Ruth Woodhall

The @iocmedia must take accountability for having allowed men to dominate women's sports for years. "In a presentation to a scientific panel in Tokyo on September 19, 2025, Dr Stéphane Bermon, head of health and science at World Athletics, outlined why the sport’s governing body believes [sex screenings] are necessary as he presented data collected over the past 25 years. He said it showed that athletes with differences of sex development (DSD), who have a 46 XY karyotype with male testes but were reported female at birth, were significantly 'over-represented' in major finals and that it 'compromises the integrity of the female competitions.' 'Everyone is watching World Athletics and we are leading in this area,' Bermon said before telling his audience that there were 'approximately 50-60 cases of DSD in athletics.' In total between 2000 and 2023, Bermon said there had been 135 DSD finalists in elite international events, given some of the 50 to 60 athletes competed in more than one final. He also showed a slide that said that DSD cases are 151.9 times more likely than would be expected given the number of DSD individuals in the general population."

@BigBillMoon @fairplaywomen Here’s yer hat, where’s yer hurry?

Bye, lads.

Love this. Ending with a rather portly Rachel McKinnon falling off his bike 😂

@SkyNewsPolitics @SkyNews @AliFortescue No? We all know where it went to under the Tories.

"This government doesn't understand where money comes from" Speaking to Sky's @AliFortescue, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says the government need to drill in the North Sea instead of buying from Norway to drive growth

@speakoutsister @SexMattersOrg @BBCNews @DerryBanShee No. It says specifically that CAIS is the exception. You’re clearly hard of understanding.

@SexMattersOrg @BBCNews @DerryBanShee According to the Olympic sex testing she would be, she had internal testes. And a womb

Olympic women’s sport limited to women @BBCNews @DerryBanShee: “Males never should have been allowed into the women's category, whether they're beginners or elite, young or old." bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics…

@oolon An intersex woman who gives birth cannot have an active SRY gene so will not fail the test.

Absolutely absurd, cís intersex women with XY chromosomes have given birth! Such an athlete would be banned by the IoC as not "woman" enough for them... bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics…

@thefempire50 The cubicles would need to be floor to ceiling.

FWS SC ruling experts - is it lawful to have one room with two gender neutral cubicles as the only option?

The Olympics haven’t sex-tested athletes for 26 years. We have no idea of the true number of male athletes who have taken women’s medals in the last quarter century, but here are: two golds 🥇🥇 one silver 🥈 one bronze 🥉 we do know about.

@nthabiseng_ms @coachblade x.com/riley_gaines_/…

@coachblade You're lying the three women in f2 are WOMEN, they'renot trans either, you'reconflating issues.

SHOCKING ⚠️ I just learned the reason for the baffling 🇨🇦silence at outcome of TOTALLY UNFAIR outcome of the 2016 #Olympics 800m women’s podium that featured three MALE winners, leaving #Canada’s #MelissaBishop in 4th place instead of winning 🥇 GOLD as she deserved: A lawyer from @TeamCanada threatened #Canadian head coach @Head1Coach as follows: “I was threatened by COC lawyers in 2016 not to speak up. If I said something I was told that I was going to be banned for life from sport.” I do have his blessing to post this for the first time in public. #UNSPORTING #UNETHICAL #cdnpoli

@CoachCaroline @coachblade No. Presence of the active SRY gene means they can’t compete.

@coachblade Unfortunately the new rules leave this loophole for men to participate in women’s athletics intact.

@dramadelinquent @wherearethesane @coachblade When he didn’t menstruate they knew

@wherearethesane @coachblade You do realise that back then in an African country coming from the rurals, they wouldn’t have known.

@SkyNews Those brave Trans women will get through this because they are strong. Disproportionately strong. Almost unfairly strong.

Nic Williams @fairplaywomen had ovaries of steel. She gatecrashed an IOC policy meeting in Lucerne. She was a lone voice advocating for fair competition for women. They were vile to her. She called friends in tears (including me) from her hotel, but they didn't know that. Heroine.

One UK campaign group have worked tirelessly on fair play in women's sport, women's prisons & single sex spaces. They were first off the block raising awareness of potential GRA reform Shout out of gratitude to @fairplaywomen - for being brilliant Am sure @iocmedia heard you

@RubinWeston @DreyfusJames @janeholland1 I loved it but I lived in Islington, which is a bit posh. My son still lives there and I visit regularly. That bit of London is pretty good, I have to say.

@notyourtilth @DreyfusJames @janeholland1 It’s hopeless in London. The Met is completely useless.

For all those people who post pictures of a sunny London, during a 15 minute stroll through the West End, sarcastically saying “And look! I’m still alive!”, or something equally obnoxious, this is the daily reality for SO many women & girls. So awful.😢 x.com/FreespeechShel…

@RubinWeston @DreyfusJames @janeholland1 Took a LOT of engagement with local councillors and a ton of surveys but we got there eventually.

@notyourtilth @DreyfusJames @janeholland1 Who would have thought?

@Ferretgrove Men with DSDs have.

No trans woman has ever won an Olympic medal so good luck with that you silly creature.

@RubinWeston @DreyfusJames @janeholland1 I live in a small town in the East Mids now and in the last year, they actually have put more Bobbies on bikes and on ‘the beat’ and street crime (and shoplifting) has gone down.

@notyourtilth @DreyfusJames @janeholland1 Problem nowadays is that there aren’t any police. I can walk around central London for a day and not see a police officer. I’m not exaggerating. Today, for example. Haven’t seen a police officer all day.

@iocmedia We love you! You didn’t let us down! 😘

The International Olympic Committee announces new Policy on the Protection of the Female (Women’s) Category in Olympic Sport. Read: olympics.com/ioc/news/inter…