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@JerryManderkx

Free thinking male not yet assimilated into a collective. parkrun PB: nothing to boast about.

Katılım Mayıs 2025
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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@JennyAscendant @speakoutsister True. I trust the various recipients of any letters misrepresenting parkrun to authenticate their content and seek context before replying, rather than taking them at face value. The responses will make for interesting reading.
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Jenny Ascendant
Jenny Ascendant@JennyAscendant·
@JerryManderkx @speakoutsister But let’s not forget that the registration cat is not sex and there are no protected competitive “categories” of any kind—so it’s not clear what the relevance of that 280 figure is anyway. The whole idea of the reg category is to be low friction and give fair _access_ to all.
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SpeakOutSister
SpeakOutSister@speakoutsister·
Trans women are a tiny proportion of the population. Trans men also exist, and park run allows non binary people to register as such. Unless Ms Yamamuchi is claiming, and can show that large percentages of people registering as women are natal males, no this isn't meaningless
Mara Yamauchi@mara_yamauchi

Please listen! 👇 I’ve written to @BBCRadio4’s You & Yours about this.👇Parkrun collects NO sex data so they cannot measure how many women are doing what, and claims like Duggan’s are meaningless. No challenge from presenter Winifred Robinson. #makeparkrunfairforall

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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@JennyAscendant @speakoutsister More than 280 first place female finishes reported as being by males identifying as female out of 356,288 all-time events. Putting the 280 into context doesn't justify any of course. That's not what I'm saying, but I wanted an idea of how commonplace it was. Not very.
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Jenny Ascendant
Jenny Ascendant@JennyAscendant·
@speakoutsister It’s ironic she says “please listen” bc she doesn’t listen to anything that doesn’t match her worldview. I wonder why she didn’t express this opinion in her letter:
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It's hip to be Claire!
It's hip to be Claire!@NathanielHart72·
@JerryManderkx @80percentvegan @HallisseyC Gender reassignment is a protected category, just like religion and race. You're no more allowed to register by gender as you are by race or religion. What doesn't help here is that Parkrun provides rankings as well as track records.
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Claire Hallissey
Claire Hallissey@HallisseyC·
The people I know speaking out for a fair women's category at parkrun don't do so with malicious intent. Most are regular parkrunners and volunteers. All of them just want equity for women. It really shouldn't be such a divisive issue. #makeparkrunfairforall
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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@NathanielHart72 @80percentvegan @HallisseyC I may have misunderstood you. It's my understanding that, if categories aren't used to publish rankings, being invited to register for parkrun by gender wouldn't be unlawful, although I know of some who'd object to it. Many organisations request members to apply on that basis.
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Mara Yamauchi
Mara Yamauchi@mara_yamauchi·
Please listen! 👇 I’ve written to @BBCRadio4’s You & Yours about this.👇Parkrun collects NO sex data so they cannot measure how many women are doing what, and claims like Duggan’s are meaningless. No challenge from presenter Winifred Robinson. #makeparkrunfairforall
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SEENinSport@SportSEENuk

CEO of @parkrunUK, Lil Duggan, was on @BBCRadio4 claiming a real success in increasing the participation of women, “Parkrun is really proud we have almost parity of genders” Parkrun’s self-ID policy allows any male to register in the ‘female’ category; invalidating their claims

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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@JennyAscendant @HallisseyC I genuinely have no idea what proportion of the parkrun community view the presence of a few transgender women in the female category as a big issue. 'X' is no accurate weathervane of that, a cesspit of hatred/division and ill informed opinion from those with no skin in the game.
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Jenny Ascendant
Jenny Ascendant@JennyAscendant·
@HallisseyC Disingenuous. Spending months pressuring a participation charity to redesign itself around sex-policed reporting, while misrepresenting its purpose & structure, & then act baffled that people find that divisive. “We mean well” is not a defence. The propaganda is wearing thin.
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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@gingerneilnc @sharrond62 Don't suppose you know when it was? It might be that I missed a couple of weeks around then, but if anyone knows I can check back. Might explain why I never noticed.
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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@gingerneilnc @sharrond62 Say that again! I think you mean many weren't bothered. Those that were made more noise. I still don't know exactly what vanished and was then restored. There were never any gaps in the results emails I received.
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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@rthonbwooster @DaveClancy90687 @sharrond62 Not for each run they don't, (at least I don't think so) but the course average time is kept up to day on the home pages. It helps me if touring to know what I might get faced with difficulty wise. Very useful as it's often what I target to stay ahead of on the day.
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Braddock alias Thorne 🇬🇧
@JerryManderkx @DaveClancy90687 @sharrond62 Unless I'm mistaken (which has been known), they don't publish those. Are you suggesting that everyone download all the times into a spreadsheet and then average them or something? Seems a lot of hassle and only for a minority. (Prior to Strava, I used a spreadsheet for my runs.)
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Sharron Davies HoL MBE
Sharron Davies HoL MBE@sharrond62·
Parkrun can… A.Remove placing & course records & everyone run together in one big inclusive category B. Add a category for females so they can have their own records & places based on SC law, reality & biology
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Braddock alias Thorne 🇬🇧
@DaveClancy90687 @sharrond62 This isn't true. Parkruns are on different surfaces: I used to live near one which is all off road and can be very muddy after rain. Whether you did well or badly on a given day can't always be compared to your best time; you compare yourself to other people. As you must know.
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Eight of Nine@JerryManderkx·
@RunningWomanXX Thanks for sharing. Interesting. I'm sure we could delve much deeper into tomes of research into this and still be left scratching our heads. Well I would be. If you want a 😂, Google Monique Marvez on YouTube "You Will Never Be Able To Change A Man". - 10.13 Comedy Dry Bar.
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Ten
Ten@RunningWomanXX·
@JerryManderkx I don't feel my age (occasionally my knees remind me). Inside, I feel decades younger & my sense of self is a younger self. And then I see my reflection & realise I'm not that age anymore & that hurts! But I can't identify into a different age category - my age is my age.
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Colin Wynter KC
Colin Wynter KC@QcWynter·
Update on "women love blokes running as faux women at Park Run" Following my request to hear from happy women, I have heard from 3 purported women, one of whom is a "she/her", one who went all abusive ("you tool") & the other who asserted that "transwomen (sic) are women". Hmmm.
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SEENinSport
SEENinSport@SportSEENuk·
CEO of @parkrunUK, Lil Duggan, was on @BBCRadio4 claiming a real success in increasing the participation of women, “Parkrun is really proud we have almost parity of genders” Parkrun’s self-ID policy allows any male to register in the ‘female’ category; invalidating their claims
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