TDB

@nyaraVT Fuck right off. Try this bullshit in Afghanistan. The fucking stench of privilege off statements like this is nauseating. Women know they’re women from the minute the sexual harassment starts. Usually before their first period.

@anonymous47731 @Emilyaustin Do you HAVE to be so deeply misogynistic? As an outsider looking in, the disdain that the US left has for women is beginning to scare me more than Trump.

@Emilyaustin The fact that you worthless whore cannot stand still and had to post something about the protest is already a result, bitch.

Congrats on a very successful “No Kings” protest! Here are the results:

@NadaWolfie @iambeerd Everyone has the same right of protection against harassment & violence. Prove it’s ’necessary’ healthcare first. The evidence seems to indicate no.Then we can talk. Meanwhile, stop forcing yourselves into same SEX sports and spaces and you might be able to bring people with you.

@iambeerd De facto rights to specialized and necessary healthcare services and protections/safety against targeted harassment and violence for starters. Principle of equity applies here as well: true equality requires appliance of equity.

📢 Trans rights are under attack in Europe and in other places including the US and the UK, but we say it loud and clear: trans rights are human rights and deserve protection and recognition. 🏳️‍⚧️ Trans rights are human rights. #transdayofvisibility

@LeoVaradkar @grok @aoifeh1916 Jesus Christ Leo - the option not to punch women in the face and be celebrated for it. This is shocking from you.

@grok @aoifeh1916 Thanks @grok Is it possible for someone in Algeria to be recognised as trans or intersex or must they stick to the sex assigned at birth and on their birth cert? What options does Imane have under such a hardline system?

So, it's been confirmed that Imane Kelif is in fact a biological male. @LeoVaradkar Do you care to make a comment? You even went as far as saying you were willing to support him legally/financially in response to online attacks? What do you have to say? Do you condone him beating up a woman on the world stage?

@thewinterdollx It’s a ban on males in female sports. And there have been way too many.

I’ll entertain the trans ban in the Olympics if someone can name 3 trans women who have competed in the Olympics.

@stevemagness Excellent and important post. Unfortunately, those who need this information most refuse to receive it.

The IOC just announced their policy on DSD and trans athletes in the female category. Let's skip the outrage and go with the scientific facts: The modern debate started almost 20 years ago with the rise of DSD athletes who were winning world/Olympics (See: Semenya and others). It came to a head when DSD athletes swept the podium. The had the single biggest performance boost we can get, androgenization. Something that none of their competitors could ever have. So debates commenced... It's important to put in context how big a boost males get from simply being males. It's a larger boost in performance than if you were Lance Armstrong or Barry Bonds and hopped up on all the performance enhancing drugs known to man. That's how large it is. It's why from 100 meters to races hundreds of miles long, the performance differential is generally 10-15%. Even larger in some strength events. Every male gets this boost. It doesn't men all men beat all women, of course. There's significant overlap in performance. My wife is going to better than 99% of men in distance running. But...that boost gives each male a 10+% jump in performance that no female ever gets. We can see it in the athletic data and the progressions of men and women at puberty. So...governing bodies and experts debated what to do about it. Women were losing millions of dollars in total to folks who had a male androgenization advantage. We went from doing nothing, not much of a real policy to eventually instituting testosterone rules. THe thinking was, testosterone can be a surrogate marker. It also gave DSD athletes a venue to still compete in the male category. They could lower their T to typical female levels, and still race. There were a few problems with this. First, it obviously only took into account CURRENT T levels. A large part of the boost comes from androgens through a lifetime. Second, this was challenged in court by DSD athletes. It was a long process that led to some strange policies along the way (for instance, rules only applied to certain event groups). It was tricky to regulate and be fair, and telling someone they had to have a medical intervention to compete came with ethical issues. So that was eventually scrapped. I'm simplifying and summarizing years long backs and forth, obviously. Track and field moved to the policy the IOC just adopted a year ago. Using the SRY test as a screener. Why? It was simpler, straightforward and applied to all females, so their wasn't a separate DSD and trans policy. It also put the dividing line for segregating sports by sex instead of a surrogate marker. It's a one time screener, and then with specific follow up if potential DSD. There's an exception for CAIS athletes because androgenization has little to no effect on them. So they do not have an advantage. So what? I've seen this policy framed as immoral, fascist, and even nazism...which is crazy... But the point is...it's a result of 20 years of debate, research, and trying to figure out a solution to a tricky problem. There's a lot of people who don't know or are ignorant to the decades this has been going on. Why is it important to separate sports based on sex? Because it's the biggest performance boost we could get. If we didn't, there would be zero professional women athletes in an open category. That's how big the gap is. And I for one value and think women deserve the spotlight to compete and show off their hard work and talent. I've spent my life coaching women at the elite level to do so. You might here people say it's a ban. It's not. Every athlete still has a place to compete. You can do so in the category that matches your biology, in open events, or recreational events that this does not apply to. A rough analogy: Longevity guru Bryan Johnson can't compete in the under 18 category no matter what age score his crazy metrics say he is. We have categories and classification to ensure everyone has a chance to compete. Yes, we pick what categories are important. But it's hard to argue that sex isn't a very important one. So there you have it. It's been 20 years in the making. It started with DSD athletes with an androgen advantage winning championships and has evolved from there. It's not perfect. Nothing is. We've debated, shifted policies, etc. But lots of smart folks and researchers have been trying to figure out a just and fair solution for a long time.

@maccadoo8 Followed

4 people unfollowed me since I posted about the IOC ruling. I do not care! I will stand for the rights of Women & girls, my daughter, neices, sisters in law & every Woman I know, those I will never know, now & for as long as I live. Always!❤ We won a battle, the war still rages.

@nyaraVT You have no idea what a woman is. You can’t. You have no frame of reference because you’re male.

My gender is woman My birth certificate says female My hormone levels are female My genotype doesn’t matter My sex characteristics are female My gametes don’t exist I medically transitioned but I was a woman even before all that. Gender isn’t assigned at birth.. it’s assumed.

@JeremyVineOn5 Why can NO-ONE get this right? Males are excluded from female categories. That is all.

Is it right to ban trans women from the Olympics? Transgender women will be banned from competing in female events at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics and beyond. They says this is to protect ‘fairness and safety’. What do you think of this?

@MattyHillis1 @KirstiMiller30 3 males with DSDs took all of the medals at the female 800m final a couple of games back. A male Algerian with a DSD was lauded for punching women in the head and winning gold. So it LITERALLY has dangerously affected many women.

@KirstiMiller30 Whilst I think the decision makes sense, biological males have a genetic competitive advantage compared to biological females, it has literally never affected anyone so people are blowing it way out of proportion and caring about it way to much to try and point score

The only trans athlete photo Ben Fordham Live could find was a trans athlete who came dead last at the Olympic Games. Trans women athletes have not won a single one of the 7,500 Olympic medals that were awarded since 2003, when trans women were first eligible to compete at the Olympic Games. Not even a solitary relay or team bronze medal has been won by a trans woman athlete. If Kirsty and the International Olympic Committee genuinely prioritised protecting women's sports, they would allocate 50% of Olympic funding to women's sports and dedicate more resources to investigating doping & sex offenders, which is a widespread issue in female sports. youtu.be/B8CzqxhZk7I?si…

@PopBase It’s nothing to do with trans. It’s keeping males out of female sports.

Nikki Hiltz, a transgender & non-binary Olympian, speaks out against the event’s new anti-trans policy: “I don't know who needs to hear this but ZERO trans women competed in the Paris Olympics. Only ONE trans woman weightlifter competed in Tokyo 2021 and she did not win a medal. Can we please stop obsessing over trans people? And idk maybe focus our time, energy, and resources into real problems women's sports face?”

@cmclymer It’s about keeping MALES out of female sports. Nothing to do with trans.

At the first women-inclusive Olympics in Paris in 1900, 22 women competed. Since then, about 62,000 women total have competed in the Summer and Winter Olympics. Only one of them was a trans woman. Just one. She didn't medal. She didn't even rank. One trans woman out of 62,000 women athletes over 126 years of the modern Olympics, and no medals. This ban on trans women isn't about fairness. It never was. It's about politics and pandering. It's about the IOC needing to get in good with the Trump admin. It's about a needless "solution" to a problem that didn't exist in the first place, and history will not be kind to this embarrassing abdication of morality and ethics.

@BrianSuttererMD The emperor’s new clothes of women’s sports will finally be called out. Developing nations have scouted out males with DSDs to cheat while testing was suspended. You know it. I know it. They know it.

I don’t think the sports world is ready for how many unexpected positive tests they are going to find if every athlete is tested. Especially anxious to see how this plays out in sports like women’s basketball, where genetic gender testing isn’t done If they are truly going to do genetic testing on every female athlete, guaranteed there will be unexpected positives that will have a major life impact in the athlete who may have had no idea.

@2RawTooReal I’d rather women only but as it’s consistently used by trans activists to distract from the real issues, I’d be willing to go for it. All completely floor to ceiling cubicles, though. The real problems are women’s sports, rape crisis centres, changing rooms; and medicalised kids

What’s your thoughts on genderless restrooms 🚽 I personally don’t see the problem

@beverins @Oksendaz @esjesjesj Not at all, in the context of the time. If you’re young, you have no idea how progressive the show was contemporaneously and you can’t know. It was thought provoking, well written and well acted.

@NothingCompari @Oksendaz @esjesjesj So the people with half a black side and half a white side wasn’t hitting you over the head with a mallet? Hahahahaha

Gotta hand it to him this is going to piss off the worst people on earth

@Oksendaz @esjesjesj This exactly. I’ve always been a Trekkie. Later iterations don’t weave morality and progressiveness into interesting stories. They attempt to wallop you over the head with a mallet. So, so dumbed down.

@esjesjesj The problem isn't that star trek went woke. It has always been woke. The problem is that it used to be smart too.

@adamndsmith You look about 17, which might explain your ignorance. Here you are, talking down to women who were there when we had to fight for ANY seat at the table. Now those seats are being handed to men and we’re supposed to accept that as the progressive course of action? BS.

Here's a list of all the criticisms of her expertise made in the article: 1) 2) 3) They're only challenging her 'lack of lived experience', at 73. Imagine if we said a doctor needed to have experienced every illness in order to treat it?

@IslaOfDiamonds Never - EVER - beating the fetish accusations.

sure babe.

@speakoutsister No liberal worthy of the name - who understands what the word actually means - would stand for a movement that removes women’s hard won same sex protections. The left has become a parody of itself and an insult to the past.

The fact that "gender critical" people who claimed to be on the left pivoted so quickly and enthusiastically to the far right explains why they think women only pretend to be trans inclusive to get social approval. Because they were only pretending to be left wing for approval.