THANK YOU MATTHEW PINSENT

And in a mighty fine floral shirt too.
Substance and style.

No need at all for special categories, people need to realise that if they want to compete in sport then they have to compete in their birth sex categories. This applies to people whose birth sex might have been confused at birth but whose genetic sex can be determined by testing. If people don’t want to do that then tough.

So during the boat race in 2016 the Cambridge women’s second eight had a transgender woman in the crew and took the place of an actual woman. Cambridge were fuckers. Normally when crews are announced they say the name of the athletes original club. This time they didn’t. No surprises to learn the transgender woman’s original club was an all boys school where they learnt to row. Terrible. Thankfully money talks and donors responded by withholding their cheque books

The fact is that in order to have inclusive there must be exclusive categories that have gatekeeping.

they still think its 2015, when few people knew (and even less gave a flying fuck about) the fact that the gender mentalists were deadly serious. Strange because I supposed the IOC was mostly fairly smart people who could have seen this coming. I would love to be in the room when this train wreck is discussed, as it surely must be.

Good for him. The majority of us can see the truth.

Matthew Pinsent was speaking about IOC's mess in boxing. The current controversies are around the inclusion of people with VSDs.

Undoubtedly, VSDs are political cover to justify wider inclusion. Nonetheless:

• transexual is a deprecated term
• current issues concern VSDs
• previous history in various events demonstrate that few people would identify into the categories you suggest etc.

It's here:

x.com/j4ppleby/status/1822706574395371699?s=61&t=708dEn_EkpuN3JVBO9mR8A

I was gobsmacked that the BBC broadcast Matthew Pinsent's comments instead of cutting away to some footage of kittens playing with a ball of wool. I'm grateful to him for sticking his neck out and calling this shitshow for what it is.

Yes! His face when told that was a picture, then he immediately returned to his usual very modest self. Proving that, if anyone is descended from God, then it is most likely to be him 😊

Inclusion can work but transsexuals need their own categories.

Women cannot fairly compete with transsexual women. Men cannot fairly compete with transsexual men.

It's really straight forward, how could they have got it so wrong?!

Whatever will they do when there's a 46XY 5RD athlete who's white? (I know that it's a rare DSD more likely to be found in populations that aren't 'white,' but....)

Amazing that just speaking the truth makes a sporting hero into an actual hero. (Also an ex rower 👋)

I have a feeling that he's said something before that made me sure he knew what's what but maybe just my own blinkers/hope.

That's one point I like to make—if there are "as many genders as there are people" then it's absurd to have "genders" in sport, by boys/men and girls/women. And if "sex is a spectrum" then it doesn't make sense to have "male" and "female" sports, surely. Sooooo we should be seeing activists fighting for one category, no "discrimination" by having either gender or sex divisions. But we're not seeing that. Why? Because these mediocre men need a pool of women to defeat and that's not going to be accomplished if they have to compete against men who are better than they are. It's that simple.

On who do you think they are they traced Pinsent to royal lineage up to William the conqueror and onwards to God 😂

Yeah but I follow Al Jazeera on instagram and there’s massive Algerian support for this boxer, which is seen as standing up against white supremacy.

If only Gary Lineker had the guts to say it.

can see it now-the 100 meters cat gender (whilst wearing a trilby at a jaunty angle) Jeez, it really has to come to this hasn't it?

All boxing?

I don't watch boxing at all but I'm conflicted if it's to be removed because of the IOC's incompetence and vacillations rather than for principled reasons.

NB: I didn't see this before today but I was looking up Barbara Buttrick (British woman who was first World Champion in Women's Boxing, 1957) and came across this brief news piece from June '24.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxeelmvyd9go

ETA: That brief segment was probably very courageous of Matthew Pinsent!

Finally, someone speaking clearly and sensibly and bringing the problem down to the fundamental issue.

🙂

He is Matthew Pinsent, a UK Gold medal winning rower, good to see a very well respected and male (former) athlete pinning his colours to the mast. First Daley Thompson, now Matthew, let’s hope more start speaking up to join the female former athletes who have been saying this for many years.

Yes, I definitely meant sex testing, all the talk about "gender testing" in all the coverage must have made me write that!

Brilliant!

I like the comment that IOC tried to organise boxing after excluding the experts in organise boxing.

It looks doubtful they have the expertise to run any sport to be fair.