you look at kids these days,” she says nonchalantly.
She added that she believes her case is different to that of transgender UPenn swimmer Lia Thomas, who thrashed female competitors in the pool after undertaking hormone therapy.
Ricci Tres explained that, “Instead of male and female or even having three categories, as some have advocated for, I believe a fairer way to judge athletes’ ability would be by considering their height, weight, body mass index and experience.”
Ricci Tres is not a woman. He is a man with breasts and can’t compete and win as a man so competes against women and thinks he is a winner.
The whole world is upside down. Pathetic losers are being pandered to. There are truly only two genders, male and female. Chopping off ones weiner doesn’t change the gender.
Exactly!!! He’s a disgrace to his father, because he knows the son he raised that had a wife and 3 kids thinks he’s a teenage girl.
As long as these Marxist democrats are in charge, this will continue to happen. If you want fairness and Justice, then CHANGE is required. VOTE this November and in the next Presidential election as if the country depends on it-because it DOES’
So want8ng to cute and pretty is all it takes to claim you are a woman? After listening to this wannabe Valley Girl speak I can’t imagine how he made it in the Navy.
Scum Bag
Absolute Insanity that people accept the unacceptable! There’s no question these people that can’t make their mind what sex they are do not to compete against anybody of the opposite sex in any competition. They beat this stuff into everybody’s brain that somehow you have to accept this it’s absolutely insane
That supraorbital ridge he’s got will certainly tell everyone he meets that he’s really a guy.
And whoever told you that you were cute lied! There is nothing cute or pretty about you weirdo!
It maybe cruel but before a male transitions to female and hormone treatments, tell them they have to have their penis and testicles removed first. I bet they will have second thoughts about going through the rest of the process. This way you won’t have males claiming to be a female and being allowed in female prisons, locker, changing and bathrooms. You want to transition go all the way, because some are lying just to get into female facilities. I bet some boys lie to get into girl’s personal areas and on weekends they spend with the boys. People lie.
I honestly do NOT get why they do NOT have just transgender sports. Are they afraid to go againstthier won? They want to beat girls and young ladies. Rob them of gifts and more… Like wow u are so good. NOT!
Who really cares if “he” wants to be a woman!!
Just have the decency to not participate
in young girls’ sports and deny them the
opportunity of winning the metals they
deserve. Why was “he-she” even allowed;
considering his age??
Quit referring to transgenders as he/she reverse of what they were born. If he was born a he or she was born a she that is what they are and will always be. No amount of hormones or surgeries will erase DNA. Considering they can not make up their mind on what they are they should be banned from any competitions, programs, government assistance, jobs etc.. unless they are willing to quit be deceitful and be what they were born.