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@KirstiMiller30 @Invisime101 So therefore else changes during male puberty… Thanks for finally admitting this.

@Invisime101 Height is the only thing that does not change and height is not regulated in a single sport.

What we have here is not men competing against women. Trans women and girl athletes take drugs to limit their ability, it's the opposite of an athlete who takes (steroids) to be unfair. Transgender Women on Hormone Therapy Show No Inherent Athletic Advantage, Major Review Finds. A new large-scale scientific review suggests that transgender women who undergo gender-affirming hormone therapy do not have greater physical fitness advantages compared with c_sgender women. The meta-analysis, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, combined results from 52 studies involving nearly 6,500 participants, including around 2,900 transgender women. Researchers examined key measures such as muscle strength, aerobic capacity, fat mass, and lean body mass. After one to three years of hormone therapy, transgender women showed comparable strength and endurance to c_sgender women when results were adjusted for height. Although slightly higher lean mass was observed, it did not translate into improved performance markers like maximal oxygen consumption. Experts caution that the study did not focus on elite athletes, meaning conclusions cannot be directly applied to Olympic-level competition. Still, researchers argue that if large intrinsic advantages existed, they would likely appear even in non-athletic populations — and they did not. The findings challenge arguments used to justify blanket bans on transgender women and girls in sports. Scientists involved emphasise that athletic performance is shaped by many factors beyond biology, including training access, psychological stress, and discrimination. As global sports organisations, including the International Olympic Committee, consider stricter eligibility rules, this review provides some of the strongest evidence so far against claims of unavoidable physical advantage. “There’s no reason to ban us from playing”: Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports (Feb. 2026), based on research published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/1…

@ChrisHatt11 Yeah why don’t we just use from our own crude reserve in the Karoo…

Why is SA overly reliant on the import of petroleum products?

@wiesiede Tell me you don’t understand stats without telling me.

Fun fact: Cape Town has more water interruptions than Joburg:

@AxolileNotywala Is it the @ForGoodZA position that @Our_DA leaders are benefitting from CoCT development deals?

It is no secret that the DA gets some of its funding from private property developers. Mayor Geordin Hill Lewis himself and some of the DA’s national leaders are in or have been in private property development.

If you think the City Cape Town will ever deliver affordable housing for locals under the DA I’m sorry to tell you that is a pipe dream. Mayor Geordin Hill Lewis just told us in council meeting today that an inclusionary housing policy a risk to private property developers 🤷🏾‍♂️

@AxolileNotywala Quite the accusation there Axolile. Did @brettherron approve this with his law knowledge?

@MaxduPreez Nothing changes really - Israel kills whoever it wants and claims Hamas link. And the world does fuck all every time.

This is evil shit.

@KirstiMiller30 Talking about weightlifting, why do all the weight category records belong to males then?

Kirsty Coventry has this idea that male muscle isn't just bigger but also it’s stronger than female muscle. It isn't when expressed per unit of muscle cross-sectional area, sex differences basically disappear. If male muscle & female muscle are the same size they will produce the same amount of torque on the joints. Additionally muscle fiber type composition are more strongly correlated with training history and athlete caliber than sex or chromosomal status. For example, this study of elite weightlifters, found women had as many, or more, fast-twitch fibers as men, & concluded that “athlete caliber &/or years competing in the sport influence muscle fiber proportion more than sex per se.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…

@ChalynRugby Ooof that’s a lekker trio

David Pocock is my All time 8. McCaw at 7 and him at 8 and PSDT at 6. That’s it that’s the tweet. #Rugby

@benjaminbutter @PeterTatchell Except the part where he states ‘no unfair advantage’

@PeterTatchell Well said as ever, peter

Olympic ban on all trans women competing in women’s events is unjustified They’ve no unfair advantage if they’ve had hormone treatment It reduces muscle mass, bone density & physical strength & endurance. Their performance declines to that of ‘biological’ women Individual assessment. No blanket ban @TransLucent_Org @TransITCUK @Mams4Trans @Transgendertrd @TransgenderNews @TransActionBloc @TransPride @LDNtranspride @TransNewsDesk @Mermaids_Gender @BobbityP @TransYouth @transgreens @RuthDavidsonPC @hillarytaylorvi @ZackPolanski @TheGreenParty @rachelmillward @MothinAli @LgbtqIndia @BuzzFeedLGBTQ @lgbtiqa_greens @LGBTIQAGreenLon @LGBTIQRights @LindaRiley8 @DIVAmagazine @glaad @HRC @hilarypepper @CliffJoannou @benjaminbutter

@ChalynRugby What’s your point other than rage baiting?

A country known for producing the best forwards in the game having just one player in this Legend XV pack says it all about how dominant they were during their time in Super Rugby. #Springboks #Rugby

@KirstiMiller30 @festinagirl @debs_cath_jones No ‘shred of science’ that males have biological advantages over females? You think this because you block any physiologists that debate you. Fact: if women’s category didn’t exist there zero females would qualify for any Olympic track/field/swim event Because biology.

FACT~ Non-biological factors play a massive part in the gender gap in Olympic sports. Based on the present evidence, it is reasonable to suggest that biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors contribute to the range of gender gaps observed across Olympic sports. It is reductionist (and wrong) for the @ioc to suggest the performance gap between men & women in Olympic sports and is all about biology (e.g. SRY-Gene & endogenous testosterone levels in only a tiny group of trans & intersex women). It's an illusion & a diversion(instigated by Putin & Trump) to suggest female sports need protecting from trans & intersex girls from just 12 years of age! This is a political decision and not one based on a shred of science. youtu.be/2-ohQiLWWwA?si…

Women's sport 'defenders' might like to ponder this. The Olympics banned women running 800m until 1960, 1500m until 1972 and the Marathon until the 1980s. The reason? Women's 'delicate health' and potential infertility The Olympic movement has always been about policing women

@festinagirl Seeing you like cycling: if women’s category didn’t exist how may females would be riding in the pro peloton?

@NeelsBohr1204 @Bruceps At least Peter has the balls to use his real name when using that language.

@Bruceps Amazing! No defence of your completely incorrect predictions about the current Goon in Charge. Just "fuck off". In my opinion the only reason you would possibly double down on pumping comrades is because you are bought and paid for - as Roman suggested. Now YOU fuck off!

What a disgusting accusation from two sad little pricks ... fuck off.

@Qveen_Potato That’s not what spectrum means.

'natural variations' because it's a SPECTRUM not a binary.

@MarioKitandwe @lmd_3212 No hate for Gelant, but Willemse is literally the incumbent Bok for good reason.

@lmd_3212 Gelant hate is forced!

Can Dobson just play Damian willemse (the starting bok fullback) at fucking fullback… gelant is infuriating. You’ve got arguably the best fullback in the world at his best and you’re fucking around and playing him all over the pitch.

@THESTORMERS @StevenKitshoff Seeing that Willemse is the ultimate fullback, maybe we should try playing him there 🤷‍♂️

He was Number One on the field and in our hearts. Never any doubt that @StevenKitshoff would be the Loosehead Prop in the DHL Stormers Ultimate XV. Make sure you vote for your favourite hooker in our WhatsApp channel poll on Wednesday! #inittogether #kitsie

@StellarFox16 @LGBwiththeT Why shouldn’t boys be allowed to join guides? Scouts allows girls to join…

@LGBwiththeT He is a boy. He shouldn’t have been mislead to begin with.

She doesn’t identify as a transgender girl. She IS a girl, who just happens to be trans. And you’re celebrating abusing a child like it’s a sport itself. When we’ve defaulted to ‘how can we find a way to exclude this person’… We’ve lost as a society.

@LGBwiththeT Two things can be true: - Boys can’t become girls. - If a boy wants to join guides, who the fuck cares? Scouts open to all who are keen…

@fia F1 in 2025 *working just fine* FIA

Following the accident involving Oliver Bearman at the Japanese Grand Prix and the contribution of high closing speeds in the accident, the FIA would like to provide the following clarifications. #FIA #F1 #JapaneseGP

@cyclingontnt Amazing stat given cycling is the cleanest it’s ever been

HUGE power from Mathieu van der Poel 🤯🏆 MvdP revealed he set an all-time 90 minute power record on his way to a third E3 title, and the numbers are astonishing 😳