If, as we are told, sporting ability is a random mix of innate talent and acquired skills mapped onto a continuum of bodies, it’s deeply puzzling that very few females have ever possessed a winning combination.
If, as we are told, sporting success can hinge on a favourable socioeconomic climate, why have privileged females never made the grade?
If, as we are told, sporting success can hinge on a favourable cultural environment (or outright nepotism), why have privileged females never made the grade?
If, as we are told, sporting success can hinge on a ‘lucky genetic variation/mutation’ that confers atypical physiology, why do such variations/mutations not work for female athletes?
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@GaryLineker Hi Gary. People have tried to get me sacked/suspended for questioning the fairness of inclusion of transwomen in female sports (see pinned academic review for more info).
@GaryLineker Fortunately, my institute has been supportive of my voice.
The same institute whose students no platformed tireless feminist activist and advocate Julie Bindel @bindelj from a debate, ironically, about free speech.
I’ve been lucky. Many other women less so.
@GaryLineker@bindelj In the course of my research, I’ve met some fantastic national and international female athletes, current and retired, who are terrified of even raising questions about current sports policies.
@RobynRyle 1. Socioeconomic and similar barriers are not ‘unfair’, they are examples of an ‘unjust society’. We can try to address that in sports as a general good. So broadening access by providing programmes, funding for equipment and coaching, and so on.
@RobynRyle 2. You say: it's deemed unfair for a 126 pound featherweight to compete against a 200-plus pound heavyweight.
Does use of ‘deemed’ mean you don’t actually agree such a match would be unfair?
@RobynRyle 3. On genetic advantages, you cite cyclists/runners with extraordinary muscular metabolism, basketballers/swimmers with skeletal syndromes and baseballers with superior vision.
Will the @ONS please confirm that if trans people mark their legal/selfID sex (Q3) and state a corresponding gender identity (Q27), they have no way of ascertaining which people are trans.
And thus, no way of: 1. Estimating true numbers within the population.
2. Understanding population patterns of trans identity. 3. Understanding whether trans people are in stable relationships, and/or are parents. 4. Knowing whether trans people have stable jobs, and whether they earn similarly to peers.
5. Knowing whether they live in stable accommodation. 6. Knowing how educational attainment maps to peers. 7. Understanding rates of health issues in trans people. 8. Knowing whether they can afford and/or manage to heat their house.
Fitness data from over 85k AUS children aged 9–17 yrs showed that, compared with 9 yr females, 9 yr males were 9.8% faster in sprints, 16.6% faster over 1 mile, could jump 9.5% further, could complete 33% more push-ups in 30 s and had 13.8% stronger grip.
@Hogshead3Au@BARBARABULL11@boysvswomen@cbrennansports@Martina@devarona64 Male advantage of a similar magnitude was detected in a study of Greek children, where, compared with 6-year-old females, 6-year-old males completed 16.6% more shuttle runs in a given time and could jump 9.7% further from a standing position.
1. Thanks for promoting me to professor, but I am not a professor.
2. You claim I said there wasn't "any dominance" of transgirls/transwomen, when I actually said there wasn't yet any "systematic dominance" but that individual athletes were displacing girls and women.