Wah wah wah. 'Snot fair.

What a load of rubbish, loads of women play in what were traditionally the men's leagues, meaning that those leagues are mixed.

My daughter has done that since she was 12.

There is no need for any man to play in the women's leagues.

My son played cricket from age 8 to age 13, when he aged out of Kwik Cricket to Hardball. He didn't like Hardball. It was indeed a hard ball, going quite fast when thrown by some players, coming right straight at your body. It scared him and if it hit you, it hurt, even with pads.

When I was a teen, my (gorgeous) teen boy neighbour broke three fingers just catching the ball!

The sheer stupidity of people who overlook the significant dangers to women of men in a women's game makes my blood boil.

It's this forced teaming and compelled speech that has destroyed their argument. Before that we all knew that some men liked to dress as women, either to be funny (Izzard, Les Dawson, Gazza with the fake breasts) or because it was a thing. I have met and worked with transsexuals and I was sort of fine with them in the ladies because it was one or two occasionally.

Then they started to insist on pronouns and that being female was about sex stereotypes when I've been fighting them all my life. And now they are having a massive stereotypical man-baby tantrum just because we won.

I'm fed up with it. But mostly I'm really pissed off with intelligent men and women, some of them with PhDs in biological research, who are saying sex is a spectrum and are calling me a transphobe. These people often identify with asking for evidence and being rational and scientific but don't see their own bias and can't back down.

Thank goodness for people like Andy Lewis (@lecanardnoir's on TwiX) who have stood up for biology and actually done the research and applied rationality.

So very sorry.

These men are pathetic self-centred gits (and I'm being polite).

One reason I enjoy going to watch cricket is there is never a queue for the ladies loo. And thanks for the earworm; it has replaced a rather more annoying one that I won't infect anyone else with!

Aargh what have you done? Now I’ve caught it 🎶

Exactly.

Enabling trans people be their true, authentic self ( in the TRA-style I mean, NATPALT) requires all the people who don't define themselves by a sense of inner gender, people who may find being defined as if they have an inner gender that makes them mentally the same as people of the opposite sex, invalidates their own experiences and takes away their right to set their own boundaries with respect to privavcy and safety pretty damn offensive, find their true self is not in fact welcome and their own knowledge of themself has to be subsumed into whatever the trans person says they are.

Well, that's my earworm for the day sorted out. Love a bit of 10CC.

I don't like cricket, oh no
I love it
I don't like cricket, no no
I love it
Don't you walk through my words
You got to show some respect
Don't you walk through my words
'Cause you ain't heard me out yet

One that can result in a leg break if you're unfortunate.

TomPinch · Today 04:40

This is a silly point.

Is that a fielding position?

Look, a lot of us are older. We've been in workplaces where we had colleagues who never mentioned that they even had partners and talked about going on holiday with 'a friend', or never chatted about their holidays, and didnt have a wedding which was known about in the team, because they were gay. Those days are gone in any workplace I've been part of, and good riddance. There are still probably workplaces where that kind of homophobia exists (my perennial reminder that AFAIK there still isn't a single out gay male professional footballer in the UK). That's what bringing your whole self to work should be about. And tbh it's fine for a colleague to say they're transitioning as well, I wouldn't ever want trans people to have to leave their jobs and take a new one to try and hide their transition which many used to do. It's just that their real self does still include their sex. The old days of hiding and passing and stealth should be gone too.

This is a silly point.

Oohhh!!! You lobbed that one Gail. It was a bouncer, indeed! It was just the wicket! I am in deep, I declare!! But I am not out, not even stumped! I am sure we can slip in some corkers yet!

Having googled, or should that be googlyed, I now know that there is such a thing as silly point and what it is, so thank you.

There all standing at silly point now they've been bowled out with a Yorker.

I don't like cricket.
I don't think I should have to read about it. I think male cricketers and female cricketers should be forced to play together until they're all bowled out.

It was obvious!

I think seeing as being your “true self” requires wigs, makeup, hormones and sometimes surgery it’s on a level with the Kardashians preaching self-acceptance.

This authentic self thing at work thing is just so puzzling. I don’t do anything particularly womanly and authentic at work. My professional self goes to work.I do my job. I use the single cubicle toilets (tiny workplace). I’ll chat about pets, holidays and food and go home. My authentic self doesn’t really get a look in and I’m perfectly happy with that.
This is about ministering to other people’s insecurities. That’s what counselling is for, surely?

Well, it is a bit too wide to bowl a maiden over, But they are really trying to spin it to appeal to people, however it is a bit of a duck really. It is all a bit googly.

Bye

My true self is a 6ft 28 year old Scandinavian blonde. But fuck me if i can't manage others to see past myn51 year old 5 foot 1; 13 stone arthritis-ridden self.

Oh well, maybe you can identify as a 6ft 28 yr old Scandinavian blond instead. Maybe add it into your work email signature just so everyone knows?

It's on the tip of my tongue. Just a minute... Here it is:

My heart bleeds purple piss for these wankers.

As you were.

And when trans events were held, no one showed up!

Because they only feel trans when they are validated by other women.

Once again, women are not support animals for men.

Open and mixed cricket remains available, but that provides little comfort.

Indeed.

Don’t forget your WHOLE self, that really epitomises your ‘identiteeeee’. I need to have a word with my boss about whether this is actually a load of old bollocks.

Ok, I’ve had a word with myself/herself/themselves and I can confirm it is indeed, a load of old bollocks. As you were.