Riding out the storm
Aug 04, 2022
4 minutes
Words Jamie Tabberer
Photography
Markus Bidaux
“I was 10 when I first started“ cycling,” remembers 21-year-old Emily Bridges, from Wales.
“This feeling of freedom — I hadn’t felt it before. I still feel amazing when I’m out riding. It’s like meditation for me.” It was around half her lifetime ago, too, that Emily began “exploring my gender, and that I might be different from other people”. Little did the then tweenager know that, within a decade, she’d be one of the most exciting faces in cycling — and also one of the most bullied trans women in the country.
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