Breaking news - Emily won't compete

[Doyoumind]

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/60934099

So, they’ve just played a clip of Sajid Javid saying “it should be about sex not gender, and sex is biological sex”

Stella Creasy thinks it’s not for politicians to comment

@ResisterRex

Bit concerning on BBC2 that it's all:

• research isn't there
• focus on elite athletes
• focus on bravery of trans

This misses:

• biological reality, as though women can form the answer in the form of being research objects
• we won't have elite female athletes if women's sport becomes mixed sex
• no recognition of the silencing of FEMALE ATHLETES

Yeah.

Stella - "some women have penises"

@littlbrowndog

Stella creasy

Pure idiot

'A woman is an adult human female but some women are born women and some be some women'

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

Creasey is an embarrassment. Apparently we shouldn't be obsessed with what is in people's underwear. Was she the one who couldn't say what a woman is recently? She's literally just said a woman is an Adult Human Female BUT some women are born male. Sigh. Can I sneak into your time machine, Bellatrix?

@bellabelly

Clip of Sajid Javid saying that categories should be based on biological sex rather than gender. Good.

I never, ever thought I'd be tempted to vote Tory and the thought still turns my stomach but what option is there now

Good.

How and why was she competing as a male around a month ago. How can you attempt to switch competitions so swiftly?!

Creasy - "suicide levels are legion" in trans community

There is no hope.

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

What is the max testosterone levels permitted in female athletes?

It isn’t just that though. Women are not men with lower testosterone. We are women and deserve our own sport.

What a useless article. It doesn't say WHY Emily can't compete. Which rule has Emily broken?? That would be helpful to know.

And why the hell is British Cycling such a misogynistic organisation? Why don't THEY know the rules?!

The mind boggles.

Haha. Stella thinks that a woman is an adult human female but that includes men who become women (so can have a penis). Well that’s clear then. Asking for clarity means we want titillation, apparently!

@bellabelly what year do we set it to? 😁

I was born in the late 80s and when i was a teenager in the early/mid 00s things were NOT like this

@ResisterRex

Creasy - "suicide levels are legion" in trans community

There is no hope.

I'd be interested to know what inside information Creasey has and why it's being withheld from coroners. Doesn't she have a duty to report this information on so many levels?

Legion is a very large number.

Creasy - "suicide levels are legion" in trans community

Pants on fire, and even if it were true, why the fuck would it be relevant to women's sport?

It's certainly how I get my rocks off on a Thursday lunchtime, Cwenthryth! It's just another attempt at silencing people who disagree - you're all perverts!!!

@bellabelly I have no idea how you would achieve elite status when everyone you trained with was having growth spurts and you weren't.

It's just another attempt at silencing people who disagree - you're all perverts!!!

It's TRA DARVOspeak.

@Bellatrix - I was born in the 70s - v happy to go back to the good old days of the 1980s when Boy George, Marilyn et al could put on a frock and lipstick without needing to claim they were actual women.

And why the hell is British Cycling such a misogynistic organisation? Why don't THEY know the rules?!

Well, you can spend large sums of money achieving tiny, marginal gains that add up to race winning differences of 0.5—1% or you can accept the inadvertently high value, low cost gift horse of the sort of 10-15% difference that Bridges represents. All BC has to do is abandon any notion of fairness or pretence to be interested in the sustainability of women's sports…

I honestly don't understand what all the chest beating and gnashing of teeth is about trying to find a fair way for athletes to compete.

Just say no to ALL men in women's sports!!! It's not rocket science.

I agree, it's not fucking difficult.

Why does creasy always say this stuff

Most marginalised. Legion suicide

If I was a transgender person I would be dead angry being treated like a child and to be pitied

She’s an idiot. And a patronising one at that

I can't help wondering if eventually they'll have to create a new category of sport for CIS Women. It shouldn't have to happen but at the moment it's the only option I can see that would resolve the issue.

The suicide line has been so thoroughly debunked by now she's either woefully uninformed (which is unforgivable) or being deliberately misleading (also unforgivable.)

I agree, littlbrowndog - it's so patronising.