The fantasy: gender-critical women planning to bomb Stonewall.
The reality: gender-critical women discussing whether wool might be employed as an effective tool of protest.
In case it’s not clear, I’m referring to the furious imaginings of gender-critical activity being thrown around over the last couple of days.
Terrorists? 🙄
I spend most of my Saturday afternoons listening to international women talk about their domestic campaigns, then chatting with groups of women about various aspects of law, news, and required actions.
A more anti-violence group you could not hope to meet.
Use of ‘anti’ is deliberate. The gender-critical women I talk with are not merely ‘non’-violent , they are positively ‘anti’-violent, viewing it as a male-typical expression or strategy to be wholly rejected.
Which brings us back to the opening tweet, and the fantastical projection of male-typical violent strategies onto groups of women who are, in reality, organising around letters, the occasional sign and a whole heap of art/craft.
Tooled up.
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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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.