Zara Cottrill

@rowinggeek It was the trans (wo)man on this morning that did it for me…with the one bleating on that a trans athlete has never got a medal at an Olympics…like maybe it’s not just just the trans luv…it’s the men too and I think you’ll find in Rio there were whole podiums of them 🙄

I have had enough of the whinging f#@kers bleating about the IOC decision. ‘But think of the impact on the men’… The last three Olympics have been completely ruined for me knowing that men were taking women’s places / medals. I am looking forward to LA28. At last, women’s elite sport will be fair and safe.

I strongly oppose this. It is sex discrimination. Women have to pay if they want to compete at elite level; men can do so for free. After 15+ years of MALES destroying fairness in female athletics, now this. Wrong decision @BritAthletics. 👎Find the money, fast.

I can confirm that @marksandspencer are still discriminating against their female customers. Their store in Shoreham-by-sea has a clearly labelled ‘Men’s fitting room’ and a room labelled ‘Try On’ which can be used by women AND men.

@HalifaxBank I’ll just keep trying thank you 👍🏽

@zaracottrill Hi Zara, I’m Christina 😊 There are no known outages at the moment. If you’d like to send us a private message, we can look into this for you.

@HalifaxBank is the app down again? It’s not letting me login?

Great to see Matt Weston belting out the national anthem on the top of the podium #Skeleton #WinterOlympics #MattSuperWeston

@fatsculler I’m sure you’ve said this before 🤔 I’d hate to see sports like diving, ice dancing and figure skating go. I’ve even found the big air entertaining and how else do you pick a winner without judging?

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t think the #Olympics (Winter or Summer) should include any event where the result is solely decided by subjective judging.

@fatsculler I love the #Moguls no idea what it is about them 🤷🏽‍♀️ but I absolutely love watching it every time!

Watching #moguls at #WinterOlympics is making my knees hurt!!

@rowinggeek @bencooper I was criticised today for saying please on something I put into an AI generative bot and I was like I always say please and thank you even to Alexa at home so that the children hear me say it and know to use them 🤷🏽‍♀️ I don’t understand not using them

@bencooper 💯 I’m currently in a place where very few people say thank you. I am the oddity. I say thank you to everyone. And I can tell by the responses that it is appreciated. It’s not hard.

Everyone saying “thanks driver” as they get off the bus is unironically one of the best things the British do - this is the hill I will die on. “I’m not thanking someone who’s being paid to help me” is such a transactional, elitist view of things.

@LwtEmmaBird I’m at the point of having given up being polite about it. I’m amazed how many people are still mentally unwell from it all. We were seated by people in masks at theatre other week, come the interval masks off & offering to share their huge popcorns with us & kids all hands in 🤨

@zaracottrill She got both barrels... don't think she was expecting 'living with a newborn (sic) in a small house & husband had to work for 18 months from the baby's bedroom, and we weren't allowed any support from anyone'. Let's put it this way, I killed the conversation! 🤣

Still educating retirees that, no lockdown didn't have an upside for everyone. Blows my mind that 5 years on some people are totally devoid of understanding that everyone else's lives experience is not the same as theirs 🤯

The WRN Red Flag Campaign rolls on in 2026. No males should have access to females changing rooms - it’s the law. Mixed-sex changing rooms are dangerous for women and children. Our latest Leisure Centre Report revealed 16 rapes, 80 sexual assaults, 65 acts of voyeurism in ONE year in 256 leisure centres. There should be ZERO sexual crimes in places we go to enjoy the benefits of getting fit and healthy.

@rowinggeek I had the intention of planting some this year and the seeds…so maybe next Christmas we’ll get to this stage 🤞🏽 I had three cauliflowers…all have been eaten by something 😭 Enjoy & Merry Christmas to you all!

I know all my followers will appreciate seeing a picture of the Brussels Sprouts I grew specially for Christmas dinner… they survived against all the odds (and a massive Cabbage White infestation)…

Andrea Thompson is the rightful winner of World’s Strongest Woman. She’s been denied her title but she 100% wins world’s biggest eye roll…

@rowinggeek Cereal & Toast are the only options Olive ever says she’s had…she does have breakfast at home but for us to work we need her in breakfast club and that comes with her being offered something to eat 🤷🏽‍♀️ Cheerios, shredded wheat, honey Cheerios, Rice Krispies

My questions about school breakfast clubs… What’s on the menu? Will it be a bowl of porridge and banana? Bagels with scrambled eggs? Beans on toast? Will it be yoghurt with fruit and homemade granola? Will it be poached eggs on wholegrain toast? Or will it be (as I suspect) a bowl of ultra-processed cereal and toast?

I don’t care how sad a man feels about the fact he’s not a woman. It’s not my job as a woman to give up my sport to make him feel better.

Since 2000 world athletics tells us 135 male DSD athletes have stolen places & medals from females in Olympic sport. That’s not including football or boxing. In Rio all the 3 medalists in the women’s 800 were males with a male DSD. A 40yr old, many years retired, trans identifying male displaced a young Māori women from the women weight lifting team. Decades of results shows us repeatedly with the same support, coaching & training males out perform females by 10-30% in Olympic sport. With zero evidence or peer reviewed science the ioc threw away the rights of women to fair sport in 2015, after asking elite females if they wished to keep sex screening & 82% saying yes it was removed for a tiny group of men’s feelings. The contempt the ioc has shown women in women’s sport is astonishingly disgusting. Let’s hope they get it right at last. For 51% of us females who get just 5% of the financial rewards in sport, the very least they can do is keep ALL males out of our category & provide fair sex based sport.

@fatsculler The line in the article about trans women being “forced to race alongside those defined male at birth” 🙄 ridiculous absolute nonsense what are we supposed to believe these trans women were defined as at their births?! 🤷🏽‍♀️

College rowing captains narrowly vote to exclude trans women varsity.co.uk/news/30551

Women gathered at London, Edinburgh and Cardiff today for the #199Days event. This @swpolice police van was at the event in Cardiff today. Where women were speaking for rights which have been compromised, undermined and ridden roughshod over by the “LGBTQ+ Community” In their upside down world of policing ‘without fear or favour’ it’s perfectly fine to declare on a police vehicle that this police force are “Proudly serving the LGBTQ+ Community”. And they proudly served them by allowing them to come forward only a few feet from women to try to intimidate us. And to deafen us. And drown out our words. And to chant obscenities at us. @swpolice aren’t ‘proudly serving’ women it seems.

@MurielBlaivePhD Really it should read "The Guardian should apologise to children for applauding every damaging mistake and policy error the government made and begging them to go further"