Emily Bridges in the news again

Paul Brand is the ITV political editor, his husband is a senior civil servant at Downing Street.

Brand is a member of many LGBT charities and campaigns, and seemingly always gets the scoop about Downing Street goings-on.

ITV are not to be trusted to give a balanced report on this, and quite frankly it's another article by ITV over why Johnson should be sacked.

I’d bet by mortgage on there having been no “avalanche” of violent threats.
Bridges mother is active on Twitter and despite occasional checking her replies, I’ve seen very little pushback on most of her tweets. There may have been some aggressive or threatening comments but they appear to be well tucked away and barely mentioned in this long article on EB.

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I didn’t think I did, no.

I do have some empathy for Bridges. It must be awful to be told the rules are XYZ and then have them change at the last moment. But they were unfair.

I can imagine that Emily has had some horrible abuse.

But I'm 100% sure it's not coming from women who just simply believe that males should not be competing in female sport.

The comments on the ITV twitter are not having it at all

Emily would have a good chance of medalling in a blatant male entitlement contest.

There is no excuse for threats of violence no matter how you feel about something.

It wouldn't surprise me if EB had received threats but I am becoming increasingly sceptical about such claims. Are there screen shots of the messages anywhere?

Activists are so desperate to bolster the "both sides as bad as each," other argument that they will selectively edit or take out of context absolutely anything they can use to help prove their case and yet when it comes to direct threats of violence against individuals there are no receipts. We all know they'd be plastered over SM if they existed but they never are?

I can't write what I really think about the rest of the article. The appeal for empathy is particularly galling.

Threats are unacceptable, obviously.
It also seems a bit unfair that BC appear to have given Emily the impression that all would be fine and nobody would mind.
However, it's not all fine and women do mind, and we have to be able to discuss it .

It completely is propaganda

isn’t it strange how all the death threats, the rape threats with baseball bats, the “suck my dick you TERF bigots” directed at women is hand waved away in fact it’s not even acknowledged. Absolutely zero sympathy or empathy is given to women. We don’t get to do sad faces interviews in the media about the threats we face.

i suspect the more EB feels they are being thwarted the more these interviews will increase

There's a shit ton of data. Which is why sports for anyone post puberty are categorised by sex. Why does no one challenge such outright lies?

I don't think the argument that 'going through male puberty confers no advantage in cycling because there is a lack of data' is really going to fly, tbh.

"Not prepared to put myself through that" regarding racing against men.

I shall leave that as an exercise for the reader as to whether any of Emily's current competitors in the women's competition have similar thoughts.

However, I'm a little baffled by this as Emily was doing this as recently as March in the university competition, iirc. There is rather a lovely, collegial photograph of Emily and team mates on the podium when they took the bronze (iirc).

Yes, I was very at 'I'm not prepared to put myself through that'.

Thats nice dear.....

The interview is now on the ITV.com website, apparently.

Quite frankly, it feels like propaganda

It is.

Infuriating and batshit.

"Not prepared to put myself through that" regarding racing against men.

Hope they fall off their bike.

Denying that male puberty gives advantage

Won a men's race in March just mentioned

I think it's rude to say the Prime Minister knows nothing about this. Everyone knows men shouldn't compete in women's sports. And men who are transitioning retain all the advantages they had when they were men - see Emily's performance at the men's event just a few months ago.

Honestly not sure what I said there.

On ITV News now

Apparently someone threatened to kneecap EB. That is obviously awful and nobody should behave like that or expect to get away with that.

But the idea Bridges is after flogging that the elected Prime Minister of the country can’t speak about public policy is very silly.