Elite sports people speaking up!

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There seems to be an increasing number of sports people speaking up about the problem of males completing in women's sports which is positive. Thought it might be useful to have a thread of those who are risking sticking their heads above the parapet. Obviously the likes of Sharon Davies, Mara Yamauchi and Martina Navratilova have been bravely doing this for sometime but now we appear to have a few current athletes as well who are prepared to risk the mob to ensure women have fair competition. Is it too much to hope for that there will be a snowball effect?

Oh @proudsister I'm bursting with pride on your behalf!
If we can lend any support let us know.

Good for your brother. But what a shit position to be in. What do the female players think?

April Hutchinson Team Canada Power Lifter

twitter.com/ICFSport/status/1627725211310370818

That is just awful. Incredible strength of character to still go on and achieve as she did. Why do women have to put up with so much just to do the sport or career they love? We need more female coaches, more women in sport.

Senator Sharon Keogan- speech from 21 Feb 2023

m.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iRBq_AE1g&feature=youtu.be

This from Riley Gaines is good:

mobile.twitter.com/riley_gaines_/status/1630666368952442900?s=61&t=-LK22XnJEdaX4u8Cd_5fcw

Riley Gaines is brilliant!

Mark Foster not quite there yet ... elite women and contact sports require fairness.

www.gbnews.com/sport/mark-foster-says-he-would-have-wiped-the-floor-with-trans-swimmers-in-race

British triathlon have got it absolutely spot on, entering my teenage daughter in events this year and this is there policy. I'm so happy they have this policyafter she was beaten at a race held under British athletics by a transgirl

That’s good news!

The ECB could do with following this. Instead players can play according to gender, never mind that it's actually dangerous.

Not UK but how depressing…

USA Powerlifting lost a two-year court battle this week after a judge ruled that it had discriminated against transgender athlete JayCee Cooper by banning her from competing in women's competitions.

www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/transgender-athlete-wins-discrimination-case-usa-powerlifting-rcna72879

I hope they take it all the way to the Supreme Court

What a travesty. It’s bad enough that there are male athletes who are so entitled and disrespectful towards women that they try to compete in the women’s category. It’s a whole new level of betrayal when they are backed by the courts.

Hannah Arensman, cyclist, ended her career due to having to compete against males and being pushed from 3rd to 4th place by a man.

adflegal.org/press-release/female-athletes-coaches-feminists-21-states-urge-us-supreme-court-protect-womens

Ah signal that is very sad to read. I know that that particular event seems to have attracted some males who are celebrating their wins over the female athletes.

Adrian Ellison who won a rowing gold medal with Steve Redgrave is totally peaked and tweets and retweets sports stories he comes across
twitter.com/AdrianEllison17/status/1633181458582888450?t=rUaw5CpPT0krrYG2YlEnnQ&s=19

I like his bio...

"Most unlikely, unfit, non-sporty Olympic gold-medallist ever"

It is very sad. Cycling does seem to be one of the worst affected sports doesn't it? Presumably that's because cycling is such a popular pastime and there are so many men who take it up as a serious hobby and they probably reach a reasonable standard of fitness and ability. Then it only takes one or two of them to "transition" and the elite women are screwed.

This is good yes, but the fact you need an entire paragraph to explain why people need to state their sex is just ridiculous.

@proudsister what happened with your brother? I hope he is still coaching and didn't have to resign his position!

World Rowing tightens the rules that allow men to compete in the women’s competition. Men can still compete but need to reduce testosterone to 2.5nml for 2 years.

worldrowing.com/2023/03/15/world-rowing-adopts-tighter-rules-for-transgender-women-athletes/

Oh, so their (generall) longer arms, broader shoulders, and longer legs and torsos don't help at all?

Meant to add - do they magically shrink those body parts when testosterone reduces to a certain level?

Men can still compete but need to reduce testosterone to 2.5nml for 2 years.

Am I right in thinking this is basically impossible? Men have struggled with the 5nml limit imposed by other organisations and that’s why it used to be set at the ridiculous level of 10nml.

It’s all terribly, headdeskingly stupid and I wish organisations would just say “nope, no men in women’s sports, no matter their testosterone levels.” But perhaps they’re afraid of being sued, and this is a sneaky way of accomplishing the same thing.

(Does anyone know what the testosterone limit is in that Joanna Harper study that 3 of the 4 TW participants dropped out of, leaving it as a very expensive study of the honesty levels of its sole remaining participant? I have a notion it was 5nml.)