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My last interview of 2025 - a great conversation with @IncitefulPod podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epi…

Voicing Germaine Greer for a quote in #TerfIsland by @DerryBanShee was both an honour and a challenge. I wanted to bring some of her courageous spirit and just saying it like it is. Link to first 5 mins in comments

@DrMoragKerr @cathydevine56 @FondOfBeetles Indeed: Erik Schinegger, an Austrian who was a women’s downhill skiing champion in 1966. The point remains. Sex screening will pick up more males in athletics (running) and football because that’s where they are now. And have been for 25 years, since sex screening ended.

@cathydevine56 @FondOfBeetles @DerryBanShee Good discussion! Ironic though that it was stated twice that DSD males aren't found in skiing (because of economic factors), when one of the most famous cases of all was a skier.

Looking forward to this interview of Dr Emma Hilton @FondOfBeetles by @DerryBanShee. Emma is co-author of the most-cited paper on sex differences & testosterone suppression. Plus a published academic critic of the now-defunct 2021 IOC policy. sex-matters-news.org/p/ioc-protects…

@DrMoragKerr @SexMattersOrg @FondOfBeetles Ha! You’re right about him - but he was in Europe. My point was that the concentration of certain DSDs (which facilitates scouting) occurs in less developed places. Hence the Rio women’s 800m podium. So the sports that have had a big problem are athletics and football.

@DerryBanShee @SexMattersOrg @FondOfBeetles I was amused to hear your statement that DSD males don't show up in skiing, when one of the most famous cases of all was a skier. Times were different then, but his experience is one that should inform today's decisions just as much as Castor Semenya or Imane Khelif.

This is really good! In the new @SexMattersOrg podcast, @FondOfBeetles and I review the new IOC policy.

The suggestion that a strong independent woman was transgender reveals two things about the transgender movement and gender ideology: 1. It relies on sex stereotypes. 2. It is sexist and offensive to men and women alike.

This is such a good point about who is made invisible when males are allowed to be classified as "women". In this case it is the women from developing countries whose rightful places on their national teams were taken by male athletes with DSDs.

'This policy will disproportionately impact women from the global South.' Yes it will. Female athletes from the global South will now be able to represent their countries on the world stage. Instead of losing their careers to athletes with male DSDs. time.com/article/2026/0…

@icons_women @FondOfBeetles @SexMattersOrg Thank you😊

IOC women’s sport policy discussion—hear from two of the most knowledgeable and influential voices defending sex-based categories in sport. Watch @FondOfBeetles & @DerryBanShee of @SexMattersOrg 👇 youtu.be/d5JBYq2o9RY

*BREAKING NEWS* The @WPBSAofficial snooker have finally changed their transgender policy & given fair play to women. From 12th March 2026 BIOLOGICAL FEMALES ONLY will play in the women's snooker. It has taken a year & they haven't announced it but I'm absolutely over the moon.

@sharrond62 @tehbewilderness Her mother was executed for failing to produce a male heir But ITV want to pretend that Elizabeth I was male - it’s offensive beyond words

‼️Calling all ex. GIDS patients‼️ Just announced the data linkage study, they are inviting ex. GIDS patients to contribute, please help get the word out so we don’t get an over representation of activists motivated to distort the findings with biased feedback @genspect @BayswaterSG @KBtheYoungOG @OurDutyUK @WomensRightsNet @Psychgirl211 @Transgendertrd @charlesworth102 @roseveniceallan @Jebadoo2

This young boy has been lied to by his mother and the leaders running his East of England Brownies troop. He is not a girl. This little lad was placed with his sister in Brownies by his mother because she is committed to a process of social transition of a child under 11. Living "stealth" as the opposite sex is an appalling stress for the child, and an unacceptable pressure on his sister to keep the family secret, and contrary to any ethical standard. No one can change sex. No child should be made to lie about it. Have some Brownies who have been told the secret that "Sophie" is a boy, and they must also keep the secret from their friends and parents? Girlguiding leaders should not encourage the keeping of secrets by children. This is an abusive situation. It is child abuse arising out of @gguidinganglia & HQ failing to tell boys and their families that guiding is for girls, not little boys who are, in their parents' eyes, too “girly“ to be a boys, or who want to be girls. Parents send their girls to Girl Guiding to develop all sorts of skills in a fun, adventurous and safe environment with other girls. There are important developmental and psychological reasons why girls flourish in a single sex club, segmented by age groups. Parents do not send their daughters to be targeted by activist leaders. If their girls are being encouraged to reject Brownies and Guides being single-sex, then they are being taught to undermine UK law and the very rights that protect them. To include boys undermines basic safeguarding for the girls in their care of @girlguiding and is contrary to their Royal Charter & charitable objects. The distress of this boy is a safeguarding issue which should be referred to the LADO in Norfolk, Suffolk or Essex or wherever he lives. It is not argument for boys being in Brownies or Guides. Indeed, his distress is being prologued by Girlguiding not applying the law now, and delaying until September. More abuse. archive.ph/ehqCp @guidingnorfolk @Transgendertrd @ChildrenOfTrans @WomensRightsNet @ForWomenScot @legalfeminist @SexMattersOrg @EDP24

@BrowngaGreg @Tweeterandthemm @SexMattersOrg @BBCSport

@Tweeterandthemm @SexMattersOrg @DerryBanShee @BBCSport Do you mean which peer reviewed scientific paper have I written showing male athletic advantage? Or do you mean which paper have I co-authored documenting male advantages and that testosterone suppression does not erase male advantage? Or do you just want the papers I’ve read?

The IOC says its new policy applies only to elite sport. We’re calling for this approach to be adopted in recreational activity too. “‘Protecting the Female Category’, is what every sport governing body needs to do now”. @DerryBanShee quoted in @BBCSport: bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics…

@DrMoragKerr @mollierunner @SexMattersOrg @BBCSport The onus is on the competitor to prove they are eligible, not on the organiser to prove they’re lying. You can politely exclude someone unless and until they prove their eligibility. Same with age categories.

@mollierunner @SexMattersOrg @DerryBanShee @BBCSport Of course. But if they're standing there bare-facedly insisting that they're girls or women, what's your next move?

@DrMoragKerr @mollierunner @SexMattersOrg @BBCSport The onus is on them to prove eligibility. Not on organisers to prove they are lying. You can politely exclude someone if in doubt.

@SportSEENuk I love Simon's gesture that says "Of course, she's totally right!", near the end when Su is saying we don't need more research to know there is male advantage.

“The responsibility shouldn't be on these young girls. We've heard heartbreaking stories of girls excluding or being injured. The onus is on sports’ leaders” “We don't need this research on male advantage because the bottom line is that women’s sport is for women” 3/

Listen to the first part of the @talkSPORT interview with SEEN in Sport’s Su Wong on the welcome news that @iocmedia are protecting the female category of all @Olympics sports The false “Michael Phelps flipper feet argument” is used again to justify males in the female category

Excellent interview by Su Wong - great debate too!

@thefempire50 @BipolarRunner Why is Sharp not on speed dial on the phone of every sports hack? She studied law, wrote her dissertation on DSDs in athletics and, oh, by the way ran in the 800m final at Rio & got elbowed off the podium by three cheating blokes! What more could they want? @JournalismSEEN

@TheChatterbox16 @damekatydenise_ @grok Thank you 🤩 The gif is perfect too. 🫡

@damekatydenise_ @grok That poor bloke in a dress who is a racial minority, fat, quite possibly a lesbian & also facially challenged (pug ugly), must have the most under privileged points. How could he/she/it not be permitted to speak first?! He/she/it must suffer so much 😭

This has beaten me. I can’t compete.