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10 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I’m an absolutely delighted for Maya, and for all women who believe (know) sex is real and important.
And now something less measured...
Maya’s statement is here on YouTube:

#IStandWithMayaForstater

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31 May
Laurel Hubbard debuted in the female category in 2017, and posted a new world record in the W35/super heavyweight category at the IWF Masters that same year.
For this performance, she was named the best lifter in the entire female competition (all ages and weight categories).
Her lift total of 280 kg absolutely smashed her category competitors.

It wouldn’t have been out of place in the corresponding male category.
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19 May
From Sport New Zealand.

Where to start?

1. They recognise regulation of age and weight is appropriate to prevent ‘physical mismatch’. Not sex though. Many intuitively understand weight cats as necessary. Sex is a bigger statistical predictor of ‘physical mismatch’ than weight.
By ‘statistical predictor’, I mean this:

If someone presented you with the entire membership of a weightlifting federation and asked you to pick the strongest lifter, the first cut you make will be sex.

Only then should you start looking at weight.
2. There may be physical mismatches in basketball, sure. But in the NBA, where females qualify, they all seem to be mismatched males. 🤔

If a 5’3’’ male can be an NBA superstar, why do we not see 5’3’’ females play? There’s plenty of them, it’s not like the pool is small.
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17 May
"Rugby is an inclusive, sharing sport, without distinction of sex, gender, origin or religion," FFR vice president Serge Simon said.

I look forward to the imminent removal of sex categories in French professional rugby.

bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-un…
The statement by Simon is nothing more than fluff.

French rugby *clearly* distinguishes both sex and gender - they have separate male and female categories, and they are mandating testosterone suppression in transwomen.
Serge Simon @DrSergeSIMON is 6’1 and 100kg (fighting weight). He’s also a doctor.

I would like to know if Dr Simon thinks he would be eligible to play against females if he suppressed T to 5 nM for 12 months.
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11 May
@thebkc Olympic regulations for inclusion of transwomen in female categories state that the *overriding* objective is the *guarantee* of fair competition, and that restrictions are permitted to secure that aim.
@thebkc The UK Equality Act 2010 permits sex discrimination, regardless of the gender reassignment characteristic (with or without a GRC), if it is necessary to do so to secure fair competition or the safety of competitors.
@thebkc The power gap between a male and female punch is 162%. That is, males can punch 2.6 times harder than females. It’s the biggest performance gap I’ve found to date.
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3 May
On the left is Michael Jordan.

On the right is Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues, the shortest NBA player ever.
I recently wrote about the importance of height in basketball, where I suggested that short players still had a competitive shot if they had some excellent skills/characteristics that compensated for lack of height.

Bogues had what we might consider "excellent compensatory skills".

The guy was absolutely lightning quick - he could turn and get away from anyone.

Watch this video.
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Interesting from Eric Vilain here, who works with various sports feds and advocates for inclusion of transowmen in female cats.

“It is not about making everybody biologically equal, and I think that is a common misconception when we start talking about transgender athletes."
“People want transgender [females] to be physiologically identical to [born] females, and if they’re not, it’s unfair.

That is not possible.”
Dr. Vilain referenced the structure of the pelvis and the mass of certain muscle groups as anatomical differences between the male and female body that will always be somewhat different.

But achieving total equality is not the point, Dr. Vilain said.
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