Sharron Davies article in The Times

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sharron-davies-vladimir-putin-could-send-his-tenth-best-man-to-win-a-sack-of-medals-as-a-woman-hsb8c5mj0

Sharron Davies knows the injustice of competing in an uneven field and says that is why she is concerned by transgender athletes taking part in women’s sport, Martyn Ziegler writes

"Last week, Davies sent a letter to the IOC’s president Thomas Bach signed by 60 former British athletes — including 20 gold medallists — calling on the organisation to rethink its guidelines which, from 2016, have made it much easier for men who identify as women to compete in female sport."

Let's just hope that those athletes can put some pressure on and get the rules changed so that only xx females can compete in women's sports although I am not particularly hopeful given the current political climate around these issues

Great that so many athletes have signed the letter. I’ll be interested to hear if there is a response.

it will kill woman’s sports if it continues

Fantastic article.

Sharon has really picked up the baton and run with it 💪

Also:
“I don’t think people realised how the rules changed in 2015. I believe it was stealthily done.”

Like everything else!

Brilliant article. Davis has really helped the argument to gain ground as the issue as she explains it is so clear and the right thing to do so obvious.

✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

I'm very thankful she's championing this.

Brilliant article and so good to see that 60 former British athletes have signed! That trick cyclist is going to be very busy hurling around their allegations of transphobia.

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Sharron is brilliant on this.

The Times are linking to this article too, anyone got a share token please?

www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/transgender-athletes-q-a-why-has-it-become-such-a-big-issue-0s53fvv0b

Hooray for Sharron and her co-signatories.

That's a dreadful article SpeakUp - as is being pointed out below the line:
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Balls.

I thought the Times had done other stuff discrediting that ridic "research", maybe I read it somewhere else. Ok I will totally ignore that then. The comments are reassuring.

Just incredible and awe inspiring to watch this champion relay in action.

60 signatories, just wow SIXTY!

Also (slight derail) I have a paper copy of Times today, just double checked and that Q&A article is not in it. There is an excellent piece on the pay gap at Goldman Sachs and a nice picture of a hedgehog.

Thanks for posting! Sharron is a powerful voice to have on the side of women and girls.

Great

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These articles went up in their 5.00pm update so presumably they'll be in the paper edition tomorrow.

Sharron is being amazing.

Fantastic work Sharron and colleagues! You are such an impressive advocate for female athletes.

Sharon is my real life super hero.

Great Sharon 💪💪💪
Women are not hormonally weakened men

She's great. She didn't give up against the doped East Germans, she's made of stronger stuff than that. Those trying to bully great women athletes made a big mistake.

There are some particularly good comments under that article (looks around this thread...)
Including this great one from 'Girl Scout' :
it's really simple, transwomen are male, and don't belong in female sports. Women's sports are about extraordinary females, they're not about males, not about comparing us to males, arguing whether we are as a 'good as' males, nor indeed about including males (regardless of the nebulous concept of gender identity), women's sports are about females. It's not women's job to figure out this problem, share our resources or budge over for males. And the thing that insults me the most about this entire argument is this notion that a woman is a chemically suppressed man! Greer wrote the Female Eunuch all those years ago, to settle that argument. Females exist in our own right, and it frustrates me how we are expected to accommodate this push for trans rights for males, this a problem men need to figure out for that girl scout!