FLINTA*

In the very early hours at 3:31 AM, Alex McCormack, cap 93, also reached the finish line in Girona to take sixth position.

He was followed a couple of hours later by Anna Richter, cap number four, who put in an incredible performance, finishing in seventh position overall and becoming the inaugural winner of the FLINTA category at the Transpyrenees race.

Anna arrived and headed straight to their hotel for some well-earned rest, but hopefully race reporter Stuart will find time to chat with Anna over the next couple of days.

Now, time to head to the Raid Parcours, where the sun has very much risen on day six.

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Um, at the moment, I think Correspondent, um, has evolved a lot, and we have way more FLINTA and queer artists than we used to have.

Um, and that makes me really happy.

I've also had experiences with artists, um, that were not nice experiences, so I'm quite careful.

of, yeah.

And she lives in a, she lives in a Flinta house, a Flinta flat.

She lives in a Flinta flat.

Flinta flat.

Do you know about Flinta?

Flinta is, it's from Berlin.

Okay.

And it's making its way over here.

Yeah.

And I got in FLINTA.

So, you know, for those who don't know what the acronym means, it's Femme, Lesbian, Intersex, Non-binary, Trans-A...

Anyone else? I don't know.

I've never experienced such an emotional protest like this.

A lot of us in the Feminist Fight Club are climate protesters at the core, and, like, a lot of us are women, though, and FLINTA people.

FLINTA is a German acronym that translates as women, lesbians, intersexual, non-binary, trans, and agender people.

We can't skip the feminist topic because it affects us in every sense, because we are women before we are everything else.

I'm a member of, uh, Nur Ja Heißt Ja, which means Only Yes Means Yes, um, and we've been, um, active since April of 2025.

But I think the rage is always underlying, because everybody of us knows someone who has experienced violence in a relationship.

What my thoughts are on the rage which came up, as Linn already said, it was always underlying.

But I think during this case and also during the protest, you really could feel that the people, and especially the women of FLINTA people, who experienced violence in the past and were not speaking up about it, uh, were silenced, not actively silenced, but also passively silenced by the society, it all came out at once.

But yeah, so it was a party from a collective called Lost Girls.

Yeah, the FLINTA acronym, I think the main point of it is mostly about safety, especially in this patriarchal society.

It helps people identify groups within the society where they would feel safer around.

So there are these flinter groups or you can use the flinter also to say, okay, my party is a flinter party so that you know that this is going to be a safe space, especially for women, non-binary and intersex or what the acronym means.

Yeah.

And I was just hearing recently or reading on the interwebs, um, that someone commenting about this new, um, acronym FLINTA.

Oh, yeah.

And about how that excludes bisexual people.

Mm.

Um-

'Cause FLINTA, let's see if I can remember what FLINTA stands for.

Femmes, lesbians, I'm guessing the I is gonna be intersex, N, non-binary, T, transgender, A, asexual.