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@HennieInglis Well something definitely went wrong. 😂😂🤣

Pray for the polycule.

@TerfTerfington @Glinner @bigdaddybunce Go on behalf of us all!! 😂🤣

@SusyDoes @Glinner @bigdaddybunce He hasn't blocked me yet. But I suspect he will today.

When are you going to apologise for this @bigdaddybunce?

@amscanlon @redrobin9000 @ThePosieParker @SpeechUnion Perfect and would sting! These men are so used to women like the Fawcett fawner telling them that they're better at womaning than actual women. This paragraph made me retch.

@redrobin9000 @ThePosieParker @SpeechUnion Not the point but that hat does not go with the dress.

Crossdresser kicks off at @ThePosieParker event at the @SpeechUnion

@Sidewalk_Steve And still, all the onus is on the rest of the world to use words that actually mean the opposite. No onus on the woman having straight sex to understand she can get pregnant. Which would be clear immediately in an honest conversation. Everyone dancing round, lying, obfuscating.

"Well, I use my vagina, and Mary uses her penis." From an American Academy of Pediatrics training video on treating lesbians written by Dr. Jason Rafferty.

@SeraphimMarq @KAS1A13 @ThePosieParker @redrobin9000 I'm old. And pretty hideous at times. I'm a woman though. He could be the prettiest troon in the world, he'll always be a man. A man eaten up by envy and distorted desire. I'd almost feel sorry for him if he weren't such a psychopathic freak.

@KAS1A13 @ThePosieParker @redrobin9000 IKR? Pure projection in his part, he is the old, hideous one!

This man was not the worst in his party of four, the other man was. They were removed for talking and kicking off when asked to be quiet by a woman sat in front of them.

@TheTriviaJockey @syl_mather @theisabelb The disconnect is that you seem to believe that big-pharma funded lifelong medication and surgery is progressive. As a child, being interested in 'boy things' meant my friends were boys. Not that I was a boy needing a costly, damaging medical regime making big business rich.

@syl_mather @theisabelb The disconnect here is that you think a progressive, trans-inclusive agenda is the "institutional power" or the status quo. It's the opposite - the status quo for transgenderism is going back 20 years and putting them back in the closet. A minority almost never has "power."

Just for the record, anyone who actually understands Harry Potter knows Dolores Umbridge would force you to write down “trans women are women” until it was etched into your skin.

@jk_rowling I would've agreed with you but my husband (74) just got a hoody and my, he looks fine. So hoodies if you have the sass to carry yourself in them. Neil will look great.

I fear this might be my most controversial take ever, but I agreed to put it to a vote so here we are. Hoodies should only be worn by men young enough not to look silly carrying a skateboard.

@MrTCHarris If they can't refute what a terf is saying, they'll refute something she never said.

I thought the claim was that he was male, not that he was trans? Why does trans come into it?

@michaelgove @PEMcNeil @RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret Classy.

Always enjoy listening to @RestIsPolitics but @campbellclaret errs, I think, in his analysis of both the bill and the lords process - worth getting Illora Finlay or Tanni Grey-Thompson on to explain

@latsot Sending the very best. Chronic pain is so awful. I find opiates scary, so totally get where you're coming from.

Pain is getting so bad these days. I'm going to hold out as long as I can without opiates but it is getting harder every day.

@BrianSuttererMD The testing routinely carried out prior to 1999? Which female athletes voted 86% in favour of keeping in place, but were ignored by the IOC. An unexpected result should be handled sensitively, not be lying.

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.

@ThomsAdrian @alisonwallis60 @SonyaDouglas @bigdaddybunce @danroan He's blocked everyone who tried to explain to him. He'll be telling people how right he was all along in no time, and there'll be nobody able to set the record straight.

@alisonwallis60 @SonyaDouglas @bigdaddybunce and @danroan owe a lot of people a lot of apologies. In particular the women boxers who were punched and denied medals.

I can vividly remember how sad and angry this made me at the time.

@treesey This is checking that the athletes applying to compete as female are eligible to compete as female. Meanwhile, 100% of athletes are tested for drugs with no problem whatsoever. What is wrong with men?

“The major concerns are about the ethics of testing a large number of people” Does this also apply to the ethics of testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs? 👀

@burner032469374 @stevemagness Boom! It's only been an issue since 1999, because there was a decision to stop testing in 1999. Despite female athletes voting by 86% to maintain SRY sex testing. As you say, it's not from nowhere, it's from the IOC's own bloody-minded processes.

@stevemagness Thanks. But you missed the part (perhaps deliberately) about when sex testing was consciously removed, and why. It’s misleading to imply this was a problem that came from nowhere.

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.

@smatthewbreeden @dusty_smokey @FondOfBeetles @BrianSuttererMD Trust the science. Not that science. Despite every single male record based on strength or speed being faster/longer than the women's record, some males can compete fairly against women...

@SusyDoes @dusty_smokey @FondOfBeetles @BrianSuttererMD Research does NOT show clear advantage, but the research you filter yourself to certainly purports to.

@smatthewbreeden @dusty_smokey @FondOfBeetles @BrianSuttererMD Research shows clear advantage. That's why the IOC and sports feds are limiting female competition to women. All science shows this. The 'research' that suggests no male advantage is based on unverifiable feelings. Limiting testosterone doesn't reduce lung capacity/heart size.

@thatbloodybird @nickwallis @Glinner Well, if you're going to spout facts the TRAs won't be able to counter. Bigot!

@nickwallis @Glinner Oh for crying out loud! Her mother was killed for failing to produce a son!

Actual casting call. Looks like efforts to ram the trans movement down the collective throat of the UK public will continue apace. Interesting that it's the same company who did the post office scandal film. @nickwallis , who broke it, is one of the few journalists who sees the trans movement for exactly what it is.

@godblesstoto @AliMcGrath5

Update: We did not miss. 😎🚫 #AmanKhelif

@VoilaMichel @jk_rowling @LindsayMLand Empathy would result in support for Khelif based on the reality of the situation. 25 years old. Never had a period. You think he seriously thinks he's a woman? Empathy dried up when a fully informed male punched a woman in the face. Where's your empathy for women? For Carini?

@jk_rowling @LindsayMLand I'm still waiting for an ounce of empathy for Imane's life and struggle.

Today's ruling by the IOC means a welcome return to fair sport for women and girls, but I'll never forget the scandal of Paris 2024, when people who consider themselves supremely virtuous and progressive publicly cheered on men punching women.