Emily Bridges on ITV: “Why didn’t JKR spend her money on women’s rights?”

She really is epic.

This is like the man in X who posted that three male judges made the ruling in the Supreme Court - he’d cropped the article and made no mention of the other two judges (both women) so I can only conclude he was doing it deliberately to provoke outrage and earn cash, the utter twat.

Jonathan India Willoughby put a post up on X the other day with I think 5 different claims, one of which was that the location of where the judge who delivered the ruling lives and that it's next door to JKR, who is secretly his BFF.

JK's response was calm and swift, stating that she had never lived in x place, never met the judge and beautifully refuted all his other lies points too.

She's a far classier woman than me, from whom he'd have got more of a FTFO reply.

I'm sure they don't want my sympathy but I feel it nonetheless for anyone driven to surgery of that type so young. And am not too keen on personal remarks about EB.

The whole tipping point that occurred in changing British Cycling's policies etc was that EB was good and a genuine medal prospect in the women's category. I understood that there was a concerted behind the scenes protest by women competitors, plus the authorities were faced with the likely reality of EB publicly beating popular female names. Ie they had to stop nodding through policies that they assumed meant very little and face reality.

"The picture of him kissing his boyfriend (taking podiums 1 and 2) while a mum looks after her daughter in 3rd place sums this woman hating movement up"

Perhaps he should just try a bit harder.

Bridges was a Junior GB team member and broke a national 25 mile time trial record.

Injury meant he was dropped by Team GB.

Well that’s very interesting. Wish him well, that is a very difficult surgery for a young person to have and lifetime implications.

Or even your cock.

There are also pages of hidden comments. They seem to have hidden a few of the more positive comments too. One poster kept repeating their positive comment several times and as they continued to be hidden they were getting more 😡. Probably a new experience for them!

Fairly good at university level but not the top, then although decent in the team events.

But, it didn’t seem anywhere near enough to be eligible for British Cycling as a male competitor.

I may be wrong but that was my impression.

Remember the Whittle waffle-bys?

The RMW interventions (mostly seem to be oblique and delivered through the mechanism of MN moderator deletions).

I still don’t know if I’m disappointed that we’ve never been scolded on site, so to speak, by Lia Thomas’ relatives or Harriet Hayes’.

According to Bridges’ Insta, Bridges had sex reassignment surgery last year.

What a dimwit. And what an aesthetic. Pippi Longstocking?

On another note, I hadn't even noticed it was ITV. I can't believe that. I thought it was some obscure Internet channel

Yes a previous poster said that too.

I still think, judging by that interview, there is an element of it's this or nothing.

Nitter link to the ITV story, in case anyone wants to see the comments (note - the videos won’t play via this link).

nitter.poast.org/itvnews/status/1915012495468646838#m

I agree, I find a lot of it quite inappropriate. Some of it is probably legally or reputationally dodgy for employers.

I thought he was a fairly decent cyclist in the male category? Maybe he should focus on that.

Paul Brand is head of ITV News.

Very supportive of trans issues but I suspect he knows exactly what a woman is when using a surrogate to produce a child for him.

Surely implying that JKR has influence of the supreme court is slander.

She should sue the little sulky git.

I'm appalled that an interview is allowed to be so personal. This issue is much wider than JKR. It's really poor for a national TV station to collude in making her the villain.

Or working undercover on Operation #LetThemSpeak.
In the blue corner we have… Joyce, Forstater, Smith. Up against them is …… Bridges.

Why the hell are itv giving this numpty a platform??? Where's the interviews with Susan smith, Trina Budge or Marion Calder? Or any with ordinary women who had been self excluding from places like rape crisis centres or refuges as there had been no guarantees it would be free of men? The media are really pissing me off right now. Not everything is about sad men in frocks. This is a big deal for 50% of the population.

Phallic drift alright. When I learned filming techniques etc there was also the "male gaze" where everything on camera was done through a male perspective. I like the term phallic drift too. FWR is always good at helping me learn new things!

Why isn't EB campaigning for better pay , better profile, and more sponsorship in biological women's sports..? I'm pretty sure I read only 1% of sponsorship deals go to actual female athletes (not Dylan Mulvaney modelling sports bras for Nike )

Agree with pp they , um , came across , um, like a moody teenager....