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27 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Louise, you’re absolutely right.

I rarely involve myself in the extracurricular politics of those I interact with on specific issues.

I believe women’s rights and general freedoms are cross-party.
Miller is, of course, free, within the bounds of law, to associate with whom he wishes. I support, and will continue to support, that right.

But I am also free to denounce those associations. And I do. I am appalled.
There is no place in any of my politics for anyone who gets into bed with Tommy Robinson.
I will wait, with an open mind, for a response from Fair Cop on this matter.

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23 Nov
Maugham states that his case against the Tavi regards the lawfulness of waiting list times for first appointment.

Take him at his word. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s any kind of political fight against other groups.
If he wins, and he may well do, I don’t think it would be a bad outcome.

Wouldn’t we all want children to see medical/psychological specialists as soon as they can?

But it’s only that (which may be a good ‘that’).
He seems happy to create the idea that a victory would be a political one, against his ‘dark money-funded hate groups’.

It is not. That’s his own personal crusade shining through.
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21 Nov
"The reality is that putting male- and female-bodied athletes together is co-ed or open sport. And in open sport, females lose."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/pass-…
"The evidence is unequivocal that starting in puberty, in every sport except sailing, shooting and riding, there will always be significant numbers of boys and men who would beat the best girls and women in head-to-head competition."
(I'm not sure I agree with those exceptions; watch sailing and tell me strength doesn't matter.... but anyway)
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19 Nov
Prompted by the release of USA Gymnastics @usagym trans policy.

Specifically, the implication that performance differences between children of either sex and of any gender identity are negligible, therefore inclusion of transgirls with females is fair.
Here is summary data from Catley and Tomkinson, 2012, who collated performance data from 85347 Australian schoolchildren aged 9-17 years old.
Source here (full text can be found on ResearchGate).

bjsm.bmj.com/content/47/2/9…
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7 Nov
‘Without a sex-based category for female athletes, women are quite simply excluded from the top levels of sport.’

Great article here from ⁦@BarbaraRKay⁩ nationalpost.com/opinion/barbar…
‘First they justified trans women competing with women because they had “always” felt they were female. Then they say the “always” female trans athlete might “be” male for certain sports or at different times.’

@EthicsInSPORT
From the working group document:

‘Growing up male likely confers physical, hormonal, social and economic factors that contribute to this performance gap, but we cannot say that it is specifically due to testosterone in a way
that is significant and predictable.’
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3 Nov
On sex, balls and factories: a thread.
Let’s imagine a ball-making factory, the squishy, brightly-coloured kind of ball you kick around on the beach with a child (preferably one you own, not one stolen).
In that factory are two production lines. The first line paints balls red and the second line paints balls blue. Both machines are fed by boring beige balls.
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Jones et al., 2017 is repeatedly cited as evidence that transwomen do not have an advantage in female sports.

Here is my take.
They performed a literature search of transwomen in sport and concluded that:

“Currently, there is no direct or consistent research suggesting transgender female individuals (or male individuals) have an athletic advantage at any stage of their transition.”
This conclusion is not supported by the data they analyse.

First, the review intended to examine sports policies and participation, and consists largely of qualitative/survey data examining the experiences of trans people in sport.

This is valuable insight.
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