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@TheCanaryUK He won't. He knows that he will lose and that his condition will become every more widely known.

Caster Semenya is mounting a class action lawsuit against the Olympics for their patently discriminatory ban on trans and intersex athletes thecanary.co/global/world-a…

@ThrillaRilla369 No I am not. I support additional unisex spaces for anyone who feels unable to use the space for their sex.

To the women who are on this app, be honest Are you OKAY with a man claiming to be a woman using the ladies room if you're in there? 🤷🤔

@latsot We need additional unisex spaces. This is also helpful for people who need help from someone else but don't need a full accessible cubicle.

I'm quite appalled by the number of people saying that accessible spaces should be up for grabs by people who claim a special, magical gender identity. Anyone who knows me knows I'm 100% on the side of women being able to keep men out of their single sex-spaces. I celebrated the Supreme Court ruling along with all other sane people. But a lot of people think that people who don't want to use the single-sex spaces appropriate for their sex should feel free to use accessible spaces instead. This is *not acceptable* to disabled people. And *WHY* didn't you even think to ask us? I don't think the people who've said this have thought through the impact this will have on the lives of disabled people. Currently, decent people don't use accessible spaces unless they need to. This is protected by a social contract. Once we encourage people who don't want to use single-sex spaces for whatever reason to use the accessible ones, we've broken that social contract. All bets are off. And a scarce resource for people who actually really need it is now greatly more scarce. I'm absolutely tired of explaining to people what an enormous effect this will have on the lives of disabled people. And I'm horrified by the number of people - including people I've thought of for years as allies - who think of disabled people and the spaces we need as acceptable collateral damage. I'm delighted that women are finally getting perverted men out of their spaces but it can't come at the expense of disabled people losing our spaces. Far, far too many otherwise sane people are suggesting it. WHY can't they understand that they don't get to give away our spaces any more than anyone gets to give up theirs? But also, of course, lots of brilliant people (women, mostly) have been absolutely brilliant defenders of disability rights.

@cavakaggyreborn Ewwww, there is nothing attractive about that man!

Nothing like a girl you've ever seen before 🎶 That's because it's a fkin man

@AlessandraAster @SDewherst I really hope the Paralympics bring in the same regulations. He should never have been allowed to take a place from a woman.

I think some men fail to understand I am ready to go to prison rather than pretend this man is a woman.

@jan_murray Poor boy has been lied to and is being abused.

This Observer article references a six-year-old “trans girl” who reportedly tried to cut off 'her' penis after being told they couldn’t join Rainbows. We are talking about a very young child. A little boy who is clearly in distress. I’m aware of this case from my reporting for the Sunday Telegraph. And, quite frankly, I find it deeply concerning. I wrote and edited for the Guardian for many years - and I struggle to understand how it is being framed in this way. Because the focus here should not be on a little boys’ exclusion from a girls’ organisation. It should be on the welfare of a child expressing distress in such extreme terms - and what support is in place. That is where the adult responsibility lies. Not with affirming a six-year-old child's gender identity.

@sappholives83 @WingsScotland This is how men see the world. They see breasts, long hair and a skirt, and they see woman! All women see is aman.

…is this a trick question?

Girl Guides and the Single Sex Question: What Child Development and Safeguarding Tell Us (longish post) Girl Guides exists as a single sex organisation for a reason grounded not in prejudice but in developmental science. The research on adolescent girls consistently shows that dedicated single sex environments support confidence, risk taking, and identity formation in ways that mixed environments do not, particularly during the years when girls are navigating the social pressures of puberty and early adolescence. Removing the single sex character of those spaces does not leave them neutral. It changes them in ways that the developmental evidence suggests are meaningful. The safeguarding concern is straightforward and does not require any claim about the intentions of individual children. Safeguarding frameworks are designed to manage risk at a population level, not to make judgements about individuals. Single sex overnight environments, changing facilities, and residential trips carry specific safeguarding protocols that depend on the single sex character of the group. When a child who is biologically male is included in those environments on the basis of a self reported gender identity, those protocols are compromised in ways that any competent safeguarding review would flag. The 2025 UK Supreme Court ruling, which confirmed that woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to biological sex, reinforces the legal basis for maintaining those boundaries. The developmental harm to girls at this stage of their lives is not incidental. It goes to the heart of what single sex provision is for. Adolescence is the period in which girls are forming their understanding of themselves as female, navigating the physical changes of puberty, developing the capacity for intimacy and trust with peers of the same sex, and beginning to construct the adult identity that Erikson describes as the central developmental task of this life stage. The research on single sex environments consistently finds that girls in those settings show greater willingness to take intellectual and social risks, report higher levels of comfort with their own developing bodies, and demonstrate stronger peer relationships built on the specific solidarity of shared female experience. Those benefits depend on the space actually being what it presents itself as being. When a biologically male child is present in that space, the girls in it are placed in a position that the developmental literature does not support and that safeguarding guidance does not anticipate. They are asked to manage the presence of a biological male in changing rooms, on overnight trips, and in the intimate social environment of a group that exists precisely to give them respite from mixed sex social pressure. They are asked to do this at the developmental moment when bodily privacy, peer trust, and the consolidation of a female identity are most significant. And they are asked to do it without their consent having been sought, and frequently without their parents having been informed. The schema formation argument drawn from Bem's work is relevant here: girls at this stage are actively constructing their understanding of what it means to be female, and an environment that systematically blurs the boundary between female and male does not loosen those schemas in a liberating way. It introduces confusion into a developmental process that requires clarity and safety to proceed well. There is also a relational dimension that deserves attention. Bowlby and Fonagy establish that the capacity for secure peer attachment depends on environments that are predictable, boundaried, and safe. An environment in which the boundaries of membership are uncertain, in which girls may not know whether a peer is biologically male or female, and in which raising a concern is socially costly, is not an environment that supports secure attachment or genuine peer intimacy. The harm is not dramatic or visible. It is the quieter harm of a developmental environment that has been subtly but significantly altered at a moment when its character matters most. The developmental concern for the boys themselves is less often discussed and deserves equal attention. Erikson and Marcia show that identity formation is a developmental achievement of adolescence requiring a genuine period of exploration and moratorium. A boy who is socially affirmed in a cross sex identity from an early age, placed in environments that reinforce that identity, and supported by institutional structures that treat the identity as settled, is a child whose developmental moratorium has been foreclosed before it properly began. The desistance literature, reporting resolution rates of sixty to ninety percent in pre-affirmation era cohorts depending on cohort and methodology, suggests that the majority of children expressing cross sex identification would, given time and space, arrive at a different understanding of themselves. Institutional social affirmation in single sex spaces of the other sex is not a neutral accommodation. It is an active intervention in a developmental process that the evidence suggests should not be foreclosed. There is also the Winnicottian dimension, and it deserves more than a passing reference. Winnicott's account of the False Self describes a developmental pattern in which a child, faced with an environment that makes belonging conditional on performing a particular identity, learns to present that identity fluently and consistently. The performance does not feel like performance. It feels entirely authentic, because the child has no access to the True Self that the compliance dynamic has suppressed. The False Self is not a mask the child knowingly wears. It is a structure the child has built in order to survive an environment that could not tolerate what lay beneath. The boy who joins Girl Guides as a girl is in precisely that environment. His belonging is conditional. It depends on the sustained presentation of a "female identity", affirmed by the institution, reinforced by every interaction within it, and socially costly to question or relinquish. The longer that environment persists, and the more significant the attachments formed within it, the more firmly the False Self structure is consolidated. The child is not being helped to discover who he is. He is being helped to become more fluent in a presentation that the institution requires. What makes this particularly serious from a developmental perspective is that the harm is invisible from the outside and unfelt from the inside, at least while the compliance dynamic holds. The boy will report that he is comfortable, that he belongs, that the identity is real. That is exactly what Winnicott's model predicts. The False Self is a successful adaptation. It works. The cost is paid later, when the True Self, having been suppressed through the years in which identity formation should have been occurring, eventually reasserts itself, often in the form of the acute distress that characterises detransition accounts. Those accounts, which describe not simply a change of mind but a profound sense of having been absent from one's own development, map with considerable precision onto the clinical picture Winnicott describes. None of this requires hostility toward any individual child. The appropriate response to a boy experiencing gender related distress is compassionate, thorough clinical assessment, careful attention to the possibility of underlying anxiety, attachment difficulties, or social factors, and the kind of watchful, patient support that allows development to proceed at its own pace. Placing that child in a single sex environment organised around an affirmed female identity does not provide that support. It provides the conditions in which a False Self consolidates, development forecloses, and the reckoning is deferred to a point when it will be considerably harder to bear.

@Vidzyy_ That's complete and utter garbage.

The day you are born , they assign you a gender that dictates your whole Life. Your name, your identity, your rights, the colour you shall like, the clothes you will wear, the way you must behave, the way you sit, talk, smile, laugh, cry and you expect me to never question it?

@KYHSHistory @irenebritusa Only men will be excluded. No women. The women with XY who are androgen insensitive are allowed to compete as women.

@irenebritusa This is not true. Almost certainly SRY testing will exclude women from participation that everyone agrees are women. Of course it is about controlling women Irene as it always is.

No, women who identify as men are not ‘banned from the Olympics’. As long as they are not doping, they can compete in the female category regardless of what they look like. Identity doesn't change your biology. They will pass the cheek swab just fine.

@cavakaggyreborn @cavakaggy He's cut his hair? Or is that the before picture 🤔

Spot the difference 6 months on HRT . The look of shock is real 😱😱

@KateBMwriting Due to their appearance? So when they send the cheek swab into the lab they will also have to send in a selfie.

The Guardian telling on themselves here. Suggesting that black women are a bit like men, if you really think about it 😳

@Qveen_Potato Non binary men will compete in the men's. Non binary women will compete in the women's. Transmen (not on T) will compete in the women's. Transwomen will compete in the men's. People with DSDs will compete in the right sex category for them.

IOC will swiftly discover that trans women competing in the Olympics will be outnumbered by women who falsely test positive and are banned opening up legal battles for "biology sex testing". Having a trans woman compete in the Olympics is already extremely rare, there are more non binary people competing than trans women or trans men. This is entirely a political stunt to satisfy a particular PedoInOffice.

@Qveen_Potato @ProperStewart The new tests are more comprehensive so all DSDs will be identifiable.

@ProperStewart Uh huh.

@emkenobi He hasn't taken any legal action. He hasn't proven he is a woman. He is welcome to compete as a woman if he takes the required test to prove he is a woman - I wonder why he refuses to do that?

Imane Khelif is a cisgender woman who dealt with millions of threats because of freaks like you who are so obsessed with peoples genitalia that you accused her of being trans when she isn’t. She even had to pursue legal actions against these bullshit claims. It has been proven she was born female but you continue to spread false accusations. You are a deranged cunt and need to log off the internet forever and enter therapy.

@MsrPoisson @sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 She is on testosterone so your argument is irrelevant. Women who identify as men who aren't on testosterone are welcome to compete as women - just like Elis Lundholm did recently.

@sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 So everyone's happy for Patricio Manuel to box against females.....????

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?

@MsrPoisson @LexiluMaximoo @sazmoyse @sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 She takes testosterone so would not be allowed to box any women.

@LexiluMaximoo @sazmoyse @sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 Unfortunately that's also nuanced. Not everyone takes additional testosterone or continuous testosterone. Testosterone levels can also be manipulated. So that's no guarantee.

@MsrPoisson @DawnNeesom @sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 She takes testosterone. latimes.com/visuals/framew…

@DawnNeesom @sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 Not everyone takes testosterone, which means you endorse Patricio Manuel boxing against women.....🤷 Patricio Manuel

@MsrPoisson @DawnNeesom @sharrond62 @JeremyVineOn5 If Patricio has never taken testosterone, then she could compete in the women's events, however, it is very clear that she has taken testosterone so would not be eligible for the women's events.

After today's excellent decision by the IOC.,if the Rio 2016 women's 800m. was held today, the 3 medallists in my photo. Wambui, Niyonsaba & Semenya would be barred and the medals would go to Canada's Melissa Bishop, Poland's Joanna Jozwik & GB's Lynsey Sharp @AthleticsWeekly