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30 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
They are not.

This is the first thing the IOC has got right on this.

IOC admits guidelines for transgender athletes are not fit for purpose | Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 | The Guardian theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul…
As ever, @seaningle reporting in a balanced, reasonable manner.
When your rules permit a medal challenge by a 43 year old male who has taken a career beak of nearly twenty years and is over 15 years older than the competition, the rules are wrong.
Golden bridges, people.

This is not unexpected news, although I’m surprised at the bluntness.

They’ve admitted the policy is crap (it is), and that’s important.

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24 Jul
A couple of explainers to follow.

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The data does not support the IOC decision to include trans-identified m... via @YouTube
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“Using an age grading model designed to normalize times for masters/veteran categories, Harper analyzed self-selected and self-reported race times for eight transgender women runners of various age categories…
…who had, over an average 7 year period (range 1–29 years), competed in sub-elite middle and long distance races within both the male and female categories.
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22 Jul
@Scienceofsport @njstone9 “Hubbard says she stopped weightlifting in 2001 at the age of 23 "because it just became too much to bear", blaming "the pressure of trying to fit into a world that perhaps wasn't really set up for people like myself".
@Scienceofsport @njstone9 “After transitioning to female aged 35 in 2012, it would be another five years before Hubbard competed at international weightlifting competitions - and she achieved immediate success.”
@Scienceofsport @njstone9 It can’t just be me that realises how utterly insane it is that this is a person who didn’t lift weights for over 15 years - 15 years - and has, in a couple of years of retraining, become competitive at the highest level???
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5 Jul
From the latest Science-Based Medicine blog attempt at defending their retraction of Harriet Hall’s review of Abigail Shrier’s book.

Advocating the prioritisation of social justice over scientific investigation. Image
Link here: sciencebasedmedicine.org/irreversible-d…
And cheers to ‘aav’ (in the comments) for highlighting this nonsense, and to @lecanardnoir for highlighting aav!
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3 Jul
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3 Jul
I submitted a response at the time.
 
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Correspondence in response to Nature editorial:
 
Gender is a social construct with no scientific definition. The assertion, however, that “processes for deciding sex…[have] no foundation in science” (Nature 563, 5; 2018) is false.
Mammals are sexually dimorphic, with the male category producing small motile gametes (sperm) for transfer and the female category producing large immotile gametes (ova) and gestating live young.
‘Sex’ is a scientific description of the two qualitatively different reproductive anatomies evolved to fulfil the function of sexual reproduction.
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18 Jun
I’ve just read the Irish Independent story about Noah Halpin and rugby.

Here: m.independent.ie/sport/rugby/as…

I agree with some of the arguments and not others.
Noah should not have been prevented from competing with females if he had not had any medical interventions.

That is discrimination based on gender identity.
I agree that there are considerable safety issues with females playing on male teams. This may be especially true in the absence of medical intervention, but I’d be cautious even with it.
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