Laurel Hubbard to go to Tokyo

Absolutely shameless and dishonest “sometimes a very mediocre athlete with a male body gets beaten by an extremely talented, exceptional elite woman who has trained her arse off, therefore, there is no issue with male bodies in women’s sports”.

This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of why we have women’s sports, which is that we want athletes to compete together, displaying their prowess (natural and enhanced by training) in the specific discipline that they compete in. Winning at sport is a product of selection for the factors that make a difference in each sport, and the absolute first selection cut that happens, in order for women’s sport to exist, is that we exclude males. That includes unhappy males in weakened bodies.

I think the athletes should absolutely stage a protest. I want them to go full Tommie Smith & John Carlos at the ‘68 Olympics (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute).

Hasn't India always said transwomen shouldn't participate in women's sports? There are a few topics that India has been denounced for by some of the trans community for having a different opinion and I'm sure this is one of them. I don't think this is a shift in opinion.

"Post surgery"?
LH hasn't had surgery. That is quite obvious in the photographs.

It was India Willoughby discussing it on GMB, not India Knight!

I would a public stand from the women on this event. If non participation is not an option, and it were me, I'd do this -

Biological women who win silver and bronze step down off the platform and stand in front of the respective gold/silver/bronze spots.

Silver hand her medal to bronze and stand medal less confront of the gold podium. Bronze hand her medal to whoever came 4th and then stand in front of the silver podium.

If a biological female athlete had a testosterone level of near 10 she would be banned for doping.

Very unfair.

I can’t believe that to qualify for women’s sport an athlete can retain their male genitalia. So they could in fact, minus the hormones, revert to being a male if they so chose.

I think the person in the street thinks that a trans person has undergone a sex change - ie they have passed the point of no return which includes the lopping off of external indicators. A “female” competitor with full male tackle? That is just insanity.

Posie's going to be quite busy on Sunday. Doing all that walking and banner-waving single-handed.

I've always doubted sport would be the issue over prisons or medicating children - but on reflection, it's more clear cut, isn't it?

It’s clearly unfair, it’s highly visible, it’s an affront to the sporting ethos of fair play, and it’ll bring the sunlight to the millions of people that have been unaware of what has been going on over the last few years.

The fact that they asked Harper about whether they were comfortable with the OIC policy....

OF COURSE Harper is 'comfortable' with it. It was Harper and that rather dodgy study of them and their friend's running times that was instrumental in the decision. Harper was on the panel!!!

Now Andrew Doyle. It's rather confusing hearing people talking sense about this openly without censorship or tieing themselves in knots to be pc.

It’s ridiculous that Ross Tucker even needs to write that article, although he articulates it well. We should be discussing why everyone is pretending there isn’t an advantage, making people do the leg work to state the bleeding obvious, then still pretending it doesn’t matter even when they’ve been shown the truth by people like Tucker.

The story is the complicity of those who are wilfully ignoring this at the expense of women and girls, not any debate on the advantage.

v Joanna Harper (transwoman) and advisor to Olympic committee.

GB News now Nicola Williams from FPFW

Posie was talking about Hubbard and her plans for Sunday last night

This has really brought it out more hasn’t it? Transwomen on lesbian dating apps can still fall under the radar for heterosexual men (and many heterosexual women). Many people are not on Twitter or miss any online abuse.

However, a non-passing transwoman in the Olympics will reach a completely new group of people who never thought about this before; the sports interested heterosexual man!

Miranda usually talks sense, so that's not a surprise at all.

The TRA contingent - I do wonder if they'll realise what a 'careful what you wish for' moment this could be.

I've always doubted sport would be the issue over prisons or medicating children - but on reflection, it's more clear cut, isn't it?

There's no safety issue, no 'but the children will commit suicide'. It's just a male-bodied person deciding that they want to compete in a voluntary activity for female-bodied people.

India just said make a trans Olympics. Finally some sense.

Here's Miranda's GBNews interview about Hubbard:

The lies, the lies! 😡