Sharron Davies and the International Olympic Committee

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Saw this on twitter. Did a search to see if it had already been mentioned on here without finding anything, but I'm not very proficient with the search engine. I'd missed it completely and the petition, which is closing soon, doesn't have anywhere near as many signatures as I would have expected, considering the consensus amongst the general public on the subject.
I've started a thread over at /Talk/petitions_noticeboard/ with a link to the petition, because we aren't allowed to post petitions on here.

I had a great time stomping my response out to that earlier! Steam coming off the keyboard

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Thanks OP, off to take a look.

Signed before.

FFS that this is needed.

Arrggh...!

Thank you! Signed.

The petitions board is here:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/petitions_noticeboard

(I always find it slightly hard to find - hopefully a link to the board itself, not the petition, is okay.)

Oh thanks Cara I couldn't find it! Just coming back to ask where the board was

Already done but shared again

Knew nothing about this.

I have tried to sign but link did not work properly.

@gailforce1

I have tried to sign but link did not work properly.

Took me two goes. Second time round I searched "women's sport IOC petition" and got to their homepage, then to the petition from there.

Thanks, signed

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Found the petition and signed.

Sharron Davies's twitter has a link if that helps anyone locate it.

Signed.

Signed, thanks

Signed & shared.

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Thank you I had totally missed this!

I kind of disagree. TRAs should do the impartial, robust research that unequivocally proves that men aren’t stronger than women and that the way we have segregated humans since the dawn of time is wrong, then submit it to the IOC, then consider it. It shouldn’t be up to the IOC or anyone else to do research, except in the name of impartiality, perhaps. Do that, and we will be waiting for a very long time, because you can’t prove such a stupid idea.

Of course I would support this though, as no rules should be changed at all.

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Markus Rehm is a Paralympic long-jumper. He was not allowed to compete in the Olympics because his blades were perceived as giving him an unfair advantage (he, naturally, disagreed).

Now, I’m not saying this is an analogous situation... only, it does look rather analogous, doesn’t it?