Martina, Outsports and leaked letter

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Here is the letter that was signed by 300 plus women who are standing up for equality in sports. Leaked, of course:

www.outsports.com/2020/8/2/21351786/ncaa-300-women-athletes-signatories-letter-save-womens-sports-transgender-inclusion

Martina Navratilova

'So Dawn Ennis is trying again to shame me and all the women athletes that signed this letter? Saying we are hiding? None of us are hiding. We are only trying to keep a level playing field for girls and women competing in sports. No limit inclusion is unfortunately not possible.'

Of course the women who signed are about to get their feet put to the fire and could do with support.

What a bunch of complete arseholes. I'm so tired of this ridiculous, harmful shit but proud of those female athletes or stadning up for themselves under this huge barrage of erasure.

Outsports getting hammered on twitter for doxxing and also for stating that transwomen should be allowed to compete with women

Out PenisSports are, as Just so succinctly puts it, a bunch of complete arseholes.

Well done those 300+ brave, principled women.

Couple of reminders of why this matters:
boysvswomen.com/#/

Emma Hilton reviews the scientific literature:
fairplayforwomen.com/emma_hilton/

Dawn Ennis.. haven't we seen them before...?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3922663-Connecticut-high-school-sports-transgender-policy-violates-civil-rights-of-female-athletes?pg=3

Outsport's tweet, and the responses:
twitter.com/outsports/status/1290078865369399296

To coin a phrase, "only here for the ratio."

Weirdly aggressive article. Nice to see Dawn's retained that fury that male socialisation encourages men to feel about women who say no to them.

The Twitter thread is gold! Fuck you Dawn Ennis! (Worth Googling to get some of Dawn’s backstory as a trans woman )

Martina is awesome. She really is.

Xanthangum - I'd forgotten that thread! Very enlightening.

Heartening comments on the Twitter thread. No wonder the TRAs wanted #nodebate. The more people know about this, the faster it all comes tumbling down.

@SirSamuelVimesBlackboardMonitoamuel

I was just about to say the same thing!

I think that it might have finally occured to many activists that this is a battle they should not be fighting. They cannot hope to convince the vast majority that biological males competing in womens sports are anything other than cheats.

Dawn Ennis. Do your image search.

Both the GRA and The Equality Act protect single sex sports.

@Thelnebriati

Both the GRA and The Equality Act protect single sex sports.

If the sporting body in question chooses to use them!

And therein lies the problem - so many sports bodies have been Stonewall-lawed.

The RFU have been the first to publicly row back (I suspect in large part because teams need to carry huge liability insurance and the insurance companies just weren't going to wear it).

Wow, what a horrible article. Two males (Karleigh Webb and Dawn Ennis) trying to send the mob after 300 women who were standing up for womens' rights.

Glad to see it blow up in their faces, at least on Twitter. I scrolled down quite a way and couldn't find a single comment supporting Outsports. Hopefully the women will be okay, they had good reasons for wanting their names kept secret.

From the Outsports artice:

Despite what some may say, this is not a witch-hunt.

Err, yes that's exactly what this is. That's why you are denying it.

We oppose all violence

Who brought violence up?

especially the significantly greater incidents of violent attacks on trans people, and murders. compared to the number of threats that cisgender opponents of trans inclusion have claimed and reported.

Scaremongering. No evidence. DARVO much?

We sought these names in the public interest, because those who stand in favor of discrimination ought to be held accountable. And that’s all this is.

We will now go back to reading The Crucible. Does my privilege look big in this enormous arrogancedress?

@334bu

Outsports getting hammered on twitter for doxxing and also for stating that transwomen should be allowed to compete with women

I think you mean “an own goal”!

This was so obviously posted to encourage a pile-on but these people are deluded if they think the public are behind this because even woke people I know do not support TW in women’s sports

So, if the wokerati don't support Transwomen in sport, why do they support TWAW? If TWAW then they get to play women's sports regardless of what the wokerati might think, or have I misthunk?

But Martina Navratilova and her cosigners could not hide from us

Nor can you hide the sinister sub text of that statement

Exactly Dianas- you only have to read through the E&D statements/website of any sports body to see they’ve been stonewalled

But then they get all take their lead from sport england which is up to its neck in TWAW

So, if the wokerati don't support Transwomen in sport, why do they support TWAW? If TWAW then they get to play women's sports regardless of what the wokerati might think, or have I misthunk?

I think it’s because NO ONE actually believes TWA actual W but they are spineless enough to pretend all the other times but sports is what peaks almost everyone.

Well done those 300+ women. What a sinister article - full of rage and entitlement. "We oppose violence but here are the names and locations of women doing something we don't like... just in case"

Despite this ducking stool and big black hat, this is not a witch-hunt

So the letter was ‘Oopsy, pressed send to all’ leaked?