Laurel Hubbard is the beginning of the end of women’s sports

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Not sure if another thread has been started on this. This really is the end. I spent ten years being a sports coach to children. I know males and females bodies are physically different and behave different in sport. This is an absolute tragedy for our young aspiring female athletes. A mediocre male weightlifter rising to the top of the womens ranks purely because of his physiology. Stealing a place that is rightly a females. This is my actual WTF moment.

[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/laurel-hubbard-is-the-beginning-of-the-end-of-women-s-sports]

Joanne Harper is getting a good grilling from Emma Barnett. JH sounds like an idiot - can't justify the scientific decision making behind the IOC decision at all.

[quote Alternista]Hopefully this links to the excellent post by James Smith PT on this subject:

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Shared that on FB, lets see how that goes......... bit nervous actually

I do still like the South Park - 'Strong Woman' episode

Clip here - from 2019!

We need strongly worded open letters to the BBC, etc. signed by women. Is FPFW already doing a letter we can sign and share? Having a panel or interview about women's sports without a single female-born panelist or interviewee is disgusting and disgraceful.

This photo speaks volumes

As does this... twitter.com/Unity_MoT/status/1407697045897592834

This would be an interesting read.

twitter.com/cathydevine56/status/1408175750780493825?s=21

Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines
Catherine Devine, 24th June 2021

This empirical study investigated the views and presents the ‘voices’ of 19 female Olympians. The main findings include (1) these athletes thought both female and transgender athletes should be fairly included in elite sport, (2) unanimous agreement there is not enough scientific evidence to show no competitive advantage for transwomen, (3) unanimous agreement that the International Olympic Committee should revisit the rules and scientific evidence for transgender inclusion in female categories, and (4) the majority of athletes felt that they could not ask questions or discuss this issue without being accused of transphobia.

Heres Syndey Watsons take on the debacle

Female Olympians’ voices: Female sports categories and International Olympic Committee Transgender guidelines

Shame it's a Sage journal - there's no chance of finding that Open Access nor uploaded on the researcher's own site, unfortunately. The upside is that the Twitter thread is detailed and very helpful.

Article by Jo Bartosch highlights the differences in testosterone levels and other significant physical differences that make such competition unfair to female athletes:

www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/22/laurel-hubbard-should-not-be-competing-against-women/