Murray Edwards are wildly enthusiastically TWAW (you SAY you’re totally a woman, they believe you, no questions asked); whereas Newnham at least require documentation stating you are female (eg passport or GRC) which is a limiting factor though not bloody limiting enough.
There’s nothing worrying/suspicious about the 2022 Lent Bumps results though - Newnham W1 are Head of the River ie in their rightful place & W2 & W3 are in second & 3rd divisions respectively when it’s not unheard of for W2 to make it into 1st division. Newnham’s always been a rowing College - not, unlike the [former] men’s Colleges, just full of People Who Rowed At School: Newnham Builds Boaties.
Murray Edwards only had one boat in the first 3 divisions - they may now be down to only one boat, which is boggling… That one boat also got spoons (ie they were bumped [beaten] every single day). So they’re not benefitting from TW in rowing.
This November 2020 article in The Tab about LGBT Cambridge Students’ experiences in sport heavily suggests that GenderWoo is only being allowed to go so far in sport. Much to the frustration of people who don’t see WHY they shouldn’t be allowed to row on the men’s team if they want to. I am sure you will be shocked by the superabundance of Main Character Syndrome throughout - & the most frustrating thing is, the determination to collect as many oppression points as possible & absolute failure to recognise that no, PE is not uniquely torturous for “queer” people means that the actual problems don’t receive the attention they deserve.
Behaviour at Dinners, swaps, formals & on training camps actually is something to be concerned about, far beyond the article’s mention of People can get drunk and say inappropriate things, some of which can be homophobic - & certainly the “heteronormativity” isn’t a legitimate concern. Nobody should be saying homophobic things, but - leaving aside that catering to the needs of, statistically, 9/10 people is not, objectively, bad, as long as that doesn’t harm the 1/10 - what is meant here by “heteronormative” is “not actively & enthusiastically queer”. Indeed heteronormative is also to be understood here as actively hostile to “queer” people, rather than simply as heterosexual people doing their thing. Raucous behaviour & the traditions of pennying + 5-pennying are not heteronormative: sexuality is utterly the wrong axis to analyse the behaviour on, but it is of course a helpful distancing tool for this individual. Describing swaps as heterosexual & heteronormative also pushes the idea that female athletes are not the peers of male athletes but rather a commodity for the university’s male athletes to enjoy, with swaps as the means of facilitating this. Of course people have ONS’ thanks to swaps, it would be naïve to think they didn’t. But it’s grotesque[ly misogynistic] to imply that i. swaps = practically an orgy & ii. that THAT is heteronormative behaviour.
There absolutely is a need for concern with regard to alcohol consumption & peer pressure; some sports are notoriously misogynistic; & there’s a Varsity (ie the Oxford + Cambridge Teams together) Dinner that was banned in the noughties (don’t know what happens with it now) because of Bullingdonish behaviour. It didn’t occur to the great eejits that you can’t always buy your way out of trouble. But complaining men’s & women’s teams sit apart is just… it’s like complaining that at the office party people who work in different departments on different floors & may not even know the people in the other department work for their company sit with their own department. Because it’s not about the women sitting away from the men, but the women/men (as applicable) sitting together with their teammates so they can socialise freely & celebrate (or possibly commiserate).
The absolute state of that article - as ever, the demand to focus the T. The horror that somehow GenderFeelz are not privileged above all else. And of course, nothing ever being enough. “Yes, everyone was doing exactly what I wanted, but I’ve stopped doing the sport I [claim to] love because I SUSPECT THERE IS WRONGTHINK IN PEOPLE’S HEADS: it’s something which isn’t tangible, there’s just a sense. I can’t really explain it.” 
It goes without saying, but for the benefit of observers, nobody should ever have to experience homophobic or transphobic abuse in arena, including sports. Male persons, however, have no business trying to colonise women’s sport, however they made identify. Female people also need to accept that however they may choose identify, it is neither right nor fair to expect men’s sports to be opened to you without question, reservation or limit. It’s not ok to ask men to risk injuring you so you can feel validated; just as it’s not ok for TW to risk injuring women in their quest for validation. It’s well-trodden ground that it’s not ok for TW to effectively act as ringers; it’s also not ok for TM to demand the right to serve as a handicap for a team/crew. It might well be that that results in the sporting opportunities available to trans men being limited if they’re taking testosterone.
Surely the decision on choice of sport &/or level of participation vs hormone therapy has, for each individual, to be a matter of “what’s most important?” - & it still isn’t “banning trans people from sport”; it’s “trying to ensure safety & fair play for everyone”. Campaign groups like Stonewall could be doing a fantastic job of promoting & supporting the inclusion of trans people in sports. They have the resources - in all senses - to do so. They could even have used some of the millions of pounds they amass on the regular to set up some sports groups for trans people so they could skip all that pesky grass-roots work other minorities have to do. Instead they’ve stuck with their policy of: focusing entirely on TW [& TG]; demanding women [& girls] give up their spaces in name of (lifesaving!) kindness & inclusivity; having an almighty kicking-screaming temper tantrum at even the slightest questioning, featuring claims of [institutional] transphobia, that doing this harms nobody but refusal to comply is literal violence causing literal death, & how The Science & The Rules & The Law all say that absolutely this must happen immediately & you are not allowed to question it. What a waste. There are also things like Kick It Out that still need their attention.
Honestly, the perpetual victimhood is incredibly wearing. The UK manages to produce amazing Paralympic talent despite, rather than because - which is in line, I suppose, with the general human-rights-breaching theme adopted by this government, but still shameful. As is the refusal to invest in D/deaf athletes. Yet again TRAs are confusing “not getting their own way” with “oppression”. Disabled people (as a class, obviously it varies by individual) have SUCH limited access to sport (& when they can access it there’s usually Crip!Tax - ie additional costs relating to their disability - to be paid). You don’t get disability groups demanding everything be changed in abled sport to suit them though. “Mainstream” sport (as it were) should obviously be accessible to disabled people whose disabilities allow them to participate safely - but you can’t expect the world to bend to &/or round you, a fact that seems completely lost on TRAs. Including an astonishing number who self-ID (perhaps the key is that they also self-diagnose?) as autistic &/or disabled.
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(This has taken about 4 hours of trying to write & make sense & I now admit defeat. And apologise for any incomprehensibilities that are left & if it meanders-repeats. Am frustrated because I can’t quite communicate the things I want to & am very aware of that but unable to fix it - so choosing to post rather than not; but also to explain that this - aggravatingly, mind-itchingly - isn’t Quite Right. Better, though, was not forthcoming; and weighing effort & worth against deficiencies it still seemed ok to post.)