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Phil Sparkes

@starofstage

Theatre, music, art and the outdoors. Believer in science over fantasy. 🇯🇵🇮🇹

Brighton, England Katılım Haziran 2009
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
Hey, @BBCNews, she didn't retire because of his gender. She retired because of his SEX! Why can't you get that into your heads? He's a man. He shouldn't be boxing in that competition at all. Where's BBC Verify when you need them? #IStandWithAngelaCarini
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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
The Good Friday tradition of queuing from early, along with many many others, for these beauties. #hotcrossbuns
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Bruce Bowman
Bruce Bowman@boswelltoday·
I genuinely assumed ITV’s Elizabeth I-was-trans drama was an April Fool, because the alternative is that actual adults sat in a commissioning meeting, said it out loud, and nobody had the self-respect to laugh.
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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@sharrond62 I'm sure you recall the outrage when Ben Johnson - a top runner who might well have won the Olympic gold - was found to have taken drugs. He was stripped of his gold & dragged through the moral mud. But if women complain about men masquerading as women to win? Moaning Minnies!
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Sharron Davies HoL MBE
Sharron Davies HoL MBE@sharrond62·
An old interview with Lynsey, who very much like me (with East German swimmers) was demonised by the media for simply wanting fair sport. What’s so utterly frustrating is that men would never be expected to put up with this level of unfairness.
Sky News@SkyNews

"It was a really difficult time, and sadly it did kind of taint my experience in the sport and at the Olympics in Rio." Former Team GB 800m runner Lynsey Sharp tells Sky's @SkyJacquie that new gene testing rules would have earned her Olympic bronze in 2016.

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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@QcWynter @catsareblessing I don't usually like going along with coerced speech. But, in this case, I think I'll go with whatever it wants to be called. 😬
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@RosieDuffield1 @_QueenMeabh Still necking the KoolAid, then, it appears, ol' Emily. What a pile of embarrassing, dangerous nonsense. Throwing her weight behind the most marginalised group ever to be prioritised by the entire establishment. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Rosie Duffield MP
Rosie Duffield MP@RosieDuffield1·
Yep. Trans rights activists are 'too often overlooked' when they yell into megaphones outside Parliament about "punching terfs", or threaten us wearing balaclavas while trying to stop us entering women's rights events. They're 'overlooked' inside Parliament by every Labour MP...
Emily Thornberry@EmilyThornberry

This Trans Day of Visibility, let's remember those too often overlooked in endless debates over trans rights: trans people. Trans men and women deserve our love and support, not exclusion and hate.

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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@QcWynter As we all know, "half-witted nincompoopery" is the thinnest of thin endd of a very big wedge - the other end of which is unspeakable harm and full-on misogyny.
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SALMO RASKIN
SALMO RASKIN@RaskinSalmo·
If the estimated incidence of CAIS is between 1/20,000 and 1/99,000, and CAIS does not confer a competitive advantage, how can in the 1996 Olympic Games 3/3382 (1/1127) female athletes were diagnosed as CAIS??? @Scienceofsport @hoovlet
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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@RosieDuffield1 @TracyEdwardsMBE @GME_1970 I'm not sure he really does. He's probably smart enough to know that if he achieves that the jig is up. He just loves being the popular pretender - like Corbyn, Davey, Farage etc. That's the heroic role they see for themselves - potential power and no responsibility. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
Saw tonight's first preview of #LesLiaisonsDangereuses at @nationaltheatre. There's an article in the programme about the challenge of putting intimacy on a big stage. This didn't manage it. I fear Aidan T (among others) is miscast. Lesley M works hard. The set is a mess. Shame.
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Thomas Willett
Thomas Willett@ThomasWillett9·
Khelif was born female, has lived and competed as a female, and the IOC confirmed she met all eligibility rules to compete as a woman at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Despite Rowling’s best efforts to orchestrate a campaign of hate & abuse, Imane Khelif is still recognised as a woman
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

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.

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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@BettsCaro @jk_rowling @DannyWxo It's one of many whose meaning has been flipped upside down. See also 'harm', 'authentic', 'bigot', 'kind' etc etc The cult literally had to change the meaning of words to make their arguments sound coherent (to them).
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J.K. Rowling
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling·
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.
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@NoShirleyNo After all, drama is all about suspending one's disbelief. Who's to say which disbeliefs can or can't be suspended? 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@dami5208 @NationalTheatre I've never actually seen a production before - though the story is famous. They are doing lots of previews - and then quite a long run - so it will improve. But I'm not sure the issues that bothered me are 'tweakable'. But it's only my opinion!
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Dami5208@dami5208·
@starofstage @NationalTheatre I saw your review, is it because you’re comparing it to the former play years ago that was a success. I didn’t see that one so I’m trying to figure if I would like it
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@jo_bartosch Must have been just about worth it for that last reaction! 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@DreyfusJames But I think he means... Surely, it's just a bit of... There must be some... Hmmmn...
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🟥Hackney Dr. of Terfery@NoShirleyNo·
If AI is so fucking clever, why can’t it work out the syntax of my tweets. Eg that I mean “have” and not “gave”. Or “to” and not “up”.
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@Rtloyalist2 @Jessica12uk @RosieDuffield1 @BBCNews So I presume you routinely change your views whenever you discover that someone you don't like expresses a view you have previously expressed. Either that or you're a hypocrite. At the very least.
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Phil Sparkes
Phil Sparkes@starofstage·
@damekatydenise_ Well, a nice pair of pearl earrings never let a girl down...🤷🏻‍♂️
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