Beth Dobbin

I’M GOING TO THE OLYMPICS!!!!!!!! 😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️ I’ve dreamt of this since I was 9 years old, I’m absolutely speechless. Thank you so so much everyone for the support ❤️❤️❤️ I’ll reply when I’ve came back down to earth 🤯🤯

“The only thing left for me was death.” Almost 10 years ago, Luvo Manyonga conquered the athletics world. But he was addicted to crystal meth, and his life sank into crime and drugs. Now, after a brutal beating nearly killed him, he’s back at the top. theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar…

Today during the International Women’s Day parliamentary debate @jessphillips will read the names of women killed since IWD 2025 where the suspect is male. We sent her the ‘final’ version of the list last night. This morning, we’ve had to add 2 women. There is never a final list

Urging you all to sign this petition and take it to 100k signatures! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7365…

Never ever forget St.Mirren and Raith Rovers are Towns in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We've had a new report out into maternity and neonatal care and honestly... there's not a single surprise in it. It's still - and I don't use these words lightly - a total disgrace. We've had multiple reports telling us this. And yet the same problems keep happening. Women not being listened to - mums and babies being harmed or even dying - when they shouldn't be. So many people have their own stories - I'm sure if you're listening to this right now you might have your own story - or know someone who does. There's one thing I wanted to pick out from the report by Baroness Valerie Amos. The investigation heard cases of women who had lost babies being placed on wards with newborns. This might seem like a little thing. But can you imagine losing a baby. The worst moment of your entire life. All those hopes and dreams for your child's future. Carrying the baby inside you - feeling it grow - and then the blood, the desperation that maybe it's going to be ok, surely it's got to be ok, and then the reality that you've lost your child. And then what happens? You're put on a ward full of other mothers just like you... but these mums have their little babies in their arms. That is not just negligent. It is cruel. And it also happens systematically throughout the NHS. Having a miscarriage? Go to the maternity unit. Just had a scan where you'd hope to see your baby kicking but actually find out it doesn't have a heart beat? Go and sit down with all the happily pregnant mums. This is symptomatic of a system where women are treated like vessels not like people who should be heard and listened to. Because bringing life into the world can be the happiest time of your life. But it can also be the worst time of your life. Either way - it's the most important moment. And that's why we've got to get this right.

THIS is how Scotland qualify for a World Cup. Take a bow, Kenny McLean. #BBCFootball

This is making me think of the sort of studies which show that women getting, say, a quarter of the speaking time in a meeting are registered by men present as them doing most of the talking. That we are getting any airtime at all on the BBC now registers as prioritisation./

It only took: Eight years of notebooks of tracking stats. Six years after presenting my findings for the first time. @fairplaywomen @sharrond62 Five years after writing the first peer-reviewed paper that established an evidence base for policy making. @TLexercise @Scienceofsport An onslaught of abuse. Multiple institutional complaints, and attempts to trash my credibility. Arguments to force retractions. A report to the U.K. police. A trans-identifying male tweeting about me 400 times a month, while making vulgar remarks about his breasts. No platforming and refusals to even be in the same room as me. IOC-backed scientists calling me TERF in secret groups. IOC-backed scientists making published arguments to ignore my papers. IOC “scientists” snarling at me in a public forum. An IOC sociologist inventing a whole new term to describe my approach, as if “biofeminism” was a pejorative 😂 An IOC-backed journal rejecting an extensive and well-backed critique of the IOC policy that has now been thrown out (because transphobe, testosterone doesn’t map to performance anyway, and other such bullshit). So many - far too many - private apologies from those too concerned to be publicly associated with me. The IOC didn’t need this scientific review. The work was already done, by those of us who have worked diligently for years to synthesise and analyse evidence, to consider arguments and examine counter arguments, all in the public domain. And all of whom have suffered the same backlash. @runthinkwrite @cathydevine56 Male development leads to male sporting advantage, and it’s baked in. It’s that simple.

Here's a list of some of the most notable cases, but even I'm not sure if this is a complete list.... • 🇰🇪 Rita Jeptoo (the three-time Boston Marathon and two-time Boston Marathon champion who tested positive for EPO in 2014) • 🇰🇪 Agatha Jeruto (800m runner who tested positive for norandrosterone in 2015 and received a four-year ban) • 🇰🇪 Jemima Sumgong (the 2016 Olympic champion who tested positive for EPO in 2017 but still retained her gold medal. Her suspension was later extended to eight years for tampering with the anti-doping process) • 🇰🇪 Visiline Jepkesho (Sumgong’s teammate; limited details available regarding her case) • 🇰🇪 Asbel Kiprop (the 2008 Olympic 1500m champion who tested positive for EPO and served a four-year ban from 2018–2022) • 🇰🇪 Lawrence Cherono (the 2019 Boston Marathon and Chicago Marathon champion who received a seven-year ban in 2024 for testing positive for trimetazidine and then tampering) • 🇰🇪 Purity Rionoripo (2017 Paris Marathon champion who tested positive for the diuretic furosemide and received a five-year ban from 2022 to 2027) • 🇰🇪 Mathew Kisorio (the 2012 Kenyan national half marathon champion banned for anabolic steroids and whereabouts failures from 2012–2014, then again from 2022–2026) • 🇰🇪 Sarah Chepchirchir (the 2017 Tokyo Marathon champion who was banned four years for violations found in her Athlete Biological Passport and then tested positive for testosterone upon her return in 2024) • 🇰🇪 Titus Ekiru (the 2:02:57 marathoner who tested positive for triamcinolone acetonide, pethidine and then tampered with the process and received a 10-year ban) • 🇰🇪 Sheila Chelangat (the 16th place finisher in the Paris Olympics 10,000m final and 1:06:06 half marathoner who is provisionally suspended following a positive test for EPO) • 🇰🇪 Faith Chepkoech (30:22.77 10,000m PB and banned three years from Sept. 2024 after testing positive for EPO) • 🇧🇼 Nijel Amos (2012 Olympic silver medalist in the 800m, tested positive for Metabolites of GW1516 and banned three years) • 🇧🇷 Thiago Braz (2016 pole vault Olympic champion was provisionally suspended in July 2023 following a positive test for Ostarine glucuronide and handed a 16-month ban that ran through November 2024) • 🇰🇪 Marius Kipserem (2016 and 2019 Rotterdam Marathon champion banned three years from Sept. 2022 after admitting to a positive for EPO) • 🇰🇪 Ruth Chepngetich (marathon world record holder with a 2:09:56 victory at the 2024 Chicago Marathon, also won in 2021 and 2022 + 2019 World champion) • 🇺🇦 Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk (a world championships silver medalist in the long jump and triple jump banned 4 years after testing positive for metabolites of testosterone.) • 🇰🇪 Cornelius Kibet Kiplagat (2:04:54 marathon PB from his runner-up finish at the Barcelona Marathon back in March and was just banned 5 years for testing positive for EPO and CERA) Took almost 3,000 characters...

I'm not sure there are enough characters allowed on twitter to list all of the names of athletes who have been represented by @rosassociati and have been caught cheating. His agency needs to be banned by @WorldAthletics His "business model," as he says, is bullshit.

FiLiA is a charity that campaigns for a world free from patriarchy where all women and girls are liberated. More than 2,400 delegates are gathering in Brighton this weekend and the activities of a small, violent minority will not diminish the spirit of sisterhood and solidarity which FiLiA embodies. There are 250 speakers from across the world and over 80 sessions covering the broad spectrum of women’s lives all over the world: anti-racism, women's health, male violence, political organising, lesbian lives, migration, class and much more. Brighton is proudly a City of Sanctuary and it is impossible to believe activity of this sort could be tolerated. Despite this, we have heard today that Brighton and Hove Council has rejected FiLiA’s Public Spaces Protection Order which we submitted in advance to pre-empt behaviour and aggression of this sort. We call on the council to condemn last night’s antics and to acknowledge that to protest against FiLiA is to protest against women gathering to discuss their lives. It is shocking and saddening that a conference for women to discuss domestic abuse, sexual violence and lesbian safety, has been met with smashed windows, graffiti and intimidation. We appreciate the support and professionalism from venue staff, which enabled us to start safely and to open on time.

@Hawks0x @BBCSport In the past 12 years GB have been on 13 podiums for the relay at World and Olympic level including 4 Olympic medals. Since focusing on the relays in 2013, it’s actually rare that they mess up.

@BBCSport Same shit every time

He's gone too early! 😬 GB went out of the men's 4x100m relay after the final changeover went wrong ❌ #WorldAthleticsChamps

Someone in this photo has medalled in each of the last five men’s 1500m finals 2021: Kerr 🥉 2022: Wightman 🥇 2023: Kerr 🥇 2024: Kerr 🥈 2025: Wightman 🥈

That 10.04 from Elliot Jones was very impressive. That’s a 2025 Commonwealth Games standard for him - and also for Ade Adewale. Makes it 7 with the standard for 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - joining Hughes, Amo-Dadzie, Glave, Hinchliffe, Edoburun.

@M19275781866 @sugarGSP We’re discussing athletics not gymnastics as it’s athletics that has introduced sex screening

@BethDobbin @sugarGSP Try Simone Biles

But not testing men. Proof that there is nothing inherently feminist about gender critical ideology.

@amethystelektra @sugarGSP Not sure how recognising the well established differences between male and female sport disqualifies me from being a feminist

@BethDobbin @sugarGSP I hope you don't consider yourself a feminist

@thfc10010 @Caballero_FI @frankinsensible @sugarGSP Yes me too! The countless hours of anti doping education I’ve had over the past 11 years gave me the upper hand with this one 😂

@BethDobbin @Caballero_FI @frankinsensible @sugarGSP They've blocked me. The audacity to argue this with a female Olympian is mind boggling. 🤷

@HomoLittlest @Caballero_FI @sugarGSP Oh no way love that!! It’s such a special sport, glad to see it’s got some great fans 🫶🏼

@BethDobbin @Caballero_FI @sugarGSP Athletics is my favourite sport. Watched you race many times. It fills me with hope when I see a roo athlete speaking out.

@HomoLittlest @Caballero_FI @sugarGSP Hit the nail on the head, so right!! Thank you and the same back to you 😊😊

@BethDobbin @Caballero_FI @sugarGSP Their only hope of winning the argument was to try and shame and silence you. It's a disgrace they succeeded for so long and that so many journalist, celebrities and politicians supported it. We see them! Huge respect, Beth 💪💪❤️

@HomoLittlest @Caballero_FI @sugarGSP Thank you 🫶🏼 how we’ve got to a point where women are scared to speak out is shameful

@BethDobbin @Caballero_FI @sugarGSP They really are stupid. It amazes me how far this warped ideology got. Well done for being so brave, Beth. So much respect.